Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Juhi Chawla, V. Ravichandran, Vishnuvardhan, Ambarish,
Directors : V. Ravichandran,

Ravichandran tries to woo a classmate. On being spurned, he poses as a mysterious biker and sweeps her off her feet.

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Alan Bates, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister ...

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Eduard Artemev, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.

Actors : Amrita Singh, Anil Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Anil Ganguly,

Mr. Sharma (Utpal Dutt) lives with his four sons (Biswajeet, Vijay Arora, Dilip Dhawan) and a daughter, Geeta or Butlie. Only the youngest son, Sunil (Anil Kapoor) and Geeta are unmarried. ...

Actors : Marie Tifo, Charlotte Laurier, Louise Marleau, Germain Houde,
Directors : Francis Mankiewicz,

A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.

Actors : Frederick Treves, Tom Wilkinson, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe,
Directors : Christopher Morahan,

A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.

Actors : Ivan Drozdy, Judita Durdiaková, Bolek Polívka, Adela Gáborová,
Directors : Juraj Jakubisko,

Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.

Actors : Bor Jeng Chen, Te-Nan Lai, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-Feng Tseng,

Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.

Actors : Cristina Raines, Clarke Peters, David Essex, Beau Bridges,
Directors : David Wickes,

A young hot-headed motorbike enthusiast inherits the prototype for an incredibly fast machine which was designed by his brother. He successfully gets the finance for it, and uses the bike ...

Actors : James Van Patten, Ernest Borgnine, Lynda Day George, Richard Roundtree,
Directors : Lawrence David Foldes,

A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, ...

Actors : Kevin O'Connor, Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A director makes a movie based on a murder he committed.

Actors : Blanka Heirman, Willy Vandermeulen, Eric Clerckx, Paul S'Jongers,
Directors : Robbe De Hert,

The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main ...

Actors : Mathilda May, Vincent D'Onofrio, Fernando Rey, Tony Payne,
Directors : Leonard Schrader,

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Actors : Robin Hooper, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Phillip Mawdsley,
Directors : Terence Davies,

Davies' film is divided into three segments entitled "Children", "Madonna and Child", and "Death and Transfiguartion". The segments tell the life of Robert Tucker. The first segment looks ...

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Jesse Aragon, Rene Auberjonois, Deborah Foreman,
Directors : Larry Gross,

Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln ...

Actors : Danielle Spencer, Emily Lumbers, Robert Mammone, Russell Crowe,
Directors : George Ogilvie,

After 18 months Sam returns to his place of birth. He wants to ask his girlfriend Meg who he had let down when he left, to go with him to the big city. However Meg was deeply sad because of...

Actors : Jonas Bloch, Zózimo Bulbul, Bené Batista, Emmanuel Cavalcanti,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bernard Giraudeau, Christine Boisson,
Directors : Gilles Béhat,

Actors : Jaya Prada, Radhika Sarathkumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Suresh Oberoi,
Directors : K.C. Bokadia,

Bhim Singh is an orphan who lives a poor life-style in a small community. He is the guardian to his only sister, Laxmi, who he has educated in the city, she meets Ajit Singh the son of ...