Best Hindi movies of 1980s

Actors : Tom Alter, Harbans Darshan M. Arora, Birbal, Krishan Dhawan,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

When a Police inspector is killed by a band of thugs, his grieving father Samsher Singh seeks justice. Pratap Singh has left behind a pregnant widow, who dies in chidbirth, leaving Samsher ...

Actors : Kiran Kumar, Sanjana Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Deepa Sahi,

Hyderabadi Hiralal, who is also referred to as 'Hero' due to his obsession with Bollywood movies, drives an auto-rickshaw and often gets into fisticuffs. Things change when he meets with ...

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sridevi, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Sibte Hassan Rizvi,

Dara and Karan, the sons of two of the victims of dacoit Jogi Thakur, wait many years to exact their revenge. When the Thakur's colleague Raja Singh cheats him and runs away with his loot, ...

Actors : Kiran Vairale, Shabana Azmi, Sharmila Tagore, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Gulzar,

Dhaniram brings a trucker named Gerulal to Jugni's house so that he can rent a room. Jugni lives in dilapidated house with three young daughters, all of whom are of marriage age. The eldest...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Raj Babbar, Rekha, Madan Puri,
Directors : Lekh Tandon,

Photographer Raj Bedi meets with attractive Radha, both fall in love, and get married. Shortly after the marriage, Raj has an accident and is hospitalized. He does recover, but has no ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Satish Shah, Naseeruddin Shah, Kimi Katkar,
Directors : Keshu Ramsay,

Ravi gets a call from Father Anthony saying that his missing wife is with him in the Church.But when he meets her claims that she is not his wife. Inspector Balbir finds all the proofs are against Ravi but why is Ravi not ready to face it?

Actors : Dimple Kapadia, Vinod Khanna, Amjad Khan, Alok Nath,
Directors : Gulzar,

Samir Niyogi lives in India and is assigned by the Government to travel to Rajasthan, evaluate a princely castle that once belonged to Raja Param Singh, take stock of all items, the ...

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Shabana Azmi, Sreela Majumdar, Annu Kapoor,
Directors : Mrinal Sen,

Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young...

Actors : Anupam Kher, Sridevi, Sunny Deol, Gulshan Grover,
Directors : Harmesh Malhotra,

After the tragic deaths of his son, Ajit and daughter-in-law, Rajni, Raja Saheb decides to educate his grand-daughter, Neelam, in the city. Years later, Neelam has grown up and returns ...

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Rajesh Khanna, Tina Ambani, Smita Patil,
Directors : J. Om Prakash,

Nisha believes she is happily married until she discovers that her successful businessman husband, Kabir, has been having an affair with her cousin, Indu. Distraught, Nisha abandons her ...

Actors : Sanjay Khan, Zeenat Aman, Raj Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Sanjay Khan,

Abdullah is a devout Muslim who lives in a small hut the middle of a desert in Persia, and looks after a well so that it provides water to thirsty travelers. One day a friend, Ameer, ...

Actors : Sridevi, Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Karan Kapoor,

Shah is the leader of the Mugal tribe in Asia; when he gets news that bandit, Razoulli and his gang are coming to launch an attack on their region, he is petrified and asks his people to ...

Actors : Deepti Naval, Mithun Chakraborty, Shabana Azmi, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Bapu,

The wealthy and lecherous Zamindar Thakur Vir Pratap Singh lord over a small region in rural India mercilessly killing anyone who opposes his rule. He gets the male villagers addicted to ...

Actors : Anant Nag, Padmini Kolhapure, Shreeram Lagoo, Indrani Mukherjee,

When a successful manager decides to sell his plantation in his ancestral village to another company, his young daughter begins acting very strangely.

Actors : Meenakshi Sheshadri, Rakhee Gulzar, Sunny Deol, Suresh Oberoi,
Directors : Rahul Rawail,

Arjun Yadav return from the city after completing his studies to get settled in his village with his family consisting of his mother Devi Chaudaran, his older brother Amrit and sister. ...

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Ashok Kumar, Nutan,
Directors : Prayag Raj,

After Laxmi has had three still-births, her husband, Satyaprakash and his mother are afraid she will not be able to give any more births, and therefore there will be no one to carry the ...

Actors : Farha Naaz, Danny Denzongpa, Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri,
Directors : J.P. Dutta,

When Inspector Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) shoots down a criminal couple in the line of duty, his heart goes out to their orphaned baby son Krishna. He adopts the child, who grows up with ...

Actors : Deepti Naval, Farooq Shaikh, Satish Shah, Iftekhar,
Directors : Raman Kumar,

Avinash, an M.A. student, is an idealistic young man with socialist views and stern principles. He is not affected by materialistic nature of his generation and strongly opposes acquiring ...

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Moon Moon Sen, Danny Denzongpa,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

Successful in robbing a bank of huge sums of cash; criminal don, Shamsher Singh alias Shera refuses to part the loot with his accomplice, Raja and instead try to shoot him which results in ...

Actors : Poonam Dhillon, Randhir Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Yogeeta Bali,
Directors : Rahul Rawail,

Singer Chandermohan is born in a well-off family and is the only child. Since he is of marriageable age, both he and his parents want him to get married. But since he was born with a strong...