Best Drama movies of 1981

Actors : Hamedah El Khogah, Ali Kadak, John Khogon, Al Amin Nassef,

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies.

Actors : Antonio, Enrique Rada, Rebeca, Ocaña,
Directors : Jesús Garay,

History of three homosexuals who decide to spend the summer together at the cottage that the parents of one of them have in Santander. The film shows naturally a series of attitudes then considered shocking and even unnatural.

Actors : Judy Morris, Michael Preston, Bill Hunter, Jill Perryman,
Directors : Chris McGill,

Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in ...

Actors : Yuki Kazamatsuri, Hiroko Fuji, Ayako Ôta, Tatsuya Hamaguchi,
Directors : Kichitaro Negishi,

A schoolteacher gets a phone call regarding one of her female students. It seems that the young girl has been accused of prostitution and requested help from her teacher. The young girl's ...

Actors : Khommat Mullyk, Baba Annanov, Nikolay Smorchkov, Maya-Gozel Aimedova,
Directors : Khodzha Kuli Narliyev,

In the Karakum sands, the only living plant seems to be the tree Dzhamal and her husband shepherd Nazar have set. Then it's war. When Nazar comes back from a convalescence at the hospital, ...

Actors : Sílvia Gless, Marilu Blummer, Vilma Camargo, John Doo,
Directors : Waldir Kopesky,

Wealthy Silvia is married to unfaithful Alexandre. She catches her husband red-handed with a woman in a nightclub and Alexandre promises a new start for the couple. Silvia is upset and ...

Actors : Yunian Zhang, Jianqiu Qi, Qi Feng, Min Zhang,
Directors : Ming Yi,

Biography of Zou Rong, a famous propagandist of bourgeois-democratic revolution in early 20th century.

Actors : Ed Harris, Erin Nico, Paul Reubens, Luce Rains,
Directors : Ed Harker,

Dream On! takes real risks with cinema as form...manifesting a kind of narrative-collage. The film's action follows a group of young actors as they struggle to survive in L.A. and hang on to their artistic principles.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Asha Chandra, Yogeeta Bali, Jalal Agha,
Directors : Kashinath,

Shyam Sunder lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small village in India along with his widowed step-mother, Nirmala. He has taken to alcohol, and womanizing, goes away very often without ...

Actors : Lady Francisco, Celso Faria, Fernando José, Lia Farrel,
Directors : Levi Salgado,

A middle-aged man looks for true love in the sleazy Rio de Janeiro underworld of male prostitution in the early 80's.

Actors : Dhumal, Birbal, Sudhir Dalvi, Rajni Bala,
Directors : Ramgopal Gupta,

Widowed Kunti lives a poor lifestyle in rural India along with two sons, Bhiku, and Sarju, who are married to Bhagyawanti and Dayawanti respectively. Bhiku has a daughter named Kamli while ...

Actors : Yongfei Gu, Daliang Huang, Qiyuan Li, Xibing Gong,

Memories of the Cultural Revolution present difficulties when a geologist becomes romantically interested in a colleague's widow.

Actors : Zaibao Yang, Yihan Bu, Xiaoqing Liu, Min Bu,
Directors : Zi Ling,

Hu escapes from prison after 8 years to find that his father was killed by the landlord. His fiancee Jin Zi is married to the landlord's son, a Mama's Boy. The blind, widowed mother-in-law is a termagant. Revenge and elopement are planned.

Actors : Suhaina Yahya, Jamaliah Arshad, Hussein Abu Hassan, Aida Ahmad,
Directors : Jins Shamsuddin,

Bukit Kepong is an adaptation from Bukit Kepong incident that was an armed encounter which took place on 23 February 1950 between the Federation of Malaya Police and the gunmens of Malayan Communist Party during the Malayan Emergency.

Actors : Rentang Li, Xiaoying Cheng, Yelu Gu, Fei Han,
Directors : Hu Sang,

In 1930's Shanghai, Wu Sunpu, chief executive of the Shanghai Yuhua Silk Company, faces many struggles: with plant workers, with strikers, others in his industry, and most of all with ...

Actors : César Bono, Arturo Benavides, Eduardo de la Peña, Roberto Cobo,
Directors : Rogelio A. González,

"Distrito Federal" portrays and pays tribute to one of the most populated cities in the world: Mexico City. The city turns into a mirror and the scene for the most unusual and funny ...

Actors : Candy Brown, David Buck, Jorge Coutinho, Prunella Gee,
Directors : Ola Balogun,

A fictional drama about the events surrounding Nigeria's independence in 1960, with the story of a Nigerian guerrilla leader who fights for freedom against the British colonialists and also...

Actors : Plamena Getova, Tzvetana Dyankova, Kiryakos Argiropulos, Grudi Kadiev,
Directors : Evgeni Mihailov,

A young actress in a country town is almost smashed under the burden of the wear and tear of life. She has problems with her parents, she is not happy with her love affairs, she faces ...

Actors : R. Abrahamyan, A. Avetisyan, H. Galoyan, M. Grigoryan,
Directors : Zhirayr Avetisyan,

The hero of the film loses his family during the 1915 genocide in the Ottoman Empire and fights against Turkish militiamen. Disappointed in his life, Miro finds refuge in Soviet Armenia. ...

Actors : Ronald Kansil, Johnny Hong Kong, Beng Ito, Vita Fatimah,
Directors : Iksan Lahardi,

A kung-fu master hunts down the villain who killed his mother.