Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez, Nigel Havers,
Directors : John Milius,

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told...

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 : Bernice Stegers, Marcello Mastroianni, Jole Silvani, Anna Prucnal,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.

Actors : Angela Punch McGregor, David Warner, Michael Caine, Frank Middlemass,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda's Triangle area. Maynard is divorced ...

Actors : Mary Stuart Masterson, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Michael Dinner,

A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.

Actors : Fernando Ramos da Silva, Edilson Lino, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with little crimes, prostitution, etc

Actors : Dorian Healy, Denzel Washington, Sean Chapman, Graham McTavish,
Directors : Martin Stellman,

A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.

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 : Gene Hackman, Kate Capshaw, Julie Christie, Richard Gere,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client, Ohio senator Sam Hastings, decides to quit ...

Actors : John Hurt, Richard Harris, Frances Tomelty, Sean Bean,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land, and when the widow, who owns the field, decides to sell the field in a public ...

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.

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 Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The son of a woman dying of a brain tumour tries to fulfil his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.

Actors : Sener Sen, Ilyas Salman, Meral Zeren, Ahu Tugba,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Bilo is a goodhearted man who wants to marry the cutest girl in the village but needs money to take the consent from her father. His best friend Mahmut (Sener Sen) offers him a way to go to Germany and work in a factory to save up the money he needs.

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 : Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Noah Taylor,
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 : 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.

Actors : Jianxin Chen, Hsu Gou, Linjie Hao, Haizhe Jin,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to a place called Squadron 731, where they are grotesquely tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.