Best Drama movies of 1985

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Robert Altman,

May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.

Actors : Kim Richards, James Spader, Matt Clark, Paul Mones,
Directors : Fritz Kiersch,

The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.

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 : Matthew Carroll, Ian Holm, Miranda Richardson, 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 : Edward Woodward, Denis Quilley, Richard Gere, Alice Krige,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Kris Kristofferson, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Frank Perry,

An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.

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

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

Actors : Marjorie Yates, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench,
Directors : David Hare,

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

Actors : Kathleen Quinlan, Sam Waterston, Jeffrey DeMunn, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Hal Barwood,

A woman working as a security guard in an agricultural research facility finds herself and her co-worker Schmidt fighting to survive against their former friends.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, George Segal, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Ernest 'Stick' Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, ...

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Caris Corfman, Ian Holm, Coral Browne,
Directors : Gavin Millar,

Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Nilgün Akçaoglu, Pekcan Kosar, Zihni Küçümen,
Directors : Basar Sabuncu,

A citizen drives crazy because of the economic problems.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Rossano Brazzi, Patrizia Pellegrino, Venantino Venantini,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Homicidal Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo is tasked with escorting a mobster to Malta; when the prisoner escapes, Geronimo goes rogue to catch him.

Actors : Maria Pakulnis, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Aleksander Bardini,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and ...

Actors : Tamari Tsitsishvili, Dudukhana Tserodze, Veriko Anjaparidze, Dodo Abashidze,

A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.

Actors : Andrei Boltnev, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Aleksey German,

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

Actors : Jason Mizell, Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, Sheila E.,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker manages all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove Records, which include ...

Actors : Myriem Roussel, Manon Andersen, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel ...

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Oliver Cotton, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a ...