Best Drama movies of 1985

Actors : Paolo Bonacelli, Ángela Molina, Harvey Keitel, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow) she is saved from being raped by a Camorra (organized crime) boss when the gangster is suddenly ...

Actors : Mammootty, Sumalatha, Urvashi, Babu Namboothiri,
Directors : Joshi,

Ravi Varma, who is sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife, tells his story to his wife's sister, a news reporter, about the true story of what happened.

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Shigeru Benibayashi, Yuichi Mikami, Yûki Kudô,
Directors : Shinji Sômai,

Actors : Anda Onesa, Ecaterina Nazare, Claudiu Bleont, Petre Nicolae,
Directors : Dan Pita,

Two friends, closer than brothers, working together, staying in the same room, playing together.

Actors : Julian Sands, John Hurt, Victoria Abril, Pamela Salem,

To salve his guilty conscience, an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt, and tries to bring him back to mental competency ...

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Laurent Terzieff, Marthe Keller, Charlotte Valandrey,
Directors : Véra Belmont,

1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" ...

Actors : Natalya Sayko, Igor Vasilev, Olgert Kroders, Valentina Titova,
Directors : Leonid Menaker,

Professor Dowell and his assistant surgeon Dr. Kern are working on the resurrection of the dead. Dr. Kern kills Dowell in a set up car accident. Professor Dowell's head is now kept alive ...

Actors : Andrea Guzon, Marco Mattioli, Gabriele Tinti, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard Villeneuve, all that is left of Leonora, the love of his life, are a number of erotic tape recordings. Leonora led a double life ...

Actors : Annette Charles, Américo González, Robert Beltran, Michael Goodwin,
Directors : Haskell Wexler,

Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. ...

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Nutan, Tina Ambani,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

Kidnapped at a very young age, two twin brothers are separated from there respective mother. One grows up with a criminal and industrialist Gama Matten alias Chinoy and the other works for ...

Actors : Shivaji Ganesan, Rajinikanth, Jaishankar, Ambika,
Directors : Rajasekar,

Actors : Mohammad Kasebi, Esmat Makhmalbaf, Zohreh Sarmadi, Majid Majidi,
Directors : Mohsen Makhmalbaf,

Actors : Nobutaka Masutomi, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu, Noriko Hayami,
Directors : Shinji Sômai,

Muraki is in debt after a business failure. When he is unable to pay his debtors, the loan sharks rape Muraki's wife. Remorseful and sick of his life, Muraki picks up a prostitute named ...

Actors : Ian McShane, Anne Archer, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Mike Connors,
Directors : Tony Lo Bianco,

A killer is brutually attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.

Actors : Sami Frey, Mara Goyet, Juliet Berto, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

This is an affecting story about a father's attempts to mend the breaches in the relationship between himself and his 10-year-old daughter. Emmanuel (Sami Frey) is the father of Elise (Mara...

Actors : Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Saulius Balandis, Eleonora Korisnaite, Linas Paugis,
Directors : Raimundas Banionis,

This contemporary urban drama tells of a love story, of a girl with a very strong character who fights against the social prejudices, and a young man who wins her heart, and their wedding.

Actors : Neena Gupta, Anita Kanwar, Leela Naidu, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Set in 1961 Goa, this is a story of a rich and influential Goan family and what happens to them over a period of time. The movie is narrated in past-tense by one of the friends of the ...

Actors : John Matshikiza, Nadine Uwampa, Trevor Howard, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Marion Hänsel,

A South African spinster (Jane Birkin) murders her father (Trevor Howard) after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.

Actors : Nigel Terry, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Jaclyn Smith,
Directors : Anthony B. Richmond,

A writer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present fiancée possesses the soul of his fiancée in his previous life, a ballerina.

Actors : Ezzat El Alaili, Youssra, Adel Imam, Amina Rizk,
Directors : Mohamed Radi,

Fatima returns from America after earning her doctorate, she meets Galal who works as a tourist agent. When she returns home, she finds Galal in her bedroom and warns her from marrying ...