Best movies of 1980

Actors : Tarcísio Meira, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Starting from a dialectical synthesis between capitalism ...

Actors : Silvia Annichiarico, Renzo Arbore, Diego Abatantuono, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Renzo Arbore,

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 : Enrico Papa, Renato Pozzetto, Lia Tanzi, Eleonora Giorgi,

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times...

Actors : Flore Fitzgerald, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

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 : Yordanka Kuzmanova, Pavel Popandov, Radosveta Vassileva, Todor Kolev,
Directors : Nikolai Volev,

Prof. Denev is a talented scientist, but he cannot divide his time between the social and the scientific life. Suddenly he gets the idea to bring his cousin Ivan from the village. They look...

Actors : Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Guido Gagliardi, Claudia Demarmels, Carlheinz Heitmann,
Directors : Peter F. Bringmann,

Theo is having some bad luck. His barely paid-for truck has been stolen, and credit collectors are after him. The chase leads him across Europe.

Actors : Luis Politti, Ana Torrent, Agustín González, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Jaime de Armiñán,

In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. ...

Actors : Dusica Zegarac, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Ljuba Tadic, Milena Dravic,
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 : Vlasta Knezovic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Milena Dravic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Milan Jelic,

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment ...

Actors : J.G. Devlin, Patrick Magee, Denise Coffey, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Steve Roberts,

The very eccentric English peer Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts, with the help of his mad family & servants, to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert.

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 : Yi Chang, Ka-Yan Leung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fanny Wang,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Chung Yao, a martial arts expert, has long been on the run from his stepbrother, who he caught trying to rape his wife on their wedding night. His brother has never given up the chase ...

Actors : Dieter Montag, Heide Kipp, Alexander Lang, Renate Krößner,

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Vladimir Gaitan, Sebastian Papaiani, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1916 Romanian Army lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu jealously obsesses over his wife Lena's apparent infidelity and contests against gigolo lawyer Nicolau for Lena's love.

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Virgil Frye, Maia Danziger, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Charles B. Griffith,

An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.

Actors : Meng Lo, Sheng Chiang, Feng Lu, Li Wang,
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 : Luis González Regueral, Paula Molina, Antonio Resines, Óscar Ladoire,
Directors : Fernando Trueba,

Boy meets girl. Matias meets Violeta, his cousin ("prima") one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He's a divorced journalist trying to write a thriller. ...