Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Deanna Bond, Michael Hutchence, Nique Needles, Saskia Post,
Directors : Richard Lowenstein,

The film is set in a house occupied by a collection of social misfits. The main storyline is that of a strange musician's relationship with a girl, their drug use and his band. These events...

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 : 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 : Michel Creton, Miou-Miou, Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the ...

Actors : François Cluzet, Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, Jean-Claude Adelin,
Directors : Claire Denis,

A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, ...

Actors : Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.

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 : Roberts Blossom, Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
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 : 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 : Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw, Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.

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

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

Actors : Gotti Sigurdarson, Helgi Skúlason, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Jakob Þór Einarsson,
Directors : Hrafn Gunnlaugsson,

An Irish man seeks vengeance against the vikings who killed his parents.

Actors : Bo Bojoh, Ivon Pelasula, Koen Wauters, Ruud de Wolff,
Directors : Ronald Beer,

Hans falls in love with Brenda, an Indonesian girl. Hans' father sells an old building to Brenda's father, so that he can open an Indonesian restaurant there. Hans' father is the owner of a...

Actors : C.S. Dubey, Chandrashekhar, Amitabh Bachchan, Bharat Bhushan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

In lieu of love and affections from his multi-millionaire father, Amarnath Kapoor; Vicky is instead serve brandy. Amarnath is interested in materializing his businesses to greater heights ...

Actors : Philippe Marlaud, Mathieu Carrière, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover.

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 : Lara Wendel, Daniela Silverio, Tomas Milian, Christine Boisson,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading ...

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

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

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 : Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is ...