Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, J.T. Walsh, Emily Longstreth,
Directors : Christopher Guest,

Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.

Actors : Diane Franklin, Lawrence Monoson, Steve Antin, Joe Rubbo,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Tomas Milian, Anthony Quinn, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Michael "Jay" Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a ...

Actors : Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Timothy Hutton, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.

Actors : James Russell, John Mills, Robin Houston, Peggy Ashcroft,
Directors : Jimmy T. Murakami,

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

Actors : Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart, Tom Burlinson, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : George Miller,

In 1880s Australia when young Jim Craig's father dies Jim takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch and he is forced to become a man.

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Terence Stamp,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

Actors : Sheila Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Cooper, Lindsay Duncan,
Directors : Philip Ridley,

In the 1950's, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.

Actors : John Heard, Jeff Bridges, Ann Dusenberry, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Actors : Michael Wright, Louis Gossett Jr., James Belushi, Rae Dawn Chong,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.

Actors : Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Miroslaw Baka,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, ...

Actors : Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey, Matthew Labyorteaux,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting robotic microchips into her brain.

Actors : Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Dobson,
Directors : Uli Edel,

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Barbara Carrera, David Carradine, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Steve Carver,

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably ...

Actors : Brian Cousins, Bruce Davison, Patrick Cassidy, Stephen Caffrey,
Directors : Norman René,

The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.

Actors : Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction...

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Don Gordon,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Bogdan Diklic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Slobodan Sijan,

The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs, and danger.