Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Daniel Ceccaldi, Anémone, Miranda Richardson, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Fernando Trueba,

American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.

Actors : Oleg Tabakov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Roman Balayan,

On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a man realizes nothing he has achieved in his life has amounted to very much.

Actors : Tarcísio Meira, Íris Bruzzi, Xuxa, Vera Fischer,
Directors : Walter Hugo Khouri,

Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important...

Actors : Angelo Evans, Ruthie Evans, Tony Evans, Michael Evans,
Directors : Robert Duvall,

Step in to the world of gypsy life come meet Angelo and his family See the gypsy court system A gypsy wedding where boy family pay for the his wife Come see the gypsy lifestyle how they live How they love family

Actors : Aurore Prieto, Hélène Alexandridis, Clémence Massart-Weit, Catherine Mouchet,
Directors : Alain Cavalier,

The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the ...

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Christiane Jean, Francis Huster, Tchéky Karyo,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

After the successful bank robbery Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him by the brothers Venin. On the way to Paris he meets one Leon, a neurotic and ...

Actors : Ralph Cotterill, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Steve Bisley,
Directors : Ian Barry,

An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt, an engineer badly hurt in the accident, knows that the leak will ...

Actors : Gabriel Byrne, Dexter Fletcher, Eric Stoltz, Nicola Cowper,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A young knight sets out to join King Richard's crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's ...

Actors : Henriëtte Tol, Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Cox Habbema,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other ...

Actors : Madhuri Dixit, Kushboo, Aamir Khan, Jainendra,

Anita (Madhuri Dixit) is a model, and Ajay Sharma is a photographer, both work for the same agency. Ajay has fallen in love with Anita, and thinks that she is also in love with him. But ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Jack Lemmon, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.

Actors : Jean Carmet, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he...

Actors : Sylvie Granotier, Julie Jézéquel, Jean Rochefort, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

Michel Mortez is going to and fro France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and ...

Actors : Atsuko Asano, Naomi Zaizen, Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Haruki Kadokawa,

In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside; one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.

Actors : Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Jonathan Sagall, Dvora Kedar,
Directors : Dan Wolman,

Actors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chin Tsai, Su-Yun Ko, I-Chen Ko,
Directors : Edward Yang,

Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business, is never able to shake a longing for his past glory. One day, he runs into a forme...

Actors : Jean-Hugues Anglade, Lisa Kreuzer, Roland Bertin, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative huster/petty criminal that he meets at a train station.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas, Diogo Dória,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ...

Actors : Paul Le Mat, John Edwin Shaw, Ken Wright, Michael Moriarty,
Directors : Lionel Chetwynd,

A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. ...

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Illiers, Arielle Dombasle, Pîtâ,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.