Best Drama movies of 1980

Actors : Huizhen Chen, Xinyun Zhu, Rong Chang, Fei Han,
Directors : Chen Bai,

Set in the Chinese Civil War, Guangxi, a southwest China province. Three teenagers must send a secret letter to the guerrillas in ten days.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Mayuko Wakamori, Tomoe Hiiro, Yukiyo Toake,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffers all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue.

Actors : Katrin Knappe, Timo Jakob, Kurt Böwe, Gudrun Ritter,
Directors : Rainer Simon,

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe),...

Actors : Jolanta Grusznic, Piotr Lysak, Gabriela Kownacka, Andrzej Lapicki,

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but ...

Actors : Mariana Dornic, Christiana Fehrman, Rita de Cássia, Sandra Bréa,
Directors : Walter Hugo Khouri,

Two friends discuss their love adventures, and the emptiness ensuing each new conquest.

Actors : Xiaoquan Gu, Zhenhai Kou, Zhi Cheng, Hongmei Chen,
Directors : Bili Yan,

Set in the period just after ten years of chaos, several love stories associated with the tourists on a bus indicate more meanings of love.

Actors : Miljenko Brlecic, Inge Appelt, Janez Bermez, Ena Begovic,
Directors : Ljubisa Ristic,

Zagreb in 1942. The police blocks on of the houses while looking for one of the communist officials hiding in the apartment of young female illegal fighter. Them two manage to escape, ...

Actors : Mary Fogarty, John Ahearn, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Robin Harvey,

A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary ...

Actors : Raj Babbar, Deepak Parashar, Raj Mehra, Ranjeeta Kaur,
Directors : Ambrish Sangal,

Orphaned at a very young age, Varsha Oberoi, lives a wealthy lifestyle with her paternal uncle, Jain Oberoi, in Bombay, and has traveled world-wide. She is in love with Vijay, a ...

Actors : Yong Chol Choe, Tu-Yong Chon, Se-Yong Kim,
Directors : Chang-bom Rim,

A drama about two ship captains who innovate fishing industry in North Korea.

Actors : August Schellenberg, Gabriel Arcand, Thomas Donohue, Yvon Dufour,
Directors : Jean-Claude Labrecque,

In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin.

Actors : Dalia Beger, Doron Tzioni, Sharon Alexander, Dalia Shimko,
Directors : Ze'ev Revach,

A coming-of-age story combined with a love interest between a boy and girl from different social stratum told during the years of teenage turmoil after high school the barriers of ...

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Leslie Carlson, Fionnula Flanagan, James Coburn,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A male nurse working the night shift at a psychiatric hospital begins to lose his own grip on reality.

Actors : Shailendra Singh, Rekha, Utpal Dutt, Asrani,
Directors : Anil Ganguly,

Educated, traveled, intelligent, wealthy, and a businesswomen Mala Mathur would like to marry a man who can look after the household duties while she works. Her uncle, Mr. Mathur, ridicules...

Actors : Ping Zhang, Zongdi Xiu, Shizhi Yu, Zongwun Hu,

Physicians are inspired by Premier Zhou's speech at the Fourth National People's Congress in 1973 despite efforts of followers of the Gang of Four to halt their work.

Actors : Pericles Campos, Arlindo Barreto, Wilson Júnior, Joyce Laine,

Three sailors land in the Santos port after four months at sea and head to São Paulo. (1) "A Carta de Érico" ("The Letter from Érico") The first sailor brings a letter from a man named ...

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Jang Lee Hwang, Hoi Mang, Fei Lung,
Directors : Chin Hu Tung,

Lord Tsoi of the Manchus is ambushed by Ming freedom fighters. Kung fu fanatic, Shao Hai, comes to his rescue and is made Tsoi's personal body guard. Shao Hai soon finds that he has been ...

Actors : Yun-kyeong Kim, Min-hie Kim, Il-bong Yun, Yeong-ran Kim,
Directors : Jang-ho Byeon,

Kindergarten teacher Jeon Hye-yeong brings her son to the child's father, Shin-ho, to be raised. However, the child is unhappy with his father's family and dreams about living with his ...

Actors : Bruno Pischiutta, Irma Olivero,
Directors : Bruno Pischiutta,

Vietnam veteran goes to die in Venice of alcoholism.

Actors : Anda Onesa, Tark Laszlo, Amza Pellea, Levente Bíró,
Directors : Alexandru Tatos,