Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Vijayakumar, Girija Shettar, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Radhabai,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Gitanjali and Prakash, two terminally ill people with six months of life left, fall in love.

Actors : Sevket Altug, Ekrem Dümer, Altan Erkekli, Ahmet Açan,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

The tragicomic story of an honest public officer in a corrupt world.

Actors : Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...

Actors : Vincent Price, Harry Caesar, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser,
Directors : Jeff Burr,

In a small Tennessee town, an historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Gene Hackman, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate....

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Robert Ginty, Deborah Geffner, Frankie Faison,
Directors : Mark Buntzman,

The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.

Actors : Don Bloomfield, Adam Horovitz, Amy Locane, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

A troubled youth from a split Los Angeles family is sent to a private psychiatric hospital after a violent scrape with the police. In the hospital, he makes a connection with one of the doctors who has his own problems.

Actors : Emin Sivas, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Erdinç Akbas, Nur Sürer,
Directors : Xavier Koller,

The story of a poor Turkish family who try to emigrate illegally to Switzerland.

Actors : Markku Toikka, Esko Nikkari, Aino Seppo, Hannu Lauri,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.

Actors : Alan Bates, Alan Badel, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Nevzat Açikgöz, Ferdi Akarnur, Ahmet Açan,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Husnu has got issues and inabilities about the complex and expensive metropolitan life who was a successful teacher in his little town and got a promotion and appointment to Istanbul.

Actors : Manos Katrakis, Dora Volanaki, Mairi Hronopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.

Actors : Jacques Spiesser, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Frederique (Huppert) leaves her family's small-town trout farm to embark on an journey taking her to Japan and into the arms of a man. Irritations concerning her actions and present state ...

Actors : Burt Young, Vicki Frederick, Laurene Landon, Peter Falk,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Harry manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team endlessly touring America, and he's also romantically involved with one of them. Their fortunes seem on the slide (...

Actors : Steve Durham, Thalmus Rasulala, David Coburn, Mike Norris,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

Three American students vacationing in Finland, cross the border into Russia for fun of it. When they are spotted by the Russian soldiers who are shooting to kill, it's not fun anymore. ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning, Peter Weller,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.

Actors : Dusica Zegarac, Varja Djukic, Rade Serbedzija, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Waheeda Rehman, Amitabh Bachchan,

A wealthy, but evil man named Zafar Khan, has fallen in love a girl named Salma and wants to marry her, but she and her father do not let him. Zafar is arrested for various crimes and is ...

Actors : Tomasz Stockinger, Bernard Ladysz, Anna Dymna, Jerzy Binczycki,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

Abandoned by his wife and daughter, a famous surgeon starts drinking, hurts his head and loses his memory. His medical knowledge gradually resurfaces and he becomes a village healer.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane, Matt Dillon,

It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank ...