Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Hristo Shopov, Georgi Staykov, Sofiya Kuzeva, Svetla Todorova,
Directors : Ivan Andonov,

The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers.

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Jugal Hansraj, Tanuja,
Directors : Shekhar Kapur,

A happy family goes through turbulent times because of a big mistake by one of the family members.

Actors : Natasha Richardson, Frances Fisher, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

The true story of Patricia Hearst, a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970s. The time spent with her captors made her question her way of life and she joined ...

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Caris Corfman, Ian Holm, Coral Browne,
Directors : Gavin Millar,

Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the ...

Actors : Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, George Segal,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Ernest 'Stick' Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, ...

Actors : Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Chris Menges,

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...

Actors : Ellen Barkin, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Jon Voight,
Directors : Eugene Corr,

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic...

Actors : Frances McDormand, Mai Zetterling, Brad Dourif, Brian Cox,
Directors : Ken Loach,

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon ...

Actors : Lise Delamare, Jacques Spiesser, Jean Mercure, Catherine Ferran,
Directors : Jérôme Boivin,

A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.

Actors : Maria Pakulnis, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Aleksander Bardini,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and ...

Actors : Candice Azzara, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Anne Bancroft,

Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Valéria Cavalli, Marino Cenna, Michèle Morgan,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible...

Actors : Pamela Gidley, Josh Brolin, Brooke McCarter, Robert Rusler,
Directors : David Winters,

Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.

Actors : Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt, Peter Frechette,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar,...

Actors : Francesca Neri, Óscar Ladoire, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, María Barranco,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

The story of a young woman's descent into the kinky and dangerous sexual underground in Madrid.

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Miriam Guidelli, Claudio Bigagli, Margarita Lozano,

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Ayub Khan-Din, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with ...

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Rajkumar Santoshi,

Ajay Mehra, an amateur boxer, takes revenge against Balwant Rai, a crooked businessman, after his elder brother is killed.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a ...

Actors : Zeinab Botsvadze, Ketevan Abuladze, Ia Ninidze, Avtandil Makharadze,
Directors : Tengiz Abuladze,

The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the ...