Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Barbara Durkin, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Emily Lloyd,
Directors : David Leland,

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age....

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Martha Gehman, Matt Dillon, Molly McCarthy,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

Set in Brooklyn, 1963, Jeffrey Willis has just finished high school and isn't quite sure what the future holds. His parents expect him to go to college but he is starting to find his ...

Actors : Abe Vigoda, Rutanya Alda, Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A farm girl nurses a wounded reindeer she believes is one of Santa's, hoping to bring it back to health in time for Christmas. Her holiday spirit inspires those around her, something her disheartened father is having trouble understanding.

Actors : Cyndy Schneidau, Jean Michel Basquiat, Richard Weigand, John Lurie,
Directors : Edo Bertoglio,

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets ...

Actors : Carroll Baker, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Tate Donovan, Kathy Baker,
Directors : Glenn Gordon Caron,

A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehab to escape trouble with the law, and realizes that it's exactly what he needs.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Bogdan Diklic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Slobodan Sijan,

The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

Actors : Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari,
Directors : Abbas Kiarostami,

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs, and danger.

Actors : David Tress, Chuck Norris, Lenore Kasdorf, M. Emmet Walsh,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

Colonel Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held captive there.

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Don Gordon,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Actors : Perry Lopez, Charles Bronson, John P. Ryan, Kay Lenz,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.

Actors : James Woods, Yuji Okumoto, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Slobodan Sijan,

It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.

Actors : Eric Gurry, Jim Moody, Reni Santoni, Sean Penn,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.

Actors : Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Ralph Macchio, Joe Morton,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Ralph Macchio is Lightning Boy. A kid who can make a slide guitar sing. Blind Dog is an old pro who knows it. Together, they're headed to a place where deals are made. And legends are born.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S.M.C. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...

Actors : Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Robert Radler,

A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?

Actors : Jay Brazeau, Matt Clark, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Martin Sheen,

Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.

Actors : Pamela Reed, Thomas G. Waites, Daryl Hannah, James Remar,
Directors : Michael Chapman,

A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.