List of drama films of the 1980s

• 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 • Witness for the Prosecution • 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 ==References==