Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Yi Pan-Yong, Sin Won-Sop, Hae-Jin Huang, Su-Myong Ko,
Directors : Yong-Kyun Bae,

About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.

Actors : Patti LuPone, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his ...

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Dennehy, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ...

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

A case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel.

Actors : Nonna Mordyukova, Ivan Bortnik, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.

Actors : Johnny Dorelli, Flora Carabella, Rodolfo Bigotti, Philippe Leroy,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad ...

Actors : Orson Welles, Strother Martin, Petar Bozovic, Oja Kodar,
Directors : Krsto Papic,

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

Actors : Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen, Donald Moffat, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

Actors : Orson Welles, Ray Laska, Bob Ruggiero, Philip L. Clarke,
Directors : Robert Guenette,

Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician ...

Actors : Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

A film-maker who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress decides to leave his wife. Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity.

Actors : Yehia El-Fakharany, Gamil Ratib, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Noura,
Directors : Ali Abdel-Khalek,

As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.

Actors : Vijayakumar, Prabhu, Amala Akkineni, Karthik,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Entrusted with the task of chairing an inquiry commission involving an influential politician, alcoholic Vishwanath must attempt to deal with issues that he has with in personal life. ...

Actors : Nurinisa Yildirim, Yesim Tozan, Münir Özkul, Gülsen Tuncer,
Directors : Reha Erdem,

Story of a little girl with pigeon and her grand dad, missing her mother.

Actors : Henrik Pauer, Anikó Iván, Péter Gálfy, István Znamenák,
Directors : Péter Gothár,

In Hungary in the 1960s, a single mother must raise her children by herself.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Sam Neill, Derek Jacobi, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

A CIA agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Kalpana Iyer, Kim, Om Puri,
Directors : Babbar Subhash,

Jimmy promises to return to Bombay and become a famous entertainer so that he can exact revenge on Mr. Oberoi for having insulted and imprisoned his mother on false charges. He falls in ...

Actors : Alan Rosenberg, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Lottie Mason is a police vice cop who has just the right looks to be a decoy for the whore-mungers on the streets of Los Angeles. She seems to always be where the action is whether it be ...

Actors : Tatyana Aksyuta, Nikita Mikhaylovsky, Elena Solovey, Irina Miroshnichenko,
Directors : Ilya Frez,

A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates ...

Actors : María Rojo, Héctor Bonilla, Jorge Fegán, Ademar Arau,
Directors : Jorge Fons,

A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.

Actors : Mehmet Akan, Yasar Alptekin, Müjde Ar, Ayse Demirel,
Directors : Halit Refig,

7 yo Umur falls in love with his much older aunt in the midst of political upheaval and dysfunctions of his family.