Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Vadim Lobanov, Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Irina Rakshina,
Directors : Konstantin Lopushanskiy,

In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum ...

Actors : Dennis Lipscomb, Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Bill Condon,

Two sisters turn their family mansion in Louisiana into a guest house. One of their guests is an aide to a congressman, and turns their lives inside out.

Actors : François Périer, Pierre Mondy, Anne Parillaud, Alain Delon,

Jacques Darnay (A. Delon) is caught and convicted for stealing diamonds and murder of jeweler. Although he was not guilty, the prison has served eight years. At that time, the jewels are ...

Actors : Zeenat Aman, Shatrughan Sinha, Prem Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

Vijay Varma (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Kapoor (Shatrughan Sinha) are two close childhood friends. When they thought they have matured enough they decides to enter law policy: one as a ...

Actors : Vera Alentova, Sergey Nikonenko, Irina Cherichenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the ...

Actors : Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Soumitra Chatterjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

In this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa for tourist dollars, his warnings to the falls for deaf ears.

Actors : Joseph Gian, Sasha Mitchell, Fred Dryer, Brian Keith,
Directors : Terry Leonard,

Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge ...

Actors : Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.

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

Actors : Jerzy Stuhr, Mariusz Dmochowski, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik,
Directors : Piotr Szulkin,

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People ...

Actors : Tim Elliott, Bruno Lawrence, Anzac Wallace, Kelly Johnson,
Directors : Geoff Murphy,

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal ...

Actors : Marina Vlady, Paolo Panelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets...

Actors : Fernanda Montenegro, Tamara Taxman, José Dumont, Marcelia Cartaxo,
Directors : Suzana Amaral,

Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens...

Actors : Richard Ng, Michelle Yeoh, Lowell Lo, Tung-Shing Yee,
Directors : David Chung,

Action film about Chinese resistance after Japanese invasion in 1930's

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Nadira, Kamal Haasan,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Raja, a fisherman is secretly in love with Mona. When wealthy Ravi comes to live with his grandmother, Kamladevi, he sees Mona and falls in love with her. Mona also reciprocates his love. ...

Actors : Tania Boscoli, Catalina Bonakie, Antonio Ameijeiras, André Barros,
Directors : Éric Rochat,

A Brazilian snake hunter, trying to make enough money to marry the woman he loves, finds four mysterious chimpanzees. He embarks upon a journey to sell them in the big city, and learns alot...

Actors : Mirja Oksanen, Kari Väänänen, Martti Syrjä, Leena Harjupatana,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland. His new target is Maria. Rosso arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and comes in hers apartment. After seeing that ...

Actors : Richard Romanus, David Proval, Jesse Welles, Tina Romanus,
Directors : Ralph Bakshi,

An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.

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 ...