Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Sener Sen, Ugur Yücel, Tulug Çizgen, 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 : Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gerrard McArthur, Tilda Swinton,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Actors : Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz, Eugene Lipinski, Jeremy Irons, Jirí Stanislav,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as ...

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Gene Hackman, Elias Koteas, Teri Garr,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In Texas, Floyd is the owner of a decadent bar nearby the coast. He misses his wife Dorothy, who disappeared one year ago, and does not pay attention to the business, giving credit to ...

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Kris Kristofferson, Josef Sommer, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Actors : Erin Gray, Kenny Rogers, Diane Lane, Barry Corbin,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases ...

Actors : Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Olivier Parnière,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

A night in the life of a young woman who wishes to learn and experience more of life. The men she meets have as much to learn from her as they can offer her, or more.

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Stockard Channing, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes,
Directors : Stanley R. Jaffe,

This film, centering on a child's abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who ...

Actors : Matthew Laurance, Michael Paré, Marina Orsini, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : Jean-Claude Lord,

A Montreal construction worker joins a band and turns out to be a long-lost rock star from 1960s New Jersey - none other than Eddie Wilson, who mysteriously disappeared after a road accident.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Ellen Burstyn,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Maïté Nahyr, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks, Denis Lavant,
Directors : Leos Carax,

Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first ...

Actors : Olivia Hussey, Steve Railsback, Carmen Duncan, Michael Craig,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

Deviants are held at a rehabilitation fortress until they're set into a deadly game of survival, in the hopes of returning to world society.

Actors : Richard Brooks, Jude Ciccolella, Peter Weller, Sam Elliott,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A legal attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.

Actors : Serra Yilmaz, Sahika Tekand, Macit Koper, Orhan Çagman,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Rekha, Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Can an unconventional love that runs afoul of societal expectations survive?

Actors : Gene Hackman, Jane Lapotaire, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

In 1925, Arctic prospector Jack McCann becomes a rich man when he strikes gold but 20 years later he faces major personal and family problems.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Necla Soylu, Dinçer Çekmez, Fatma Girik,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

Turkish tragicomedy of the legendary Bloody Mary depicts how an ingenue is driven into adultery and is happened to suffer from early puberty until she ends up as a harlot. This is when she decides to take revenge from all the men on Earth.

Actors : Nanni Moretti, Remo Remotti, Laura Morante, Roberto Vezzosi,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful ...