Best Drama movies of 1980

Actors : Shanker, Prathapachandran, Poornima Jayaram, Mohanlal,
Directors : Fazil,

Actors : Ned Beatty, Belinda Bauer, Jeff Bridges, Steven Keats,
Directors : William Richert,

A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Sentier, Gérard Lanvin, André Dussollier, Christine Boisson,
Directors : Jacques Bral,

Jazz musician Leo and his writer friend Bony get acquainted with a woman taxi driver called Cora.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

This is a story of two lawyer brothers, their half brother, their wives and children. Siddheshwari, wife of the eldest brother has left the operational details of the household to Sheela, ...

Actors : Antônio Fagundes, Ana Maria Magalhães, Telma Reston, Lima Duarte,
Directors : Neville de Almeida,

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. ...

Actors : Yelena Khopshonosova, Olga Ozeretskovskaya, Nadezhda Gorshkova, Vladimir Shevelkov,

Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather...

Actors : Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Sheng Chiang, Feng Lu, Li Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When director Chang Chen found new talent and blood with "The Five Venoms" actors, most of which were trained in the highly acrobatic Chinese opera and well versed with exotic martial arts ...

Actors : Ilyas Salman, Hümeyra, Mustafa Alabora, Ulvi Alacakaptan,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Lou Jacobi, Brett Marx, Rod Steiger, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Max Fischer,

In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.

Actors : Marta Straszna, Augustyn Halotta, Ewa Wisniewska, Franciszek Pieczka,
Directors : Kazimierz Kutz,

The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the ...

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Lara Wendel, Klaus Löwitsch, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Gianni Barcelloni,

The daughter of a prostitute who could not maintain it, Desideria was sold to the rich bourgeois Viola who has given her a good education but little affection. When she discovers that Viola...

Actors : Charito Solis, Lorna Tolentino, Rio Locsin, Alma Moreno,
Directors : Ishmael Bernal,

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families' conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs...

Actors : Michal Dlouhý, Eduard Cupák, Lukás Vaculík, Vladimír Mensík,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Karel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children ...

Actors : Omero Antonutti, José Luis López Vázquez, Ovidi Montllor, Charles Denner,
Directors : Antonio Drove,

Barcelona between the years 1917 and 1923. It is the time of the gun law, during which the confrontation between anarchist gunmen and hired assassins paid by the employers gave a scandalous...

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Barry Primus, Cindy Pickett, Paul Jenkins,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

A Californian housewife is terrified of having sex because of a past assault. When this phobia threatens to destroy her marriage, she takes refuge in a series of erotic fantasies about a masked man. But is it really all just a fantasy?

Actors : Annie McEnroe, Bradford Dillman, Judge Reinhold, Ken Wahl,
Directors : Paul Glickler,

It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.

Actors : Irina Alfyorova, Aleksandr Abdulov, Lyudmila Drebneva, Rufina Nifontova,
Directors : Pavel Arsyonov,

Actors : Richard Sargent, Mariette Lévesque, Vanity, Don McLeod,
Directors : Alfred Sole,

A female model faces off against an ape on a tropical island.

Actors : Herbert Flack, Frank Aendenboom, Hilde Van Mieghem, Kitty Courbois,
Directors : Hugo Claus,

Georges, a workman in his forties, get unexpected released from jail after being imprisoned for two years for having passed a sexual relation with his daughter. Once arrived home, he ...

Actors : Jürgen Arndt, Eva Mattes, Norbert Wartha, Wolf Euba,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered...