Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Roy Kinnear, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Don Ameche, J.J. Johnston, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : David Mamet,

Shoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Barbara Rush, Valérie Quennessen,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

A young American couple and a French woman engage in a threesome in the Greek Islands.

Actors : Arliss Howard, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Paul Brickman,

A mother of two sons finds life considerably difficult on her own after the death of her beloved husband. Due to debt she must move them to Baltimore, and deal with the hardships and all ...

Actors : Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Robin Williams, Holly Palance,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Actors : John Hurt, Roy Hyatt, Stephanie Lane, Theresa Russell,

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (...

Actors : Lady Pink, Fab 5 Freddy, Patti Astor, 'Lee' George Quinones,
Directors : Charlie Ahearn,

Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie concerns the tension between ...

Actors : Chloe Webb, Roger E. Mosley, Denzel Washington, Bob Hoskins,
Directors : James D. Parriott,

A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and ...

Actors : Thom Hoffman, Dolf de Vries, Renée Soutendijk, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.

Actors : George Dzundza, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, Richard Gere,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans, where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.

Actors : Bud Cort, Virginia Madsen, Lenny von Dohlen, Maxwell Caulfield,
Directors : Steve Barron,

An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.

Actors : Lilli Palmer, Victoria Tennant, Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine, Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...

Actors : Robert F. Lyons, Charles Bronson, Carrie Snodgress, Kathleen Wilhoite,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

An action-packed thriller starring Charles Bronson as Jack Murphy, a cop who is running to stay alive long enough to even the score with his wife's killer.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley,
Directors : David S. Ward,

Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not ...

Actors : Anne Alvaro, Wojciech Pszoniak, Roland Blanche, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a ...

Actors : Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor, Graeme Blundell,
Directors : John Duigan,

In 1962, a prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off...

Actors : Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Ontkean, Neil Patrick Harris, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and ...

Actors : Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans, David N. Haynes, Brian Bovell,
Directors : Franco Rosso,

The movie centers around Brindsley Forde's character blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in west London. The movie captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.