Drama Movies of 1980
Little Miss Marker
Screenwriter Walter Bernstein made his directorial debut with Little Miss Marker, a ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Elephant Man
John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Gideon's Trumpet
In the tradition of his earlier work in Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda played ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Brubaker
Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Urban Cowboy
"You a real cowboy?" John Travolta traded disco for a mechanical bull in this adaptation by James Bridges ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Filmed in Vermont, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is based on one of Mark Twain's more mysoginistic works. Mysterious stranger Robert Preston shows up in Hadleyburg, a town that prides itself upon the honesty and ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Beulah Land
Beulah Land is an edited, movie-length version of the three-part TV miniseries adaptation of Lonnie Coleman's multi-part novels. The film is ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Jayne Mansfield Story
Loni Anderson plays the 1950s sexpot Jayne Mansfield, who starred in films like The Girl Can't Help It and who married bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (Arnold Schwarzenegger) before a car accident ended her ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Ordinary People
Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Guyana, Cult of the Damned
"Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones' "People's Temple" in Guyana in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson (Stuart ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
A Tale of Two Cities
Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Pride of Jesse Hallam
In this moving made-for-cable television drama, Jesse Hallam is a poor and illiterate coal miner (Johnny Cash) who must learn to read in order to get a job in the city. He was forced to leave after one of his ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
A Christmas Without Snow
A Christmas Without Snow originally premiered December 9, 1980. The title refers to the film's setting: ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Loulou
Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a middle-class Parisian housewife, married ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Idolmaker
The story of Philadelphia-based rock 'n' roll ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Three Brothers
Director Francesco Rosi earned a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination for his drama Tre Fratelli (Three Brothers), an adaptation of a work by ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant is one of the most acclaimed Australian films, telling a powerful tale of wartime betrayal and injustice. Henry ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn was one of the first female superstars in country music and remains a defining presence within the genre; with her strong, clear, hard-country voice and tough, no-nonsense songs about husbands who cheat and wives who weren't about to ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Gloria
Gloria (Gena Rowlands), a self-involved woman in her forties who was once a mobster's mistress, is asked to look after Philip (Juan Adames), the son of her Mafia-connected Puerto Rican neighbors. This temporary set-up becomes permanent ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Heartland
The "heartland" of the title is rural Wyoming in the early 20th century, where dwells taciturn, reclusive Scottish farmer Rip Torn. Conchata Ferrell arrives at the ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Foxes
Foxes details the exploits of four teenage San Fernando Valley girls as they drink, dope and sleep their way into oblivion. Jeanie (Jodie Foster, in a standout ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Dallas: Season 04
"Who shot J.R.?" Those were the words on the lips of Dallas fans throughout the world as the popular prime-time serial launched its fourth season on CBS. Speculation ran high over the identity of the person ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
The tragic story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who in 1865 was sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor at the American ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Tell Me a Riddle
Featuring Lila Kedrova and Melvyn Douglas as elderly couple Eva and David who, after forty years of a less-than-satisfying marriage, find the lost love they once had for each other as they travel to San Francisco to visit their grandchildren. ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
A Small Circle of Friends
Pumped up with energy to spare in its first half, this is an otherwise routine drama about a love triangle set in the turbulent late '60s on the Harvard campus. Harvard takes a remote backseat though, as Leo (Brad Davis) chases ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Jazz Singer
Pop singer Neil Diamond stars in this ill-begotten second remake of Al Jolson's seminal 1927 musical The Jazz Singer. The ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Coach of the Year
Coach of the Year is the pilot film for a potential Robert Conrad TV series. Conrad plays Jim Brandon, formerly a star ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Rodeo Girl
The Rodeo Girl is 26-year-old Sammy Garrett (Katherine Ross). Despite opposition from the good-ole-boy network, Sammy is determined to succeed as a bronco buster. But her plans may be thwarted when ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Air Crew
The drama centers around a crippled aircraft and its crew in this two-part, high-adventure ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Oblomov
Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov takes a break from emulating his beloved Chekhov to film the classic Ivan Goncharov novel Oblomov. The title character (played by Oleg ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Il Giorno del Cobra
In this well-paced crime thriller, Larry Stanciani (Franco Nero) is a hard-boiled private investigator in San Francisco, an ex-cop kicked off the ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Hussy
Matthew Chapman wrote and directed this hackneyed love story with Helen Mirren as Beaty, a nightclub hostess who turns tricks. Emory ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Fame
Fame is set at New York's High School of Performing Arts, where ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Spetters
Spetters further elaborates on the themes of sexual obsession previously probed in director Paul Verhoeven's Turkish Delight (1973). Hans Van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg and ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Perro Callejero
The gritty Mexican drama Perro Callejero concerns a young orphan who has been raised ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Deutschland Bleiche Mutter
Director Helma Sanders-Brahms reached back into her own wartime childhood for her best known film, Germany Pale Mother ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Barn Burning
This 40-minute TV dramatization of William Faulkner's Barn Burning stars Tommy ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Contraband
Produced in Italy, this film concerns the crimelord in a smuggling ring whose brother is killed in an ambush by a rival gang. While he seeks a suitable hide-out, his inferiors track down the perpetrators. The film appears in Italian with ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Cry of the Innocent
Filmed in Ireland, Cry of the Innocent stars Rod Taylor as an American insurance executive on a grim mission. A private plane has exploded, killing Taylor's wife and children. Also on board was a ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Del Otro Lado del Puente
The 97-minute Mexican drama Del Otro Lado Del Puente stars Juan Gabriel, Julio Aleman, Valentin Trujillo and Lucha Villa. The story ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The House on the Edge of the Park
Filmed in 1979 but not released in Italy until 1984, this softcore story involves two New York street thugs, Alex (David Hess) and Ricky (John Morghen), who crash an upscale dinner party in a New Jersey mansion, only to have ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Based on Katherine Anne Porter's short story, the touching saga of a ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Paul's Case
This family oriented made-for-TV adaptation of a story by Willa Cather, tells the tale of a poor but ambitious young man living in the poor section of Pittsburgh in the early 19th century as he works his way ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Rappaccini's Daughter
Based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this made-for-television drama tells the tale of a college student, a mysterious young woman and a strangely beautiful garden. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Refuge of Fear
This is a serious piece that takes place after a nuclear war. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Sky is Gray
Ernest J. Gaines' short story The Sky is Gray was ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Staying On
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, the stars of the classic British romantic drama Brief Encounter (1946), were reunited in the 1980 TV special Staying On. Adapted from ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Teen Mothers
Two unwed youths head for New York tenements with their child after they are driven from their homes. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Du Er Ikke Alene
Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensų) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Promise of Love
In this drama, a young woman gives up college and marries her boyfriend, a Marine. Unfortunately, he is killed in Vietnam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Caught on a Train
Over the course of one night and many miles, the lives of three passengers aboard a trans-European train ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
The Legend of Bruce Lee
Directed by Ling Ping, this film chronicles the short ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story
Martial arts star Bruce Li (aka Ho Chung-tao) stars as the legendary Bruce Lee in this dramatic biography which examines Lee's rise to fame and untimely death. Bruce Lee: ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
To Serve Them All My Days
Based on the novel by R.F. Delderfield, the British drama series To Serve Them All My Days starred John Duttine as ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Big Blonde
Sally Kellerman stars in this made-for-television adaptation of the short story by Dorothy Parker. A free-spirited model (Kellerman) decides it's time to settle down, and gets married to a salesman (John Lithgow). ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Vivir Para Amar
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Little House on the Prairie: Season 07
After many setbacks, Laura Ingalls (Melissa ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
Amigo
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Burlesque
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Champion Joe
This feature length anime tells the story of Joe, an orphan with nowhere ... [ Drama movie - 1980 ]
