Best Drama movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite, Neide Ribeiro, Maria Stella Splendore,
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 : 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 : 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 : Mohnish Bahl, Puneet Issar, Arti Gupta, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,

After a rich young girl has suddenly known about a demon and it's terrible curse brought by her family for generations, she decides to go to her paternal village with her lover and his friend to find out the truth.

Actors : Mustafa Nadarevic, Ena Begovic, Tonko Lonza, Bernarda Oman,
Directors : Antun Vrdoljak,

Glembays of Zagreb are the rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, rebellious son of family patriarch, is disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family.

Actors : Sverre Anker Ousdal, Eva von Hanno, Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz,
Directors : Jan Troell,

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two ...

Actors : Grant Heslov, Loryn Locklin, Matt Lattanzi, Billy Morrissette,
Directors : Stephen Sommers,

A hotshot car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school facing closure.

Actors : Lino Troisi, Lino Ventura, Arnoldo Foà, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Giuseppe Ferrara,

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo...

Actors : Halil Demirler, Damla Coskunoglu, Müjde Ar, Savas Basar,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

The revenge of a cheated girl.

Actors : Alexandra Johnes, Kaiulani Lee, Glynis Johns, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Tina Rathborne,

A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor (David Lynch's first ...

Actors : Keith Carradine, Bill Duke, Andréa Ferréol, Valentina Vargas,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, reclaims his forgotten past after viewing a music video and seeks revenge against the mobster who maimed him.

Actors : Peter Fonda, James Woods, Karen Allen, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Young man is sucked into an unnamed religious cult by beautiful girl and gets increasingly under the mind control of the cult leader. After his parents fail in their efforts to talk him out...

Actors : María Sorté, Cantinflas, Ursula Prats, Luz Elena Silva,
Directors : Miguel M. Delgado,

A humble street sweeper is the sole witness of a crime committed by art thieves.

Actors : Ina Cissé, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Assane Ouedraogo,
Directors : Idrissa Ouedraogo,

Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken ...

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

A chain of events changes Raja's life - from black marketer to journalist to an underworld Don and a Racketeer in order to combat Vardhan.

Actors : Ritchie Singer, Celine O'Leary, Steven Vidler, Vincent Gil,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking ...