Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Bill Murray, Denholm Elliott, Catherine Hicks, Theresa Russell,
Directors : John Byrum,

He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

Actors : Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

Actors : James Fox, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, Eddie O'Connell,
Directors : Julien Temple,

In 1958 London a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.

Actors : Matthew Carroll, Miranda Richardson, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Mike Newell,

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

Actors : Donna Kei Benz, Scott Glenn, Atsuo Nakamura, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

Actors : Marin Kanter, Peter Donat, Laura Dern, Diane Lane,
Directors : Lou Adler,

After her mother's death, teenager Corinne Burns forms a punk band with her sister and cousin, despite their lack of musical experience and talent.

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Lola Cardona, Icíar Bollaín,
Directors : Víctor Erice,

The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a city in the north of Spain. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which seem to be hidden in the personality ...

Actors : Cristina Scaramuzza, Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Soto, Inés Vernengo,
Directors : Eliseo Subiela,

A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Adile Nasit, Erdal Özyagcilar,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.

Actors : Marshall Napier, Chris Haywood, Bruce Lyons, Hamish McFarlane,
Directors : Vincent Ward,

Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Twiggy, Peggy Ashcroft, Navin Chowdhry,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.

Actors : Burl Ives, Richard Tyson, Sherilyn Fenn, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Zalman King,

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

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 : River Phoenix, Meredith Salenger, Ione Skye, Ann Magnuson,
Directors : William Richert,

A charming womanizer has to find a way to get $80 to elope to Hawaii with his one true love, or else go to his father's chosen business school.

Actors : Nick Dimitri, Pat Mulligan, Joanne Whalley, Val Kilmer,
Directors : John Dahl,

A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.

Actors : Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp,
Directors : Alan Clarke,

Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.

Actors : Alan Bates, Kathy Baker, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Philippe Setbon,

Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes ...

Actors : János Balogh, Péter Breznyik Berg, Gábor Balogh, Imre Chmelik,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.

Actors : Raul Julia, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez, Richard Jordan,
Directors : John Duigan,

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Actors : Jinpachi Nezu, Kei'ichi Noda, Mako Hyôdô,
Directors : Mamoru Oshii,

A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.