Best Hindi movies of 1980s

Actors : Deepti Naval, Mithun Chakraborty, Shabana Azmi, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Bapu,

The wealthy and lecherous Zamindar Thakur Vir Pratap Singh lord over a small region in rural India mercilessly killing anyone who opposes his rule. He gets the male villagers addicted to ...

Actors : Reena Roy, Jeetendra, Girish Karnad, Rameshwari,
Directors : J. Om Prakash,

Deepak (Jeetendra) is a truck driver. One day he meets with haughty, snobbish, and popular singer, Asha. He assists her with her travel and the two become friends. Deepak loves Mala, ...

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

This is a story of two lawyer brothers, their half brother, their wives and children. Siddheshwari, wife of the eldest brother has left the operational details of the household to Sheela, ...

Actors : Anant Nag, Padmini Kolhapure, Shreeram Lagoo, Indrani Mukherjee,

When a successful manager decides to sell his plantation in his ancestral village to another company, his young daughter begins acting very strangely.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Dharmendra,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Unaware of his parents, as he was abandoned as a young child, Vikramjit Singh alias Vicky grows up amidst hatred. The only affection he receives is from the local school-teacher, Shakarbaba...

Actors : Rakhee Gulzar, Amjad Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

A young blind woman named Rajni lives in India with her dad, Suresh, who is employed as a Manager with a business marketing tea leaves. The region where they live has a lax police force run...

Actors : Poonam Dhillon, Randhir Kapoor, Yogeeta Bali, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Rahul Rawail,

Singer Chandermohan is born in a well-off family and is the only child. Since he is of marriageable age, both he and his parents want him to get married. But since he was born with a strong...

Actors : Tom Alter, Harbans Darshan M. Arora, Birbal, Krishan Dhawan,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

When a Police inspector is killed by a band of thugs, his grieving father Samsher Singh seeks justice. Pratap Singh has left behind a pregnant widow, who dies in chidbirth, leaving Samsher ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Jeetendra, Zeenat Aman, Dharmendra,
Directors : Mohan Segal,

Captain Chawla has been employed for years with a cargo shipping company run by Ranbir. While celebrating the new year, Chawla hears gunshots and goes below to investigate. He finds out ...

Actors : Deven Verma, Vinod Mehra, Rakhee Gulzar, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

When two twin brothers Sudhir and Adhir get orphaned upon the death of their father, Magistrate Chaturvedi adopts them and brings them up like his own children. Though Adhir goes insane ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Dharmendra,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Unable to handle the taking of his kingdom by an Indian Government decree, the Maharaja kills himself. His son, Jaipal, takes over as the Maharaja, turns rebel, and refuses to hand over his...

Actors : Kiran Vairale, Shabana Azmi, Sharmila Tagore, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Gulzar,

Dhaniram brings a trucker named Gerulal to Jugni's house so that he can rent a room. Jugni lives in dilapidated house with three young daughters, all of whom are of marriage age. The eldest...

Actors : Deepti Naval, Farooq Shaikh, Satish Shah, Iftekhar,
Directors : Raman Kumar,

Avinash, an M.A. student, is an idealistic young man with socialist views and stern principles. He is not affected by materialistic nature of his generation and strongly opposes acquiring ...

Actors : Kunal Kapoor, Rekha, Shashi Kapoor, Supriya Pathak,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

Vijeta (The Victor) is the coming of age story of Angad (Kunal Kapoor). Confused like any other teenager trying to find himself and caught in between the marital problems of his mother ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Pradeep Kumar, Parveen Babi, Dharmendra,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

An account of the reign of Indian empress Razia Sultan and her love for her slave Jamaluddin Yakut.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Padmini Kolhapure, Prem Chopra, Tina Ambani,
Directors : Saawan Kumar Tak,

Shyam an ambitious young man is in Mauritius to fulfill his dreams. He meets Rukmini, a millionaire's daughter. They fall in love and get married despite strong opposition from Rukmani's ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Raj Babbar, Rekha, Madan Puri,
Directors : Lekh Tandon,

Photographer Raj Bedi meets with attractive Radha, both fall in love, and get married. Shortly after the marriage, Raj has an accident and is hospitalized. He does recover, but has no ...

Actors : Deven Verma, Hema Malini, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Pramod Chakravorty,

Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) grows up as a Nastik (athiest) because his father got murdered by Tiger and his mother and sister got torched in their house and blamed God for doing nothing. ...

Actors : Iftekhar, C.S. Dubey, Amitabh Bachchan, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Street-wise and poor, Amar Nath makes a living selling cinema tickets and fast-food snacks (Bhel Puri) outside cinema halls. He is taken under the wing of a politician and Chair of the "...

Actors : Ila Arun, Raju Barot, Deepa Sahi, Mohan Bhandari,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A planned social gathering is held to commemorate Divakar Barve for the award he receive pertaining his contributions to Indian Arts and films. The social event is greeted by some important...