Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : Morgan Freeman, Michael Keaton, 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 : Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Elizabeth Cheshire,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

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 : 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 : Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young,
Directors : Michael Crichton,

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Barbara Durkin, Trudi Cavanagh, Emily Lloyd, Clare Clifford,
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 : 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 : Hal Holbrook, Sharon Gless, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Actors : Jason Robards, Meredith Salenger, Corey Feldman, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Marc Rocco,

An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.

Actors : Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau, Franco Nero, Laurent Malet,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Füsun Demirel, Erdal Özyagcilar, Nilgün Nazli,
Directors : Nesli Çölgeçen,

The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everthing starts to go bad for the ...