Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Actors : Tim Blaney, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Fisher Stevens,
Directors : Kenneth Johnson,

Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.

Actors : Minami Takayama, Kirsten Dunst, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

Actors : Jenny Lewis, Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, Vince Trankina,
Directors : Todd Holland,

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.

Actors : Christopher Murney, Vanity, Julius Carry, Taimak,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

In New York City, a young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight a martial arts expert corrupted ...

Actors : Campbell Scott, John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Jill Bennett,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.

Actors : Fred Ward, Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Ten years after his son went MIA in Vietnam, U.S.Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in POW camps in Laos.

Actors : Michael Biehn, Peter Friedman, Demi Moore, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...

Actors : David Hayman, Sarah Miles, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir,
Directors : John Boorman,

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...

Actors : Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Actors : Mary Stuart Masterson, Christopher Walken, Sean Penn, Chris Penn,
Directors : James Foley,

In 1978 Pennsylvania, an absentee father is reacquainted with his estranged teenage sons who become intrigued with his romanticized life of crime.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez, Assumpta Serna, Eva Cobo,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

An ex-bullfighter who gets turned on by killing, a lady lawyer with the same fetish and a young man driven insane by his religious upbringing - these are the main characters in this stylish...

Actors : Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, Edward Woodward, John Waters,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Actors : Richard Burton, John Hurt, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Michael Radford,

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Actors : Mimi Rogers, Tom Berenger, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Orbach,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon ...

Actors : Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Uma Thurman, Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June ...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Margot Kidder, Ronny Cox, Richard Pryor,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Actors : James Fox, Sean Connery, Roy Scheider, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.