Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Gene Simmons, Rutger Hauer, Mel Harris,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

This movie features a character who is a descendant of the character played by Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name. And like McQueen's Josh Randall, Hauer's Nick Randall...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich, Buck Henry,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Steve Marachuk, Ricky Paull Goldin, Tricia O'Neil,

A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.

Actors : Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Keith Szarabajka, Rene Auberjonois,
Directors : Alex Cox,

An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.

Actors : David Argue, John Ley, Angelo D'Angelo, Nicole Kidman,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

Two BMX expert bikers and a friend of theirs (Kidman) become entangled with a group of bank robbers after discovering a carton of walkie-talkies.

Actors : Bob Balaban, William Forsythe, Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A cop is gunned down on Xmas eve. Jerry Beck, the homicide cop given the job of hunting the killer, investigates some leads which bring him into contact with a group of white supremacy ...

Actors : Ji Liu, Li Gong, Rujun Ten, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds...

Actors : Al Pacino, Bob Dishy, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.

Actors : Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

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 : Matt Dillon, Armand Assante, Kristy McNichol, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

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 : DeVaughn Nixon, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Danny Glover,
Directors : Charles Burnett,

Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon, who now lives in South-Central Los Angeles. Harry's charming, down-home manner hides a ...

Actors : Art Garfunkel, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A psychiatrist living in Vienna enters a torrid relationship with a married woman. When she ends up in the hospital from an overdose, an inspector becomes set on discovering the demise of their affair.

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 : Jason Robards, Anne Archer, David Selby, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

Actors : Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn, Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh,
Directors : Jane Campion,

In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education ...

Actors : Michèle Baumgartner, Henri Garcin, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

Actors : Boguslawa Pawelec, Boguslaw Linda, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Al Pacino, 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...