Best Romance movies of 1980s

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 : François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to ...

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 : 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 : Candice Azzara, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Anne Bancroft,

Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. ...

Actors : Imanol Arias, Marta Fernández Muro, Helga Liné, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza ...

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Miriam Guidelli, Claudio Bigagli, Margarita Lozano,

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that ...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Wilford Leach,

This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent ...

Actors : Donal McCann, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, John Kavanagh,
Directors : Pat O'Connor,

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

Actors : Maria Pakulnis, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Aleksander Bardini,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and ...

Actors : Sky du Mont, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Otto Waalkes, Jessika Cardinahl,

Otto, a young man from East-Frisia comes to the big city (Hamburg) to make his fortune. Most of all he is engaged with two problems: How can he impress Silvia, a rich young girl, and where ...

Actors : Pamela Gidley, Robert Rusler, Josh Brolin, Brooke McCarter,
Directors : David Winters,

Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Jon Voight,
Directors : Eugene Corr,

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic...

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Marc van Uchelen, John Kraaykamp, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Winona Ryder, Rob Lowe, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Gemma is 13 years old lives with her grandpa in the country, she has for many years. One day her mother shows up, and wants to take Gemma to the city. Her mother is married now, and can ...

Actors : Evan Mirand, LeeAnne Locken, Cheryl Pollak, Robert Sean Leonard,
Directors : Jimmy Huston,

After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Ann Wedgeworth, Kelly McGillis, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

After being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy runs away to California. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. In heaven he'll meet a beautiful girl, who has never reincarnated before.

Actors : Julian Sands, Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Ayub Khan-Din, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with ...

Actors : Stefano Antonucci, Paolo Baroni, Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Roberto Benigni,

Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a ...