Best Drama movies of 1980

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Jan Miner,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

Remake of Jules et Jim following the experiences over a decade of two friends who fall in love with the same woman, enjoyably satirising the 70's through the search by the three ...

Actors : Richard Farnsworth, Matt Clark, Dirk Benedict, Linda Blair,
Directors : Max Kleven,

Kyle Hanson is a Vietnam veteran whose traumatic war-time experiences have left him unable to rejoin mainstream society. When Kyle, unkempt and in dirty fatigues, stops in a small town for ...

Actors : Elisabeth Stepanek, Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Angelika Thomas,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and ...

Actors : Oszkárné Gombik, Károly Csáki, Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai,
Directors : István Szabó,

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.

Actors : Daniel Dicenta, Amparo Soler Leal, Héctor Alterio, José Manuel Cervino,
Directors : Pilar Miró,

El 21 de agosto de 1910, en el pueblo de Osa de la Vega, provincia de Cuenca, desaparece el pastor José María Grimaldos... See full synopsis »

Actors : Susan Hogan, Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, David Bolt,
Directors : John Huston,

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

Actors : Cristina Raines, Clarke Peters, Beau Bridges, David Essex,
Directors : David Wickes,

A young hot-headed motorbike enthusiast inherits the prototype for an incredibly fast machine which was designed by his brother. He successfully gets the finance for it, and uses the bike ...

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Maksimovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Marko Nikolic,
Directors : Srdjan Karanovic,

This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. "Petria's wreath" is a story about the tragic life of an illiterate ...

Actors : Blanka Heirman, Willy Vandermeulen, Eric Clerckx, Paul S'Jongers,
Directors : Robbe De Hert,

The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main ...

Actors : Dusica Zegarac, Ljuba Tadic, Milena Dravic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic,
Directors : Goran Paskaljevic,

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening ...

Actors : Paul Simon, Rip Torn, Joan Hackett, Blair Brown,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.

Actors : Harry Reems, Deborah Alter, Kathryn Clayton, Sallee Young,
Directors : Arthur Jeffreys,

A woman is gang-raped in a horse's stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while her husband ...

Actors : Donna Wilkes, Marianna Hill, Klaus Kinski, Craig Wasson,
Directors : David Paulsen,

An advice columnist begins receiving threatening notes from an anonymous stalker; meanwhile, members of her group therapy session are being murdered by an unknown assailant.

Actors : Katsue Miwa, Keiko Takeshita, Kaneto Shiozawa, Hiroshi Ôtake,
Directors : Taku Sugiyama,

In the year 2772, a young cadet is sent to capture a mystical universal Phoenix, which possesses the power to rejuvenate the drained Earth.

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Gérard Lemaire, Olivier Mathot, Silvia Solar,

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.

Actors : Robert Blake, Dyan Cannon, Quinn K. Redeker, Michael Lerner,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Madie Levrington is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York mental institution where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of an expensive divorce. She ...

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yuki Ninagawa, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that ...

Actors : Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Michael Learned, Diane Lane,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

Actors : Meng Lo, Sheng Chiang, Li Wang, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The Wu Tang chief sends out his men, each of whom is given a symbol so they can recognize each other. The largest is given to Lee, whom the others are to obey.

Actors : Rekha, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Ajit,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Ram and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents ...