Best Drama movies of 1987

Actors : Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Jan Adele, Frankie J. Holden,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.

Actors : Tracy Pollan, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Gedrick, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

This gritty drama follows two high school acquaintances, Hancock, a basketball star, and Danny, a geek turned drifter, after they graduate. The first film commissioned by the Sundance Film ...

Actors : Sophie Renoir, Eric Viellard, Anne-Laure Meury, Emmanuelle Chaulet,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is ...

Actors : Gregory Peck, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dean Alexander, Jim Allen,
Directors : Mike Newell,

A little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith follows the boy's example, and starts a trend.

Actors : Peter Phelps, John Heywood, Nick Waters, John Larking,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

Actors : Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gerrard McArthur, Tilda Swinton,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Actors : Asokan, Parvathi, Sumalatha, Mohanlal,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

Jayakrishnan falls in love with two girls, Radha and Clara, and fights his confusion about whom he should marry and spend his life with.

Actors : Alain Artur, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Dossignan is a zealous rural priest. The dean Menou-Segrais tries to keep him reasonable. But Dossignan will be tempted by Satan, then will try to save the soul of Mouchette, a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jan Gan Boyd, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

A presidential bodyguard is assigned to protect an objecting first lady, as repeated attempts are made on her life.

Actors : Serra Yilmaz, Sahika Tekand, Macit Koper, Orhan Çagman,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.

Actors : Joaquin Phoenix, Stefan DeSalle, Peter Billingsley, Whip Hubley,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends in the midst of the Cold War.

Actors : Nia Peeples, Gregory Harrison, John Philbin, Matt Adler,
Directors : William Phelps,

Before entering art school, Rick Kane sets out to surf the big wave season on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, after winning a surfing contest in an Arizona wave pool by his home. Once in ...

Actors : Jim Carter, John Atkinsons, Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Pat O'Connor,

Five centuries ago a mural was created in a country church in the north of England and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Rev. Mr. Keach...

Actors : Antonella Ponziani, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein, Paola Liguori,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old and Fellini is interviewed by a Japanese TV crew about the films he has made there over the years as he begins production on ...

Actors : Roy Cheung, Ka-Kui Ho, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Inside a Chinese prison two inmates form a friendship and face the difficulty of life on the inside.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, James Naughton, Karen Allen,
Directors : Paul Newman,

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

Actors : Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Zeldin,
Directors : Stanislav Govorukhin,

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

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.

Actors : Vincent Price, Harry Caesar, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser,
Directors : Jeff Burr,

In a small Tennessee town, an historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.

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.