Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Todd Field, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

A smart first-year med student takes nothing seriously, except the pursuit of his Gross Anatomy (human dissection) lab partner. It's up to her and their teacher to find a way to convince ...

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 : Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Elias Koteas, Doreen Lang,
Directors : John Cornell,

A small-time crook becomes convinced he has become an angel after a traumatic incident and resolves to perform the work of one.

Actors : John Karlen, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.

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 : 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 : Mithun Chakraborty, Neelam Kothari, Amitabh Bachchan, Madhavi,
Directors : Mukul Anand,

A young boy's quest for revenge leads him to become a gangster as an adult, and with each day he becomes more and more like his enemies. Can he find vengeance and redemption?

Actors : Leila Gastil, Richard Boes, Chris Parker, John Lurie,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

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 : Joe Cortese, Clint Howard, Claude Earl Jones, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Eric Weston,

An outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer.

Actors : Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy,
Directors : Lizzie Borden,

Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a dystopia in which the issues of ...

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 : 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 : 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.