Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Claudio Amendola, Michele Placido, Francesco Benigno, Alessandra Di Sanzo,
Directors : Marco Risi,

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and ...

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 : Dilip Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini,
Directors : Manoj Kumar,

This is the story of India's Freedom Struggle between the years of 1825&1875.

Actors : Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. The tables turn when the family turns out to be even more criminally ...

Actors : Mammootty, Suchitra, Mohanlal, M.G. Soman,

Enroute Madras via train, when three friends get falsely accused of a mysterious homicide, they escape and desperately search for the real killer.

Actors : John Heard, Elliott Gould, Whoopi Goldberg, Severn Darden,
Directors : Rip Torn,

A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.

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 : Börje Ahlstedt, Anita Ekström, Tomas Fryk, Ingvar Hirdwall,
Directors : Kay Pollak,

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp,...

Actors : David Chiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Tien Niu, Danny Lee,

A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to take his place. One of them is the traitor.

Actors : Piera Degli Esposti, Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Remo Remotti,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

Nuovamente nei panni del suo alter-ego Michele Apicella, Nanni Moretti scrive la sua commedia apparentemente più ilare ma anche surreale ed inquietante... See full synopsis »

Actors : Elena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, Irina Rozanova, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva,
Directors : Pyotr Todorovskiy,

A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.

Actors : Joe Grifasi, Jill Eikenberry, Robert Viharo, James Caan,
Directors : James Caan,

This was based on a true story. About a man (Caan) who discovers that his ex-wife has disappeared along with their children. It seems that her new boyfriend works for some criminals. After ...

Actors : Ram Gopal Bajaj, Shabana Azmi, Arun Bakshi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Tinnu Anand,

A newspaper reporter exploits an ordinary man for few rupees to pose as a man who is fighting against the corrupt politicians and prints imaginary stories in his name to improve the ...

Actors : Alicia Hermida, Victoria Abril, Amparo Soler Leal, Agustín González,
Directors : Jaime Chávarri,

The story of a boy and his family during the Spanish Civil War.

Actors : Andréa Ferréol, Peter O'Toole, Marie Trintignant, Colin Firth,
Directors : Otakar Votocek,

A famous movie actor (Peter O'Toole) claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengenfully kills him but then dies as a result of an ...

Actors : Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Alan Devlin, Stephen Rea,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So ...

Actors : Lloyd Bochner, Pia Zadora, Joseph Cali, Bibi Besch,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

A young aspiring screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of achieving success in Hollywood. She goes through affair after sordid affair in her attempt to write her own screenplay and have it produced.

Actors : Vilma Díaz, Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego,
Directors : Víctor Gaviria,

Rodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.

Actors : Juhi Chawla, Aamir Khan, Gulshan Grover, Dalip Tahil,
Directors : Babbar Subhash,

Amit, the son of a taxi driver, and Reema, a rich business man's daughter, fall in love. However Reema's father wants to marry her to Vicky, who's father is the biggest gangster in Mumbai. How will their love triumph?

Actors : Michael Brandon, Shirley MacLaine, Bo Derek, Anthony Hopkins,

Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a young lover of her own.