Best Drama movies of 1980

Actors : Jean-Pierre Sentier, Gérard Lanvin, André Dussollier, Christine Boisson,
Directors : Jacques Bral,

Jazz musician Leo and his writer friend Bony get acquainted with a woman taxi driver called Cora.

Actors : Timothy Fleetwood, Bay White, Paul Dean, Carey Born,
Directors : Mike Pritchard,

13-year-old Lucien is traumatized and ostracized by causing his friend Danny to fall off a cliff. As he finds solitude in the nearby woods, Lucien comes across a woodcarver who helps him find the peace he was looking for.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Lara Wendel, Klaus Löwitsch, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Gianni Barcelloni,

The daughter of a prostitute who could not maintain it, Desideria was sold to the rich bourgeois Viola who has given her a good education but little affection. When she discovers that Viola...

Actors : Charito Solis, Lorna Tolentino, Rio Locsin, Alma Moreno,
Directors : Ishmael Bernal,

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families' conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs...

Actors : Annie McEnroe, Bradford Dillman, Judge Reinhold, Ken Wahl,
Directors : Paul Glickler,

It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.

Actors : Mihai Mereuta, Stela Furcovici, Adrian Pintea, Radu Beligan,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

This is a story of two lawyer brothers, their half brother, their wives and children. Siddheshwari, wife of the eldest brother has left the operational details of the household to Sheela, ...

Actors : Herbert Flack, Frank Aendenboom, Hilde Van Mieghem, Kitty Courbois,
Directors : Hugo Claus,

Georges, a workman in his forties, get unexpected released from jail after being imprisoned for two years for having passed a sexual relation with his daughter. Once arrived home, he ...

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Li Wang, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When director Chang Chen found new talent and blood with "The Five Venoms" actors, most of which were trained in the highly acrobatic Chinese opera and well versed with exotic martial arts ...

Actors : Agnes Horvath, György Cserhalmi, Udo Kier, Patricia Adriani,
Directors : Gábor Bódy,

Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length, 140-minute film. Borrowing the character of Psyche...

Actors : Michal Dlouhý, Eduard Cupák, Lukás Vaculík, Vladimír Mensík,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Karel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children ...

Actors : Jon Finch, Mercedes Sampietro, Carmen Maura, Víctor Valverde,
Directors : Pilar Miró,

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to ...

Actors : Jürgen Arndt, Eva Mattes, Norbert Wartha, Wolf Euba,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered...

Actors : Richard Sargent, Mariette Lévesque, Vanity, Don McLeod,
Directors : Alfred Sole,

A female model faces off against an ape on a tropical island.

Actors : Susan Hemingway, Mel Rodrigo, Armando Borges, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A nobleman and his two lovers - a teenage boy and a runaway nun - plan to kill his mentally fragile wife.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Geneviève Fontanel, Delphine Seyrig, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Moshé Mizrahi,

A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in ...

Actors : István Holl, Itschak Fintzi, Margit Dajka, Andrea Drahota,
Directors : Zoltán Huszárik,

Actors : Antônio Fagundes, Ana Maria Magalhães, Telma Reston, Lima Duarte,
Directors : Neville de Almeida,

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. ...

Actors : Shanker, Prathapachandran, Poornima Jayaram, Mohanlal,
Directors : Fazil,

Actors : Omero Antonutti, José Luis López Vázquez, Ovidi Montllor, Charles Denner,
Directors : Antonio Drove,

Barcelona between the years 1917 and 1923. It is the time of the gun law, during which the confrontation between anarchist gunmen and hired assassins paid by the employers gave a scandalous...