Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the...

Actors : Frances Bergen, Lisa Blake Richards, Nelly Alard, Mary Crosby,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

A group of young and middle-aged women gather for the birthday party of a friend and talk about their lives and food they cook for their husbands, boyfriends, or themselves.

Actors : Dusica Zegarac, Aleksandar Bercek, Rade Markovic, Dara Dzokic,
Directors : Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic,

A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to do rebellious acts.

Actors : Akbar Abdi, Manouchehr Hamedi, Farimah Farjami, Ezzatolah Entezami,
Directors : Dariush Mehrjui,

Two brothers are involved in a dispute over a house in urban Tehran. It is only through a series of adventures with the tenants that they are able to settle their differences.

Actors : Karen Meagher, Sue Wallace, Geraldine Griffiths, Elizabeth Edmonds,
Directors : Peter Duffell,

A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales. She finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Philippe Noiret, Maurice Barrier, Pascale Vignal,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Intense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.

Actors : Pete Lee-Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to...

Actors : Michel Galabru, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with ...

Actors : Aidan Tierney, David Hemblen, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is ...

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Richard Crenna, Millie Perkins, Jon Voight,
Directors : Robert Lieberman,

J. P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and step-father, but now J. P. feels capable of taking them. Emotional tragedy strikes, ...

Actors : Abbas Nazeri, Madjid Niroumand, Musa Torkizadeh,
Directors : Amir Naderi,

Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in ...

Actors : Peter Coyote, Nathalie Baye, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Bobby Roth,

Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity...

Actors : John Shea, Josh Mostel, Kate Capshaw, Jim Borrelli,
Directors : Armyan Bernstein,

The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a thirty-something writer suffering from the early onset of midlife crisis brought on by nostalgia, his dying friend and the wedding of his old flame.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Walter Bernstein,

Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his ...

Actors : Michael Pataki, Mitchell Gaylord, Janet Jones, Tiny Wells,
Directors : Albert Magnoli,

Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym, who has moved to town to train with their powerful ...

Actors : Jessica Forde, Mr. Housseau, Joëlle Miquel, Mme. Housseau,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of Mirabelle in the country, when Reinette helps her to repair ...

Actors : Lance Guest, Ann-Margret, Walter Matthau, Dinah Manoff,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has ...

Actors : Chika Sakamoto, Ayumi Ishijo, Junko Hori, Mayumi Tanaka,

Two kittens go on a metaphysical journey on a magical railroad train.

Actors : Line Arlien-Søborg, Marian Wendelbo, Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen,
Directors : Nils Malmros,

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Sridevi, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.