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1980 Romantic Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 30 movies or TV shows/series

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The Blue Lagoon(1980)

R
| 1h 44min | Romance / Love, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 805 votes)

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?

Somewhere in Time(1980)

PG
| 1h 43min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 232 votes)

Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.

Urban Cowboy(1980)

PG
| 2h 12min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 110 votes)

After moving to Pasadena, Texas, country boy Bud Davis starts hanging around a bar called Gilley's, where he falls in love with Sissy, a cowgirl who believes the sexes are equal. They eventually marry, but their relationship is turbulent due to Bud's traditional view of gender roles. Jealousy over his rival leads to their separation, but Bud attempts to win Sissy back by triumphing at Gilley's mechanical bull-riding competition.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears(1980)

PG
| 2h 22min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 96 votes)

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...

Atlantic City(1980)

R
| 1h 44min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 104 votes)

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Honeysuckle Rose(1980)

PG
| 1h 59min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Lovable You(1980)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

The daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien - With Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan, Feng Fei-fei

The Jazz Singer(1980)

PG
| 1h 55min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 26 votes)

Jess Robin dreams of a career in popular music, but his father, Cantor Rabinovitch, forbids it, insisting Jess live as a traditional Jew and inherit his position at the synagogue. With the help of friend and professional musician Bubba, Jess gets a chance to go to Los Angeles and have famous singer Keith Lennox record one of his songs. Defying both his father and his wife, Jess leaves New York to pursue his dreams.

Union City(1980)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.

The Handyman(1980)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long, he continues the momentum when an ill-considered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence. Next, Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife, though this decision is hardly well thought out. In the meantime, a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman. L'Homme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for "Best Picture" at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh(1981)

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Late autumn on the southern coast of Crimea. Cold sea. A colorful crowd gathered in one of the boarding houses, forced to invent entertainment for themselves ... In this situation of endless conversations about health and its absence, retellings of domestic dramas and obligatory resort flirting, the love of two middle-aged people Nadezhda Andreyevna and Alexey Sergeyevich is born.

The Promise of Love(1980)

1h 36min | Drama, TV Movie
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A teenage bride becomes a war widow when her Marine Corps husband is killed in Vietnam, until into her life comes a civilian recreation director who works at Camp Pendleton.

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The Competition(1980)

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?

Ullasa Paravaigal(1980)

The son of a wealthy man suffers from a condition whereby he cannot stand the sight of fire as he has a violent outburst every time. A caring doctor and a friend help the young man unravel his past.

Directed by C. V. Rajendran - With Kamal Haasan

Prema Tarangalu(1980)

Vijay, an orphan living alone in the city, saves a man named Kumar from thugs and becomes his best friend. However, he soon has to give up everything he holds dear for Kumar's happiness.

With Krishnam Raju, Jayasudha, Chiranjeevi, Sujatha, Kaikala Satyanarayana

Ghuddi(1980)

2h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love

The movie revolves around the protagonist Asad, a freedom fighter who still struggles to get out of the trauma of war. He meets Ghuddi at a film theatre and later falls in love.

Directed by Syed Salahuddin Zaki - With Suborna Mustafa, Golam Mustafa, Tariq Anam Khan, Raisul Islam Asad, Nasiruddin Yousuff

Richard's Things(1980)

R
| 1h 44min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.

Directed by Anthony Harvey - With Liv Ullmann

Don't Leave Your Lovers(1980)

1h 16min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Sometimes divorce process could be really painful. This is exactly the case for the heroes of this romantic drama.

Directed by Pavel Arsyonov - With Aleksandr Abdulov, Irina Alfyorova, Lyudmila Drebneva

Act of Love(1980)

1h 44min | Drama, TV Movie
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A tragic motorcycle accident leaves one brother paralyzed while the other brother is left guilt-ridden. Seeing his brother struggle with his new life of limited mobility and function, the young man finds his own life weighed down by his thoughts and feelings about the accident. Motivated by his emotions and the suffering of his brother, the young man performs an "act of love" which creates more chaos for him.

The Rescuer(1980)

1h 41min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A story about a high school student Asya and her complicated relationship with literature teacher Larikov.

Jane Austen in Manhattan(1980)

1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Ravi Chandra(1980)

2h 44min | Romance / Love

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by A. V. Seshagiri Rao - With Dr. Rajkumar

Vasantha Geetha(1980)

2h 41min | Romance / Love

Vasantha, an ordinary insurance agent, and Geetha, an arrogant woman, get married after fighting initially. However, the ensuing marital issues due to class differences soon drive them apart.

Directed by S. K. Bhagavan - With Dr. Rajkumar

Novia, esposa y amante(1981)

1h 30min | Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Aspiring actress finds herself sidetracked from her goals when she gets romanced-up by her director. It's all downhill from there.

The Bar(1979)

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Lilik Sudjio - With Dana Christina, Zainal Abidin, Roy Marten

White crow(1981)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Miner Yegor Ikonnikov comes to the South, hoping to have a good rest and, as they say, to unwind. The meeting with Sonya was the beginning of a serious love that changed the life of Yegor and a married woman who at first did not take Yegor seriously.

Painful Maturity(1980)

1h 30min

Su-jin faints one day for no apparent reason and slips into a coma. After three months of waiting for her to recover, her boyfriend, Kyeong-ho, accepts a position as a ship's officer and goes on an extended tour. Meanwhile, Jang-won, a medical student working under the doctor caring for Su-jin, finds himself falling in love with the ailing woman.

Directed by Park Cheol-su

Næste stop paradis(1980)

1h 34min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Thodisi Bewafaii(1980)

2h 30min
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Arvind Kumar Choudhary is widowed, respectable and wealthy businessman, who lives with his only son, Arun, in a palatial house. He re-marries another woman, Sujata, who is a widow, with two daughters, Veena and Seema. Arun does not respect her and refuses to even speak with her. Arun meets Neema Deshmukh and both of fall in love. With approval of their respective families they get married. Then things start to slide financially for the Choudharys when Arun accidentally breaks a valuable diamond while daydreaming about Neema; the Choudharys lose all their savings, building, vehicles and property, move to a shanty apartment, and Arvind passes away.

Love in a Taxi(1980)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

Romance develops between a Jewish New York cab driver and a black single mother.

Directed by Robert Sickinger - With Diane Sommerfield
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