Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

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 : Nadia Ottaviani, Paolo Villaggio, Marisa Tomasi, 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 : Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Daniel Olbrychski, Adelheid Arndt, Otto Sander, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Actors : Burt Young, Vicki Frederick, Laurene Landon, Peter Falk,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Harry manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team endlessly touring America, and he's also romantically involved with one of them. Their fortunes seem on the slide (...

Actors : Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Elina Salo, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that ...

Actors : Adrian Pasdar, Jack Gwaltney, Diane Lane, Laura San Giacomo,
Directors : Marisa Silver,

This movie follows the lives of medical students who are in their third year, which is the time that they have to decide what they intend to specialize in. At the center is Michael Chatham ...

Actors : Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...

Actors : Nevzat Açikgöz, Kemal Sunal, Ferdi Akarnur, Ahmet Açan,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Husnu has got issues and inabilities about the complex and expensive metropolitan life who was a successful teacher in his little town and got a promotion and appointment to Istanbul.

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Karen Young, Burt Reynolds,

Las Vegas is the backdrop for all the torrid action of heat, as Burt Reynolds plays the soft-hearted bodyguard who's out to protect his friends.

Actors : Jet Li, Jianqiang Hu, Chun Hua Ji, Qiuyan Huang,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set ...