Best Music movies of 1980s

Actors : Thomas Ahrens, Hark Bohm, Claus-Peter Damitz, Eva Ebner,
Directors : Reinhard Hauff,

Actors : Rebecca Jenkins, Michael Ontkean, Luke Reilly, Chad Krowchuk,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when...

Actors : Ruggero Raimondi, Wyatscheslaw Polozov, Kenneth Riegel, Bernard Lefort,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The ...

Actors : Ángela Molina, Manuel Bandera, María Barranco, Ángel de Andrés López,
Directors : Jaime Chávarri,

In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of ...

Actors : Ahmad Reza Asadi, Reza Babak, Mehdi Arian Nejad, Morteza Ahmadi,
Directors : Kambuzia Partovi,

Hasani who is an orphan is living with his little sister Goldouneh in an orphanage. One day a couple come there to adopt a child. They chose Goldouneh but Hasani who believes that their ...

Actors : Claudine Auger, Lewis Furey, Carole Laure, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Gilles Carle,

In this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological ...

Actors : Sun Gyu Choe, Jong Hwan Ko, Yong Suk Kim,

A tender hearted young noble man, Mong Ryong, falls in love with the famous Chun Hyang, the most beautiful girl of a Korean village, who is also a pure hearted artist but unfortunately from...

Actors : Sanath Gunathilake, Vijaya Kumaratunga, Tony Ranasinghe, Vasanthi Chathurani,
Directors : Sumitra Peries,

"Ganga Addara" is a classic Sinhala movie released in 1980. It was directed by Sumitra Peiris, and written by Tissa Abesekara. The movie tells the story of Dr. Sarath Pathirana (Vijaya ...

Actors : A.K. Hangal, Rakhee Gulzar, Parikshat Sahni, Biswajeet,
Directors : Anil Ganguly,

Indu and Shekar Gupta are an exemplary couple with a young son, who live a harmonious lower middle class life despite of spiraling inflation and costs of living. Their love and respect for ...

Actors : Shailendra Singh, Rekha, Utpal Dutt, Asrani,
Directors : Anil Ganguly,

Educated, traveled, intelligent, wealthy, and a businesswomen Mala Mathur would like to marry a man who can look after the household duties while she works. Her uncle, Mr. Mathur, ridicules...

Actors : Sergio Castaño, Julio Alemán, Sergio Iván Castaño, Jaime Moreno,

A singing nun leaves the convent for a carreer in music, and for the man she loves.

Actors : Karel Lamac, Vlasta Burian, Josef Bláha, Hugo Haas,
Directors : Zdenek Míka,

In the projection hall at the Film Archives Dr Lorenc chooses clips for a symposium on laughter in film. Driver Jonás has been commissioned to take the selected films together with their ...

Actors : David Leon, Mitch Weissman, Tom Teeley, Ralph Castelli,
Directors : Joseph Manduke,

Four guys who look and sound moderately like the Beatles play a plethora of Lennon/McCartney classics, while footage of memorable sixties events flashes by.

Actors : Frederica von Stade, Paolo Montarsolo, Margherita Guglielmi, Laura Zannini,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Ponnelle,

When the Prince and Cenerentola meet, it is love at first sight.

Actors : Kunal Kapoor, Aruna Irani, Parveen Babi, Suresh Chatwal,
Directors : Esmayeel Shroff,

Courtesan Madame Subbalaxmi heads a household where men are not born, but are welcome. Women are not welcome, but their birth is. Subbalaxmi is thrilled when her pet protege, Sangeeta, ...

Actors : Catarina Ligendza, Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Directors : Götz Friedrich,

Richard Strauss' classic opera version of the ancient Greek tragedy about the princess Elektra, who dreams of avenging her father Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover.

Actors : Ronnie Ansell, Peter Butler, Franco Carli, Sam Cohen,
Directors : Ned Lander,

A dramatised documentary showing 48 hours in the lives of members of the Aboriginal bands, No Fixed Address and Us Mob, including the racism, hostility and harassment they receive.

Actors : Ewa Wisniewska, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Anna Moczkowska, Jan Piechocinski,
Directors : Krzysztof Rogulski,

Ricky is an escapee from a reform school. Julian escaped the anger of a voluntarily fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. They team together in Warsaw. In search for food ...

Actors : Per Gessle, Anders Herrlin, Göran Fritzson, Micke Andersson,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A Music-Document about the Gyllene Tider band and its golden times in the beginning of the 1980's.

Actors : Sofiya Rotaru, Evgeniy Menshov, Grigore Grigoriu, Ekaterina Kazimirova,
Directors : Valeriu Gajiu,

A musical about a young pop-singer and her rise from an amateur band to a professional star while trying to find her own style and songs. The main part is performed by popular singer Sofia ...