Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Patti D'Arbanville, Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Penelope Spheeris,

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

Actors : Philippe Marlaud, Mathieu Carrière, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover.

Actors : Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent, Domiziana Giordano, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Composed entirely by literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, Godard's film works as an allegory on film. The loose narrative tells about a ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Christopher Lambert, Tim Roth, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Actors : Bert Remsen, Seymour Cassel, Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Gudrun Landgrebe, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : István Szabó,

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ...

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Wendy Hiller, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ...

Actors : Revathy, Mohan, Ramasami V.K., Karthik,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Divya, a woman grieving over the death of her lover, is convinced into an arranged marriage with Chandra Kumar. Over a year the couple attempt to adjust to each other's presence and live with each other.

Actors : Kara Hui, Chia-Hui Liu, Sheng Fu, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

The Yang family was the loyal strong-arm of the Imperial army. But a jealous General betrays the Eilte Spearman and their father to the opposing Mongol army. After an ambush of a battle, ...

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Adam Coleman Howard, Bernadette Peters, Mary Beth Hurt,
Directors : James Ivory,

Eleanor lives with the artist Stash. Just like his artist friends, he is completely unknown but is waiting for the big break. Stash is mean to her and finally she leaves him. Ironically, ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Goldstone,

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Actors : Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Themis Bazaka, 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 : Christopher Gable, Paul McGann, Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.

Actors : C.S. Dubey, Chandrashekhar, Amitabh Bachchan, Bharat Bhushan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

In lieu of love and affections from his multi-millionaire father, Amarnath Kapoor; Vicky is instead serve brandy. Amarnath is interested in materializing his businesses to greater heights ...

Actors : Tony Nardi, Gabrielle Rose, Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. ...

Actors : Bo Bojoh, Ivon Pelasula, Koen Wauters, Ruud de Wolff,
Directors : Ronald Beer,

Hans falls in love with Brenda, an Indonesian girl. Hans' father sells an old building to Brenda's father, so that he can open an Indonesian restaurant there. Hans' father is the owner of a...

Actors : Gotti Sigurdarson, Helgi Skúlason, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Jakob Þór Einarsson,
Directors : Hrafn Gunnlaugsson,

An Irish man seeks vengeance against the vikings who killed his parents.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Perihan Savas, Cevdet Arikan, Orhan Aydinbas,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Richest man in village, Saban is arranged to marry a beautiful Peril but the girl thinks he is rude and uncivilised bear. After learning this Saban becomes the best gentleman in the world to try to teach her a lesson.

Actors : Hans Alfredson, Per Myrberg, Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Johansson,
Directors : Hans Alfredson,

A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Çigdem Tunç, Adile Nasit, Erdal Özyagcilar,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

A poet, who works as a waiter to make ends meet, postures as a female singer to end a blood feud between two families.