Best Drama movies of 1984

Actors : Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow, Vincent Spano, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Amos Poe,

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.

Actors : Terri Garber, Cleavon Little, Jason Miller, Rodolfo de Anda,
Directors : David Fisher,

While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue mission is sent after them, but they manage to escape and join up with a mercenary fighting the terrorists.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jane Birkin, Isabelle Linnartz,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house, an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blur.

Actors : Paco Hernández, Enrique Goicoechea, José María Asín, Patxi Bisquert,
Directors : Montxo Armendáriz,

The childhood, love adventures, and ordinary life of Tasio, a coal maker in rural Navarre.

Actors : Marília Pêra, Geraldine Smith, Richard Ulacia, Linda Kerridge,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, ...

Actors : Albert Salmi, Rick Springfield, Patti Hansen, Janet Eilber,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Details the efforts of a pop-rock star (James Roberts / Rick Springfield) to win the love of a woman he meets in a car accident. None of the usual gambits work on this woman, who has never ...

Actors : Suzane Carvalho, Gloria Cristal, Rossana Ghessa, Henri Pagnoncelli,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in a Brazilian prison. Whilst there she is brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison ...

Actors : Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Roger Planchon, Jean Poiret,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Actors : Gene Hackman, Rip Torn, Huckleberry Fox, Henry Thomas,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Busy and often absent father must take care of his two boys after his wife dies. They all live in Tunisia because of their father's job. The older boy is handling the difficult changes much better than the younger one.

Actors : Carole Bouquet, Bernard Fresson, Nathalie Baye, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

Actors : Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi, Mario Adorf, Laura Betti,

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her ...

Actors : John Hurt, Mick Dillon, Gregory Jones, Ann Bell,
Directors : John Irvin,

The true story of Bob Champion, a British steeple chase jockey who, in the late 1970s, was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than succumb to the disease, however, Bob stages a miraculous ...

Actors : Sandra Milo, Bonnie Bianco, Pierre Cosso, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Roberto Malenotti,

In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. ...

Actors : Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr, Fiona Kay,
Directors : Vincent Ward,

A lonely girl living on an isolated, mist-cloaked farm is confronted with the changes wrought by a stranger that arrives.

Actors : Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Alyssa Milano, Neill Barry,
Directors : Marisa Silver,

Twelve-year-old, well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite pastimes, like make-up, shop-lifting, ...

Actors : Michel Auclair, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Serrault, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Francis Girod,

In Paris, a women's bag, which contains an embarrassing letter from the french president, is stolen.

Actors : Péter Bocsor, Júlia Mérö, Eszter Gyalog, György Belme,
Directors : András Jeles,

Angyali üdvözlet, aka "The Annunciation", is a surreal account of the history of humanity as portrayed entirely by children between the ages of 8 and 12... See full synopsis »

Actors : Raogopalrao, Vijayshanti, Suhasini, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : Kodanda Rami Reddy A.,

The story of a young un-employed youth, who instead of despairing uses his skills to earn tons of money to show to the world that anything is possible if there is will to do it.

Actors : Noureddine Kasbaoui, Sonia Ichti, Nacer Khemir, Soufiane Makni,
Directors : Nacer Khemir,

A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert.