Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Birgitte Raaberg, Holger Boland, Kim Larsen, Erik Clausen,
Directors : Erik Balling,

Benny (Kim Larsen) and Arnold (Erik Clausen) are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they liv in, but while cleaning the...

Actors : Eva-Maria Kurz, Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause,
Directors : Jörg Buttgereit,

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Harvey Keitel, Thérèse Liotard, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Amitabh Bachchan, Smita Patil,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Brought up by his grandfather, Arjun Singh moves to the city in search of a new job and life. While in the city he meets Bhairon who helps him find a job as a singer in a 5-star hotel owned by Raja.

Actors : Tanya Fenmore, Staci Keanan, D.W. Moffett, Cheryl Ladd,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

Fourteen year-old Lisa is raised by her unmarried mother Katherine who overprotects her by forbidding her to date until she's sixteen. In despair, Lisa and schoolmate Wendy make up a game ...

Actors : Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is ...

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Dimple Kapadia, Rakhee Gulzar,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Sharda (Raakhee) vows vengeance when her husband is murdered by his two evil cousins, Bhishamber (Amrish Puri) and Bhanu (Paresh Rawal), and she and her two young sons are thrown out on the...

Actors : Velko Kynev, Pavel Popandov, Georgi Mamalev, Filip Trifonov,
Directors : Lyudmil Kirkov,

The misfortunes of a couple of guys who form a music group and think they can get rich and famous easy.

Actors : Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Zeldin,
Directors : Stanislav Govorukhin,

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

Actors : Jaya Prada, Sarath Babu, Kamal Haasan, Sailaja S.P.,
Directors : K. Viswanath,

A classical dancer, Balakrishna, (Kamal Haasan) faces many struggles, but is eventually redeemed.

Actors : Nadia Ottaviani, Marisa Tomasi, Paolo Villaggio, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

The amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released mental patient and his band of misfits, discover conspiracies to concur while looking for love.

Actors : Slim Pickens, Amy Irving, Dyan Cannon, Willie Nelson,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Adelheid Arndt, Otto Sander, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Karen Young, Burt Reynolds,

Las Vegas is the backdrop for all the torrid action of heat, as Burt Reynolds plays the soft-hearted bodyguard who's out to protect his friends.

Actors : Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Julie Glenn, Clothilde Baudon,
Directors : Claude Miller,

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

Actors : Adrian Pasdar, Jack Gwaltney, Diane Lane, Laura San Giacomo,
Directors : Marisa Silver,

This movie follows the lives of medical students who are in their third year, which is the time that they have to decide what they intend to specialize in. At the center is Michael Chatham ...

Actors : Jet Li, Jianqiang Hu, Chun Hua Ji, Qiuyan Huang,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set ...

Actors : Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Elina Salo, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that ...

Actors : Christopher Walker, Michael Bowen, Susan Dey, Tom Hulce,
Directors : Robert Dornhelm,

In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everyone is more than they initially seem. May waits tables, raises a son, Henry, and is an aspiring actress. She needs a roommate and takes in...