Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Doug McKeon, John Hurt, Keith McKeon, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

Two men want to escape from East Germany, but they will only go if they can take their families with them.

Actors : Aleksandr Filippenko, Hugues Quester, Anne Gautier, Edward Zentara,
Directors : Peter Fleischmann,

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a ...

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Poiret,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province's notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. The perspective of the inquiry changes when the ...

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Shûichi Ikeda, Maria Kawamura,
Directors : Yoshiyuki Tomino,

Amuro Ray and Char Aznable settle their rivalry once and for all during the Second Neo Zeon War.

Actors : Jack Lemmon, Charles Durning, Zeljko Ivanek, Louise Latham,
Directors : Glenn Jordan,

A popular Connecticut priest shields a seminary rebel from the wrath of a stern monsignor.

Actors : Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Irene Papas, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

In a small village in Latin America, Santiago Nasar is killed in the morning, which surprises nobody. The Vicario brothers were openly declaring they would kill him to regain the lost honor...

Actors : Guillermo Montesinos, Sharon Stone, Ana Torrent, Christopher Rydell,
Directors : Javier Elorrieta,

Juan is a young Spanish man whose dream is to become one of the famous toreros. When he was caught making an illegal (and in fact for the real torero life endangering) night bullfight with ...

Actors : Serene Hedin, James Remar, Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus,
Directors : Kieth Merrill,

An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Malo, Pierre Vernier, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Beaune,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.

Actors : Takis Spiridakis, Dora Masklavanou, Takis Moschos, Despina Tomazani,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to ...

Actors : João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Ruy Furtado, Teresa Calado,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Pankaj Parashar,

Twins separated at infancy are brought up differently. One weak, one strong. One day, they end up at each others house. Their life is not the same anymore.

Actors : Robin Williams, Glenne Headly, David Bickford, Richard B. Shull,
Directors : Fielder Cook,

Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.

Actors : Shôzô Îzuka, Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Toshio Furukawa,

A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.

Actors : Stoyan Gudev, Yordanka Stefanova, Todor Kolev, Itschak Fintzi,
Directors : Nikolai Volev,

This film is a comedy about a poor man, named Poorco. Poorco always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : David Leland,

An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Ichirô Zaitsu, Keiju Kobayashi, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

Actors : Sreenivasan, Nedumudi Venu, Gautami, Mohanlal,
Directors : Sibi Malayil,

A qawwali singer passes as a Brahmin in order to infiltrate a palace and kill the king.

Actors : Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Elena Tasisto, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ...

Actors : Dave Armstrong, Barry Baker, Terry Barry, Reg Bazell,

A young British punk and roadie for The Clash navigates life in socially torn 1970s England.