Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Jay O. Sanders, David Patrick Kelly, Bruce Davison, D.W. Moffett,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army.

Actors : Barbara Williams, John Getz, David Caruso, Steven Bauer,
Directors : Douglas Day Stewart,

A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she...

Actors : Carol Kane, Elliott Gould, Kathryn Grody, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Joyce Chopra,

Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980's Atlantic City performing the songs of the 60's girl groups in this self-indulgent comedy.

Actors : Mike Bishop, David Field, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey,
Directors : John Hillcoat,

Prison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Füsun Demirel,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Kerim lives with his family in a rent house for years. One day his host tells him to look for another house or raise the rent money.He finds a house by the help of Sühandan whom he works together and in love.

Actors : Haing S. Ngor, Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Joyce Godenzi,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

An action film about a daring commando raid into Vietnam to destroy a munitions dump left behind by American marines.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Madan Jain, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

An old couple lend a room on rent after recent death of the bread earner of the family, their only son. A budding actress starts living with them, who is in love with a local politician's only son. The movie shows what later ensues.

Actors : Christian Ruché, Miou-Miou, Sylvie Laporte, Michel Raskine,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Frances Conroy, Patricia Clarkson, Suzy Amis,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

An old patriarch unites for his birthday all members of his family. But the group of people is full of personal and social problems.

Actors : Peter Wang, Sharon Iwai, Kelvin Han Yee, Qinqin Li,
Directors : Peter Wang,

When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his ...

Actors : Bruno Cremer, François Négret, Ludmila Mikaël, Vanessa Paradis,
Directors : Jean-Claude Brisseau,

A teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her studies, but soon ...

Actors : Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Jean-Claude Tramont,

A drummer plants doubts into the mind of a bandleader about his wife's faithfulness in an attempt to take over the band himself.

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Payne, Ted Danson, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Allan Burns,

Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Chunky Pandey,
Directors : N. Chandra,

A college student, who has decided to serve for his country, turns a criminal.

Actors : Viktor Tsoy, Marina Smirnova, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov,
Directors : Rashid Nugmanov,

Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He ...

Actors : Kevin Anderson, Albert Finney, John Kellogg, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

The two brothers Treat and Philip lived alone since they were kids. Interdependent they dwell in a loft house and live on little thefts, until an aging minor criminal moves in with them and takes over the role of a father.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, James Wilby, Richard Beale, Jackson Kyle,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.

Actors : Karen Austin, Richard Masur, Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer,
Directors : Meiert Avis,

A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks.

Actors : Li-Chun Lee, Wang An, Cora Miao, Pao-Ming Ku,
Directors : Edward Yang,

A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.

Actors : Nicholas Campbell, Alex McArthur, Michael Biehn, Deborah Van Valkenburgh,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again.