Best Romance movies of 1980s

Actors : Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

Actors : Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Oliver Reed, John Travolta,
Directors : John Herzfeld,

God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to...

Actors : Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris, Steve Martin,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Alan Scarfe, Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

General Chappy Sinclair assembles a joint U.S.- Soviet strike team to take out a rogue middle eastern nuclear base.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Ana Obregón, George Kennedy, Bo Derek,
Directors : John Derek,

A 1920s English heiress seeks ecstasy with a sheik in Morocco and a bullfighter in Spain.

Actors : Jack Davidson, Joanna Merlin, Vincent Spano, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : John Sayles,

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Kay Lenz, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Michael Crichton,

A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.

Actors : Richard Ganoung, John Bolger, Steve Buscemi, Adam Nathan,
Directors : Bill Sherwood,

As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael must face Robert's true motives for leaving while dealing ...

Actors : Burl Ives, Richard Tyson, Sherilyn Fenn, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Zalman King,

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

Actors : Féodor Atkine, Béatrice Romand, Arielle Dombasle, André Dussollier,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues ...

Actors : Bill Murray, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Theresa Russell,
Directors : John Byrum,

He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

Actors : Michael E. Knight, Emmanuelle Béart, Phoebe Cates, David Dukes,
Directors : Tom McLoughlin,

Jim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing ...

Actors : Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ...

Actors : Doug McKeon, Catherine Mary Stewart, Chris Nash, Kelly Preston,
Directors : Mel Damski,

In 1956, the shy Jonathan's luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious Gene as a friend in his last year of high school. Gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach Jonathan ...

Actors : Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Bess Armstrong, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist to find her father who disappeared in Asia.

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Lola Cardona, Icíar Bollaín,
Directors : Víctor Erice,

The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a city in the north of Spain. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which seem to be hidden in the personality ...

Actors : Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine, Michael Zorek,
Directors : Noel Black,

Christine (Phoebe Cates), a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim, who attends an academy for boys nearby. Christine's arch rival Jordan also has her eye on ...

Actors : Miranda Garrison, Laura Harring, Barbra Brighton, Jeff James,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Filmed during the Lambada dance craze (if there really ever was one), this film tries to have a social conscience. A princess (Laura Herring) in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a ...

Actors : Dominique Besnehard, Christophe Odent, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Suzanne is sixteen and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour....

Actors : Julian Glover, Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julie Christie,
Directors : James Ivory,

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to ...