Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

Actors : Mark Blum, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Madonna,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.

Actors : Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person until carelessness leads to tragedy.

Actors : Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Eric Stoltz, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Howard Deutch,

When Keith goes out with Amanda, the girl of his dreams, Amanda's ex-boyfriend plans to get back at Keith. Meanwhile, Keith's best friend, tomboy Watts, realizes she has feelings for Keith.

Actors : John Glover, Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Karen Allen,
Directors : Richard Donner,

A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Isa Danieli, Antonella Attili,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Ned Beatty, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Jim McBride,

Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police ...

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.

Actors : Chris Eigeman, Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Taylor Nichols,
Directors : Whit Stillman,

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Shirley MacLaine, Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Actors : Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : John Milius,

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, James Wilby, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : James Ivory,

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Actors : Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Bembol Roco,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

Actors : Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

Actors : Cher, Kurt Russell, Meryl Streep, Craig T. Nelson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.

Actors : Ruth Nelson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Vincent D'Onofrio, Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.

Actors : Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.