Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : A.K. Hangal, Amol Palekar, Swaroop Sampat, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

An impoverished employee tries to prevent his superiors and employers from marrying his sweetheart.

Actors : Monica Maughan, Robert Menzies, Isabelle Huppert, Norman Kaye,
Directors : Paul Cox,

A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other. Is sight the only way to see the world?

Actors : Wendy Hughes, John Hargreaves, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he's six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS's feckless,...

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 : Jeremy Pattnosh, Madonna, Charles Kurtz, Kate Magill,
Directors : Stephen Jon Lewicki,

A street-wise teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence.

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Shawn Smith,
Directors : Thomas Rickman,

After serving time for a theft he didn't commit, all Billy wants to do is to reconnect with his daughter. However, some loose ends, like the whereabouts of the stolen loot, just won't let him go.

Actors : Tony King, Tisa Farrow, David Warbeck, Bobby Rhodes,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped behind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Raj Kiran, Dimple Kapadia, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Rahul Rawail,

Arjun Malvankar after his graduation thrives to get job. The corruption and injustice taking place in his community frustrates him to the extent of revolting with the help of some of his ...

Actors : Dar Robinson, Heather Thomas, Ashley Ferrare, Jeffrey Combs,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

Rick has developed the ultimate motorcycle, the Cyclone. It is a $5 million bike equipped with rocket launchers and laser guns. Rick meets his fate and it is up to his girlfriend Teri to ...

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Patrick Fierry, Gérard Jugnot, Fanny Bastien,
Directors : Gérard Jugnot,

First film (as director) of , this movie is a simple and tender story of a little policemen... See full synopsis »

Actors : Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihut, Petrica Gheorghiu, Tora Vasilescu,
Directors : Lucian Pintilie,

A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is ...

Actors : Raj Babbar, Farooq Shaikh, Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah,
Directors : Muzaffar Ali,

In Faizabad, British India, Daroga Dilawar is sentenced to several years in prison after Amiran's dad testifies against him. After his discharge around 1840, he extracts his vengeance by ...

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Lino Ventura, Bernard Fresson, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

Sébastien Grenier,a secret agent eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates.

Actors : John Bach, Bryan Brown, Terry O'Quinn, George Takei,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. ...

Actors : Gundars Abolins, Olga Drege, Lilita Berzina, Romualds Ancans,
Directors : Janis Streics,

Another iconic Latvian film, known to be one of the best movies of director Janis Streics. When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car, which she cannot use herself, ...

Actors : Caroline Cellier, Bernard Giraudeau, Jacques Perrin, Valérie Kaprisky,
Directors : Christopher Frank,

Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.

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 : Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Luigi Montini, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Gabriele Salvatores,

Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Patrick Dewaere, Yves Robert, Jacques Dufilho,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

Actors : Daiba, Jiji Dan, Drashi, Gaoba,

The story of Norbu, a horse thief, who is thrown out of his tribe in an effort to purge it of evil. Norbu repents after the birth of his son, but he is forced to steal again after the birth...