Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Nick Mancuso, Peter Coyote, Carole Laure, Max Gail,
Directors : Bobby Roth,

Blue and Eli, two friends, have problems with women. Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter is left by his longtime girlfriend, because she considers him too immature for a longlsting ...

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Saverio Marconi,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a...

Actors : Scott Glenn, Joe Pesci, Jade Malle, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Élie Chouraqui,

A former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy's fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody revenge spree.

Actors : Om Prakash, Amrita Singh, Anil Kapoor, Amjad Khan,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Charandas lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in India along with his older brother, Bhajandas, and Bhabhi. He is unemployed and commits himself to be a wrestler with Ustad Mastram ...

Actors : James Mason, Dorothy Tutin, Edward Fox, John Gielgud,
Directors : Alan Bridges,

While Europe stands on the brink of a World War in Autumn 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby hosts a weekend of shooting on his estate for European aristocrats.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Hart Bochner, David Selby,
Directors : George Cukor,

Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes...

Actors : Gigi Suk Yee Wong, Cherie Chung, Danny Bak-Keung Chan, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Mabel Cheung,

Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city

Actors : Dulari, Mithun Chakraborty, Arun Govil, Asrani,
Directors : K. Muralimohana Rao,

Ravi Kumar is the younger brother of Judge Soumitra Devi and Mohan Kumar. He and his sister have different views and ideas. They lack understanding and that is why he decides to be apart ...

Actors : Shafi Inamdar, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.

Actors : Evgeniy Leonov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Mark Zakharov,

Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people.

Actors : Thierry Tevini, Évelyne Dandry, Anja Schüte, Valérie Dumas,
Directors : David Hamilton,

With the outbreak of WWII, the sudden call to arms will send the men of a family's estate to the front, leaving a curious adolescent alone with the remaining women of the house, in need of a warm embrace and, possibly, a daring kiss.

Actors : Zeljko Ivanek, Paul Freeman, Kathryn Harrold, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Roger Christian,

A disturbed telepathic man is unable to fully control his ability to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him or even influence reality. A female therapist tries to help him but his mother gets in the way.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...

Actors : Teimuraz Chirgadze, Ivane Sakvarelidze, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Ramaz Giorgobiani,
Directors : Eldar Shengelaia,

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

Actors : Uma Thurman, Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover,
Directors : John Boorman,

Stewart McBain (Coleman) is a real-estate mogul who spends his living blowing up old buildings to make room to erect new buildings. All goes as planned for a new subdivision, until a group ...

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Brooke Shields, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Jacques Dutronc, Valérie Lagrange, Myriam Mézières,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory. Shortly after ...

Actors : John Wildman, Margaret Langrick, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee,
Directors : Sandy Wilson,

Adding an intriguing Canadian twist to a universally appealing story of teenage trials, My American Cousin begins as bored 12-year-old Sandy (Margaret Langrick) is preparing for another ...

Actors : Robert F. Lyons, Tony Pierce, Michael Dudikoff, Michael DeLorenzo,
Directors : Aaron Norris,

A young officer, just out of West Point is sent to Vietnam, where the men don't respect him until he gets wounded and returns to be a wiser soldier and a better commander

Actors : Alan King, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Armand Assante,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

An old friend of a private detective is murdered. The detective, Mike Hammer, will make every effort to find out the killer. At each step he does, there is someone taking advantage of his ...