Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Richard Panebianco, James Russo, Sari Chang, David Caruso,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic conflict between ethnic gangs.

Actors : Katherine Bean, Grace Phillips, Stephen Lack, Emmanuelle Chaulet,
Directors : Jon Jost,

Anna, a French actress, is approached by financial broker Gordon in the Vermeer room of a New York gallery. However, romance does not ensue...

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this ...

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 : 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 : Amrita Singh, Nirupa Roy, Dara Singh, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

British intelligence comes over to India and loot all its wealth and carry it over to there country. Once they were being challenge by a brave king name Raja Azaad Singh, one day he happen ...

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 : Henry Jaglom, Andrea Marcovicci, Sally Kellerman, Michael Emil,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness.

Actors : Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Knepper, Maury Chaykin, Robert Davi,
Directors : Max Reid,

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Yuri Mgoyan, Konstantin Stepankov,

Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Ray Sharkey, Sissy Spacek, John Heard,
Directors : John Byrum,

The life and friendship between the icons of the Beat Generation - Neal Cassady, Carloyn Cassady and Jack Kerouac.

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Teresa Stratas,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...

Actors : Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

The reviewer above states that 'the entire story is told from the husband's point of view'. This is incorrect - the movie takes an objective point-of-view - the husband is not present in several of the segments.

Actors : Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, Michael Gwisdek, Matthias Freihof,
Directors : Heiner Carow,

A young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.

Actors : Rahul Roy, Tom Alter, Avtar Gill, Anu Agrawal,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Rahul and Anu fall in love with each other, but before they unite, they have their own problems to deal with.

Actors : Lynette Curran, Barry Otto, Gia Carides, Helen Jones,
Directors : Ray Lawrence,

After a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.

Actors : Nikolaus Dutsch, Mickey Rourke, Andréa Ferréol, Helena Bonham Carter,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi

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

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

Actors : Helle Beck Figenschow, Henning Syverud, Håvard Bakke, Tommy Karlsen,
Directors : Eva Isaksen,

A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.

Actors : J.J. Cohen, Jon Polito, Virginia Madsen, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Duncan Gibbins,

A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.