Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Peter Coyote, Jamie Lee Curtis, Greta Scacchi,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.

Actors : Dave Baby, Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, Judi Dench,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

An unseen woman recites Shakespeare's sonnets - fourteen in all - as a man wordlessly seeks his heart's desire. The photography is stop-motion, the music is ethereal, the scenery is often ...

Actors : Paul Simon, Rip Torn, Joan Hackett, Blair Brown,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.

Actors : Fabijan Sovagovic, Tomislav Gotovac, Bozidarka Frajt, Ivica Vidovic,
Directors : Zoran Tadic,

A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes ...

Actors : Nana Patekar, Rabia Amin, Raja Bundela, Arjun Chakraborty,
Directors : N. Chandra,

Four unemployed young men befriend their new neighbors, but soon tragedy strikes and everything is shattered.

Actors : Aytaç Arman, Macit Koper, Erol Durak, Müjde Ar,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Robert Blake, Dyan Cannon, Quinn K. Redeker, Michael Lerner,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Madie Levrington is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York mental institution where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of an expensive divorce. She ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Evelyne Bouix,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big time director whose most recent film was a very ...

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yuki Ninagawa, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that ...

Actors : Kevin Dillon, Tim Sampson, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Billy Wirth,
Directors : Franc Roddam,

A group of re-enactors attempt to stage a hundred year anniversary battle between US Cavalry and Blackfeet Indians. Unfortunately racial hostilities and a real gun lead to some all too real...

Actors : Charlotte Gainsbourg, Roland Bertin, Serge Gainsbourg, Roland Dubillard,
Directors : Serge Gainsbourg,

Stan, screeplay writer, had his time of glory in Hollywood. Today, alcoholic with a certain envy for suicide, his only link to life is his daughter, Charlotte.

Actors : Susan Hogan, Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, David Bolt,
Directors : John Huston,

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

Actors : Ratheesh, Suresh Gopi, Mohanlal, Ambika,
Directors : Thampi Kannanthanam,

The film follows underworld don Vincent Gomas (Mohanlal) and his rivalry against the Kerala Home minister N. Krishnadas (Ratheesh).

Actors : Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, James Woods, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Actors : Asokan, Ajayan, Jagathi N.K. Achari, Jayabharati,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

An old man spends his life in solitude awaiting his grandson to come for vacation after 6 years. He thought he was the most happiest man in the world until he found out that fate has something unpredictable for him.

Actors : Anneline Kriel, James Ryan, Michael Mayer, Marloe Scott Wilson,
Directors : Ivan Hall,

Dr. Horatio Kane has been kidnapped, and is being forced to create an army of martial artists who will help take over the world. His daughter, Kandy Kane, enlists the help of Steve Chase (...

Actors : Ion Caramitru, Teodora Mares, Adrian Paduraru, Carmen Enea,
Directors : Nicolae Corjos,

The trials and tribulations of two high school students deeply in love with each other, but facing the challenge of their completely different social backgrounds, during the twilight of the communist Romania.

Actors : Athina Tsilyra, Yorgos Rigas, Panos Mihalopoulos, Stamatis Gardelis,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

George is a young and handsome man who only cares about motorcycles, discos, girls. When he realizes that he cannot go on living in poverty, he decides to rob his own father (Spiros ...

Actors : Linian Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Ning Xu, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Jin Xie,

Love, humiliation and politics play out in a distant village of China during the cultural revolution.

Actors : Richard Farnsworth, Matt Clark, Dirk Benedict, Linda Blair,
Directors : Max Kleven,

Kyle Hanson is a Vietnam veteran whose traumatic war-time experiences have left him unable to rejoin mainstream society. When Kyle, unkempt and in dirty fatigues, stops in a small town for ...