Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : William Hickey, Barnard Hughes, Karl Hayden, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Matt Clark,

A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.

Actors : Jaya Prada, Sarath Babu, Kamal Haasan, Sailaja S.P.,
Directors : K. Viswanath,

A classical dancer, Balakrishna, (Kamal Haasan) faces many struggles, but is eventually redeemed.

Actors : Nadia Ottaviani, Marisa Tomasi, Paolo Villaggio, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

The amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released mental patient and his band of misfits, discover conspiracies to concur while looking for love.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, John Cassavetes, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman, Smita Patil,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Brought up by his grandfather, Arjun Singh moves to the city in search of a new job and life. While in the city he meets Bhairon who helps him find a job as a singer in a 5-star hotel owned by Raja.

Actors : Tanya Fenmore, Staci Keanan, D.W. Moffett, Cheryl Ladd,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

Fourteen year-old Lisa is raised by her unmarried mother Katherine who overprotects her by forbidding her to date until she's sixteen. In despair, Lisa and schoolmate Wendy make up a game ...

Actors : Alexandra Pigg, Tracy Marshak-Nash, Alfred Molina, Peter Firth,
Directors : Chris Bernard,

Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two ...

Actors : Tuo Tan, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Xueqi Wang,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns...

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Harvey Keitel, Thérèse Liotard, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run ...

Actors : Antonella Ponziani, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein, Paola Liguori,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old and Fellini is interviewed by a Japanese TV crew about the films he has made there over the years as he begins production on ...

Actors : Tanya Lopert, Ornella Muti, Ben Gazzara, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

Actors : Roy Cheung, Ka-Kui Ho, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Inside a Chinese prison two inmates form a friendship and face the difficulty of life on the inside.

Actors : Velko Kynev, Pavel Popandov, Georgi Mamalev, Filip Trifonov,
Directors : Lyudmil Kirkov,

The misfortunes of a couple of guys who form a music group and think they can get rich and famous easy.

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Dimple Kapadia, Rakhee Gulzar,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Sharda (Raakhee) vows vengeance when her husband is murdered by his two evil cousins, Bhishamber (Amrish Puri) and Bhanu (Paresh Rawal), and she and her two young sons are thrown out on the...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Cezmi Baskin, Jale Aylanç, Erdal Gulven,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

The story of a family man who has hardship as a musician.

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 ...

Actors : Birgitte Raaberg, Holger Boland, Kim Larsen, Erik Clausen,
Directors : Erik Balling,

Benny (Kim Larsen) and Arnold (Erik Clausen) are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they liv in, but while cleaning the...

Actors : Eva-Maria Kurz, Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause,
Directors : Jörg Buttgereit,

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Actors : Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Zeldin,
Directors : Stanislav Govorukhin,

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masao Kusakari, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.