Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Nicholas Le Prevost, Elspet Gray, Meg Tilly, Rupert Frazer,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he ...

Actors : Kate Capshaw, John Shea, Josh Mostel, Jim Borrelli,
Directors : Armyan Bernstein,

The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a thirty-something writer suffering from the early onset of midlife crisis brought on by nostalgia, his dying friend and the wedding of his old flame.

Actors : Pete Lee-Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to...

Actors : Line Arlien-Søborg, Marian Wendelbo, Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen,
Directors : Nils Malmros,

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Richard Crenna, Millie Perkins, Jon Voight,
Directors : Robert Lieberman,

J. P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and step-father, but now J. P. feels capable of taking them. Emotional tragedy strikes, ...

Actors : Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne De Salvo, Sylvia Miles,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob...

Actors : Akbar Abdi, Manouchehr Hamedi, Farimah Farjami, Ezzatolah Entezami,
Directors : Dariush Mehrjui,

Two brothers are involved in a dispute over a house in urban Tehran. It is only through a series of adventures with the tenants that they are able to settle their differences.

Actors : Abbas Nazeri, Madjid Niroumand, Musa Torkizadeh,
Directors : Amir Naderi,

Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Walter Bernstein,

Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his ...

Actors : Greta Scacchi, Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Désirée Nosbusch,

After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood...

Actors : Dusica Zegarac, Aleksandar Bercek, Rade Markovic, Dara Dzokic,
Directors : Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic,

A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to do rebellious acts.

Actors : Michael Pataki, Mitchell Gaylord, Janet Jones, Tiny Wells,
Directors : Albert Magnoli,

Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym, who has moved to town to train with their powerful ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Antonelli, Valeria D'Obici, Bernard Giraudeau,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He ...

Actors : Jessica Forde, Mr. Housseau, Joëlle Miquel, Mme. Housseau,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of Mirabelle in the country, when Reinette helps her to repair ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Sridevi, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with ...

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Philippe Noiret, Maurice Barrier, Pascale Vignal,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Intense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.

Actors : Aidan Tierney, David Hemblen, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the...

Actors : Nicholas Kilbertus, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Pen Densham,

When Felice and Hillary were children, they were separated to live with other people. Felice went off with a relative who possessed an unusual bloodline which was passed on to Felice via a ...