Best Drama movies of 1980

Actors : Guðrún Þórðardóttir, Jóhann Sigurðsson, Jakob Þór Einarsson, Hólmfríður Þórhallsdóttir,
Directors : Hrafn Gunnlaugsson,

Movie about a father that needs a artifact hidden in a cave called Eyjafjallajökull. He and his son will fight against each other to finish that goal.

Actors : Aachi Manorama, Menaka,
Directors : Bharathan,

About a young Brahmin girl who is married off to an old priest by her poverty-stricken father. Sexually frustrated, she embarks on an affair with a young, non-Brahmin visitor.

Actors : Fa Yuan Li, Shao Hua Liang, Li-Li Chiang, Yu Lung Hsiao,
Directors : Yang Kao,

Haunted by the memories of his father's violent death, a young boy joins the shaolin temple and masters the skills of martial arts, so he can take one the killers in a bid for revenge.

Actors : Lyubov Reymer, Irina Savina, Olga Bobylyova, Vladimir Kashirin,
Directors : Nikolai Gusarov,

A young 19-year old girl Anastasia (O.Bobyleva) comes to a big Siberian construction site. She dreams of being a welder... See full synopsis »

Actors : Dénes Döbrey, Árpád Bakota, István Bicskei, Kornelia Boros Tapai,
Directors : Eva Petrovic,

The Belarusian born in Yugoslavia considers completely himself as a Yugoslav. Still during the Soviet-Yugoslav conflict his origin will be reassessed.

Actors : Henry Jayasena, J.H. Jayawardena, Vasanthi Chathurani, Dharmasiri Bandaranayake,
Directors : Dharmasiri Bandaranayake,

A married man (Nissanka) and woman (Miranda) find their lives disrupted after their affair is exposed by the police. Leaving their respective families, the two decide to live together. ...

Actors : Hermann Lause, Silvia Janisch, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Mijanou Van Baarzel,
Directors : Wolf Gremm,

Novel-based story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.

Actors : Svatopluk Benes, Lubos Bíza, Ronald Heller, Josef Janousek,
Directors : Antonín Kachlík,

An ambulance is taking a patient from a large half-built housing estate to the resuscitation unit. Foreman Frantisek Pelant has had a heart attack right on the work site. The young ...

Actors : Abdur Razzak, Farooq, Shabana,
Directors : Abdullah Al Mamun,

Faruque and Shabana, two university students, love each other. Faruque is a meritorious student and goes abroad for higher study. To run her middle class family, Shabana gets a job. Her ...

Actors : Lubomír Kostelka, Ludovít Gresso, Andrej Hryc, Jirí Kodet,
Directors : Radim Cvrcek,

After returning from the First World War, Jozka Jurík (Vladimír Kratina) takes a job at the Hodonín brick-works. Although they are poor, he and his wife Anka (Jana Paulová) take the ...

Actors : Liesbeth Hovius, Remke Keizer, Harro Coppens, Patrick van Doorn,
Directors : Karst van der Meulen,

A gang of city children is secretly practicing to enter a musical competition. All of them plunder their parents' supplies in order to build their own stage and amplifiers. Baffled by these...

Actors : Hua Yueh, Jason Pai Piao, Szu Shih, Yuan-Chun Wu,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

A young kung fu student is thrown into jail on a false charge. He shares a cell with a shaggy convict, who is repeated tortured by the magistrate to reveal the deadly secret.

Actors : Aya Veirov, Alexander Peleg, Liat Pansky, Gila Almagor,
Directors : Michal Bat-Adam,

Explores the relationship between an eleven-year-old girl and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment of insensitivity and cruelty.

Actors : Marek Walczewski, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Ignacy Gogolewski, Malgorzata Niemirska,
Directors : Jerzy Kawalerowicz,

Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations. The main confrontation is between a ...

Actors : Ivaylo Stoyanov, Yanaki Yanakiev, Borislav Tzankov, Lyubcho Vasilev,

1945. Among the rubble from the Sofia bombardment a group of kids with the oldest one being 12, make secret plans for a sea voyage. As it should be done, the plans are devised in a gloomy ...

Actors : William T. Hicks, Earl Owensby, Elijah Christopher Perry, Ginger Alden,
Directors : Worth Keeter,

The story revolves around Eli Caulfield, the King of Rock & Roll. On stage he is supreme - in his private life nothing goes right and his health is jeopardized by the overuse of ...

Actors : Birger Åsander, Marrit Ohlsson, Teddy Rhodin, Stefan Wånggren,
Directors : Hans Dahlberg,

Three city kids are taken somewhat reluctantly to a farm out in the forests of Sweden. There they meet the resident country kids who's rosy cheeks and youthful antics mirror the apathy and ...

Actors : Julie Ann Fortich, Eddie Rodriguez, Lloyd Samartino, Boots Anson-Roa,
Directors : Mike Relon Makiling,

When do you consider mistake a sin? Do we need to look into a person's intention or simply acts? This story revolves around a smart student named Guia Sison (Julie Ann Fortich) who is ...

Actors : Peng Cao, Shixi Li, Dong Liu, Fei Lu,
Directors : Lin Xiang,

Set in the turmoil years of China, a foreign girl is saved and protected when she suicides because of her Chinese lover has been put into prison for mourning Premier Zhou.

Actors : A.K. Hangal, Rakhee Gulzar, Parikshat Sahni, Biswajeet,
Directors : Anil Ganguly,

Indu and Shekar Gupta are an exemplary couple with a young son, who live a harmonious lower middle class life despite of spiraling inflation and costs of living. Their love and respect for ...