1980 drama films

1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese

1980 film by David Lynch

1980 film by Robert Redford

is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.

1980 film by François Truffaut

1980 film by Alan Parker

Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden, Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W. D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, detailing Murton's uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal. The film features a large supporting cast, including Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Everett McGill a

1980 film by Michael Apted

1980 film by Nicolas Roeg

1980 television film by Ingmar Bergman

Spetters (English translation: Splashes) is a Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film follows the lives of three young men who have little in common but their love for dirt-bike racing. Set on the outskirts of Rotterdam, the film depicts three characters who are hoping to escape a dead-end, working-class existence.

1980 film by Ettore Scola

1980 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

1980 film by Adrian Lyne

1980 French film directed by Francis Girod

1980 film by Maurice Pialat

Confidence () is a 1980 Hungarian film directed by István Szabó, set in the waning days of World War II. It chronicles the story of two resistance members who are compelled to assume the roles of husband and wife in order to evade detection by the Nazis, despite being married to others. The film garnered critical acclaim, earning Szabó the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards.

1980 Polish film by Andrzej Wajda

1980 Soviet film by Alexander Mitta

1980 film by Govind Nihalani

1980 French drama film directed by Claude Sautet

1980 film by Marco Bellocchio

1980 film by Bertrand Tavernier

1980 film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi

1980 film directed by Kay Pollak

1980 film by Werner Schroeter

1980 film by Sai Paranjpye

Caboblanco is a 1980 American drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson, Dominique Sanda and Jason Robards. The film has often been described as a remake of Casablanca.

1980 film directed by David Hamilton

1980 film by Helma Sanders-Brahms

1980 television film

1980 Hindi film directed by Raj Khosla

1980 film by Jaime de Armiñán

1980 film directed by Jerrold Freedman

1980 film by Günter Reisch, Günther Rücker

1981 television film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

1980 film by Jean-Pierre Denis

1980 film by Daniel Petrie

1980 film by Peter Collinson

1980 film directed by Dennis Hopper

1980 film by Richard Donner

1980 film by Allan Moyle

1980 film by Wolf Gremm

1980 East German drama film directed by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase

1980 film by Claude Chabrol

1980 film by Herbert Ross

1980 film by Robert Kaylor

1980 American drama film directed by Lee Grant

1980 film directed by Goran Paskaljević

1980 film by Pekka Lehto, Pirjo Honkasalo

1979 Telugu-language film directed by Kasinathuni Viswanath

1980 film by Marco Tullio Giordana

1980 film by Glauber Rocha

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1980 film by Kieth Merrill

1980 film by Abdellatif Ben Ammar

1980 film by Subhash Ghai

1980 film directed by J. Om Prakash

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1980 Spanish drama film directed by Pilar Miró