Best Drama movies of 1988

Actors : Marcel van Heerden, Thembi Mtshali, Dolly Rathebe, Thomas Mogotlane,
Directors : Oliver Schmitz,

Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand ...

Actors : Gustav Vintas, Lesley Milne, Esther Elise, Jason Williams,
Directors : Gregory McClatchy,

The "Vampire Killer" leaves his victims drained of blood, while a detective tries to catch him.

Actors : Kara Glover, David Jacobson, Stuart Alexander, William McNamara,
Directors : Paul Mones,

A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.

Actors : Farha Naaz, Danny Denzongpa, Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri,
Directors : J.P. Dutta,

When Inspector Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) shoots down a criminal couple in the line of duty, his heart goes out to their orphaned baby son Krishna. He adopts the child, who grows up with ...

Actors : Christopher Alan, Winston Haynes, Amy Lynn Baxter, Kim Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Fabrizio De Angelis,

After studying martial arts in the Philippines and defeating his opponent Quino, Anthony Scott heads back to the U.S. to attend college and makes a new friend named Luke. Making the promise...

Actors : Anita Kanwar, Gopi Desai, Aditya Lakhia, Manish Gupta,
Directors : Kamal Swaroop,

A carefully constructed nonsense about a teenage boy named Om in a small Indian village.

Actors : Jianqiang Hu, Chi-kang Chao, Cheng-Hui Yu, Shanshan Chunyu,
Directors : Hsin-Yen Chang,

In this martial arts action-drama, a swordsman named Toh Hong travels home after a long battle to discover his wife and children have been brutally murdered.

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, John Sham, Ching-Ying Lam,
Directors : Alex Law,

The story of Beijing Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students.

Actors : Hale Soygazi, Aytaç Arman, Sahika Tekand, Tarik Tarcan,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

A woman's fight for her identity and freedom as a woman.

Actors : Thales Pan Chacon, Claudia Ohana, José de Abreu, Luiza Falcão,
Directors : Fábio Barreto,

A young girl is raised as a man by an old cowboy. Her purpose is to kill her parents' murderers and go to the sea.

Actors : Pirjo Leppänen, Ari-Kyösti Seppo, Martti Kainulainen, Leena Hyttinen,
Directors : Mikko Niskanen,

Actors : Fanny Lauzier, Denis Forest, Félix-Antoine Leroux, Marina Orsini,
Directors : Jean-Claude Lord,

On their arrival in Mingan,on the north coast of the St-Lawrence's Gulf, a couple notice a young girl floating in the ocean. Thinking saving her, they discover that, in fact, she's able to ...

Actors : Rhys Baker, Iona Banks, Aled Baker, Nicola Beddoe,
Directors : Andrew Grieve,

The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Ervand Arzumanyan, Svetlana Zasypkina, Irina Metlitskaya,
Directors : Isaakas Fridbergas,

After receiving a serious injury, a young gymnast is forced to stop performing. This serious sport traumatizes her not only physically but also morally.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Raj Kiran, Neelam Kothari, Govinda,
Directors : Kirti Kumar,

Hatya is an experience. Through the eyes of a child. A spine-chilling musical thriller, the film is about the turmoil of a deaf and dumb child, who witnesses a murder along with his mother,...

Actors : Babu Antony, Sanjay Mitra, Geetha, Suparna Anand,
Directors : Bharathan,

Princess of a country long suffering from drought should please a saint living in distant hills to bring rain.

Actors : Luca Barbareschi, Jason Connery, Carol Alt, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Enrico Oldoini,

A married couple from Milan is tempted into mutual betrayal during a holiday in Mauritius Islands.

Actors : Florin Zamfirescu, Dorel Visan, Cecilia Bârbora, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Mircea Daneliuc,

Iacob lives in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains near a gold mine and tries to survive.

Actors : Nikolai Voloshin, Andrey Dudarenko, Sergey Nikonenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Grigori Nikulin,

Epic film about life of three generations in central Russia on the Volga river.

Actors : Biao Yuen, Charlie Chin, Pat Ha, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Alfred Cheung,

When his wife, also working for the the police, but in a different department, is being brutally murdered, a police officer begins to investigate the case on his own. Soon he has the ...