Best Drama movies of 1985

Actors : Dan Shor, John Lithgow, Jodie Foster, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Michael Laughlin,

An orphaned New Zealand girl married to an older, wealthy businessman learns to deal with his strange sexual desires.

Actors : Fernanda Montenegro, Tamara Taxman, José Dumont, Marcelia Cartaxo,
Directors : Suzana Amaral,

Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens...

Actors : Iftekhar, Beena Banerjee, A.K. Hangal, Rajan Haksar,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle.

Actors : Thomas Nock, Johanna Lier, Rolf Illig, Dorothea Moritz,
Directors : Fredi M. Murer,

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him...

Actors : Junko Miyashita, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki, Kin'ya Kitaôji,
Directors : Mitsuo Yanagimachi,

The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions ...

Actors : Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik,
Directors : Piotr Szulkin,

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People ...

Actors : Mirja Oksanen, Kari Väänänen, Martti Syrjä, Leena Harjupatana,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland. His new target is Maria. Rosso arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and comes in hers apartment. After seeing that ...

Actors : Wojciech Pszoniak, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gerd Baltus, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ...

Actors : Chang Son Hui, Ham Gi Sop, Jong-uk Ri, Gwon Ri,
Directors : Sang-ok Shin,

In feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that he...

Actors : Saeed Jaffrey, Divya Rana, Rajiv Kapoor, Kulbhushan Kharbanda,
Directors : Raj Kapoor,

Ganga Singh lives near Gangotri with her brother, Karam. One day she comes to the assistance of a young man, Narendra Sahay, who has come with a group of Calcutta-based college students to ...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Gaye Brown, Christopher Cazenove,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Nadira, Kamal Haasan,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Raja, a fisherman is secretly in love with Mona. When wealthy Ravi comes to live with his grandmother, Kamladevi, he sees Mona and falls in love with her. Mona also reciprocates his love. ...

Actors : Marko Todorovic, Nebojsa Bakocevic, Relja Basic, Gala Videnovic,
Directors : Jovan Acin,

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for ...

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Sissy Spacek, Keith Szarabajka, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A woman is determined to reveal the truth about an insidious political corruption. In doing so she risks her safety, career and reputation but will not stop asking questions until the truth is known.

Actors : Ed Harris, Horst Buchholz, Max von Sydow, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Jonathan Sanger,

In April 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who know the date and place of the "D" day). ...

Actors : Dave Baby, Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, Judi Dench,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

An unseen woman recites Shakespeare's sonnets - fourteen in all - as a man wordlessly seeks his heart's desire. The photography is stop-motion, the music is ethereal, the scenery is often ...

Actors : Ion Caramitru, Teodora Mares, Adrian Paduraru, Carmen Enea,
Directors : Nicolae Corjos,

The trials and tribulations of two high school students deeply in love with each other, but facing the challenge of their completely different social backgrounds, during the twilight of the communist Romania.

Actors : Aytaç Arman, Macit Koper, Erol Durak, Müjde Ar,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, James Woods, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Actors : Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Katalifos, Maria Martika, Eirini Inglesi,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of ...