Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Robert Prosky, Don Ameche, J.J. Johnston, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : David Mamet,

Shoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember.

Actors : Hugo Arana, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Actors : Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn, Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh,
Directors : Jane Campion,

In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education ...

Actors : Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Robin Williams, Holly Palance,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Actors : Michèle Baumgartner, Henri Garcin, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valérie Quennessen, Barbara Rush,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

A young American couple and a French woman engage in a threesome in the Greek Islands.

Actors : John Hurt, Roy Hyatt, Stephanie Lane, Theresa Russell,

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (...

Actors : Jason Robards, Anne Archer, David Selby, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Geneviève Bujold, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and ...

Actors : Joe Cortese, Clint Howard, Claude Earl Jones, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Eric Weston,

An outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer.

Actors : Al Pacino, Joan Plowright, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find...

Actors : Boguslawa Pawelec, Boguslaw Linda, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

Actors : Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill, Michael Caine,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and ...

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, David Rasche, Laila Robins, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and ...

Actors : Georgina Hale, Frances Barber, Amanda Donohoe, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irvine takes a chance on contacting him and ...

Actors : Kenji Utsumi, Akira Kamiya, Yuriko Yamamoto, Chikao Ohtsuka,
Directors : Toyoo Ashida,

A practitioner of the deadly martial art "Hokuto Shinken" allies with two children and an expert in "Nanto Suicho-Ken" to fight against the rivals who kidnapped his lover and threaten the prosperity of mankind.

Actors : Rosel Zech, Cornelia Froboess, Hilmar Thate, Annemarie Düringer,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A washed up UFA actress, kept by her doctor, raises suspicion in a sports journalist.

Actors : Jack Scalia, Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Actors : Yueh Sun, Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Carrie Ng,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

An undercover cop infiltrates a gang of thieves who plan to rob a jewelry store.

Actors : Kim Richards, James Spader, Matt Clark, Paul Mones,
Directors : Fritz Kiersch,

The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.