List of drama films of the 1980s

This is a list of drama films of the 1980s.

1980

• Altered States
• The Blue Lagoon
• Breaker Morant
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• The Elephant Man
• Germany Pale Mother
• The Great Santini
• Honeysuckle Rose
• The Last Metro
• Ordinary People
• Playing for Time
• Raging Bull
• The Resurrection
• Urban Cowboy
• Who's That Singing Over There
• Zigeunerweisen

1981

• Absence of Malice
• Adaptatziya
• Atlantic City
• Die Berührte
• Chariots of Fire
• The Circle of Deceit
• Endless Love
• Lola
• Man of Iron
• Marianne and Juliane
• Masada
• Mephisto
• Mommie Dearest
• On Golden Pond
• Pixote
• Le Pont du Nord
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Prince of the City
• Ragtime
• Skokie
• Smash Palace
• Three Brothers
• Zigeunerweisen

1982

• The Angel
• Another Way
• Boat People
• Fanny and Alexander
• First Blood
• The Grey Fox
• Little Gloria... Happy at Last
• Missing
• Moonlighting
• Napló gyermekeimnek
• The Night of the Shooting Stars
• Przesluchanie
• A Question of Silence
• Sophie's Choice
• That Night in Varennes
• The Verdict
• Veronika Voss
• Wend Kuuni
• The Year of Living Dangerously
• Yol

1983

• 10 to Midnight
• À nos amours
• L'Argent
• The Ballad of Narayama
• Betrayal
• Entre Nous
• Makioka Sisters
• Le Mur
• My Brother's Wedding
• El Norte
• One Deadly Summer
• The Right Stuff
• Scarface
• Sheer Madness
• Silkwood
• Sweet Bunch
• Tender Mercies
• Terms of Endearment
• Testament
• WarGames

1984

• Amadeus
• Annie's Coming Out
• The Element of Crime
• Flügel und Fesseln
• The Home and the World
• The Killing Fields
• Klassenverhältnisse
• Macross: Do You Remember Love?
• Moi Drug Ivan Lapshin
• Once Upon a Time in America
• Paris, Texas
• A Passage to India
• Places in the Heart
• Secret Honor
• A Soldier's Story
• A Sunday in the Country
• Threads
• The Year of the Quiet Sun
• Yellow Earth

1985

• Adiós, Roberto
• The Color Purple
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• The Legend of Suram Fortress
• Man Hunt
• Witness

1986

• Blood & Orchids (TV)
• Children of a Lesser God
• Jean de Florette
• Ménage
• Mona Lisa
• A Promise
• A Room with a View
• Round Midnight
• Salvador
• Shadows in Paradise
• Stand by Me
• Tras el cristal

1987

• 84 Charing Cross Road
• Babette's Feast
• Bagdad Café
• Business as Usual
• Loyalties
• Morning Patrol
• Nayagan

1988

• 1969
• A Dos Aguas
• A sega nakade?
• The Accidental Tourist
• The Accused
• Action Jackson
• Ariel
• Ashik Kerib
• The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
• Celia
• Cinema Paradiso
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Dead Ringers
• Fun Down There
• Grave of the Fireflies
• The Land Before Time
• Mississippi Burning
• Open from 18 to 24
• Pelle the Conqueror
• Rain Man
• Salaam Bombay!
• Story of Women
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1989

• Black Rain
• City of Sadness
• Dead Poets Society
• Do the Right Thing
• Drugstore Cowboy
• Field of Dreams
• Monsieur Hire
• Piravi
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape