Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : Noufou Ouédraogo, Adama Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Fatimata Sanga,
Directors : Idrissa Ouedraogo,

A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When ...

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Knepper, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Jack Sholder,

An undercover cop forms an alliance with a Native American to help him hunt down the criminals who stole an ancient Lakota tribal lance.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dean Alexander, Jim Allen,
Directors : Mike Newell,

A little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith follows the boy's example, and starts a trend.

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.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Bruce Barlow, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...

Actors : Jan Rubes, Roddy McDowall, William Russ, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

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 : Sophie Renoir, Eric Viellard, Anne-Laure Meury, Emmanuelle Chaulet,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is ...

Actors : Iya Savvina, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valentin Gaft,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a badly needed parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Edwards,
Directors : Danny Huston,

Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments. The rumors are magnified by his ...

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

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

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 : 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 : Nedumudi Venu, Poornam Vishwanathan, Renjini, Mohanlal,
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 : Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Ranjeeta Kaur,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

After the death of their parents; Ravi Anand the eldest of seven brothers becomes the guardian to his other six siblings. His dictatorship and measures to get things done are frustrated by ...

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 ...