Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Mira Banjac, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Slavko Stimac, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Goran Paskaljevic,

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Robert Loggia, Edward James Olmos, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...

Actors : Nathalie Baye, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maurice Barrier, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Daniel Vigne,

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

Actors : Sean Connery, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, George Grizzard,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick ...

Actors : Suzanne Flon, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Jenny Clève,
Directors : Jean Becker,

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Valéria Cavalli, Michèle Morgan, Marino Cenna,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to ...

Actors : Kevork Malikyan, George Murcell, Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance,
Directors : James Dearden,

1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.

Actors : Stephanie Lawrence, Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb,
Directors : David Green,

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Jon Voight,
Directors : Eugene Corr,

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic...

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 : Michael Huddleston, Jim Metzler, Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town--who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent ...

Actors : Hristo Shopov, Georgi Staykov, Sofiya Kuzeva, Svetla Todorova,
Directors : Ivan Andonov,

The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers.

Actors : Frances Fisher, Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

The true story of Patricia Hearst, a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970s. The time spent with her captors made her question her way of life and she joined ...

Actors : Frances McDormand, Mai Zetterling, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Ken Loach,

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon ...

Actors : Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Chris Menges,

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...

Actors : Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a ...

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Miriam Guidelli, Claudio Bigagli, Margarita Lozano,

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that ...

Actors : Robert Englund, Bill Nighy, Alex Hyde-White, Jill Schoelen,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer who has plans for those who oppose himself or the young singer.

Actors : Pamela Gidley, Brooke McCarter, Robert Rusler, Josh Brolin,
Directors : David Winters,

Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.