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
 * Kagemusha
 * 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
 * The Wave
 * Zigeunerweisen

1982

 * The Angel
 * Another Way
 * Boat People
 * Fanny and Alexander
 * First Blood
 * The Grey Fox
 * Macbeth
 * 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
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four
 * Once Upon a Time in America
 * Paris, Texas
 * A Passage to India
 * Places in the Heart
 * The Razor's Edge
 * 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
 * Enemy Mine
 * Kiss of the Spider Woman
 * Ladyhawke
 * The Legend of Suram Fortress
 * Man Hunt
 * Ran
 * Witness

1986

 * Blood & Orchids (TV)
 * Children of a Lesser God
 * Jean de Florette
 * Loyalties
 * 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
 * Full Metal Jacket
 * Morning Patrol
 * Nayakan

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
 * Prancer
 * Sex, Lies, and Videotape