Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Doo Hee Jang, Ho Kon Kim, Eddy Ko,
Directors : John Woo,

The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves ...

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...

Actors : Sreenivasan, Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Parvathi, K.P.A.C. Lalitha,
Directors : Sreenivasan,

A man with a serious case of inferiority complex is married to a beautiful girl. Soon, his love and care turns into suspicion.

Actors : Deepti Naval, Farooq Shaikh, Naseeruddin Shah, Jalal Agha,
Directors : Sai Paranjape,

Rajaram P. Joshi (Naseeruddin Shah) is a middle-class Clerk living in a chawl in Bombay. He is secretly in love with his neighbor, Sandhya Karnik (Deepti Naval) but is unable to disclose ...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Claude Berri,

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who ...

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Esko Nikkari, Matti Pellonpää,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Sahi, Irrfan Khan,
Directors : Tapan Sinha,

After years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and overnight, an ...

Actors : Gianni Cavina, Carlo Delle Piane, George Eastman, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

A group of former friends meets again after a very long time, in a Christmas night, with the intent of ripping off a rich industrialist in a game of Poker. Old hatreds and mistrusts conflict with the nostalgia for the lost friendships.

Actors : Éva Darlan, Jacques Perrin, Alain Delon, Fiona Gélin,
Directors : José Pinheiro,

Actors : Janet McTeer, Anthony Edwards, Camille Coduri, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.

Actors : Leos Carax, Julie Delpy, Freddy Buache, Woody Allen,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl. That is, everything but art. Most of the great works are lost, and it is up to people like William Shakespear Junior the Fifth to restore the ...

Actors : Asha Parekh, Amjad Khan, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Tinnu Anand,

A simple man is forced to join the criminal world.

Actors : Nick Tate, Edward Fox, Timothy Bottoms, George Takei,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Michael Fields,

Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.

Actors : Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

An alcoholic man wants to return the money he has borrowed.

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Raju Shrestha, Padmini Kolhapure, Naseeruddin Shah,
Directors : Bapu,

Maya, coming from poor family, is married to the affluent Dr. Anand; but she tries to commit suicide on the nuptial night. She tells Anand that she was in love with Prem whose ambition was ...

Actors : Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Princess Shizu's family is wiped out by an family of undead seeking revenge. The eight samurai can save her, but who and where are they?

Actors : Michael Pas, Geert Hunaerts, Gene Bervoets, Josse De Pauw,
Directors : Dominique Deruddere,

Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing ...

Actors : Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Jonathan Sagall, Dvora Kedar,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

Three young Israeli men join the army, and it soon turns out that they're more interested in chasing skirts than following orders.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jean-François Balmer, François Cluzet, Jane Seymour,

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the ...