Best Romance movies of 1980s

Actors : Bill McCutcheon, Barbara Hershey, Keanu Reeves, Peter Falk,
Directors : Jon Amiel,

Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin's aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home ...

Actors : János Balogh, Péter Breznyik Berg, Gábor Balogh, Imre Chmelik,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.

Actors : Julian Glover, Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julie Christie,
Directors : James Ivory,

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to ...

Actors : River Phoenix, Ione Skye, Meredith Salenger, Ann Magnuson,
Directors : William Richert,

A charming womanizer has to find a way to get $80 to elope to Hawaii with his one true love, or else go to his father's chosen business school.

Actors : Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : James Ivory,

Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Actors : Dominique Besnehard, Christophe Odent, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Suzanne is sixteen and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour....

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, James Spader, Dexter Fletcher, Ione Skye,
Directors : Damian Harris,

Charles is in control of his life; he is about to finish 6th form college and start at Oxford. He is 19 and wants an 'older' woman before he turns 20. Enter the beautiful Rachel, and ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Ilyas Salman, Yaprak Özdemiroglu,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.

Actors : Miranda Garrison, Laura Harring, Barbra Brighton, Jeff James,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Filmed during the Lambada dance craze (if there really ever was one), this film tries to have a social conscience. A princess (Laura Herring) in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a ...

Actors : Sakari Kuosmanen, Esko Nikkari, Kati Outinen, Matti Pellonpää,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.

Actors : Bette Midler, Trini Alvarado, John Goodman, Stephen Collins,
Directors : John Erman,

Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny......

Actors : Sean Young, James Woods, John Kapelos, Steven Hill,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to ...

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Brigitte Fossey, Claude Brasseur, Lambert Wilson,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Two years after the first "Boum", Vic - now 15 and a half years old - has a very calm love life, actually no boyfriend at all. Her parents are happily together again, Grandma Poupette ...

Actors : Humbert Balsan, Guy Marchand, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the ...

Actors : Ralph Bellamy, Jason Robards, Liam Neeson, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

A divorced mother may lose custody of her young daughter to her ex-husband after he learns that the little girl crawled into bed with the mother and her boyfriend.

Actors : Catlin Adams, Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.

Actors : Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Bridget Fonda, Scott Coffey,
Directors : Zelda Barron,

Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.

Actors : David Keith, Angela Goethals, Charlie Schlatter, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother who was a big fan of Elvis Presley gets in a wreck he and his band members decides to kidnap Elvis and have him hooked up with his mother.

Actors : Mira Banjac, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Slavko Stimac, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Goran Paskaljevic,

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.