Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Tamara Taxman, Fernanda Montenegro, José Dumont, Marcelia Cartaxo,
Directors : Suzana Amaral,

Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens...

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Shûichi Ikeda,

After managing to survive attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits battle Zeon forces (Ramba Ral, Ma Kube, Tri-Stars, ...

Actors : Reb Brown, John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself...

Actors : Richard Ng, Michelle Yeoh, Lowell Lo, Tung-Shing Yee,
Directors : David Chung,

Action film about Chinese resistance after Japanese invasion in 1930's

Actors : Mirja Oksanen, Kari Väänänen, Martti Syrjä, Leena Harjupatana,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland. His new target is Maria. Rosso arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and comes in hers apartment. After seeing that ...

Actors : Lino Ventura, Jean Carmet, Evelyne Bouix, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Robert Hossein,

The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

Actors : Farooq Shaikh, Rekha, Bindu, Asrani,
Directors : J.K. Bihari,

With a bull-whip and the lash of her tongue, Mrs Bhandari rules her household through intimidation and fear. She treats her husband and eldest son, Suraj, as imbeciles and her adopted ...

Actors : Vera Alentova, Sergey Nikonenko, Irina Cherichenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Kamal Haasan, Nadira,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Raja, a fisherman is secretly in love with Mona. When wealthy Ravi comes to live with his grandmother, Kamladevi, he sees Mona and falls in love with her. Mona also reciprocates his love. ...

Actors : Tania Boscoli, Catalina Bonakie, Antonio Ameijeiras, André Barros,
Directors : Éric Rochat,

A Brazilian snake hunter, trying to make enough money to marry the woman he loves, finds four mysterious chimpanzees. He embarks upon a journey to sell them in the big city, and learns alot...

Actors : Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

Vijay Varma (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Kapoor (Shatrughan Sinha) are two close childhood friends. When they thought they have matured enough they decides to enter law policy: one as a ...

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yô Inoue, Shûichi Ikeda,

Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle ...

Actors : Laurence Côte, Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Fejria Deliba,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.

Actors : Tim Elliott, Bruno Lawrence, Anzac Wallace, Kelly Johnson,
Directors : Geoff Murphy,

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal ...

Actors : Mikael Helmuth, Rikke Bendsen, Ghita Nørby, Frits Helmuth,
Directors : Kaspar Rostrup,

Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Karl Åge is quiet, detached; Regitze is spirited, lively. He thinks back: love at first sight ...

Actors : Dennis Lipscomb, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eric Stoltz, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Bill Condon,

Two sisters turn their family mansion in Louisiana into a guest house. One of their guests is an aide to a congressman, and turns their lives inside out.

Actors : Joseph Gian, Sasha Mitchell, Fred Dryer, Brian Keith,
Directors : Terry Leonard,

Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge ...

Actors : Madison Arnold, Teri Garr, John Lithgow, Laura Alcalde,
Directors : Malcolm Mowbray,

Sunny is married to the butcher Ernie; their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs. Thus Sunny hires Lester Atlas as private investigator in order to collect proofs for the ...

Actors : Jánosné Bráda, Róbert Koltai, Kyri Ambrus, Judit Pogány,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

Actors : Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik,
Directors : Piotr Szulkin,

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People ...