Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Catherine Wilkening, Rémy Girard, Lothaire Bluteau, Johanne-Marie Tremblay,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz,
Directors : James Bridges,

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

Actors : Leila Gastil, Richard Boes, Chris Parker, John Lurie,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

Actors : Robert Culp, Timothy Hutton, Kim Cattrall, Robert Urich,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city. At the same time, Mayor Tyler is embroiled in a ...

Actors : Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker, Ryan O'Neal,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

Actors : Jason Robards, Matthew Broderick, Marsha Mason, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

Actors : Gail Neely, Dawn Wildsmith, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner,
Directors : Peter George,

When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.

Actors : John Karlen, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.

Actors : Samantha Cahill, Glenne Headly, Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

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 : Denise Grey, Brigitte Fossey, Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

This is the story about the first love experiences of a teenage-girl.

Actors : Sam Neill, André Maranne, Meryl Streep, Charles Dance,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Neelam Kothari, Amitabh Bachchan, Madhavi,
Directors : Mukul Anand,

A young boy's quest for revenge leads him to become a gangster as an adult, and with each day he becomes more and more like his enemies. Can he find vengeance and redemption?

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Hanna Schygulla, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi ...

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Alex Man, Jacky Cheung,
Directors : Kar-Wai Wong,

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

Actors : Lee Van Cleef, Chuck Norris, Art Hindle, Karen Carlson,
Directors : Eric Karson,

A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.

Actors : Gailard Sartain, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Pembe Mutlu,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get revenge for his fahter or he can not get ...

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.

Actors : Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Chuck Bush, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Kevin Reynolds,

Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.