Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Carol Kane, Elliott Gould, Kathryn Grody, Diane Keaton,
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 : Mike Bishop, David Field, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey,
Directors : John Hillcoat,

Prison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.

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 : 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, Wang An, Cora Miao, 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 : 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 : 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 : Bruno Cremer, François Négret, 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 : 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 : Burt Lancaster, Frances Conroy, Patricia Clarkson, Suzy Amis,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

An old patriarch unites for his birthday all members of his family. But the group of people is full of personal and social problems.

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 : Anupam Kher, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Chunky Pandey,
Directors : N. Chandra,

A college student, who has decided to serve for his country, turns a criminal.

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 : 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 : Kristin Scott Thomas, James Wilby, Richard Beale, Jackson Kyle,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.

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 : 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 : Jay O. Sanders, David Patrick Kelly, Bruce Davison, D.W. Moffett,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army.