Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Béatrice Agenin, Richard Anconina, Lio, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A successful entrepreneur in his fifties will decide to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built, just to find the liberty he has been seeking, not knowing that the itinerary of one's life often changes in the funniest of ways.

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Troy Donahue, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. ...

Actors : Lawrence Ko, Shu-Fen Hsin, Tian-Lu Li, Shu-Fang Chen,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone ...

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Jutta Lampe, Doris Schade, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laurent Terzieff, Nathalie Baye, Aurelle Doazan,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge ...

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Shashikala, Rekha, Ashok Kumar,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Nirmala Gupta runs her household and family in a very strict and authoritarian manner. While most of her family resent this, they do obey her and carry out her instructions, so as to be on ...

Actors : Kevin J. O'Connor, Robert Joy, Eric Mitchell, Mary Joy,

A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.

Actors : Kerem Yilmazer, Kemal Sunal, Yaman Okay, Sehnaz Dilan,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

Yoksul is a well-meaning man who works in office block as a tea maker. The owner of tea house "Suleyman" takes advantage of his good intentions. At same office block a girl whom Yoksul love...

Actors : Enrica Maria Modugno, Marco Messeri, Nanni Moretti, Ferruccio De Ceresa,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

Don Giulio, giovane prete romano, ritorna a casa dopo essere stato parroco in un'isola del Mar Tirreno ed è destinato ad una chiesa di periferia. A Roma egli ritrova i genitori, la sorella ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Bert Remsen, Michael Lerner, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Jerrold Freedman,

On the U.S.-Mexican border, border cop Jeb Maynard is hunting for a human smuggler responsible for Jeb partner's murder.

Actors : Kenneth Colley, James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, Susannah York,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

England, 1904. A young lawyer from London, Mr. Ashton (James Wilby) and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor. As he twisted his ankle, Ashton is forced to seek help at a nearby ...

Actors : David Morse, John Savage, Diana Scarwid, Amy Wright,
Directors : Richard Donner,

After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds ...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Michele Placido,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Three men face their mother's death.

Actors : Sam Wanamaker, Jürgen Heinrich, Max Gail, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Leo Penn,

American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.

Actors : Michel Constantin, Michel Creton, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

In 1943 in Tunisia, a unit of the French Foreign Legion fights the Germans over possession of a bank treasure in gold bars.

Actors : Katsuhide Uekusa, Yûko Mizutani, Ben Fairman, Anna Alba,
Directors : Yoshikazu Yasuhiko,

The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before ...

Actors : Joan Plowright, Suzanna Hamilton, Sting, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

Actors : Tony Barry, Henry Thomas, Tamsin West, Rachel Friend,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

Still grieving the loss of his parents, a young boy living in Australia finds himself caught up in the magic of an Aboriginal myth that might be more real than anyone knows.

Actors : Jennifer Connelly, Maddie Corman, Alan Boyce, Byron Thames,
Directors : Linda Feferman,

When her father goes out of town, beautiful A-student Natalie lets best friends Jeff and Polly move in. Separately and together, the trio of young teens learn much about life, love, and growing up.

Actors : Pyotr Zaychenko, Pyotr Mamonov, Natalya Kolyakanova, Vladimir Kashpur,
Directors : Pavel Lungin,

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi ...