Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : James Coco, Joan Hackett, Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Glenn Jordan,

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ...

Actors : Jacques Penot, Mathilda May, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Christophe Malavoy,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

After separation from his wife Robert moves to Vichy where he observes beautiful Juliette. Her fiance Patrick becomes jealous and attacks Robert. When Patrick disappears Robert is suspected to have killed him.

Actors : Raul Julia, Teri Garr, Griffin O'Neal, Desi Arnaz,
Directors : Caleb Deschanel,

The young and self-confident Danny blufs at the local police-station that he will escape out of prison within one hour. What follows is a flashback about his childhood with his uncle and ...

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 : Jude Alderson, Peter O'Toole, Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.

Actors : Joakim Schröder, Ulrika Örn, Sebastian Håkansson, Niclas Wahlgren,
Directors : Staffan Hildebrand,

Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Orson Welles, Pia Zadora, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.

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 : Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Wojciech Pszoniak, Marzena Trybala,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ...

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 : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Expensive vines, tables filled with food, but emptiness inside. Everyone has stopped developing, and fastened in their roles. Hurtful, but still funny story about human development.

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

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

Actors : Max Wall, Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood,
Directors : Christine Edzard,

Arthur Clennam returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy Dorrit ...

Actors : Janet McTeer, Camille Coduri, Anthony Edwards, 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 : Selim Boughedir, Rabia Ben Abdallah, Mohammed Driss, Mustapha Adouani,
Directors : Férid Boughedir,

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the loving world of Muslim women and the ...

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Philippe Léotard,
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 : Kun-Hsuan Huang, Sylvia Chang, Yun-Fat Chow, Man-Tat Ng,
Directors : Johnnie To,

A father's ex-girlfriend resurfaces after a 10-year absence wanting to take her son away from him. With his world shattered, he must decide between what is best for his son and his own future happiness.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Claude Jade, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Igor Kostolevskiy,

Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Francis Huster, Valérie Kaprisky, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

An unexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short...