Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite, Maria Stella Splendore, Neide Ribeiro,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.

Actors : Jennifer Runyon, Joe Pantoliano, Bruce Kirby, Donovan Leitch Jr.,
Directors : Mark Rosenthal,

A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television show he becomes a star. The plot ...

Actors : Saori Yuki, Jûzô Itami, Ichirôta Miyakawa, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Yoshimitsu Morita,

A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the ...

Actors : Dorota Segda, Péter Andorai, Paulus Manker, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Ildikó Enyedi,

Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan, living under the powder-keg Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Separate ...

Actors : Deborah Banks, Louise Smith, Amanda Goodwin, Ellen McElduff,
Directors : Lizzie Borden,

A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch ...

Actors : Tuccio Musumeci, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Gianni Amelio,

Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. He wants a quick trial and an early ...

Actors : Carlo Giuffrè, Ken Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Alexandra King,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Liv Ullmann, Peter Donat, Alan Scarfe,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

A teenage boy living in a Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930's finds himself contemplating life and is haunted by a murder he witnessed in town.

Actors : Miles O'Keeffe, Iris Peynado, Savina Gersak, Elisabeth Kaza,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

The Fighting Eagle returns again, sans Thong, to the legendary realm of Dragor to do battle with Phaedra, an evil sorceress. Her main weapon is an unstoppable warrior, known as the Master ...

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Gabriel Byrne, Angela Goodwin, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Peter Del Monte,

Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably ...

Actors : Frank Langella, Harvey Keitel, David Dukes, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. ...

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Mihalis Giannatos, Eva Kotamanidou, Grigoris Evangelatos,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

Based on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself. Based on a circular ...

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 : Frances Foster, Gary Frank, Ray Parker Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Peter Manoogian,

An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."

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 : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Philippe Khorsand, Gérard Lanvin, Christian Clavier,
Directors : Jean-Marie Poiré,

They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Francis Girod,

Emma Eckhert, from a modest background, became a big sensation between 1914 and 1938 as a banker and the head of a financial paper specialized in public savings.

Actors : Enikõ Eszenyi, Barnabás Tóth, Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány,
Directors : Géza Bereményi,

Actors : Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Paul Winfield, David Caruso,
Directors : Michelle Manning,

Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Ruggero Raimondi, Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by ...