Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : John Scott Clough, Don Franklin, Tamara Mark, Tracy Silver,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they ...

Actors : Monica Broeke, Joan, Catherine, Esther,
Directors : David Hamilton,

In an isolated country house close to the shore near Saint-Tropez, seven young women share a bedroom. Over two days, they wake, shower, breakfast, play dress up, bathe in the sea, picnic, ...

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Kyôko Kishida, Yoshiko Mita, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.

Actors : Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Katja Rupé, Jean-Pierre Beauviala,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, ...

Actors : Javier García, José Luis Manzano, Luis Iriondo, José Manuel Cervino,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Bilbao, 1980. A right-wing Civil Guard Commander discovers that his 17-year-old son Paco, who he hopes to enter Military Academy, is a heroin addict like Urko, Paco's best friend and the ...

Actors : Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Margarita Lozano, Massimo Bonetti,

Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is ...

Actors : Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, George Murdock, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Stephen Gyllenhaal,

During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave ...

Actors : Sakari Rouvinen, Markku Halme, Minna Soisalo, Juhani Niemelä,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A critique of the role of the male in modern Italian society and has demonstrated the possibility of a form of 'female bonding' between women who live, by choice, in a world without men

Actors : Stéphanie Tchou-Cotta, Andrew McCarthy, Barbara De Rossi, Nigel Havers,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

Actors : Ihsan Yüce, Mehmet Ali Erbil, Ilyas Salman, Deniz Akbulut,
Directors : Ümit Efekan,

Ilyas is a poor gate keeper in Istanbul. One day he catches a life time opportunity, being a football player at Fenerbahce Sports Club.

Actors : Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

Actors : Claudia Christian, Peter Berg, Charlie Sheen, Valerie Breiman,
Directors : Adam Rifkin,

Two sisters reunite after not having seen each other for five years. While catching up on each others' lives, they relive childhood experiences, both good and Bad

Actors : Nadezhda Rodnova, Tamara Timofeeva, Pyotr Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Bystryakov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.

Actors : Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Nicole Kidman, Tom Burlinson, Jill Perryman,
Directors : Vincent Monton,

PC Simpson is an enthusiastic surfer. With the help of his father's company's engineer Howard he develops a high tech surf board for the coming world surf championship. But then he falls in...

Actors : Adel Imam, Salah Nazmi, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Nagah El-Mogui,
Directors : Mohamed Khan,

The life of a football player named Fares who goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife, job, sexual desires and football.

Actors : Dorota Pomykala, Andrzej Pieczynski, Jan Nowicki, Leon Niemczyk,
Directors : Sylwester Checinski,

Released from prison after five years, con-artist Szu is sent packing by his young wife; he heads for the town of Lutyn where he runs a con and attracts the interest of Jurek, a young cab ...

Actors : Mark Joseph, Sarsi Emmanuelle, Myra Manibog, Maria Isabel Lopez,
Directors : Elwood Perez,

In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him--one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Carrie Snodgress, Ruth Cox, Ray Milland,

A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and ...

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Gamil Ratib,
Directors : Atef E-Taieb,

A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long.