Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Nate Hardman, Ronald Burnett, Kaycee Moore, Angela Burnett,
Directors : Billy Woodberry,

A dramatic look into the life of a family in Watts.

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Illiers, Arielle Dombasle, Pîtâ,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, John Edwin Shaw, Ken Wright, Michael Moriarty,
Directors : Lionel Chetwynd,

A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. ...

Actors : Aurore Prieto, Hélène Alexandridis, Clémence Massart-Weit, Catherine Mouchet,
Directors : Alain Cavalier,

The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the ...

Actors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chin Tsai, Su-Yun Ko, I-Chen Ko,
Directors : Edward Yang,

Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business, is never able to shake a longing for his past glory. One day, he runs into a forme...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he...

Actors : Sylvie Granotier, Julie Jézéquel, Jean Rochefort, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

Michel Mortez is going to and fro France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and ...

Actors : Gabriel Byrne, Eric Stoltz, Dexter Fletcher, Nicola Cowper,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A young knight sets out to join King Richard's crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's ...

Actors : Jean-Hugues Anglade, Lisa Kreuzer, Roland Bertin, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative huster/petty criminal that he meets at a train station.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Miguel Guilherme, Diogo Dória, Luís Lucas,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ...

Actors : Ralph Cotterill, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Steve Bisley,
Directors : Ian Barry,

An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt, an engineer badly hurt in the accident, knows that the leak will ...

Actors : Carlene Watkins, Dennis Quaid, Stan Shaw, Pam Grier,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. ...

Actors : Madhuri Dixit, Kushboo, Aamir Khan, Jainendra,

Anita (Madhuri Dixit) is a model, and Ajay Sharma is a photographer, both work for the same agency. Ajay has fallen in love with Anita, and thinks that she is also in love with him. But ...

Actors : Jelisaveta 'Seka' Sablic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Svetislav 'Bule' Goncic, Rados Terzic,
Directors : Slobodan Sijan,

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, ...

Actors : Laura Gemser, Maria Romano, Ursula Flores, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and ...

Actors : Atsuko Asano, Naomi Zaizen, Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Haruki Kadokawa,

In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside; one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Christiane Jean, Francis Huster, Tchéky Karyo,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

After the successful bank robbery Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him by the brothers Venin. On the way to Paris he meets one Leon, a neurotic and ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Jack Lemmon, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.

Actors : Renato Moretti, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical differences.

Actors : Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer, Désirée Nosbusch,
Directors : Eckhart Schmidt,

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later...