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 St. Elmo's Fire That Was Then... This Is Now Witness

1986 Blood & Orchids (TV) Children of a Lesser God Heartburn 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 Ariel Ashik Kerib The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank Bright Lights, Big City Celia Cinema Paradiso Clean and Sober 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

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