Best Drama movies of 1980s

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

A citizen drives crazy because of the economic problems.

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 : Donal McCann, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, John Kavanagh,
Directors : Pat O'Connor,

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

Actors : Robert Englund, Bill Nighy, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White,
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 : Tracy Pollan, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Gedrick, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

This gritty drama follows two high school acquaintances, Hancock, a basketball star, and Danny, a geek turned drifter, after they graduate. The first film commissioned by the Sundance Film ...

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 : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Yen-Ping Chu,

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a deadly prison where a team of mercernaries is being assembled.

Actors : Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Jan Adele, Frankie J. Holden,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.

Actors : Nana Patekar, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Kamal Chopra, Suresh Oberoi,
Directors : Vidhu Vinod Chopra,

Two brothers are caught on the different sides of a gang war.

Actors : Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Virginie Thévenet, Fabrice Luchini,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.

Actors : Andrei Boltnev, Andrey Mironov, Nina Ruslanova, Aleksey Zharkov,
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 : Farrah Fawcett, Drew Barrymore, Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth...

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 : Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, Matt Frewer, Barry Corbin,
Directors : Gregg Champion,

When a police detective thinks he is dying and learns that his life insurance pays out more if he dies in the line of duty, he tries to make that happen.

Actors : Marian Opania, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Wieslawa Kosmalska, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. ...

Actors : Peter Phelps, John Heywood, Nick Waters, John Larking,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

Actors : Terele Pávez, Belén Ballesteros, Alfredo Landa, Juan Sachez,
Directors : Mario Camus,

Spain, 1960s. People from a very poor family work in the country, at the service of a rich family of landowners...

Actors : Hugues Quester, Eloïse Bennett, Anne Teyssèdre, Florence Darel,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Jeanne is open and even-tempered, a philosophy teacher at a lycée. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy...