Best Drama movies of 1980s

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.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Angel Ramirez Jr., Jimmy Hughes, Cicely Tyson,

Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old ...

Actors : Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro,
Directors : William Lustig,

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Actors : Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, Jane Alexander, William Devane,
Directors : Lynne Littman,

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.

Actors : Cynthia Rhodes, Steve Inwood, Finola Hughes, John Travolta,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

Actors : John Agar, Mare Winningham, Lou Hancock, Anthony Edwards,
Directors : Steve De Jarnatt,

A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in 70 minutes.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Leonard Termo, Ariane,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.

Actors : John Wesley Shipp, Kenny Morrison, Jonathan Brandis, Clarissa Burt,
Directors : George Miller,

A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force are sent in to resolve the crisis.

Actors : Charles Bronson, J.D. Cannon, Vincent Gardenia, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.

Actors : Pelé, Bobby Moore, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine,
Directors : John Huston,

As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.

Actors : Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Sayles,

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Actors : Stacey Pickren, Carmen Argenziano, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : John Landis,

Ed Okin's life is somewhat out of control. He can't sleep, his wife betrays him, and his job is dull. One night, he starts to drive through Los Angeles, and he finally ends in the parking ...

Actors : Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Janet Suzman, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Nancy Travis, Tom Selleck, Ted Danson,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends.

Actors : Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Danny Lee, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : John Woo,

A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss.

Actors : Tom Cruise, John Stockwell, Jackie Earle Haley, John P. Navin Jr.,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Set in 1965, four rowdy teenage guys travel to Tijuana, Mexico for a night of partying when they are joined by a heartbroken housewife who is in town seeking a quick divorce.

Actors : John Houseman, Fred Astaire, Alice Krige, Craig Wasson,
Directors : John Irvin,

Two generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story.

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : István Szabó,

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...