Best Drama movies of 1980

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 : 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 : Hyeong-Kan Choi, Carter Wong, 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 : 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 : Il-bong Yun, Sang-mi Yun, Hye-seon Jeong, In-chon Yu,
Directors : Cheol-su Park,

Su-jin faints one day for no apparent reason and slips into a coma. After three months of waiting for her to recover, her boyfriend, Kyeong-ho, accepts a position as a ship's officer and ...

Actors : Julito de la Cruz, Victoria Abril, Jaume Sorribas, Consol Tura,
Directors : José Antonio Salgot,

Clara- an attractive- sophisticated and unmarried woman- and the autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life- astonishingly interpreted by a very young Victoria Abril and autistic ...

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

Farmer Luo Xiaoshan is unlucky in love.

Actors : Paul Charles, Harry Andrews, Mark Burdis, John Castle,
Directors : Paul Annett,

A young girl lives with her awful cousins and reads Peter Pan to escape from her misery. One day she escapes with her youngest cousin. She runs into a group of street children or "lost boys", joins them and treats them like a mother.

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.

Actors : Narelle Johnson, David Clendenning, Jennifer Cluff, Lou Brown,
Directors : Ross Dimsey,

A reporter and his girlfriend follow around a famous actor/entrepreneur and discover some dirt on him to be made public.

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 : 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 : 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 : Eva Lyberten, Silvia Solar, Jack Taylor, Adriana Vega,
Directors : Manuel Esteba,

An aging writer has a successful career and a nice family. One day, the family goes on a trip and he stays at home. Two beautiful girls knock on his door and claim their car broke down. He lets them in and gets seduced. Deadly mistake.

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 : Gogi Gegechkori, Salome Kancheli, Ramaz Chkhikvadze,

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

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 : 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.