Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : Brynn Thayer, Chuck Norris, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran,
Directors : William Tannen,

Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the ...

Actors : Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Antonio Gades, Marisol,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...

Actors : Yoshiko Tanaka, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôichi Ozawa, Kazuo Kitamura,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.

Actors : Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Harvey Keitel, Hanna Schygulla, Jean-Louis Barrault,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when ...

Actors : Guzin Coragan, Sener Sen, Ali Uyandiran, Üstün Asutay,
Directors : Nesli Çölgeçen,

Selamsiz (wich means 'no greeting') is a small town in Anatolia. The town has a lot of problems but noone from governments come and see the town. One day the mayor learns that the prime ...

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Marc van Uchelen, John Kraaykamp, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors ...

Actors : Bill Gunn, Seret Scott, Billie Allen, Duane Jones,
Directors : Kathleen Collins,

A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on...

Actors : Nickolas Grace, Stratford Johns, Glenda Jackson, Douglas Hodge,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Set in France Oscar Wilde (so it appears) visits a local theatre and is surprised by their retelling of his own work ""Salome'" the story line then digresses in to a VERY twisted portrayal ...

Actors : Daniel Valdez, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly, Edward James Olmos,
Directors : Luis Valdez,

A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped ...

Actors : Roy Scheider, Lara Harris, Tim Reid, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border.

Actors : John Vernon, Johnny Venocur, Robert Dryer, Linda Blair,

A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.

Actors : Nedumudi Venu, Poornam Vishwanathan, Mohanlal, Renjini,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

A woman hires a stranger to pose as her husband because she doesn't want her ailing father to know that her fiance broke their engagement.

Actors : Meg Tilly, Doug Savant, Rob Lowe, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the ...

Actors : Gopa Aich, Swatilekha Sengupta, Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Tulug Çizgen, Ugur Yücel, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

A train station official wins the lottery but has to hide it from the other villagers. When the truth comes out, he losts his mind and finds himself in emptiness.

Actors : Julian Sands, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Robert Boris,

A young American hustler pursues the girl of his dreams to Oxford, where he must enroll to obtain her.

Actors : Adam Ferency, Krystyna Janda, Agnieszka Holland, Janusz Gajos,
Directors : Ryszard Bugajski,

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.

Actors : Kazim Kartal, Hikmet Tasdemir, Yaman Okay, Kadir Inanir,
Directors : Melih Gülgen,

The story of a fearless man Tatar Ramazan who believes justice in his own way.