Best Drama movies of 1985

Actors : John Matshikiza, Nadine Uwampa, Trevor Howard, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Marion Hänsel,

A South African spinster (Jane Birkin) murders her father (Trevor Howard) after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.

Actors : Andrea Guzon, Marco Mattioli, Gabriele Tinti, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard Villeneuve, all that is left of Leonora, the love of his life, are a number of erotic tape recordings. Leonora led a double life ...

Actors : Mohammad Kasebi, Esmat Makhmalbaf, Zohreh Sarmadi, Majid Majidi,
Directors : Mohsen Makhmalbaf,

Actors : Azat Gasparyan, Mher Mkrtchyan, Galya Novents, Elina Agamyan,
Directors : Albert Mkrtchyan,

The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.

Actors : Annette Charles, Américo González, Robert Beltran, Michael Goodwin,
Directors : Haskell Wexler,

Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. ...

Actors : Ian McShane, Anne Archer, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Mike Connors,
Directors : Tony Lo Bianco,

A killer is brutually attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.

Actors : Nigel Terry, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Jaclyn Smith,
Directors : Anthony B. Richmond,

A writer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present fiancée possesses the soul of his fiancée in his previous life, a ballerina.

Actors : Mammootty, Sumalatha, Urvashi, Babu Namboothiri,
Directors : Joshi,

Ravi Varma, who is sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife, tells his story to his wife's sister, a news reporter, about the true story of what happened.

Actors : Patrice Townsend, Henry Jaglom, Joanna Frank, Alan Rachins,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital ...

Actors : Shivaji Ganesan, Rajinikanth, Jaishankar, Ambika,
Directors : Rajasekar,

Actors : Marty Watt, Griffin Dunne, Karen Young, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Adam Brooks,

Alex and Erica Boyer's marriage is in a crisis: job and wife bore Alex. When Erica has an accident that has her staying in a wheel chair for some time, it changes their life: Alex meets ...

Actors : Kaz Garas, Carmen Argenziano, Deborah Tranelli, Bill McLaughlin,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A beautiful woman seeks revenge for tragedy forced upon her family.

Actors : Sami Frey, Mara Goyet, Juliet Berto, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

This is an affecting story about a father's attempts to mend the breaches in the relationship between himself and his 10-year-old daughter. Emmanuel (Sami Frey) is the father of Elise (Mara...

Actors : Natalya Sayko, Olgert Kroders, Igor Vasilev, Valentina Titova,
Directors : Leonid Menaker,

Professor Dowell and his assistant surgeon Dr. Kern are working on the resurrection of the dead. Dr. Kern kills Dowell in a set up car accident. Professor Dowell's head is now kept alive ...

Actors : Neena Gupta, Anita Kanwar, Leela Naidu, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Set in 1961 Goa, this is a story of a rich and influential Goan family and what happens to them over a period of time. The movie is narrated in past-tense by one of the friends of the ...

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Leon, Dale Midkiff, Melissa Leo,
Directors : Joan Freeman,

Cookie and her brother run away from their loveless mother in the province and arrive in New York. At the train station Cookie meets the fancy man Duke. With his charm he makes her fall in ...

Actors : Ezzat El Alaili, Youssra, Adel Imam, Amina Rizk,
Directors : Mohamed Radi,

Fatima returns from America after earning her doctorate, she meets Galal who works as a tourist agent. When she returns home, she finds Galal in her bedroom and warns her from marrying ...

Actors : Paolo Bonacelli, Ángela Molina, Harvey Keitel, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow) she is saved from being raped by a Camorra (organized crime) boss when the gangster is suddenly ...

Actors : Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Saulius Balandis, Eleonora Korisnaite, Linas Paugis,
Directors : Raimundas Banionis,

This contemporary urban drama tells of a love story, of a girl with a very strong character who fights against the social prejudices, and a young man who wins her heart, and their wedding.

Actors : Nobutaka Masutomi, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu, Noriko Hayami,
Directors : Shinji Sômai,

Muraki is in debt after a business failure. When he is unable to pay his debtors, the loan sharks rape Muraki's wife. Remorseful and sick of his life, Muraki picks up a prostitute named ...