Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 ...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Victoria Abril, Concha Velasco, Ana Belén,
Directors : Mario Camus,

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Gaye Brown, Christopher Cazenove,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Burt Young, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

The history of a Sicilian family who emigrated to America years ago and now lives in California cultivating vine. The problems start when they have to confront themselves with a powerful ...

Actors : Hédi Temessy, György Cserhalmi, Maria Gladkowska, Zita Perczel,
Directors : Ferenc András,

Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself.

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 : Marc Singer, R.H. Thomson, Shari Belafonte, Sarah Torgov,
Directors : Eric Till,

A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.

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 : Jason Miller, Fernando Rey, Geneviève Bujold, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Frank Perry,

An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.

Actors : Robin Renucci, Stéphane Freiss, Valeria Golino, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Axel Corti,

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

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.