Best movies of 1980s on prime

Actors : Farooq Shaikh, Rekha, Bindu, Asrani,
Directors : J.K. Bihari,

With a bull-whip and the lash of her tongue, Mrs Bhandari rules her household through intimidation and fear. She treats her husband and eldest son, Suraj, as imbeciles and her adopted ...

Actors : Mammootty, Devan, Sumalatha, Jeetendra,
Directors : Joshi,

A journalist is illegally jailed for exposing two corrupt politicians, He exacts revenge through his new mysterious newspaper.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Sachin, Sujit Kumar,
Directors : Mohan Kumar,

Avtaar Krishen lives a poor lifestyle with his wife, Radha, and two sons, Ramesh and Chander. He works in a factory and toils hard so that his sons can get the necessary education, and live...

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Sudha Chopra, Mohan Gokhale,
Directors : Sai Paranjape,

Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. He runs a school for the blind as a Principal. He meets with social worker, Kavita. Kavita is attracted to him, ...

Actors : Deepti Naval, Saeed Jaffrey, Farooq Shaikh, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Kailashnath is a widower, and father of an only son, Ramesh. He feels that his son has come of age, and must get married. He goes to see a number of young ladies for him, but is ...

Actors : Farooq Shaikh, Naseeruddin Shah, Supriya Pathak, Smita Patil,
Directors : Sagar Sarhadi,

Najma and Salim are in love, but their's is a platonic relationship, as Salim is a deep thinker and prefers that women like Najma be financially independent, and not be dependent on men. On...

Actors : Ashok Saraf, Siddharth, Sachin, Laxmikant Berde,
Directors : Sachin,

Four friends are searching for rented accommodation. The landlady insists only on married couples, so two of the friends are forced to dress as women and pretend to be wives of the other two.

Actors : Amrita Singh, Farooq Shaikh, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ketan Desai,

Honest police officer Hanuman Prasad Singh lives like friend and family with a magician by the name of Ramesh Kumar. Hanuman's wife passes away after giving birth to male twin babies; upon ...

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

This classic film is based on a classic Urdu short story 'Aanandi' by Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas. It deals with a brothel at the heart of a city, in an area that some politicians want ...

Actors : Deepti Naval, Farooq Shaikh, Amol Palekar, Parveen Babi,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Sparkling comedy about a meddling friend whose attempt to rekindle the spark in his friend's relationship with his wife of seven years leads to complications to their lives, and to the ...

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Hema Malini, Shakti Kapoor,
Directors : Kodanda Rami Reddy A.,

The conflict between Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law is very common in every family. But in our exemplary story, there is a conflict between Mother-in-law and Son-in-law. Millionaire ...

Actors : Mohnish Bahl, Puneet Issar, Arti Gupta, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,

After a rich young girl has suddenly known about a demon and it's terrible curse brought by her family for generations, she decides to go to her paternal village with her lover and his friend to find out the truth.

Actors : Allu Aravind, Suhasini, Chandramohan, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : Jandhyala,

A comedy about the famous (Self-proclaimed) detective - James Pond - as he tries to find the lost son of a famous industrialist

Actors : Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.

Actors : Mitali, Sheela David, Savita Bajaj, Inder Thakur,
Directors : Govind Moonis,

Chandan (Sachin) lives with his elder brother and uncle. One day while going across the river to get some medications for his uncle, he meets with Gunja (Sadhana Singh), and both eventually...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Sridevi, Prem Chopra, Roobini,
Directors : Harmesh Malhotra,

Rajiv comes from a very wealthy family, and lives in a palatial home with his mother, who would like him to get married to a beautiful young woman named Vijaya Singh, the only daughter of ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Dharmendra,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Unable to handle the taking of his kingdom by an Indian Government decree, the Maharaja kills himself. His son, Jaipal, takes over as the Maharaja, turns rebel, and refuses to hand over his...

Actors : Tej Sapru, Shubha, Amita Nangia, Deepak Parashar,

A rich family eagerly buys an abandoned mansion in a rural area, but later discover that the mansion has a very disturbing and horrifying past.

Actors : Meenakshi Sheshadri, Rakhee Gulzar, Sunny Deol, Suresh Oberoi,
Directors : Rahul Rawail,

Arjun Yadav return from the city after completing his studies to get settled in his village with his family consisting of his mother Devi Chaudaran, his older brother Amrit and sister. ...

Actors : Raj Babbar, Padmini Kolhapure, Deepak Parashar, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : B.R. Chopra,

After the passing of multi-millionaire Ramlal Gupta, his only son and heir, Ramesh, takes over the estate and business. He attends a Beauty Contest sponsored by Vimal Fabrics, and is ...