Best Drama movies of 1980

Actors : Deepti Naval, Mithun Chakraborty, Shabana Azmi, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Bapu,

The wealthy and lecherous Zamindar Thakur Vir Pratap Singh lord over a small region in rural India mercilessly killing anyone who opposes his rule. He gets the male villagers addicted to ...

Actors : Boris Plotnikov, Igor Klass, Aleksandr Kharitonov, Elena Dimitrova,
Directors : Valeri Rubinchik,

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.

Actors : Gina Patrichi, George Negoescu, Tora Vasilescu, Mircea Daneliuc,
Directors : Mircea Daneliuc,

A television reporter and her cameraman find themselves in the middle of intertwined professional and personal dilemma.

Actors : Ming Chen, Feng Chi, Shen Chan, Hung Yen,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Illegal immigrants from mainland China are smuggled into Hong Kong. They are captured by a gang, then raped, tortured, and murdered.

Actors : Chieko Baishô, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tetsuya Takeda, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

A mysterious stranger appears at the door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter. The young widow who owns the farm puts him up in the barn. At dawn, he helps to deliver a ...

Actors : Lyudmila Gurchenko, Sergei Popov, Aleksey Zharkov, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Kira Muratova,

Mikhail helps out Nikolay and Lyuba by giving them a ride to a nearby construction site. They will work there to build a new town and factory.

Actors : Hans Dagelet, Bill van Dijk, Albert Mol, Hugo Metsers,
Directors : Paul de Lussanet,

DEAR BOYS explores the sexual fantasies of a middle-age writer and the handsome young men who dominate his life. Wolf, a successful writer of romantic novels, is plagued by self doubt and ...

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Adile Nasit, Ferdi Tayfur, Serpil Çakmakli,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

Actors : Tuncel Kurtiz, Yaman Okay, Erkan Yücel, Nur Sürer,
Directors : Erden Kiral,

Actors : Matti Turunen, Eikka Lehtonen, Irma Huntus, Leena Suomu,
Directors : Rauni Mollberg,

In a small Finnish Lapland community, Milka, an innocent 14-year-old girl lives with her mother, misses her dead father and prays God to show her what love is. For haymaking, they employ a ...

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hiroshi Katsuno, Yumi Takigawa,
Directors : Kenjirô Ohmori,

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

Actors : Mario Cutini, Paola Corazzi, Tom Felleghy, Zora Ulla Keslerová,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don ...

Actors : Milo O'Shea, Frank Converse, Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker,
Directors : Cliff Robertson,

Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.

Actors : Ping-Yu Chang, Kenny Bee, Kai-Ching Chi, Anthony Chan,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

The daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.

Actors : Magdalena Montezuma, Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Ida Di Benedetto,
Directors : Werner Schroeter,

Actors : Sevket Altug, Aytaç Arman, Güngör Bayrak, Fehamet Atilla,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

Ismail is out of work despite am obvious willingness to do almost anything to earn enough to provide for his family. He is too well educated for the jobs he hopes to find, but not well ...

Actors : Rajinikanth, Rati Agnihotri, Jaishankar, Sumalatha,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

Kaaliyan and Jaishankar are like dictators in neighboring villages separately, but in contrast to Kaaliyan, Jaishankar is selfish and bad. Engagement of Jaishankar's sister with Kaaliyan triggers rivalry between the two villages.

Actors : Alan Rosenberg, Rita Moreno, Robert Viharo, Madeline Kahn,
Directors : Richard Benner,

Based on the off-Broadway smash of the 1970's; a poor Harvard student's romance with a girl hits a rough spot when he realizes , on his 21st birthday, that he's in love with her brother.

Actors : Anant Nag, Padmini Kolhapure, Shreeram Lagoo, Indrani Mukherjee,

When a successful manager decides to sell his plantation in his ancestral village to another company, his young daughter begins acting very strangely.

Actors : Nildo Parente, Maria Lúcia Dahl, Carlo Mossy, Alba Valeria,
Directors : Victor di Mello,

Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her ...