Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Cynthia Gibb, Rob Lowe, Ed Lauter, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Peter Markle,

A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. ...

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Mieko Harada, Akira Terao, Toshie Negishi,

A collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Actors : Dee Hepburn, John Gordon Sinclair, Jake D'Arcy, Clare Grogan,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.

Actors : Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Actors : Harvey Keitel, Jack Nicholson, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Actors : Amira Chemakhi, Sylvie Richez, Marie Rivière, Vincent Gauthier,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...

Actors : Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, George C. Scott, Brad Dourif,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A police lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased 'Gemini' serial killer, lead him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.

Actors : Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic, Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic,
Directors : Emir Kusturica,

In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Nancy Travis, Tom Selleck, Ted Danson,
Directors : Emile Ardolino,

Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken ...

Actors : Bruce Davison, Gordon Hunt, Anthony Perkins, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day, prostitute by night, and accused of murder, is hounded by two men: a married father of two, and a sexually repressed preacher.

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Ed Harris, Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

Actors : Marisa Berenson, Julie Andrews, William Holden, Larry Hagman,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Actors : Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie,
Directors : Terence Davies,

The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on ...

Actors : John Colicos, Jessica Lange, Michael Lerner, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Actors : Linda Fiorentino, Ronny Cox, Matthew Modine, Michael Schoeffling,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a beautiful young drifter takes up temporary residence at his home.

Actors : Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Peter Medak,

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.

Actors : Li Gong, Wei Li, Ma Chong, Baotian Li,

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very ...

Actors : Colin Blakely, Tom Berenger, Hugh Millais, Christopher Walken,
Directors : John Irvin,

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

Actors : Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O'Morrison, Joseph Maher, Chevy Chase,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be overrun with a gauntlet of crazy inhabitants.