Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : Michel Creton, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, 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 : Deanna Bond, Michael Hutchence, Saskia Post, Nique Needles,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

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 : Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego, Carmen Maura, Maurizio De Razza,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into...