Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly, Samuel Fuller, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's Day the World Ended (1955). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Friedrich...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Will Patton, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jan Gan Boyd, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

A presidential bodyguard is assigned to protect an objecting first lady, as repeated attempts are made on her life.

Actors : Joaquin Phoenix, Stefan DeSalle, Peter Billingsley, Whip Hubley,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends in the midst of the Cold War.

Actors : Morten Hoff, Lone Lindorff, Adam Tønsberg, Peter Reichhardt,
Directors : Bille August,

Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yoshiko Sakuma, Jûzô Itami, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of ...

Actors : Asokan, Parvathi, Sumalatha, Mohanlal,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

Jayakrishnan falls in love with two girls, Radha and Clara, and fights his confusion about whom he should marry and spend his life with.

Actors : Themis Bazaka, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis, Sotiria Leonardou,
Directors : Costas Ferris,

The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.

Actors : Robert Arevalo, Mark Neely, R. Lee Ermey, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

A tough sergeant and his sidekick roll into a demoralized firebase and proceed to rebuild morale and fortifications in advance of the climactic battle with the VietCong.

Actors : Carlo Cartier, Biagio Barone, Orazio Torrisi, Margarita Lozano,

Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Ann Mitchell, Nicholas Clay,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her ...

Actors : Willem Nijholt, Danny de Munk, Herman van Veen, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

11 year old Amsterdam schoolboy Ciske, a scamp with a heart of gold, causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher. Yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one ...

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Geneviève Mnich, Maurice Ronet, Ariel Besse,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy.

Actors : Carole Bouquet, François Cluzet, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon ...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, William Sanderson, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : Michael Gambon, Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson,
Directors : John Irvin,

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they ...

Actors : Inna Churikova, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

The story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.

Actors : Serra Yilmaz, Kemal Sunal, Savas Yurttas, Güzin Özipek,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

It is a comedy of stubborn people who initiate a judicial process which would last 7 years because of a cow's trespassing on a field.

Actors : Mitch Maglio, Asaph Livni, Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork,
Directors : Buddy Giovinazzo,

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.

Actors : Lena Stolze, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram, Hans-Reinhard Müller,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.