Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Doug Hutchison, Wallace Langham,
Directors : Keith Gordon,

A surreal portrait of a Catholic Private School and its hierarchy. A new student must submit to the bizarre rituals of his peers and the expectations of the school's administration by ...

Actors : Jenny Seagrove, Brad Hall, Carey Lowell, Dwier Brown,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A young couple with a newborn baby don't realize that the nanny they hired is a magical nymph who sacrifices infants to an evil tree.

Actors : Anne Pitoniak, Andrea Burchill, Sara Walker, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to ...

Actors : Dana Hill, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, James Spader, Dexter Fletcher, Ione Skye,
Directors : Damian Harris,

Charles is in control of his life; he is about to finish 6th form college and start at Oxford. He is 19 and wants an 'older' woman before he turns 20. Enter the beautiful Rachel, and ...

Actors : Miranda Garrison, Laura Harring, Barbra Brighton, Jeff James,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Filmed during the Lambada dance craze (if there really ever was one), this film tries to have a social conscience. A princess (Laura Herring) in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a ...

Actors : Ann-Marie MacDonald, Paule Baillargeon, Richard Monette, Sheila McCarthy,
Directors : Patricia Rozema,

Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle ...

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 : Barbara Bach, Bryan Brown, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney,
Directors : Peter Webb,

Paul McCartney's recording of his new album is complicated by the fact that the master tapes of his recordings are missing.

Actors : Catherine Jacob, Neige Dolsky, Isabelle Nanty, Tsilla Chelton,
Directors : Étienne Chatiliez,

Auntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty old bitch, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses. When the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, ...

Actors : River Phoenix, Ione Skye, Meredith Salenger, 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 : Sheila Kelley, Jennifer Connelly, Lance Edwards, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

Michael, a college student, visits his girlfriend Gabriella and her family for Christmas in Canada. When he gets there, she tells him that she doesn't love him any more. Michael attempts to...

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 : 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, Eddie Velez, Ana Alicia, 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 : Alexandra Paul, Rosanna Arquette, Jeff Bridges, Randy Brooks,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his ...

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 : James Booth, David Bradley, Dwayne Alexandre, Michael Dudikoff,
Directors : Cedric Sundstrom,

The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...

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

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