Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : Charles Bronson, Robert F. Lyons, 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 : 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 : 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 : Will More, Laura Cepeda, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Miguel Zúñiga,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.

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 : 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 : 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 : John Hurt, Richard Harris, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : Stephen Lang, John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly,
Directors : Paul Michael Glaser,

Juvenile lost causes are reformed by a war veteran using survival tactics.

Actors : Jon Cryer, Oliver Cotton, Annabeth Gish, Keith Coogan,
Directors : Bob Giraldi,

A stockbroker on the run from the mob decides to hide out from them by enrolling as a student in high school.

Actors : John Heard, Tom Berenger, Debra Winger, Betsy Blair,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.