Best Drama movies of 1980

Actors : Antônio Fagundes, Jiro Kawarazaki, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Kyoko Tsukamoto,
Directors : Tizuka Yamasaki,

Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.

Actors : Lorraine De Selle, Patrizia Behn, Joe Dallesandro, Gianni Macchia,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

An escaped convict plays the occupants of a remote home against one another for his own sadistic pleasure while searching for the loot he buried there following a previous robbery.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Gainsbourg, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Claude Berri,

A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times.

Actors : Clio Goldsmith, Virna Lisi, Renato Salvatori, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

Clio plays a fun loving girl who likes men. She leaves her home town and meets up with Wilma, a once famous singer. After Wilma bombs out at a local joint they hook up together and become ...

Actors : Denoy de Oliveira, Ruthinéa de Moraes, Rafael de Carvalho, Aldo Bueno,
Directors : João Batista de Andrade,

São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Dilip Dhawan, Smita Patil,
Directors : Saeed Akhtar Mirza,

A man from Mumbai (then Bombay) is angry about various issues in different circumstances.

Actors : Gary Waddell, Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The movie involves two stories concerning the original Ten Tigers and their future disciples.

Actors : Tapas Pal, Debashree Roy, Ayan Banerjee, Mahua Roy Chowdhury,
Directors : Tarun Majumdar,

Advocate Nivaran Chatterjee lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small town along with his wife, and three sons. His first son is married, while his second son, Kedarnath, who suffered a head ...

Actors : Graham Jarvis, Bruce Dern, Deborah Wakeham, Ann-Margret,
Directors : John Trent,

A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits him. He becomes obsessed with young women and fast cars.

Actors : Olga Kacijan, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Boris Komnenic, Erol Kadic,
Directors : Karpo Acimovic-Godina,

Story about the group of eccentric Dadaist artists in a small Serbian town in the 1920s.

Actors : Reena Roy, Jeetendra, Girish Karnad, Rameshwari,
Directors : J. Om Prakash,

Deepak (Jeetendra) is a truck driver. One day he meets with haughty, snobbish, and popular singer, Asha. He assists her with her travel and the two become friends. Deepak loves Mala, ...

Actors : Yoshirô Aoki, Kai Atô, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Teruhiko Aoi, Hisaya Morishige,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve...

Actors : James Gammon, Regina Baff, John C. Becher, Mildred Burke,
Directors : Robert Fowler,

A New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler.

Actors : Paul Le Person, Jacques Dufilho, François Cluzet, Bernadette Le Saché,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' ...

Actors : Kaye Ballard, Elliott Gould, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susannah York,
Directors : Steven Paul,

Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40es as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They...

Actors : Jun'ichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tarô Shigaki,
Directors : Hideo Onchi,

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

Actors : K. Balaji, Surulirajan, Rajinikanth, Sridevi,
Directors : J. Mahendran,

A parsimonious Barbar must flee from the Police after meeting with a look-alike gangster.

Actors : David Carradine, Jennifer O'Neill, Joseph Bottoms, Colleen Camp,
Directors : Barry Brown,

Fictionalized account of a competition aerobatic pilot.