Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Geneviève Fontanel, Nathalie Baye, Alain Delon,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance.

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.

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 : Renato Moretti, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical differences.

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 : Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer, Désirée Nosbusch,
Directors : Eckhart Schmidt,

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later...

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 : Mary McDonnell, Lee Richardson, Patrick Swayze, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Amin Q. Chaudhri,

Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness

Actors : Maria Romano, Laura Gemser, Ursula Flores, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and ...

Actors : Lou Doillon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mathieu Demy, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

Mary-Jane asks, "Do all women fall in love with a boy, or just those without sons?" She's divorced with two daughters, Lucy and Loulou. Lucy has a party where Mary-Jane notices Julien, 14, ...

Actors : Berj Fazlian, Sirvart Fazlian, Patrick Tierney, Arsinée Khanjian,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a...

Actors : Fernanda Montenegro, Bete Mendes, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Carlos Alberto Riccelli,
Directors : Leon Hirszman,

Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Pam Grier, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. ...

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 : Morgan Freeman, Sissy Spacek, Keith Szarabajka, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A woman is determined to reveal the truth about an insidious political corruption. In doing so she risks her safety, career and reputation but will not stop asking questions until the truth is known.