Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Cesare Ferretti, Roberto Stani, Michela Mioni, Enzo Di Benedetto,
Directors : Claudio Caligari,

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Tim Pigott-Smith, Elizabeth Spriggs,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical ...

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 : Arliss Howard, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Robert Duvall, Tim Phillips,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

Actors : Richard Rebiere, Laura Henry, Cynthia Dale, Walter George Alton,
Directors : Lawrence Dane,

A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.

Actors : Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Bogdan Diklic, Predrag Lakovic, Snezana Niksic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree, Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Eric Karson,

The commander of an Air Force camp simulates prisoner-of-war conditions for realistic training goes too far, creating all too real torture situations. He preys on the only woman in the experiment.

Actors : Miguel Rellán, Alfredo Landa, Manuel Tejada, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, that leads him to the ...

Actors : Paul L. Smith, Rick Hearst, Jon Stafford, Vernon Wells,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best friend in a coma.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, George Peppard, Lesley Ann Warren, Ken Wahl,
Directors : David Hemmings,

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from ww-ii. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter,...

Actors : Linda Denise Martin, Michele Palermo, Rusty Cooper, Jim Fitzpatrick,
Directors : David Klass,

Four friends wrestle with moving out the town they were born and raised in, when they suddenly find themselves out of work because the towns only factory has been shut down.

Actors : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

Actors : Haydée Padilla, Federico Luppi, Julio De Grazia, Ulises Dumont,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the friend dies, but ...

Actors : Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra, Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira,
Directors : Pedro Costa,

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Gaye Brown,
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 : Martin Hewitt, Dennis Christopher, Luis Prendes, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

Three friends encounter a malevolent alien.

Actors : Kumar Gaurav, Poonam Dhillon, Sanjay Dutt, Nutan,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Janki lives a poor middle class life with her two sons Ravi and Vicky while Ravi works for a abusive boss Mr Ghanshyam,Vicky is jobless and always takes law in his hands and dreams of going...

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Mark Hamill, Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

A small town stud wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes in jeopardy.

Actors : Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Tayfun Coragan, Dilek Damlacik, Perin Aytaç,
Directors : Serif Gören,