Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Iftekhar, Beena Banerjee, A.K. Hangal, Rajan Haksar,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle.

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Tony Bill,

A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less ...

Actors : Richard Briers, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Barbara Ferris,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening behind the scenes...

Actors : Stéphane Excoffier, John Kraaykamp, Josse De Pauw, Jim van der Woude,
Directors : Jos Stelling,

A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.

Actors : Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Alan Devlin, Stephen Rea,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So ...

Actors : David Chiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Tien Niu, Danny Lee,

A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to take his place. One of them is the traitor.

Actors : John Heard, Elliott Gould, Whoopi Goldberg, Severn Darden,
Directors : Rip Torn,

A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.

Actors : Hanna Bieniuszewicz, Krzysztof Kolberger, Bo F. Munthe, Curt Broberg,
Directors : Mats Helge Olsson,

Swedish scientist named Karl Markov is taken hostage by the KGB. After his daughter Nadia is also kidnapped and brought deep into the heart of Russia, a group of highly trained ninjas, led ...

Actors : Elena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, Irina Rozanova, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva,
Directors : Pyotr Todorovskiy,

A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.

Actors : Lloyd Bochner, Pia Zadora, Joseph Cali, Bibi Besch,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

A young aspiring screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of achieving success in Hollywood. She goes through affair after sordid affair in her attempt to write her own screenplay and have it produced.

Actors : Ram Gopal Bajaj, Shabana Azmi, Arun Bakshi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Tinnu Anand,

A newspaper reporter exploits an ordinary man for few rupees to pose as a man who is fighting against the corrupt politicians and prints imaginary stories in his name to improve the ...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. The tables turn when the family turns out to be even more criminally ...

Actors : Mammootty, Suchitra, Mohanlal, M.G. Soman,

Enroute Madras via train, when three friends get falsely accused of a mysterious homicide, they escape and desperately search for the real killer.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Jean Stapleton,
Directors : Glenn Jordan,

A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer ...

Actors : Claudio Amendola, Michele Placido, Francesco Benigno, Alessandra Di Sanzo,
Directors : Marco Risi,

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and ...

Actors : Marko Todorovic, Nebojsa Bakocevic, Relja Basic, Gala Videnovic,
Directors : Jovan Acin,

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Ali Erkazan, Orhan Çagman, Serap Aksoy,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a ...

Actors : Juhi Chawla, Aamir Khan, Gulshan Grover, Dalip Tahil,
Directors : Babbar Subhash,

Amit, the son of a taxi driver, and Reema, a rich business man's daughter, fall in love. However Reema's father wants to marry her to Vicky, who's father is the biggest gangster in Mumbai. How will their love triumph?

Actors : Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Dominique Labourier,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human ...

Actors : Alicia Hermida, Victoria Abril, Agustín González, Amparo Soler Leal,
Directors : Jaime Chávarri,

The story of a boy and his family during the Spanish Civil War.