Best Drama movies of 1987

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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp,
Directors : Alan Clarke,

Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.

Actors : Heidi Lenhart, David Thomas, Mitsuki Yayoi, Leo Morimoto,
Directors : Hiroyuki Yamaga,

In an alternative Earth, a young astronaut participates in a controversial fledgling space program.

Actors : Anne Pitoniak, Andrea Burchill, Sara Walker, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to ...

Actors : Ann-Marie MacDonald, Paule Baillargeon, Richard Monette, Sheila McCarthy,
Directors : Patricia Rozema,

Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle ...

Actors : Lara Harris, D.B. Sweeney, Charlie Sheen, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Peter Werner,

A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Toshinori Omi, Toshirô Yanagiba,
Directors : Seijirô Kôyama,

The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.

Actors : Cynthia Gibb, Burt Reynolds, Kenneth McMillan, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Harley Cokeliss,

Ex-CIA hit-man running from his past (Malone) finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs accross a small town controlled by mercenaries and a family that's resisting their ...

Actors : Issiaka Kane, Balla Moussa Keita, Aoua Sangare, Niamanto Sanogo,
Directors : Souleymane Cissé,

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

Actors : Jason Robards, Winona Ryder, Rob Lowe, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Gemma is 13 years old lives with her grandpa in the country, she has for many years. One day her mother shows up, and wants to take Gemma to the city. Her mother is married now, and can ...

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Julian Sands, Gabriel Byrne, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few ...

Actors : Jan Rubes, Roddy McDowall, William Russ, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

Actors : Tracy Pollan, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Gedrick, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

This gritty drama follows two high school acquaintances, Hancock, a basketball star, and Danny, a geek turned drifter, after they graduate. The first film commissioned by the Sundance Film ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Ayub Khan-Din, Frances Barber, 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 : Victor Rebengiuc, Luminita Gheorghiu, Dorel Visan, Gina Patrichi,
Directors : Stere Gulea,

Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more...

Actors : Veronica Cartwright, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Emilio Estevez,

Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.

Actors : Peter Phelps, John Heywood, Nick Waters, John Larking,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, Merritt Butrick,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.