Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Sener Sen, Yavuzer Çetinkaya, Pitircik Akerman, Aytaç Yörükaslan,
Directors : Yavuz Turgul,

Hasmet, director of love stories, wants to make a film with a "social content". He makes a deal with the producer Abdulkadir, yet the actress Mujde Ar doesn't accept the leading role, as ...

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 : Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, James Naughton, Karen Allen,
Directors : Paul Newman,

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

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 : Nick Mancuso, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek,
Directors : Ralph L. Thomas,

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles ...

Actors : Tom Burlinson, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Sigrid Thornton,
Directors : Geoff Burrowes,

Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend is being pursued by another man, and her father doesn't want Jim back into her life.

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 : Kamran Usluer, Kemal Sunal, Nilgün Bubikoglu, Dinçer Çekmez,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation.

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 : 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.

Actors : Mandy Patinkin, Edward Asner, Lindsay Crouse, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Daniel Isaacson attempts to determine the true complicity of his parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed for espionage in the 1950s.

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 : Mahmoud Zemmouri, Richard Anconina, Coluche, Agnès Soral,
Directors : Claude Berri,

Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner ...

Actors : Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Balan K. Nair, Madhavi,
Directors : T. Hariharan,

The film offers an alternative version of the epic battle between two legendary Chekavars from the villain's perspective.

Actors : Ned Manning, Wilbur Wilde, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

In the near future, a teenage couple are trapped in a drive-in theater which has become a concentration camp for social outcasts. The inmates are treated to drugs, exploitation films, junk food, and new wave music.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Thomas Quinn, Debra Feuer, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Michael Seresin,

A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planing a big score.

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 : Adnan Afravian, Bashu, Parviz Poorhosseini, Susan Taslimi,
Directors : Bahram Beizai,

Lost and left behind in a foreign country after running away, a little boy whose family have been killed during the war is saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.