Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Maarten Spanjer, Hans van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg, Renée Soutendijk,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better ...

Actors : Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a ...

Actors : Richard Jenkins, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Caroline Kava,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An FBI agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper agents and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.

Actors : Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Thomas Michael Donnelly,

Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which...

Actors : Matthias Fuchs, Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city's new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Raisa Ryazanova,
Directors : Vladimir Menshov,

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

Actors : James Woods, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Haid,
Directors : James B. Harris,

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Actors : Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman, Dan Håfström, Hanna Zetterberg,
Directors : Tage Danielsson,

Borka and his band and Mattis's band of robbers are rivals. Birk, his parents and their band live in the wild in Mattisforrest. They move in to Metis-stronghold, which belonged to his ...

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Robert Joy, Daniel J. Travanti, Cheryl Ladd,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.

Actors : Levan Gabriadze, Evgeniy Leonov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Yuriy Yakovlev,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Fred Ward, Goldie Hawn, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Melanie Griffith, Sean Bean,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

A crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.

Actors : Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Pelle Hvenegaard,
Directors : Bille August,

The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find ...

Actors : Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Geneviève Lemon, Jon Darling,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.

Actors : Juhi Chawla, Aamir Khan, Goga Kapoor, Dalip Tahil,
Directors : Mansoor Khan,

A young man and young woman fall in love against their feuding fathers' wishes in this version of 'Romeo and Juliet' set in contemporary India.

Actors : Dean Shek, Yun-Fat Chow, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : John Woo,

A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

Actors : Sam Neill, Meryl Streep, David Hoflin, Dale Reeves,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A mother whose child was killed in a Dingo attack in the Australian outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.

Actors : Bill Allen, Talia Shire, Bart Conner, Lori Loughlin,
Directors : Hal Needham,

The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.

Actors : Robert Levine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical ...

Actors : Salman Khan, Bhagyashree, Alok Nath, Rajeev Verma,
Directors : Sooraj R. Barjatya,

Karan (Alok Nath) lives in a small house with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, so that he can accumulate enough wealth to...