Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Carrie Snodgress, David Anthony Marshall, Brad Pitt, Ricky Schroder,
Directors : Sandy Tung,

When Billy returns from reform school he has to attend a different high school at the other side of town. He tries to start with a clean slate but his old rival doesn't make it easy on him ...

Actors : Jason Campbell, Brian Dennehy, Richard Gere, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Gary Sinise,

Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.

Actors : Shannon Presby, John Philbin, James Spader, Lori Loughlin,
Directors : Sean S. Cunningham,

A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Barbara Cupisti, Frank Finlay, Franco Branciaroli,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years of marriage, a Professor and his younger wife witness the passion wane. Now, all that remains is to confess the rousing thoughts to an elaborate diary hoping to break free from ties and inhibitions.

Actors : Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov,
Directors : Sergey Solovev,

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century...

Actors : Leonard Rossiter, Brenda Vaccaro, Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Dick Clement,

A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.

Actors : Wendell B. Harris Jr., Marti Bowling, Timothy Alvaro, Dave Barber,
Directors : Wendell B. Harris Jr.,

William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he's had enough. His solution is to re-invent himself. He becomes a ...

Actors : Michele Valley, Meredyth Herold, Panos Thanassoulis,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

A man searching for his long-lost lover is kidnapped by her killers, an insane, mother-daughter duo, and they force him to commit various sexual atrocities with them.

Actors : Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont, Geneviève Mnich,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. ...

Actors : Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Yasemin Yalçin, Bülent Kayabas, Nevzat Okçugil,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Osman earns his living as a porter. He lives in a small house with his wife, children and mother-in-law. He is in debt from top to toes. His wife and mother-in-law belittle him a lot. Osman...

Actors : Emilio Estevez, Matthew Dudley, Larry B. Scott, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Payne, Ted Danson, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Allan Burns,

Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Jean-Claude Tramont,

A drummer plants doubts into the mind of a bandleader about his wife's faithfulness in an attempt to take over the band himself.

Actors : Christian Ruché, Miou-Miou, Sylvie Laporte, Michel Raskine,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her...

Actors : Carol Kane, Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Kathryn Grody,
Directors : Joyce Chopra,

Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980's Atlantic City performing the songs of the 60's girl groups in this self-indulgent comedy.

Actors : Haing S. Ngor, Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Joyce Godenzi,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

An action film about a daring commando raid into Vietnam to destroy a munitions dump left behind by American marines.

Actors : Kevin Anderson, Albert Finney, John Kellogg, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

The two brothers Treat and Philip lived alone since they were kids. Interdependent they dwell in a loft house and live on little thefts, until an aging minor criminal moves in with them and takes over the role of a father.

Actors : François Négret, Bruno Cremer, Ludmila Mikaël, Vanessa Paradis,
Directors : Jean-Claude Brisseau,

A teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her studies, but soon ...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Füsun Demirel,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Kerim lives with his family in a rent house for years. One day his host tells him to look for another house or raise the rent money.He finds a house by the help of Sühandan whom he works together and in love.