Best movies of 1980s

Actors : Deborah Rush, Robert Logan, Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann Warren,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girl's night out, ...

Actors : José Bódalo, Encarna Paso, Agustín González, Antonio Ferrandis,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

A Nobel prize winner returns to his natal city looking for his home.

Actors : Fuyumi Shiraishi, Hideki Sasaki, Masashi Amenomori, Junji Chiba,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A cellist in a small orchestra receives help from animals to help him practice his music.

Actors : David Wysocki, Mary Beth McDonough, Lynda Day George, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Convinced that her father's death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.

Actors : Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Faye Dunaway, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, ...

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Kalpana Iyer, Kim, Om Puri,
Directors : Babbar Subhash,

Jimmy promises to return to Bombay and become a famous entertainer so that he can exact revenge on Mr. Oberoi for having insulted and imprisoned his mother on false charges. He falls in ...

Actors : Lino Banfi, Ramona Dell'Abate, Franco Bracardi, Adriana Russo,
Directors : Luciano Salce,

The funny misadventures of a simpleton just out of jail, looking for a job until the very surreal ending.

Actors : John Hurt, Robyn Douglass, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : James Burrows,

A straight police detective is unnerved when ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk, as a couple, to solve a series of murders in the gay community.

Actors : Carlo Verdone, Adriano Celentano, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono,

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the ...

Actors : Kara Hui, Hou Hsiao, Chia Yung Liu, Chia-Liang Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens it's existence.

Actors : Patti LuPone, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his ...

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Esko Nikkari, Matti Pellonpää,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Actors : Edy Angelillo, Giuliana Calandra, Carlo Verdone, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Alberto Sordi,

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; ...

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Teo Teocoli, Massimo Boldi, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

The misadventures of three soccer fans, all played by Abatantuono.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Grace De Capitani, Gaëtan Bloom, Guy Marchand,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no ...

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...

Actors : Charles Aznavour, François Cluzet, Monique Chaumette, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Labbé, a hatter in a French provincial town, leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour Kachoudas, an ...

Actors : Norman Burton, Marjoe Gortner, Maurice Sherbanee, Bobbie Bresee,
Directors : Michael Dugan,

Traumatized by her mother's death, young Susan is becoming possessed by the same demon that possessed her mother before she died. More and more her husband and psychiatrist are noticing the...

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Simo Salminen,
Directors : Ere Kokkonen,

Actors : Nonna Mordyukova, Ivan Bortnik, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.