Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Jacques Dutronc, Valérie Lagrange, Myriam Mézières,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory. Shortly after ...

Actors : John Wildman, Margaret Langrick, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee,
Directors : Sandy Wilson,

Adding an intriguing Canadian twist to a universally appealing story of teenage trials, My American Cousin begins as bored 12-year-old Sandy (Margaret Langrick) is preparing for another ...

Actors : Dulari, Mithun Chakraborty, Arun Govil, Asrani,
Directors : K. Muralimohana Rao,

Ravi Kumar is the younger brother of Judge Soumitra Devi and Mohan Kumar. He and his sister have different views and ideas. They lack understanding and that is why he decides to be apart ...

Actors : Thierry Tevini, Évelyne Dandry, Anja Schüte, Valérie Dumas,
Directors : David Hamilton,

With the outbreak of WWII, the sudden call to arms will send the men of a family's estate to the front, leaving a curious adolescent alone with the remaining women of the house, in need of a warm embrace and, possibly, a daring kiss.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Joe Pesci, Jade Malle, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Élie Chouraqui,

A former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy's fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody revenge spree.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Saverio Marconi,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a...

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 : 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 : Nick Mancuso, Peter Coyote, Carole Laure, Max Gail,
Directors : Bobby Roth,

Blue and Eli, two friends, have problems with women. Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter is left by his longtime girlfriend, because she considers him too immature for a longlsting ...

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 : Robert F. Lyons, Tony Pierce, Michael Dudikoff, Michael DeLorenzo,
Directors : Aaron Norris,

A young officer, just out of West Point is sent to Vietnam, where the men don't respect him until he gets wounded and returns to be a wiser soldier and a better commander

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...

Actors : Shafi Inamdar, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Sean Astin, 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 : Teimuraz Chirgadze, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Ivane Sakvarelidze, Ramaz Giorgobiani,
Directors : Eldar Shengelaia,

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

Actors : James Mason, Dorothy Tutin, Edward Fox, John Gielgud,
Directors : Alan Bridges,

While Europe stands on the brink of a World War in Autumn 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby hosts a weekend of shooting on his estate for European aristocrats.

Actors : Om Prakash, Amrita Singh, Anil Kapoor, Amjad Khan,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Charandas lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in India along with his older brother, Bhajandas, and Bhabhi. He is unemployed and commits himself to be a wrestler with Ustad Mastram ...

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 : Gigi Suk Yee Wong, Cherie Chung, Danny Bak-Keung Chan, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Mabel Cheung,

Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Lambert Wilson, Brooke Shields, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.