Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Nick Nolte, Ray Sharkey, Sissy Spacek, John Heard,
Directors : John Byrum,

The life and friendship between the icons of the Beat Generation - Neal Cassady, Carloyn Cassady and Jack Kerouac.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Yuri Mgoyan, Konstantin Stepankov,

Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's ...

Actors : Johannes Brost, Reine Brynolfsson, Helena Bergström, Ing-Marie Carlsson,
Directors : Colin Nutley,

Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The...

Actors : Will Gonzales, Dick Campbell, Andrea Coppola, Elvire Audray,
Directors : Mario Gariazzo,

A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.

Actors : Nikolaus Dutsch, Mickey Rourke, Andréa Ferréol, Helena Bonham Carter,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi

Actors : Robert Knepper, Kathleen Quinlan, Maury Chaykin, Robert Davi,
Directors : Max Reid,

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Actors : Katsuhide Uekusa, Yûko Mizutani, Ben Fairman, Anna Alba,
Directors : Yoshikazu Yasuhiko,

The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before ...

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Teresa Stratas,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...

Actors : Katherine Bean, Grace Phillips, Stephen Lack, Emmanuelle Chaulet,
Directors : Jon Jost,

Anna, a French actress, is approached by financial broker Gordon in the Vermeer room of a New York gallery. However, romance does not ensue...

Actors : Lynette Curran, Barry Otto, Gia Carides, Helen Jones,
Directors : Ray Lawrence,

After a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this ...

Actors : Petar Bozovic, Alain Noury, Mira Furlan, Milutin 'Mima' Karadzic,
Directors : Zivko Nikolic,

In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune...

Actors : Rahul Roy, Tom Alter, Avtar Gill, Anu Agrawal,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Rahul and Anu fall in love with each other, but before they unite, they have their own problems to deal with.

Actors : Helle Beck Figenschow, Henning Syverud, Håvard Bakke, Tommy Karlsen,
Directors : Eva Isaksen,

A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.

Actors : Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang, James Russo, David Caruso,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic conflict between ethnic gangs.

Actors : Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

The reviewer above states that 'the entire story is told from the husband's point of view'. This is incorrect - the movie takes an objective point-of-view - the husband is not present in several of the segments.