Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Sophie Marceau, Valérie Lagrange, Jacques Dutronc, 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 : Julian Glover, Fiona, Rupert Everett, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.

Actors : Flora Carabella, Johnny Dorelli, Rodolfo Bigotti, Philippe Leroy,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad ...

Actors : Jack Hallett, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicholas Love,
Directors : Matthew Chapman,

Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ...

Actors : Zarko Lausevic, Mira Furlan, Slavko Stimac, Sonja Savic,
Directors : Zdravko Sotra,

This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, "...

Actors : Powers Boothe, Donald Pleasence, Rutger Hauer, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.

Actors : Bertice Reading, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Beineix,

He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they?

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Harley Cross, Elisabeth Harnois, Max Gail,
Directors : Bruce Malmuth,

Two children are kidnapped and held for ransom by a madman. Soon, however, the children's father begins to suspect that their mother may possibly have had something to do with the crime.

Actors : Qingfu Pan, Hangcheng Dong, Mark Salzman, Xihong Jiang,
Directors : Shirley Sun,

Mark Salzman always was interested in Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture, claims to have seen every Kung-Fu movie. 1982, with a degree in Chinese literature, he visits a province university in...

Actors : Julian Sands, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Grave robbers supply a doctor with bodies to test on.

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Dennehy, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ...

Actors : Cynthia Dale, David Naughton, Christopher Plummer, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat."

Actors : Stellan Skarsgård, Károly Eperjes, Miklós B. Székely, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Kjell Grede,

Swedish national Raoul Wallenberg, newcomer to politics and international machinations, travels to German-occupied Budapest during WWII in order to effectively intervene in the fate of ...

Actors : Ellen Roberto, Ian Roberto, Paolo Roberto, Vincenzo Roberto,
Directors : Staffan Hildebrand,

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Actors : Robin Renucci, Philippe Noiret, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Chaumette,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Roland Wolf wants to write a book about a TV game-show host, the hail-fellow-well-met Christian Legagneur, who invites Wolf to his country estate, promising several days of lengthy ...

Actors : Hsiu-Ling Lin, Mei-Feng, Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Actors : Josef Sommer, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

A case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel.