Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Twiggy, Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Navin Chowdhry,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.

Actors : Todd Graff, Tim Robbins, John Turturro, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Tony Bill,

A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.

Actors : Marin Kanter, Peter Donat, Laura Dern, Diane Lane,
Directors : Lou Adler,

After her mother's death, teenager Corinne Burns forms a punk band with her sister and cousin, despite their lack of musical experience and talent.

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 : 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 : Jack Davidson, Joanna Merlin, Vincent Spano, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : John Sayles,

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

Actors : Féodor Atkine, Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues ...

Actors : Sarah Miles, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, Charles Dance,
Directors : Michael Radford,

A millionaire past his prime, and his young wife, arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large, as the homefront gears up for war. They ...

Actors : Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris, Steve Martin,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Adile Nasit, Erdal Özyagcilar,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.

Actors : Marshall Napier, Hamish McFarlane, Chris Haywood, Bruce Lyons,
Directors : Vincent Ward,

Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Lola Cardona, Icíar Bollaín,
Directors : Víctor Erice,

The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a city in the north of Spain. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which seem to be hidden in the personality ...

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.

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Christopher George, Franco Nero, Susan George,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also ...

Actors : Matthew Carroll, Ian Holm, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Mike Newell,

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

Actors : Cristina Scaramuzza, Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Soto, Inés Vernengo,
Directors : Eliseo Subiela,

A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?

Actors : Bill Murray, Denholm Elliott, Catherine Hicks, Theresa Russell,
Directors : John Byrum,

He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

Actors : Donna Kei Benz, Scott Glenn, Atsuo Nakamura, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Alan Scarfe, Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

General Chappy Sinclair assembles a joint U.S.- Soviet strike team to take out a rogue middle eastern nuclear base.

Actors : Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Henrik H. Buljo, Nils Utsi,
Directors : Nils Gaup,

Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjudes," roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little ...