Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Faye Dunaway, Ian Richardson, David Eberts,
Directors : Andrew Birkin,

This symbol-filled story, filmed with sensuous detail and nuance, is set in Austria in the 1920s. While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old ...

Actors : Vijayshanti, Anil Kapoor, Saeed Jaffrey, Asha Sachdev,

Ishwar is a simple-minded and honest young man, devout and religious, he cares for everybody. He meets with a young widow with a son and marries her. This story is about him and his trials and triumphs.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Fabio Testi, Rock Hudson,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

An Amerian ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East, but his efforts are hampered when his wife has an affair with a PLO leader.

Actors : Sigfrit Steiner, Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Cristine Rose,
Directors : Ken Loach,

A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.

Actors : Colin Blakely, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Martin Sheen,
Directors : John Quested,

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.

Actors : Sreenivasan, Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Jayaram, Urvashi,
Directors : Sathyan Anthikad,

Sreenivasan is a goldsmith who is in love with Urvashi. Her father(Innocent) doesn't approve of their love, so Sreenivasan tells her that he will call her out. Urvashi convinces him to make...

Actors : Boris Galkin, Ivan Bortnik, Sergey Koltakov, Natalya Akimova,
Directors : Vladimir Khotinenko,

Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native miners town and found themselvesin 1949... See full synopsis »

Actors : Angelo Abazoglou, Frank Aendenboom, Tchéky Karyo, Aurore Clément,
Directors : Chantal Akerman,

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance.

Actors : Haing S. Ngor, Liem Whatley, Johnny Hallyday, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Eric Weston,

Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him ...

Actors : Katsue Miwa, Keiko Takeshita, Kaneto Shiozawa, Hiroshi Ôtake,
Directors : Taku Sugiyama,

In the year 2772, a young cadet is sent to capture a mystical universal Phoenix, which possesses the power to rejuvenate the drained Earth.

Actors : Rémi Laurent, Pierre Curzi, Gabriel Arcand, Juliette Huot,
Directors : Gilles Carle,

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

Actors : Gustavo Bueno, Pablo Serra, Luis Álvarez, Juan Manuel Ochoa,
Directors : Francisco J. Lombardi,

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that ...

Actors : Oszkárné Gombik, Károly Csáki, Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai,
Directors : István Szabó,

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.

Actors : Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the war's horrors. It ...

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Ramana Murthi J.V., Prathap Pothen, Sridevi,
Directors : K. Balachander,

A jobless philosophy graduate survives in the city of Delhi

Actors : Danny de Munk, Renée Soutendijk, Huub Stapel, Kitty Courbois,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there...

Actors : Vesa Mäkelä, Esko Nikkari, Esko Salminen, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Actors : Arturo Meza, Marco Treviño, Guadalupe Del Toro, Letícia Lupercio,
Directors : Jaime Humberto Hermosillo,

Rodolfo (Trevino) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon (Meza). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, he quickly asks ...

Actors : Meng Lo, Sheng Chiang, Li Wang, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The Wu Tang chief sends out his men, each of whom is given a symbol so they can recognize each other. The largest is given to Lee, whom the others are to obey.

Actors : Florinda Chico, Enriqueta Carballeira, Ana Belén, Irene Gutiérrez Caba,
Directors : Mario Camus,

After the death of her husband Bernada Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house for seven years. Adela, the youngest daughter, suffers the most. Pepe el Romano key to all women's despair.