Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Jude Alderson, Peter O'Toole, Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Esko Nikkari, Matti Pellonpää,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Raju Shrestha, Padmini Kolhapure, Naseeruddin Shah,
Directors : Bapu,

Maya, coming from poor family, is married to the affluent Dr. Anand; but she tries to commit suicide on the nuptial night. She tells Anand that she was in love with Prem whose ambition was ...

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Michael Fields,

Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.

Actors : Selim Boughedir, Rabia Ben Abdallah, Mohammed Driss, Mustapha Adouani,
Directors : Férid Boughedir,

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the loving world of Muslim women and the ...

Actors : Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Princess Shizu's family is wiped out by an family of undead seeking revenge. The eight samurai can save her, but who and where are they?

Actors : Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Wojciech Pszoniak, Marzena Trybala,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ...

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Francis Huster, Valérie Kaprisky, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

An unexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short...

Actors : Asha Parekh, Amjad Khan, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Tinnu Anand,

A simple man is forced to join the criminal world.

Actors : Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Elena Tasisto, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ...

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Claude Jade, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Igor Kostolevskiy,

Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.

Actors : Raul Julia, Teri Garr, Griffin O'Neal, Desi Arnaz,
Directors : Caleb Deschanel,

The young and self-confident Danny blufs at the local police-station that he will escape out of prison within one hour. What follows is a flashback about his childhood with his uncle and ...

Actors : Michael Pas, Geert Hunaerts, Gene Bervoets, Josse De Pauw,
Directors : Dominique Deruddere,

Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing ...

Actors : Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

An alcoholic man wants to return the money he has borrowed.

Actors : Janet McTeer, Camille Coduri, Anthony Edwards, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...

Actors : Joakim Schröder, Ulrika Örn, Sebastian Håkansson, Niclas Wahlgren,
Directors : Staffan Hildebrand,

Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Orson Welles, Pia Zadora, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.

Actors : Kun-Hsuan Huang, Sylvia Chang, Yun-Fat Chow, Man-Tat Ng,
Directors : Johnnie To,

A father's ex-girlfriend resurfaces after a 10-year absence wanting to take her son away from him. With his world shattered, he must decide between what is best for his son and his own future happiness.

Actors : Leos Carax, Julie Delpy, Freddy Buache, Woody Allen,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl. That is, everything but art. Most of the great works are lost, and it is up to people like William Shakespear Junior the Fifth to restore the ...