Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Tim Pigott-Smith, Elizabeth Spriggs,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical ...

Actors : Arliss Howard, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Robert Duvall, Tim Phillips,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

Actors : Miguel Rellán, Alfredo Landa, Manuel Tejada, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, that leads him to the ...

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree, Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Eric Karson,

The commander of an Air Force camp simulates prisoner-of-war conditions for realistic training goes too far, creating all too real torture situations. He preys on the only woman in the experiment.

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Shammi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Notorious criminal Pasha has been imprisoned by the former Inspector General of Police, Shrikant Mathur. To get out of the situation, he writes to his best man, Jackie. Jackie goes to ...

Actors : Linda Denise Martin, Michele Palermo, Rusty Cooper, Jim Fitzpatrick,
Directors : David Klass,

Four friends wrestle with moving out the town they were born and raised in, when they suddenly find themselves out of work because the towns only factory has been shut down.

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Mark Hamill, Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

A small town stud wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes in jeopardy.

Actors : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

Actors : Martin Hewitt, Dennis Christopher, Luis Prendes, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

Three friends encounter a malevolent alien.

Actors : Richard Rebiere, Laura Henry, Cynthia Dale, Walter George Alton,
Directors : Lawrence Dane,

A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.

Actors : Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background...

Actors : Junko Miyashita, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki, Kin'ya Kitaôji,
Directors : Mitsuo Yanagimachi,

The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions ...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Gaye Brown,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Susú Pecoraro, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá, Lito Cruz,
Directors : Fernando E. Solanas,

The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few ...

Actors : Donald Pleasence, George Peppard, Lesley Ann Warren, Ken Wahl,
Directors : David Hemmings,

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from ww-ii. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter,...

Actors : Kumar Gaurav, Poonam Dhillon, Sanjay Dutt, Nutan,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Janki lives a poor middle class life with her two sons Ravi and Vicky while Ravi works for a abusive boss Mr Ghanshyam,Vicky is jobless and always takes law in his hands and dreams of going...

Actors : Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Bogdan Diklic, Predrag Lakovic, Snezana Niksic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Tayfun Coragan, Dilek Damlacik, Perin Aytaç,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Actors : Joe Melia, Michael Elphick, John Standing, Patrick Pearson,
Directors : Michael Blakemore,

The members of SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) fall in and out of love while trying to dodge Malayan Communist bullets in the late 1940s. Not only that, they have to contend ...

Actors : Haydée Padilla, Federico Luppi, Julio De Grazia, Ulises Dumont,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the friend dies, but ...