Best Drama movies of 1988

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Ivan Krystev, Max Freeman, Anya Pencheva,
Directors : Ludmil Staikov,

In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is...

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Frank Langella, Vincent Spano, Donovan Leitch Jr.,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out...

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, James Wilby, Richard Beale, Jackson Kyle,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.

Actors : Béatrice Agenin, Richard Anconina, Lio, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A successful entrepreneur in his fifties will decide to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built, just to find the liberty he has been seeking, not knowing that the itinerary of one's life often changes in the funniest of ways.

Actors : Viktor Tsoy, Marina Smirnova, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov,
Directors : Rashid Nugmanov,

Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He ...

Actors : Mike Bishop, David Field, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey,
Directors : John Hillcoat,

Prison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.

Actors : Clotilde de Bayser, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Simon de La Brosse, Didier Bezace,
Directors : Claude Miller,

In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel...

Actors : Nancy Brilli, Christian De Sica, Carlo Verdone, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Carlo Verdone,

Former high school friends meet for a party after 15 years, only to discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Tim Daly, Audra Lindley, Kelly Preston,
Directors : Janet Greek,

A young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful young woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past.

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Nina Usatova, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Viktor Stepanov,
Directors : Aleksandr Proshkin,

After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai arrive in a remote Siberian village where 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Actors : Lyudmila Zaytseva, Natalya Negoda, Yuriy Nazarov, Andrey Sokolov,
Directors : Vasili Pichul,

A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Frances Conroy, Patricia Clarkson, Suzy Amis,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

An old patriarch unites for his birthday all members of his family. But the group of people is full of personal and social problems.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Chunky Pandey,
Directors : N. Chandra,

A college student, who has decided to serve for his country, turns a criminal.

Actors : Nevzat Açikgöz, Kemal Sunal, Ferdi Akarnur, Ahmet Açan,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Husnu has got issues and inabilities about the complex and expensive metropolitan life who was a successful teacher in his little town and got a promotion and appointment to Istanbul.

Actors : Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Patti D'Arbanville, Ben Stiller,
Directors : David Anspaugh,

A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She claims to be 20 years old, but ...

Actors : Christian Ruché, Miou-Miou, Sylvie Laporte, Michel Raskine,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her...

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Sasha Mitchell, Anne De Salvo, Sylvia Miles,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob...

Actors : Robert F. Lyons, Tony Pierce, Michael Dudikoff, Michael DeLorenzo,
Directors : Aaron Norris,

A young officer, just out of West Point is sent to Vietnam, where the men don't respect him until he gets wounded and returns to be a wiser soldier and a better commander

Actors : Nicholas Kilbertus, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Pen Densham,

When Felice and Hillary were children, they were separated to live with other people. Felice went off with a relative who possessed an unusual bloodline which was passed on to Felice via a ...

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...