Best Drama movies of 1988

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Sunny Deol, Shakti Kapoor,
Directors : Sunil Hingorani,

Ram and Avtar are both childhood best friends. The difference between the two friends is that Ram would willingly make priceless sacrifice for his friend; the time when both are separated ...

Actors : Ángel Pardo, Imanol Arias, Pastora Vega, Jorge Sanz,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

Actors : DeeDee Norton, Lou Diamond Phillips, Herta Ware, Eli Cummins,
Directors : Fred Holmes,

John Dakota is young bum with a hidden past. He meets a nice family and works on their ranch. He soon becomes a good friend of the disabled son and helps them overcome local problems.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Cyprus Dastoor, Dady Dustoor,
Directors : Vijaya Mehta,

Phirojshah (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pestonjee (Anupam Kher) are two close friends. They attempt to do everything together, and they hope that they will marry the same day as well. ...

Actors : Philippe Brigaud, Jean-Marc Bory, Sydney Penny, Jean-Marie Bernicat,
Directors : Jean Delannoy,

In 1857, an unemployed miller moves his family into grim lodgings; his wife takes in laundry. In February of 1858, at the Massabielle grotto, their 14-year old asthmatic, illiterate ...

Actors : Mark Asquith, Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith,
Directors : Tony Palmer,

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Actors : Miyuki Nakano, Eri Fukatsu, Eri Miyajima, Tomoko Ôtakara,
Directors : Shûsuke Kaneko,

Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Farha Naaz, Kader Khan, Govinda,
Directors : Kalpataru,

Dhanraj (Kader Khan) is a mild-mannered man who is married to a wealthy, petty-minded, and controlling wife (Shashikala). Dhanraj has two sons and a daughter. The elder son Ram (Rishi ...

Actors : Evelyne Pieiller, Maruschka Detmers, Michele Placido, Juan Diego,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across ...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Timothy Hutton, William Hurt, Melissa Leo,
Directors : Gregory Nava,

A modernized version of the story which inspired Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino".

Actors : John Moore, Khym Lam, Geoffrey Gibbs, Adam A. Wong,

When an amusement park is built on the grounds of an old cemetery, the dead rise to take revenge.

Actors : Marko Ratic, Milena Dravic, Aleksandar Bercek, Slobodan Negic,
Directors : Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic,

Story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences.

Actors : Silvia Seidel, Günther Maria Halmer, Patrick Bach, Jon Peterson,
Directors : Frank Strecker,

The story of young ballerina Anna, as she becomes a professional dancer and is ready to leave Munich and move across the Atlantic to New York.

Actors : Arthur Dignam, Drew Norman, Mark Lee, Dennis Miller,
Directors : Michael Thornhill,

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long...

Actors : Diana Quick, David Thewlis, Clive Owen, Melanie Kilburn,
Directors : Beeban Kidron,

A love story - a young man for an older woman and his best friend and his Chevrolet. Jake is a romantic with a vision. Ringe is his whiplash wild best mate. Their lives in a small northern ...

Actors : Melanie Doane, Lionel Doucette, Marja Kok, Joop Admiraal,
Directors : Heddy Honigmann,

Actors : Dusica Zegarac, Neda Arneric, Stevo Zigon, Ranko Zidaric,
Directors : Lordan Zafranovic,

A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's...

Actors : Susan Anspach, Art Hindle, Olivia d'Abo, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Graeme Campbell,

A waitress tries to seduce a guy and convince him to kill a person she hates, since their death would bring her a lot of money. He's not into the idea but the girl has a backup plan.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Reb Brown, Ron O'Neal, James Mitchum,
Directors : Riki Shelach Nissimoff,

The president of an African country wants to boost his economy with a new dam. He ignores the protests of the tribes in the flooded region, so they declare rebellion. To avoid bad publicity...