Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Fiona Shaw,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the ...

Actors : Randall Batinkoff, Molly Ringwald, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.

Actors : Robert Hunger-Bühler, Karin Springer, Silvia Ryder, Erwin Leder,
Directors : Gerald Kargl,

A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.

Actors : Mark Harmon, Jonathan Silverman, Jodie Foster, Blair Brown,

Mark Harmon is a washed-up baseball player who is called back home to handle the ashes of his childhood sweetheart/ first love who had committed suicide. As he searches for what to do with ...

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Robby Benson, Wilford Brimley, Paul Newman,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Jerry Reed, Danny Glover, David Marshall Grant,
Directors : Peter Markle,

During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.

Actors : Bill Kerr, Greta Scacchi, Eric Roberts, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own ...

Actors : Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward, Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani,
Directors : James Foley,

An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both...

Actors : Heikki Paavilainen, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses ...

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Ron Silver, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Actors : Jackie Burroughs, Richard Farnsworth, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson,
Directors : Phillip Borsos,

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.

Actors : Mustafa Nadarevic, Moreno D'E Bartolli, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic,
Directors : Emir Kusturica,

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper ...

Actors : Laila Robins, Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Thomas Wilson Brown,
Directors : Jim Abrahams,

A small town prepares for the homecoming of superstar Roxy Carmichael, as does a young outsider, who believes Roxy is her mother.

Actors : Vesa Vierikko, Esko Nikkari, Elina Salo, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who...

Actors : Sener Sen, Osman Cavci, Sermin Hürmeriç, Ugur Yücel,
Directors : Yavuz Turgul,

An ingenuous countryman Ali Nazik migrates to Istanbul and meets producer Muhsin Kanadikirik to have his first album.

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Ilyas Salman, Pembe Mutlu,
Directors : Sinan Çetin,

Abbas is the assistant of Sakir who is a rogue guy, and Abbas has a dream which is to buy a minibus for his own.

Actors : Art Metrano, Valérie Kaprisky, John P. Ryan, Richard Gere,
Directors : Jim McBride,

Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a...

Actors : Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi, Dorothée Berryman, Dominique Michel,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.

Actors : Gary Conway, Larry Poindexter, Steve James, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.

Actors : Catherine Wilkening, Rémy Girard, Lothaire Bluteau, Johanne-Marie Tremblay,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.