Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Zarko Lausevic, Mira Furlan, Slavko Stimac, Sonja Savic,
Directors : Zdravko Sotra,

This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, "...

Actors : Laura del Sol, Leo Gullotta, Ben Gazzara, Marzio Honorato,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by ...

Actors : Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja, Geoff Rhoe, Tony Hughes,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney.

Actors : Julian Sands, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Grave robbers supply a doctor with bodies to test on.

Actors : Qingfu Pan, Hangcheng Dong, Mark Salzman, Xihong Jiang,
Directors : Shirley Sun,

Mark Salzman always was interested in Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture, claims to have seen every Kung-Fu movie. 1982, with a degree in Chinese literature, he visits a province university in...

Actors : Josef Sommer, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Harley Cross, Elisabeth Harnois, Max Gail,
Directors : Bruce Malmuth,

Two children are kidnapped and held for ransom by a madman. Soon, however, the children's father begins to suspect that their mother may possibly have had something to do with the crime.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Rakesh Kumar,

Two rival burglars end up at the same school with the intent of abducting a rich man's son for a large ransom.

Actors : Robin Renucci, Philippe Noiret, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Chaumette,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Roland Wolf wants to write a book about a TV game-show host, the hail-fellow-well-met Christian Legagneur, who invites Wolf to his country estate, promising several days of lengthy ...

Actors : Bertice Reading, Victoria Abril, Nastassja Kinski, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Beineix,

He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they?

Actors : Stellan Skarsgård, Miklós B. Székely, Károly Eperjes, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Kjell Grede,

Swedish national Raoul Wallenberg, newcomer to politics and international machinations, travels to German-occupied Budapest during WWII in order to effectively intervene in the fate of ...

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Elem Klimov,

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Actors : Jack Hallett, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicholas Love,
Directors : Matthew Chapman,

Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ...

Actors : Cynthia Dale, David Naughton, Christopher Plummer, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat."

Actors : Ekta Sohini, Dev Anand, Aamir Khan, Aditya Pancholi,
Directors : Dev Anand,

The DGP of Police discovers a terrorist plot hatched by a sacked cricketer to blow up the stadium where an important cricket match is in progress.

Actors : Powers Boothe, Donald Pleasence, Rutger Hauer, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Michelle Yeoh, Ying Bai, Michael Wong,
Directors : David Chung,

Michelle Yip of the Hong Kong police is a mild-mannered Kung Fu expert; Michael Wong from air security is happy-go-lucky, stuck on himself, constantly talking, and smitten by her; Yamamoto ...

Actors : Hsiu-Ling Lin, Mei-Feng, Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Actors : Ellen Barber, Edward Albert, Kevin Dillon, Christine Harnos,
Directors : Ferdinand Fairfax,

A group of kids venture into enemy territory in an ambitious attempt to rescue their Navy Seal fathers who were captured during a failed mission in North Korea.

Actors : Marin Kanter, Willem Dafoe, Robert Gordon, J. Don Ferguson,

Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.