Best movies of 1980s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Jan Sterling, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.

Actors : Luciano Pavarotti, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, Kathryn Harrold,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Teresa Stratas,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...

Actors : Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

The reviewer above states that 'the entire story is told from the husband's point of view'. This is incorrect - the movie takes an objective point-of-view - the husband is not present in several of the segments.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...

Actors : Joan Hackett, Marsha Mason, James Coco, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Glenn Jordan,

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ...

Actors : Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Elena Tasisto, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ...

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Willie Nelson, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, ...

Actors : Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon, Barnard Hughes, Glenn Close,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

A 1920s flapper who haunts her old house possesses a dull housewife who just moved in. Hilarity ensues.

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Tony Bill,

A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Robert Loggia, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Chagall,
Directors : Luis Mandoki,

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Actors : Paulina Porizkova, Robert Fields, Gibby Brand, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Yurek Bogayevicz,

Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now ...

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 : Robby Benson, Jack Lemmon, Colleen Dewhurst, Lee Remick,
Directors : Bob Clark,

A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Petra Malakova, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Based on Shakesphere's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the...

Actors : Claude Lelouch, Charles Durning, Gary Maas, Peter Falk,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, ...

Actors : Albert Salmi, Mackenzie Phillips, Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the ...

Actors : Peter Fonda, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann, Jan Niklas,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

Actors : Call Ricketson, John Clayton, Michele Fawdon, Norman Kaye,
Directors : Bob Ellis,

Maureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover from years ago she decides he might be ...