Best Drama movies of 1980

Actors : Jutta Wachowiak, Slávka Budínová, Regimantas Adomaitis, Christine Gloger,

The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée enables her to survive the tribulations of her time ...

Actors : Corinne Cléry, Agnès Nobecourt, Marzio Honorato, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Massimo Pirri,

A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which lead them to steal and prostitute themselves, for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina...

Actors : Xiqian Wu, Tongyu Liang, Baohua Wang, Zong-xue Xia,
Directors : Yan Chang,

In 1949 a Nationalist military officer is tricked into fleeing to Taiwan without his wife. His godson's father also remained on the mainland. They hope for national reunification.

Actors : Bingzhe Wei, Meina Xu, Qiang Lin, Baishuang Zhang,

Farmer Luo Xiaoshan is unlucky in love.

Actors : Tinnu Anand, Saleem Christopher Agha, Shehnaz Anand, Jalal Agha,
Directors : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas,

A dramatized account of the Naxalite movement, focusing on the average Indians who join the movement from various walks of life and from various regions, backgrounds, faiths, etc.

Actors : Michelle Yim, Bruce Le, Kwok Choi Hon, Feng Ku,
Directors : Lu Po Tu,

A man tries to keep the peace between a European club and some Chinese students but he finds himself under scrutiny.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Birbal, Yogeeta Bali, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

Pratap Kumar Srivastav travels from Shyam Nagar to Bombay, and gets hired by his father's friend, Ram Prasad. He rents a room in a Chawl in Borivali's 'Asha Manzil' where his friend, Gopal ...

Actors : Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Yuri Platonov, Larisa Malevannaya, Sergey Nikonenko,
Directors : Vladimir Grigorev,

Pozdnie Svidaniya (aka...'Late Rendezvous') is a story of a career woman in a midlife crisis.

Actors : Adoor Bhasi, Jayan, Balan K. Nair, Seema,
Directors : I.V. Sasi,

Muthan gets job as the labour of a sayippu.problems starts when he crashes with sayippu's wife

Actors : Bernard Blier, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Saverio Marconi, Francesco Bonelli,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache"). As...

Actors : Lucille Drouin, Théo Gagné, Georges Dionne, Dominique Lévesque,

A middle-aged couple living in an asbestos mining town see their marriage crumble when the wife wants a very different life than her husband does after their adult children move away.

Actors : Hak-Fu Chan, Fei Lung Chen, Tak Yuen, Hsi-Chun Yang,
Directors : Simon Hsu,

A young martial arts student gets caught up with gangsters after stealing a map. He is kidnapped, and manages to escape, but must return to the gangster's hideout to rescue his trainer, Dr. Chen.

Actors : Carter Wong, Hyeong-Kan Choi, Dragon Lee, Martin Chiu,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

Two of Asia's biggest martial arts stars team up in this excellent offering from Korea. Two sons swear to avenge their father's murder. They set off in search of the last man to see him alive.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Michael York, Geneviève Bujold, Colleen Dewhurst,
Directors : Paul Almond,

Nicole is a broadcast journalist in Canada who is working on an assignment in the U.S.S.R. She is to oversee a visit by the prime minister but she finds a unethical experiment on children using the use of steroids.

Actors : Gogi Gegechkori, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Salome Kancheli,

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

Actors : Jan Malmsjö, Bibi Andersson, Marie Göranzon, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Erland Josephson,

A Professor come home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leave his house and check in to a hotel.

Actors : Herman Bloodsworth, David Allan Coe, Ginger Alden, Paula Baldwin,
Directors : Worth Keeter,

A small-town girl endures terrible suffering during her gradual rise to music stardom.

Actors : Raffaella Carrà, Charlie Díez Gómez, Jacques Arndt, Jorge Martínez,
Directors : Gino Landi,

Barbara is an italian super star that comes to Argentina to star in her own musical, here she meets mauro, an argentinian photographer, and falls in love with him, but mauro has a secret that she will discover

Actors : Yu Zhang, Xiying Wen, Cui Gao, Kai Min Guo,
Directors : Zumo Huang,

Amerian Chinese Zhou is the daughter of a former general of nationalist army. She met Geng on Lushan mountain and fell in love with him, but their love was forbidden ten years ago. Now two lovers reunite on the Lushan mountain.

Actors : Weixin Li, Min Xu, Dong Liu,

Chen Yunxuan and his daughter Xiujuan escape from China to Taiwan in 1949 but leave Chen's pregnant wife behind. 30 years later Xiujuan meets her mother and a brother she never knew.