Best Drama movies of 1981

Actors : Hussein Fahmy, Khairy Beshara, Zouzou Mady, Bachir El Dik,
Directors : Mohamed Khan,

Maowid ala Ashaa is a 1981 Egyptian romance film, starring Soad Hosni and Ahmed Zaki. The life story of a beautiful and pure woman, interested of the very little things with a great sensibility.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Gordon Pinsent, Tom Skerritt, Jennifer McKinney,
Directors : Allan King,

Based on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving under rugged pioneer conditions in ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Mircea Albulescu, Gheorghe Cozorici, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them.

Actors : Banzo Africano, Zaqueu Bento, Jotta Barroso, Catalina Bonakie,
Directors : Braz Chediak,

Rich man wants to pay one of his employees a lot of money in order he marries his daughter, who had been raped by five men. But something in the girl's story isn't quite right.

Actors : Kanako Higuchi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Ken Ogata, Yûko Tanaka,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

Actors : Sümer Tilmaç, Ferdi Tayfur, Banu Alkan, Esra Yildiz,
Directors : Nazmi Özer,

Actors : Tony Pitts, Carolyn Nicholson, Graham Green, Roy Haywood,
Directors : Ken Loach,

Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents...

Actors : Tomasz Hudziec, Marek Kondrat, Teresa Marczewska, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Wojciech Marczewski,

Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with ...

Actors : Aris Retsos, Betty Livanou, Giorgos Siskos, Dora Volanaki,
Directors : Giorgos Panousopoulos,

From the opposite apartment, a young man observes the daily life of an unsuspected woman. Will she ever know his existence?

Actors : Aliki Vougiouklaki, Danis Katranidis, Faidon Georgitsis, Kaiti Lambropoulou,
Directors : Takis Vougiouklakis,

Actors : Victor French, Lelia Goldoni, Paul Carafotes, Val Avery,
Directors : Silvio Narizzano,

Partially deaf teenager Carafotes becomes alienated when prevented from playing football because of his handicap. He must deal with his parents, coach, teammates, his new girlfried and a ...

Actors : Cora Miao, Cherie Chung, Lieh Lo, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ann Hui,

Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand, he ...

Actors : Saffron Henderson, Kathleen Barr, Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda,
Directors : Rintaro,

It's been three years since the destruction of planet La Maetel, but the Machine Empire is as great of a threat as ever. Teen Tetsuro, now a rebel fighter, learns that Galaxy Express 999 is returning and that Maetel is on it.

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Katia Ivanova, Grigor Vachkov, Stefan Mavrodiyev,
Directors : Georgi Djulgerov,

Early 20th c. This is an era of seething passions, aspirations for freedom and national self-identification. Uprising are incited, blood is shed. The picture features national leaders who ...

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Claire Pimparé, Nicholas Campbell, Jack Wetherall,
Directors : Larry Kent,

Love story, young soldier maimed in Vietnam, allows former girlfriend to believe he's dead to spare her anguish.

Actors : Kiril Variyski, Anani Anev, Viktor Chouchkov, Iliya Penev,
Directors : Zako Heskiya,

This is a sensitive film about human solidarity filled with humor and poetry.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zülfikar Divani, Talat Gözbak, Recep Filiz,
Directors : Remzi Jöntürk,

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Maureen McCormick, Peter Jason, Cameron Mitchell Jr.,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A rough and tough macho truck driver decides to make his soft son more of a man by taking him hunting. They go on a holiday and go to a honky-tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.

Actors : Diogo Dória, Teresa Menezes, Mário Barroso, Francisco Brás,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Actors : Monica, Rajinikanth, Sarath Babu, Goundamani,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

A God- fearing son finds a way to teach a lesson to his sex- addict father.