Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Jaya Prada, Mithun Chakraborty, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Gangaa Jamunaa and Saraswathi the most pious rivers, create a unique holy merger, popularly known as "Sangam". Likewise the characters of our story Gangaa Jamunaa and Saraswathi desire to ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Eddy Mitchell, Flora Barillaro, Agnès Soral,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Michel is a bored lonely cheap-thrills-seeker. Everything changes when he finds an unusual bobble head doll in the shape of a pretty woman that can say "I love you" and falls in love with it to the point of obsession.

Actors : Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Ken Ogata, Masao Kusakari,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.

Actors : Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Steven Vidler, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Ken Cameron,

In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.

Actors : Natalya Shchukina, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Marina Neyolova, Dmitriy Maryanov,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Sophie Marceau, Hippolyte Girardot, Betsy Blair,
Directors : Francis Girod,

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future. But since Alan doesn't ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Jason Miller,

It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal ...

Actors : Nobutaka Asahara, Makiko Shibata, Mariko Kaga, Takahiro Tamura,
Directors : Kôhei Oguri,

In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty.

Actors : Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Carlos Tristancho, Antonio Valero,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

First part of the history of "El Lute", a delinquent who became notorious in Spain for his jail escapes in the 60's, converting himself in a popular legend.

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.

Actors : Sherri Vernon, Dixie Lauren, Sally Alice Gamble, Georgia Morgan,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

A group of women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they fail to sell the jewelry and are forced to ...

Actors : Piotr Fronczewski, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Teresa Marczewska, Janusz Gajos,
Directors : Wojciech Marczewski,

During the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly come alive and begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre.

Actors : Diana Dors, Vanessa Redgrave, Patti Love, Sarah Miles,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Three female frequenters of a steam room decide to fight its closure.

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Charles Durning, Kelly Preston, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Peter Douglas,

A young man falls for his girlfriend's mother.

Actors : Sarah Boyd, Alyssa Milano, Rainbow Harvest, 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 : Thomas Algren, Simone Bendix, Susse Wold, Allan Olsen,
Directors : Edward Fleming,

For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is grateful for his friendship even though he is considered the court jester. When Tore falls in ...

Actors : Yumiko Fujita, Yûya Uchida, Mie, Reiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

Actors : Valentin Teodosiu, Serban Ionescu, Ioana Craciunescu, Petrica Gheorghiu,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

Set in the 1910's Transylvanian countryside, a poor but industrious peasant must choose between his obsessive lust for riches and his desire for true love.

Actors : Devon Anders, Chris Shearer, Dave Alvin, Chris D.,

Three musicians take money that is owed to them from a job and flee to Mexico.