Best drama from the 80s
The catalogue's drama films from 1980–1989, ranked by audience score. We bias against the cinephile-canonical picks (Letterboxd top-250) — if you've already seen the obvious entries, scroll past the first row.
Twin Peaks
Grave of the Fireflies
foreign gembittersweetgut punch
Cinema Paradiso
foreign gembittersweetcozy
Once Upon a Time in America
bittersweetepicslow burn
Dead Poets Society
bittersweettenderuplifting
Tomorrow's Joe The Movie
Come and See
Scarface
gut punchneon soakedpitch black
Full Metal Jacket
paranoidrawslow burn
Paris, Texas
Decalogue I
Anne of Green Gables
Das Boot
Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked
The Elephant Man
bittersweetgut punchslow burn
Amadeus
bittersweettender
Ran
The Man Who Planted Trees
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Heart of a Dog
Where Is The Friend's House?
Raging Bull
body horrorgut punchparanoid
The Plague Dogs
Stand by Me
bittersweettender
His Motorbike, Her Island
Kagemusha
Fanny and Alexander
Nostalgia
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
The King of Comedy