Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : Victor Rebengiuc, Petrica Gheorghiu, Mariana Mihut, 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 : Branka Pujic, Mira Banjac, Dragan Jovanovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Djordje Kadijevic,

Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into ...

Actors : Gundars Abolins, Olga Drege, Romualds Ancans, Lilita Berzina,
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 : 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 : Judith Henry, Marie Bunel, Fabrice Luchini, Maurice Garrel,
Directors : Christian Vincent,

There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, ...

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 : Martin Hewitt, Dennis Christopher, Luis Prendes, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

Three friends encounter a malevolent alien.

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 : Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko,
Directors : Vitali Kanevsky,

Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.

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 : Brigitte Fossey, Patrick Dewaere, Jacques Dufilho, Yves Robert,
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 : Kemal Sunal, Tayfun Coragan, Dilek Damlacik, Perin Aytaç,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Actors : Junko Miyashita, Norihei Miki, Kiwako Taichi, 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 : 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...

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 : 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 : 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 : Rajesh Khanna, Juhi Chawla, Govinda, Madhavi,
Directors : David Dhawan,

Living in a posh mansion named Swarg, this is the story of Sahabji, his wife sister Jyoti, two brothers, and a sister-in-law. Sahabji has a clash of wits with Dhanraj, who successfully ...

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.