Best Drama movies of 1980s

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

Actors : Laura del Sol, Juan Antonio Jiménez, Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he...

Actors : Christos Kalavrouzos, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Anna Matzourani,
Directors : Thodoros Maragos,

In a small Greek village, short time after the collapse of the Junta regime, a memorial of those who died in the German occupation of Greece brings in the surface the political differences of a conservative teacher and his two sons.

Actors : Carlo Giuffrè, Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, 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 : Richard Linklater, Linda Finney, James Goodwin, Dan Kratochvil,
Directors : Richard Linklater,

A nameless young character goes into travels to the country, meeting some acquaintances and strangers as well, having banal conversations, dedicating his existence into daily mundane ...

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 : 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 : Ross O'Donovan, Margo Lee, Jo Kennedy, Max Cullen,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Liv Ullmann, Alan Scarfe, Peter Donat,
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 : Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.

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 ...

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 : Eitan Anshel, Batya Barak, Sharon Hacohen, Uri Kabiri,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

The movie is a romantic comedy which takes place in Israel during the Austerity period of the 1950s. The movie's hero is Alex, a 13 year old boy who is about to attend his Bar Mitzvah. Alex...

Actors : Loes Luca, Peter Tuinman, Renée Soutendijk, Johan Leysen,
Directors : Ben Verbong,

The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

Actors : John McLiam, Jeff Fahey, Gene Hackman, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : David Drury,

When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Alan Bates, Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with ...