Best Drama movies of 1985

Actors : Andra Akers, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Helen Shaver,
Directors : Donna Deitch,

It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly...

Actors : Tomas von Brömssen, Anton Glanzelius, Melinda Kinnaman, Anki Lidén,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A boy and his brother don't get along well. In order to let their ill mother rest, they're separated and sent each one with their relatives.

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 : Sener Sen, Füsun Demirel, Erdal Özyagcilar, Nilgün Nazli,
Directors : Nesli Çölgeçen,

The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everthing starts to go bad for the ...

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Actors : Ramey Ellis, Alma Beltran, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Travolta,
Directors : James Bridges,

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

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 : Edward Bell, Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani, Richard Norton,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

An American gymnast travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years.

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 : Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

Actors : Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta, Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh,
Directors : Lance Hool,

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

Actors : Sam Neill, André Maranne, Meryl Streep, Charles Dance,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Actors : Robert Culp, Timothy Hutton, Kim Cattrall, Robert Urich,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city. At the same time, Mayor Tyler is embroiled in a ...

Actors : Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Chuck Bush, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Kevin Reynolds,

Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

Actors : Hugo Arana, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Actors : Margaret Welsh, Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place,
Directors : Joyce Chopra,

A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.

Actors : Al Pacino, Joan Plowright, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Carlin Glynn, John Heard, Richard Bradford,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Robert Altman,

May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.

Actors : Stéphane Freiss, Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Macha Méril,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.