Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Lino Ventura, Bruno Cremer, 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 : 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 : Bernard Giraudeau, Caroline Cellier, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Tom Conti, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

A young pope who feels he has lost touch with the people accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican and believes it is part of God's plan for him.

Actors : Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Vera Alkhovskaya, Pyotr Glebov, Irina Ivanova,
Directors : Iskra Babich,

Pavel's mother hates his fiancee. When Pavel serves in the Army she writes him that Nastya is no longer faithful to him. Pavel decides not to return to his native town. But many years later...

Actors : Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey, Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie,
Directors : Ann Turner,

An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.

Actors : Raffaella Baracchi, François Négret, Giancarlo Giannini, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

A disbarred lawyer (Giancarlo Giannini) is working as a debt collector for his partner Sapo (Philippe Léotard). Escorting prostitute Milena (Raffaella Baracchi) impregnated by Sapo to an ...

Actors : Maniyanpilla Raju, Balan K. Nair, Mohanlal, Shobana,
Directors : Sathyan Anthikad,

The story revolves around a good,down-to-earth T.P Balagopalan(Mohanlal) who has a part time with small salary.The story starts when he falls in love with Anitha(Shobhana) who is in need of...

Actors : Wojciech Klata, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Rafal Zimowski, Kama Kowalewska,
Directors : Maciej Dejczer,

Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.

Actors : Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Michael Learned, Diane Lane,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

Actors : Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Bernard Blier, Jutta Lampe, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

This story begins in 1870 at a little town somewhere in Russia. It processed the real "Nyecsajev story". A group of young revolutionists wanna ruin the system with violence. They think this...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Cristina Lay, Linda Blair, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Ted Nicolaou,

Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.

Actors : Sigrid Huun, Hilde Nyeggen Martinsen, Merete Moen, Line Storesund,
Directors : Per Blom,

In a remote Norwegian mountain-area in the 1930s, two 12 year old girls Siss and Unn meet. They are friends, but for Unn it is more serious. She admits to having secret and indecent ...

Actors : Mammootty, Devan, Sumalatha, Jeetendra,
Directors : Joshi,

A journalist is illegally jailed for exposing two corrupt politicians, He exacts revenge through his new mysterious newspaper.

Actors : Roy Cheung, Paul Chun, Cherie Chung, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

The police are staking out a Hong Kong flat, waiting to catch some major gun-dealers. While the suppliers are conducting their deal, they move in. Both buyers are killed in the gunfire, but...

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.