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Best Drama Movies of the 1980s
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
PGDrama, Romance2h35A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Not RatedAnimation, Drama, War1h29A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
RCrime, Drama3h49A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
The Shining (1980)
RDrama, Horror2h26A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Amadeus (1984)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h40The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Das Boot (1981)
RAdventure, Drama, Thriller2h29The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
RDrama, War1h56A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Scarface (1983)
RCrime, Drama2h50In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Raging Bull (1980)
RBiography, Drama, Sport2h09The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Ran (1985)
RAction, Drama, War2h42In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
PGComedy, Drama2h08Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
RDrama3h08Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls.
Paris, Texas (1984)
RDrama2h25Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
RDrama, Fantasy, Music1h35A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Platoon (1986)
RDrama, War2h00Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Stand by Me (1986)
RAdventure, Drama1h29After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
The Elephant Man (1980)
PGBiography, Drama2h04A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Castle in the Sky (1986)
PGAnimation, Adventure, Drama2h05A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Do the Right Thing (1989)
RComedy, Drama2h00On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Gandhi (1982)
PGBiography, Drama, History3h11The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Rain Man (1988)
RDrama2h13Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13Drama, Fantasy, Romance2h08An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
Brazil (1985)
RDrama, Sci-Fi2h12A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
PG-13Comedy, Drama1h44An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
PG-13Comedy, Drama1h47Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
My Left Foot (1989)
RBiography, Drama1h43Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
The Untouchables (1987)
RCrime, Drama, Thriller1h59During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.
Glory (1989)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h02Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
GAnimation, Adventure, Drama1h43A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Mississippi Burning (1988)
RCrime, Drama, History2h08Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
The Breakfast Club (1985)
RComedy, Drama1h37Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
The Color Purple (1985)
PG-13Drama2h34A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
The Killing Fields (1984)
RBiography, Drama, History2h21A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
The King of Comedy (1982)
PGComedy, Crime, Drama1h49Rupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.
The Right Stuff (1983)
PGAdventure, Biography, Drama3h13The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
After Hours (1985)
RComedy, Crime, Drama1h37An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho who he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Blue Velvet (1986)
RDrama, Mystery, Thriller2h00The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Empire of the Sun (1987)
PGAction, Drama, History2h33A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
Ordinary People (1980)
RDrama2h04The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
The Last Emperor (1987)
PG-13Biography, Drama, History2h43The story of the final Emperor of China.