Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Anuradha Patel, Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Ram Mohan,
Directors : Gulzar,

Mahendra is in love with Maya and would like to marry her. But Maya is a woman of the 20th century, who does not believe in marriage, but would like to continue having a relationship. ...

Actors : Erika Bodnár, Hédi Temessy, Pál Hetényi, Miklós B. Székely,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

Actors : Deborah Rush, Robert Logan, Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann Warren,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girl's night out, ...

Actors : Sarah Walker, Chris Haywood, Alyson Best, Norman Kaye,
Directors : Paul Cox,

An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.

Actors : Melora Hardin, Leticia Vasquez, Adolfo Quinones, J. Eddie Peck,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them ...

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it ...

Actors : Katrine Boorman, Sophie Duez, Gérard Lanvin, Michel Blanc,
Directors : Michel Blanc,

Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, ...

Actors : Hazel O'Connor, Jonathan Pryce, Jon Finch, Phil Daniels,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.

Actors : Jaya Prada, Sridevi, Om Shivpuri, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Bhagyaraj,

David is an old prisoner, released after twenty-four years in a penitentiary for a crime he hasn't committed. The three men who framed him and sent him away, are now prominent citizens of ...

Actors : Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Faye Dunaway, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, ...

Actors : Josef Sommer, Tony Azito, Jennifer Grey, Madonna,
Directors : Howard Brookner,

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather...

Actors : Laura del Sol, José Sacristán, María Luisa Ponte, Juan Diego,
Directors : Fernando Fernán Gómez,

The movie tells the story of a family of comedians that work in the towns of Spain during the 40's and 50's. Life gets very tough for them since they cannot compete any longer with cinema. ...

Actors : Sunil Thapa, Rati Agnihotri, Kamal Haasan, Madhavi,
Directors : K. Balachander,

Hindi-speaking collegian Sapna lives a wealthy lifestyle in Dona Paula, near Panaji, Goa, India, along with her Professor dad, Kundanlal, and mom. Their immediate neighbors are ...

Actors : Ram Gopal Bajaj, Benjamin Gilani, Mohan Gokhale, Nina Kulkarni,
Directors : Ketan Mehta,

In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confident woman whose ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Mia Nygren, Deborah Power, Patrick Bauchau,

In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle. With this new identity comes a sexual awakening which is...

Actors : Helen Pearce, Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Clive Rees,

A pair of children befriend an accentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and ...

Actors : Doze Niu, Chun-Fang Chang, Shih Chang, Chao P'eng-chue,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of ...

Actors : Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Alexandre Arbatt, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Richard Dembo,

Two masters of chess duel each other not only in their game but also in their different ideologies. The veteran Akiva is a Soviet Jew and ferocious Communist, master of his game but also ...

Actors : Alan Ruck, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : Bill Norton,

A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Kara Hui, Lieh Lo, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Lieh Lo,

The monk Hung Wen-Ting fights against the evil priest White Lotus.