Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Tim Daly, Audra Lindley, Kelly Preston,
Directors : Janet Greek,

A young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful young woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past.

Actors : Cédric Jourde, Marie-Pierre A. D'Amour, Julien Elie, Minh Vu Duc,
Directors : André Mélançon,

During Christmas holidays, the children of a small village split themselves into two groups and begin preparing a week-long snowball war. The rivalry opens up tension among group members, especially leaders Luc and Sophie.

Actors : Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Ariella Rabinovich, Jonathan Sagall,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

Momo and Yudale take turns mounting Bentzi's foreign buxom cousin, but Yudale and her get stuck together. Momo raises the bar even further by proving the rumors of an accepting older buxom piano tutor, Fritzi. Bentzi looks for love.

Actors : Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Soumitra Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

The musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Jenny Roussea, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.

Actors : Cliff De Young, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : James Foley,

Rebellious football player Johnny falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family, his is poor and broken. Tracy already has a ...

Actors : Jim Mapp, James Belushi, Robert Glaudini, John Waters,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

Actors : Louise Lasser, Peter Dobson, Lorraine Bracco, Jessica Steen,
Directors : Richard Baskin,

A teen film about an Italian punk forced to work with an innocent Jewish girl.

Actors : Silk Smitha, Poornam Vishwanathan, Kamal Haasan, Sridevi,
Directors : Balu Mahendra,

A young woman regresses to childhood after suffering a head injury in a car crash. Lost, she ends up trapped at a brothel before being rescued by a lonely school teacher who falls in love with her.

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Troy Donahue, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. ...

Actors : Courtney Thorne-Smith, C. Thomas Howell, Peter Horton, Harley Jane Kozak,
Directors : Peter Israelson,

A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.

Actors : Fanny Ardant, Ornella Muti, Jeremy Irons, Alain Delon,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends...

Actors : Linda Griffiths, Jo Henderson, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries,
Directors : John Sayles,

A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.

Actors : Wilford Brimley, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Matt Clark,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...

Actors : Oleg Tabakov, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' ...

Actors : Lawrence Ko, Shu-Fen Hsin, Tian-Lu Li, Shu-Fang Chen,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone ...

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 : Rüdiger Vogler, Jutta Lampe, Doris Schade, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.

Actors : Béatrice Agenin, Richard Anconina, Lio, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A successful entrepreneur in his fifties will decide to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built, just to find the liberty he has been seeking, not knowing that the itinerary of one's life often changes in the funniest of ways.

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 ...