Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossain Sabzian,
Directors : Abbas Kiarostami,

The true story of Hossain Sabzian that impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.

Actors : Albert Finney, Zena Walker, Edward Fox, Tom Courtenay,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Chloe Webb, Sergio Fantoni, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

Actors : Satish Shah, Ravi Baswani, Naseeruddin Shah, Bhakti Barve,
Directors : Kundan Shah,

Two friends, attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings, corruption and murder, and must fight to bring the guilty to light.

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Robert Joy, Daniel J. Travanti, Cheryl Ladd,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.

Actors : James Woods, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Haid,
Directors : James B. Harris,

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Actors : Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Thomas Michael Donnelly,

Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which...

Actors : Maarten Spanjer, Hans van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg, Renée Soutendijk,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better ...

Actors : Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris, Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone,
Directors : Mori Masaki,

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Actors : Matthias Fuchs, Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city's new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Robert Ginty, Steve James,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Actors : Milo, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kyôko Koizumi, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Masanori Hata,

The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.

Actors : Simon Yam, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee,
Directors : John Woo,

When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Raisa Ryazanova,
Directors : Vladimir Menshov,

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

Actors : Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Lindsay Crouse, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a ...

Actors : Levan Gabriadze, Evgeniy Leonov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Yuriy Yakovlev,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.

Actors : Richard Jenkins, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Caroline Kava,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An FBI agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper agents and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.

Actors : Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman, Dan Håfström, Hanna Zetterberg,
Directors : Tage Danielsson,

Borka and his band and Mattis's band of robbers are rivals. Birk, his parents and their band live in the wild in Mattisforrest. They move in to Metis-stronghold, which belonged to his ...

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Willie, Okko,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".