Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : Norman Burton, Shô Kosugi, James Booth, Donna Kei Benz,
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 : Patti LuPone, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his ...

Actors : Sam McMurray, Terry Walsh, Debbie Harry, Dennis Lipscomb,
Directors : Marcus Reichert,

A man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.

Actors : Mehmet Akan, Yasar Alptekin, Müjde Ar, Ayse Demirel,
Directors : Halit Refig,

7 yo Umur falls in love with his much older aunt in the midst of political upheaval and dysfunctions of his family.

Actors : Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé, Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara,

In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.

Actors : Otto Brandenburg, Susanne Heinrich, Alex Svanbjerg, Peter Schrøder,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As...

Actors : Vijayakumar, Prabhu, Amala Akkineni, Karthik,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Entrusted with the task of chairing an inquiry commission involving an influential politician, alcoholic Vishwanath must attempt to deal with issues that he has with in personal life. ...

Actors : Henrik Pauer, Anikó Iván, Péter Gálfy, István Znamenák,
Directors : Péter Gothár,

In Hungary in the 1960s, a single mother must raise her children by herself.

Actors : Yi Pan-Yong, Sin Won-Sop, Hae-Jin Huang, Su-Myong Ko,
Directors : Yong-Kyun Bae,

About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.

Actors : Orson Welles, Ray Laska, Bob Ruggiero, Philip L. Clarke,
Directors : Robert Guenette,

Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician ...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Sam Neill, Derek Jacobi, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

A CIA agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.

Actors : Alan Rosenberg, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Lottie Mason is a police vice cop who has just the right looks to be a decoy for the whore-mungers on the streets of Los Angeles. She seems to always be where the action is whether it be ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen, Donald Moffat, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

Actors : Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau, Vincent Gardère, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.

Actors : Yehia El-Fakharany, Gamil Ratib, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Noura,
Directors : Ali Abdel-Khalek,

As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.

Actors : Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

A film-maker who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress decides to leave his wife. Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity.

Actors : Nurinisa Yildirim, Yesim Tozan, Münir Özkul, Gülsen Tuncer,
Directors : Reha Erdem,

Story of a little girl with pigeon and her grand dad, missing her mother.

Actors : Nonna Mordyukova, Ivan Bortnik, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.