Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Julia Migenes, Faith Esham, Ruggero Raimondi,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.

Actors : Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

Actors : Michael Beach, Kevin Bacon, Bob Balaban, Barbara Barrie,
Directors : Jay Russell,

When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Joe Pesci, Dianne Wiest, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Jack Hofsiss,

A true story about Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon's Valium addiction and her desperate attempts to kick the habit.

Actors : Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Jim Haynie, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Lee Grant,

The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.

Actors : Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Jason Presson, Susan Rinell,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

A Midwestern farm family faces major emotional adjustment after a tragedy results in the death of an older brother.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Antonelli, Valeria D'Obici, Bernard Giraudeau,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He ...

Actors : Nicole Garcia, Richard Bohringer, Anémone, Christophe Malavoy,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's ...

Actors : Christina Orbakaite, Yuriy Nikulin, Elena Sanaeva, Dmitri Yegorov,
Directors : Rolan Bykov,

Unpopular girl being bullied in her class.

Actors : Jan Sterling, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.

Actors : Sela Ward, Ronny Cox, Martin Kove, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Robert Boris,

Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.

Actors : William Holden, Jack Thompson, Ricky Schroder, Olivia Hamnett,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets ...

Actors : Richard Bohringer, Vanessa Guedj, Anémone, Antoine Hubert,
Directors : Jean-Loup Hubert,

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's...

Actors : Fábio Jr., Zaira Zambelli, José Wilker, Betty Faria,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion ...

Actors : Ryûtarô Gan, Kanako Higuchi, Shintarô Katsu, Takanori Jinnai,
Directors : Shintarô Katsu,

Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Ichi's investigation into ...

Actors : Norman Burton, Shô Kosugi, Donna Kei Benz, James Booth,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

After a peace loving Japanese immigrant and his family become victims of a crime syndicate, a master ninja emerges.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Ken Takakura, Masako Natsume,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ...

Actors : Aruna Irani, Neetu Singh, Tanuja, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Rakesh Kumar,

Multi-millionaire Bishan Kumar and orphan Kishan are inseparable friends and live in the same house with Bishan's widowed mother and a maid servant. Bishan's father was responsible for the ...

Actors : Al Pacino, Michael Higgins, Paul Guilfoyle, Joseph Maher,
Directors : David F. Wheeler,

Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random.

Actors : Camilla Søeberg, Lars Simonsen, Ulrikke Bondo, Adam Tønsberg,
Directors : Bille August,

Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is ...