Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Corey Haim, Brian Kerwin, Sally Field, James Garner,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...

Actors : Christa Lang, Jameson Parker, Vernon Weddle, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.

Actors : Colin Blakely, Tom Berenger, Hugh Millais, Christopher Walken,
Directors : John Irvin,

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Ed Harris, Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Kim Miyori, Dolph Lundgren, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Mark Goldblatt,

When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as the Punisher.

Actors : Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Brian Dennehy, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

Actors : Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Peter Medak,

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.

Actors : Ron Perlman, Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Nicholas Kadi,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, John Heard, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.

Actors : Marisa Berenson, Julie Andrews, William Holden, Larry Hagman,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Actors : Linda Fiorentino, Ronny Cox, Michael Schoeffling, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a beautiful young drifter takes up temporary residence at his home.

Actors : Emily Chu, Yun-Fat Chow, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : John Woo,

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Yves Montand,
Directors : Claude Berri,

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Actors : Allan Edwall, Susan Fleetwood, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

Actors : John Colicos, Jessica Lange, Michael Lerner, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Actors : Matthew Laurance, Joe Pantoliano, Tom Berenger, Michael Paré,
Directors : Martin Davidson,

A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.

Actors : Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Gabriel Axel,

During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.

Actors : Miles O'Keeffe, John Phillip Law, Richard Harris, Bo Derek,
Directors : John Derek,

While on an African expedition with her father, Jane Parker meets Tarzan, and the two become fascinated by each other.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Jean De Baer, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

Actors : Tomas von Brömssen, Anton Glanzelius, Melinda Kinnaman, Anki Lidén,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A boy and his brother don't get along well. In order to let their ill mother rest, they're separated and sent each one with their relatives.