Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Marianne Jacobi, Susan Anspach, Per Oscarsson, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.

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 : Will More, Laura Cepeda, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Miguel Zúñiga,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.

Actors : Mark Herrier, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, James Garner,
Directors : Marvin J. Chomsky,

Sergeant Major Zak Carey is serving what is his final tour of duty at an Army base in Clemens, Georgia. Zak doesn't like the way the Army keeps the base and the bar is not what he's ...

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 : 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 : Fernando Ramos da Silva, Edilson Lino, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with little crimes, prostitution, etc

Actors : Debra Stipe, Ryan O'Neal, Wings Hauser, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Norman Mailer,

Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car, a blond woman's severed head in ...

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.

Actors : Mira Banjac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Slavko Stimac, Ljiljana Blagojevic,
Directors : Emir Kusturica,

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. They hire him to hide a young ...

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

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

Actors : Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Goldie Hawn, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon...

Actors : Dorian Healy, Denzel Washington, Sean Chapman, Graham McTavish,
Directors : Martin Stellman,

A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.

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 : Mary Stuart Masterson, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Michael Dinner,

A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Robert Altman,

May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.

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 : Philippe Caubère, Thérèse Liotard, Didier Pain, Nathalie Roussel,
Directors : Yves Robert,

A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their ...

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Gene Davis,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A LAPD detective is on the trail of a very handsome young man who had been seducing and slashing many young women to death.

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.