Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Nicholas Cascone, Jason Tomlins, Christopher Burgard, Jonathan Emerson,
Directors : Patrick Sheane Duncan,

The title refers to the U.S. Army's former "MOS" (job code) for a combat cameraman.

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, Merritt Butrick,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Elena Safonova, Silvana Mangano,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the ...

Actors : Themis Bazaka, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis, Sotiria Leonardou,
Directors : Costas Ferris,

The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.

Actors : Shane Briant, Sylvia Kristel, Ann Mitchell, Nicholas Clay,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her ...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Paul Land, Tovah Feldshuh,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Patti D'Arbanville, Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Penelope Spheeris,

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

Actors : Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly, Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's Day the World Ended (1955). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Friedrich...

Actors : Stefan DeSalle, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Billingsley, Whip Hubley,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends in the midst of the Cold War.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jan Gan Boyd, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

A presidential bodyguard is assigned to protect an objecting first lady, as repeated attempts are made on her life.

Actors : William Sanderson, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : Morten Hoff, Lone Lindorff, Adam Tønsberg, Peter Reichhardt,
Directors : Bille August,

Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is ...

Actors : Asokan, Parvathi, Sumalatha, Mohanlal,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

Jayakrishnan falls in love with two girls, Radha and Clara, and fights his confusion about whom he should marry and spend his life with.

Actors : Mitch Maglio, Asaph Livni, Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork,
Directors : Buddy Giovinazzo,

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yoshiko Sakuma, Jûzô Itami, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of ...

Actors : Inna Churikova, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

The story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Will Patton, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a ...

Actors : Carlo Cartier, Biagio Barone, Orazio Torrisi, Margarita Lozano,

Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Maurice Ronet, Geneviève Mnich, Ariel Besse,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy.

Actors : Willem Nijholt, Herman van Veen, Danny de Munk, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

11 year old Amsterdam schoolboy Ciske, a scamp with a heart of gold, causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher. Yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one ...