Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Jane Horrocks, Helena Bonham Carter, Pat Heywood, Jesse Birdsall,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and ...

Actors : Viktor Tsoy, Marina Smirnova, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov,
Directors : Rashid Nugmanov,

Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He ...

Actors : Nicholas Campbell, Alex McArthur, Michael Biehn, Deborah Van Valkenburgh,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Madan Jain, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

An old couple lend a room on rent after recent death of the bread earner of the family, their only son. A budding actress starts living with them, who is in love with a local politician's only son. The movie shows what later ensues.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : Nancy Brilli, Christian De Sica, Carlo Verdone, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Carlo Verdone,

Former high school friends meet for a party after 15 years, only to discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.

Actors : Christopher Hewett, Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Larry Hankin,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Several shady and shallow people try to profit, one after the other, from a physically deformed teenager whose face looks like a snout of a rodent and who lives hidden in a city garbage dump, alone and miserable.

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 : Li-Chun Lee, Cora Miao, Wang An, Pao-Ming Ku,
Directors : Edward Yang,

A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.

Actors : Karen Austin, Richard Masur, Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer,
Directors : Meiert Avis,

A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks.

Actors : Peter Wang, Sharon Iwai, Kelvin Han Yee, Qinqin Li,
Directors : Peter Wang,

When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his ...

Actors : Barbara Williams, John Getz, David Caruso, Steven Bauer,
Directors : Douglas Day Stewart,

A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she...

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Naseeruddin Shah, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

A honest but disgraced Police Inspector's attempts to clear his name pits him against terrorists and the brother of his sweetheart.

Actors : Clotilde de Bayser, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Simon de La Brosse, Didier Bezace,
Directors : Claude Miller,

In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel...

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 : Mahshid Afsharzadeh, Mohammad Reza Maleki, Firouz Kiani, Samira Makhmalbaf,
Directors : Mohsen Makhmalbaf,

The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit...

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...