Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Nancy Allen, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Jean Stapleton,
Directors : Glenn Jordan,

A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer ...

Actors : Oru Viral Krishna Rao, Kamal Haasan, Prathap Pothen, Dilip,
Directors : K. Balachander,

Poetical forces play in the life of an unemployed yet well educated young man.He finds the depth and the beauty of his principles yet fate leaves him in destitution

Actors : Rekha, Sonu Walia, Kader Khan, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Rakesh Roshan,

A man marries a rich widow for her money and tries to murder her but she survives, gets a new face due to plastic surgery and returns for revenge.

Actors : Leonid Filatov, Tatyana Dogileva, Irina Kupchenko, Valentin Gaft,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a "big man's" daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate's sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain ...

Actors : Hanna Bieniuszewicz, Krzysztof Kolberger, Bo F. Munthe, Curt Broberg,
Directors : Mats Helge Olsson,

Swedish scientist named Karl Markov is taken hostage by the KGB. After his daughter Nadia is also kidnapped and brought deep into the heart of Russia, a group of highly trained ninjas, led ...

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante, Ugo Tognazzi, Victor Cavallo,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the...

Actors : Reine Brynolfsson, Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Sune Mangs, Egill Ólafsson,
Directors : Hrafn Gunnlaugsson,

Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other ...

Actors : Nanda, Shammi Kapoor, Tanuja, Vijayendra Ghatge,
Directors : Raj Kapoor,

Manorama, the daughter of a rich, orthodox family is married off, leaving her childhood friend Deodhar and his secret love for her, in despair. When tragedy befalls her, and traditions seem unfair, Deodhar must fight for what's right.

Actors : Eb Lottimer, Christina Applegate, Jane Chung, David Mendenhall,
Directors : Katt Shea,

Serious, well-made story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.

Actors : Feroz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Amjad Khan, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

A cabaret dancer and singer, Sheela (Zeenat Aman) has two admirers: a small-time thief Rajesh (Feroz Khan), and a young, eligible widower, Amar (Vinod Khanna). Both are best friends and ...

Actors : Andrew McCarthy, Alan Toy, Leslie Hope, Matt Dillon,
Directors : David Stevens,

A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.

Actors : Mats Åhlfeldt, Carl Billquist, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Ewa Fröling,

Pelle is a cat who was born without a proper tail. He is taken care of by a family living in Uppsala. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cats, and especially ...

Actors : Eskender Umarov, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Irina Sokolova, Aleksei Ananishnov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.

Actors : Paul Smith, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Caroline Gillmer, Kris McQuade,
Directors : Michael Caulfield,

Fighting Back will bring you face-to-face with the unpleasant reality and disruptive consequences of a deeply disturbed young mind. A mind in adolescent turmoil; in rebellious conflict with...

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Robert Urich,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

About a retired New York cop on Vacation in America's West who is drawn into a female sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

Actors : Nikolai Kinski, Klaus Kinski, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Debora Caprioglio,
Directors : Klaus Kinski,

Klaus Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolò Paganini, who set all of nineteenth-century Europe into a frenzy and through ...

Actors : Nedumudi Venu, Karthika, Mohanlal, M.G. Soman,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod recovers with the help of Dr. Savithri, ...

Actors : Yaseen Khan, Monique Gabrielle, Crofton Hardester, Dana Burns Westburg,

[American version.] Emmanuelle has a streak of bad luck that starts when she is stripped by a mob of adoring fans at the Cannes Film Festival. Her rotten luck continues when the dictator of...

Actors : José van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec,
Directors : Gérard Corbiau,

Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on ...

Actors : Alfred Böhm, Marte Harell, Hans Holt, Karl Merkatz,
Directors : Franz Antel,

A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.