Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Dick Martin, Jack Warden, George Segal, Susan Saint James,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

When a rich white corporate executive finds out that he has an illegitimate black son, things start falling apart for him at home, at work and in his social circles.

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 : Sissy Spacek, William Sanderson, 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 : 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 : Fred Ward, Bonnie Bedelia, Keanu Reeves, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Ron Nyswaner,

There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his ...

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

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

Actors : Rebecca Pauly, Isabelle Weingarten, 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 : Susan Sarandon, Elizabeth Perkins, Jeff Daniels, Don Johnson,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high ...

Actors : Willem Nijholt, Danny de Munk, Herman van Veen, 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 ...

Actors : Carole Bouquet, François Cluzet, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon ...

Actors : Michael Gambon, Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson,
Directors : John Irvin,

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they ...

Actors : Serra Yilmaz, Kemal Sunal, Savas Yurttas, Güzin Özipek,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

It is a comedy of stubborn people who initiate a judicial process which would last 7 years because of a cow's trespassing on a field.

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 : Lena Stolze, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram, Hans-Reinhard Müller,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

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 : Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, 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 : Patrick Dewaere, Geneviève Mnich, Maurice Ronet, Ariel Besse,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

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

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 ...