Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley,
Directors : David S. Ward,

Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not ...

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine, Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...

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 : 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 : 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, Paul Mones, Matt Clark,
Directors : Fritz Kiersch,

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

Actors : Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans, David N. Haynes, Brian Bovell,
Directors : Franco Rosso,

The movie centers around Brindsley Forde's character blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in west London. The movie captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.

Actors : Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor, Graeme Blundell,
Directors : John Duigan,

In 1962, a prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off...

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 : Lilli Palmer, Victoria Tennant, Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.

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 : Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Ontkean, Neil Patrick Harris, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and ...

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 : 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 : 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 : James Fox, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, Eddie O'Connell,
Directors : Julien Temple,

In 1958 London a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.

Actors : Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

Actors : Burl Ives, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Sherilyn Fenn,
Directors : Zalman King,

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.