Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Alan Bates, Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Sammi Davis,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

Martin, an IRA hitman, is seen by a catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

Actors : Laila Robins, Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Thomas Wilson Brown,
Directors : Jim Abrahams,

A small town prepares for the homecoming of superstar Roxy Carmichael, as does a young outsider, who believes Roxy is her mother.

Actors : Mark Harmon, Jonathan Silverman, Jodie Foster, Blair Brown,

Mark Harmon is a washed-up baseball player who is called back home to handle the ashes of his childhood sweetheart/ first love who had committed suicide. As he searches for what to do with ...

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Robby Benson, Wilford Brimley, Paul Newman,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward, Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani,
Directors : James Foley,

An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both...

Actors : Heikki Paavilainen, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses ...

Actors : Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi, Dorothée Berryman, Dominique Michel,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.

Actors : Art Metrano, Valérie Kaprisky, John P. Ryan, Richard Gere,
Directors : Jim McBride,

Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a...

Actors : Randall Batinkoff, Molly Ringwald, Miriam Flynn, Kenneth Mars,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.

Actors : Osman Cavci, Sener Sen, Sermin Hürmeriç, Ugur Yücel,
Directors : Yavuz Turgul,

An ingenuous countryman Ali Nazik migrates to Istanbul and meets producer Muhsin Kanadikirik to have his first album.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, David Marshall Grant,
Directors : Peter Markle,

During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.

Actors : Jackie Burroughs, Richard Farnsworth, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson,
Directors : Phillip Borsos,

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Ron Silver, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Actors : Robert Hunger-Bühler, Karin Springer, Silvia Ryder, Erwin Leder,
Directors : Gerald Kargl,

A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.

Actors : Bill Kerr, Greta Scacchi, Eric Roberts, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own ...

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Fiona Shaw,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the ...

Actors : Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko, Elina Salo, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who...

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Ilyas Salman, Pembe Mutlu,
Directors : Sinan Çetin,

Abbas is the assistant of Sakir who is a rogue guy, and Abbas has a dream which is to buy a minibus for his own.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : Ernest Thompson,

Two friends living in a small town during the 1960s, run away to enjoy their freedom during the Vietnam War, thus disappointing the father of one of them. When they return to town, they realize the importance of family unity.

Actors : Gary Conway, Larry Poindexter, Steve James, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.