A list of films produced in the Cinema of Austria in the 1980s ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Austrian films see .
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | |||||||||
| Das eine Glück und das andere | Drama | ||||||||
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | |||||||||
| Exit... nur keine Panik (Exit - Just Don't Panic) | Action comedy | Günther Köpf Film / Terra-Film | |||||||
| Fleischwolf (Meat grinder) | Hanno Pöschl,, | Drama | |||||||
| 1981 | |||||||||
| Anima – Symphonie phantastique | Screened at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival | ||||||||
| Der Bockerer | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||||||
| Mephisto | Drama | Hungarian-West German-East German-Austrian co-production | |||||||
| (The Schoolboy Gerber) | Drama | ||||||||
| Der Traum des Sandino (Sandino's Dream) | Documentary | filmed in Nicaragua | |||||||
| Den Tüchtigen gehört die Welt (The World Belongs to the Thorough) | Crime film | Beginning of the Kottan series | |||||||
| Ein wenig sterben (Die a Little) | Drama | ||||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||
| Die Ausgesperrten (The Excluded) | TV Drama | Based on Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek | |||||||
| Comedy | Max-Ophüls-Preis 1983 | ||||||||
| (The Inheritors) | Drama | Bannert-Film | |||||||
| Johannes Silberschneider, Armin Mueller-Stahl, | Drama | ||||||||
| (Be Gentle, Penguin) | Romantic comedy | Dieter Geissler Film u. a. | |||||||
| 1983 | |||||||||
| Angst (Fear) | Horror | ||||||||
| Herrenjahre | Drama | ||||||||
| Hirnbrennen (Brain Burning) | Drama | ||||||||
| Karambolage | , | Satire | |||||||
| Der Stille Ozean (The Silent Ocean) | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival | ||||||||
| Tramps | |||||||||
| Der Weg ins Freie (The Road into the Open) | Drama | ||||||||
| 1984 | |||||||||
| (Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand) | Drama | ||||||||
| Dear Karl | |||||||||
| Dicht hinter der Tür (Just Behind the Door) | |||||||||
| Malambo | |||||||||
| Comedy | |||||||||
| Time Troopers (Morgengrauen) | Science fiction | ||||||||
| 1985 | |||||||||
| Comedy | |||||||||
| Oberst Redl (Colonel Redl) | Drama | nominated for an Oscar and other awards | |||||||
| Die Praxis der Liebe (The Practice of Love) | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||||||
| Raffl | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||||||
| Das zweite Schraube-Fragment | Short | Screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival | |||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||
| Der Aufstand | Drama | ||||||||
| Echo Park | American-Austrian co-production | ||||||||
| Heidenlöcher (Hideouts) | Marwo-Film u. a. Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||||||
| (Müller's Office) (Müller's Bureau) | Christian Schmidt, Barbara Rudnik, | Musical comedy / detective film | Wega Film | ||||||
| Drama | Thalia | ||||||||
| Welcome in Vienna | Drama | Thalia | |||||||
| 1987 | |||||||||
| 38 – Auch das war Wien (38 – Vienna Before the Fall) | Nominated for an Oscar | ||||||||
| (Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community) | Drama | ||||||||
| Gewitter im Mai (Storms in May) | Gabriel Barylli, | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | ||||||
| (Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown) | Musical / Biographical film | Austrian-East German co-production | |||||||
| Schmutz | Drama | Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival | |||||||
| Das weite Land (The Distant Land) | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production. Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival | |||||||
| 1989 | |||||||||
| Der siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent) | Drama | Michael Haneke's cinefilm debut. Wega Film | |||||||
| Ein Sohn aus gutem Hause | Drama | ||||||||
| Sterben und Leben im Schloß (Death and Life in the Castle) | Documentary | Documentary film about Hartheim Euthanasia Centre | |||||||
| Die toten Fische (The Dead Fishes) | Drama | ||||||||