Best Romance movies of 1980s

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Savage, Keith Carradine, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ...

Actors : Amy Irving, Sam Wanamaker, Richard Dreyfuss, Lee Remick,
Directors : Joel Oliansky,

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 ...

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Patti Hansen, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Julian Sands, 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 : Evelyn Hamann, Katharina Brauren, Vicco von Bülow, Edda Seippel,
Directors : Vicco von Bülow,

Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the...

Actors : Lara Flynn Boyle, Corey Parker, Finn Carter, Anthony Edwards,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier, Marie Trintignant, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : David Naughton, John Patrick Reger, Patrick Houser, Tracy Smith,
Directors : Peter Markle,

Harkin Banks heads to skiing championships in California. A teen runaway tags along as he parties and competes with friends and foes.