Drama Movies of 1987
Nuts
High-priced hooker Barbra Streisand has been arrested for the murder of one of her clients. The attorney engaged by Streisand's parents hope to cop an insanity plea so that she can avoid a trial and manslaughter conviction. But ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
The Whales of August
A once-in-a-lifetime cast of veterans performs ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Wall Street
"Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
September
A weekend stay at a Vermont summer house provides glimpses into the lives of six unhappy people, plagued by unrequited ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
A Gathering of Old Men
Gathering of Old Men was based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, who'd previously written The ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
The Room Upstairs
More a series of ragged comic anecdotes than a unified whole, the made-for-TV The Room Upstairs top-bills Stockard ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
The Big Town
The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
A Prayer for the Dying
A man struggling to escape the political unrest of Northern Ireland finds that his violent past still follows him in this drama. ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Long Day's Journey into Night
Previously filmed by director Sidney Lumet in 1962, Eugene O'Neill's gloomy Pulitzer Prize-winning play Long Day's Journey Into Night is given a vibrant videotaped treatment by Jonathan Miller. Set on one hot August day ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Cause Célèbre
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Less Than Zero
This drama about affluent Los Angeles teens is taken from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Clay (Andrew ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Matewan
Independent filmmaker John Sayles creates one of his more artistic works with this period feature about a volatile 1920s labor dispute in the town of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan is a coal town where the local miners' lives are ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Maurice
Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject -- homosexual ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Street Smart
Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) is a newspaper reporter who becomes a celebrity when he writes a fictitious exposé on prostitution. The ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Barfly
Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the surprisingly entertaining Barfly was based. The film ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Someone to Love
Orson Welles made his final screen appearance as, appropriately enough, Orson Welles (or "Danny's Friend") in Henry Jaglom's "emotional vérité" ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Broken Vows
This drama explores the inner turmoil of a parish priest who begins to question his beliefs and his celibacy after he becomes mixed up with the ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Six Against the Rock
The "six" are played by David Carradine, Howard Hesseman, David Morse, Charles Haid, Jan-Michael Vincent and Richard Dysart. ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Miami Vice: Season 04
Season Four of Miami Vice marks the first of several appearances by singer Sheena Easton in the role of recording star ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
And God Created Woman
French director Roger Vadim pillages his own grave in this nominal re-make of his 1956 creamy sensation And God ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Cry Freedom
Richard Attenborough directed this dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods (Kevin ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Alone in the Neon Jungle
Directed by onetime Rookies co-star Georg Stanford Brown, Alone in the Neon Jungle has all the earmarks of a TV pilot film-albeit a better-than-usual example of the genre. Suzanne Pleshette plays a ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
An Emmy-winning adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel by the same name, this is a Canadian TV production which follows the life ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain's attack on racial prejudice in the guise of a mystery tale, was adapted for television in 1984 by Philip ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Daddy
"Daddy" is Dermot Mulroney--a high-school-age kid who has no clue of what he's in ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Empire of the Sun
Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
No Man's Land
Benjy Taylor (D.B. Sweeney) is a rookie cop who goes undercover to nab a gang of car thieves in this routine crime drama. Taylor salivates over the lifestyle and money enjoyed by Ted Varrick (Charlie Sheen), the smooth ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Tiger Warsaw
Chuck "Tiger" Warsaw (Patrick Swayze) returns to the steel town of Sharon, Pennsylvania hoping to be reunited with his estranged family after 15 years. ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Norman Mailer wrote and directed this demented film noir, which takes place in a ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Off Limits
Buck McGriff (Willem Dafoe) and Albaby Perkins (Gregory Hines) are ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Waiting for the Moon
Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who eventually became influential artists and writers. These included the ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
I'll Take Manhattan
This glitzy miniseries based on the Judith Krantz novel is a wicked soap opera about sex, power, and betrayal. Valerie ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Ford: The Man and the Machine
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson). ~ Iotis ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Lemon Sky
Originally written in 1970, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lanford Wilson's play Lemon Sky was brought to television by way of PBS' American Playhouse anthology. Based loosely on Wilson's own experiences, the story ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
21 Jump Street: Season 01
The first action-adventure series from the Fox network, 21 Jump Street inaugurates its first ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Flowers in the Attic
Based on the popular novel by V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity. When their father is killed, teenagers Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Zombie Death House
In this graphically violent exploitation film, an insane colonel tests out his newly invented virus, HV8-B, designed to significantly alter the behavior of convicts serving life sentences. As soon as they are injected, the unwilling subjects ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
La Bamba
Lou Diamond Phillips plays legendary 1950s rocker Ritchie Valens (born Ricardo Valenzuela), in this ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Witness in the War Zone
Tumultuous Beirut provides the setting for this political drama that ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Mayflower Madam
Based on the life of Sydney Biddle Barrows, this TV movie features Barrows (Candice Bergen) as a former debutante seeking to make money with an escort service for wealthy ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Rowing with the Wind
The events that led Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to write her horror masterpiece Frankenstein provide the basis of this haunting, romantic drama. The story opens aboard a beat ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
An Autumn's Tale
Mabel Chueng directs this wildly popular romantic comedy featuring Chow Yun-fat. With two years worth of savings and starry-eyed ambitions of being an actor, ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Lost Empires
This seven-part British miniseries was based on J.B. Priestley's autobiographical novel, ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Babette's Feast
The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Crystal Heart
Christopher Newley (Lee Curreri) is the bubble boy and aspiring songwriter who falls in love with rock star Alley Daniels (Tawny Kitaen) in this maudlin drama. He is visited by both Alley and the oily personal manager and ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Into the Fire
A young drifter is caught in the clutches of a pair of femme fatales (Susan Anspach and Olivia D'Abo) in this thriller also known as Legend of Wolf Lodge. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
North Shore
In this youthful surfing adventure, a hot young ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Sorrell and Son
Previously filmed in 1927 and 1934, Warwick Deeping's novel Sorrel and Son was adapted as a British TV miniseries in 1984. ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Anna
Anna's early scenes concentrate upon Czech refugee Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova), who arrives in New York in ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Border Radio
In this semi-improvised look at life along the edges of L.A.'s rock ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Initiation
Danny Molloy (Rodney Harvey) is a wisecracking kid from Brooklyn who travels to the Australian outback in this light teen comedy. He searches for his long-lost father Nat (Bruno Lawrence) after the death of his mother. Kulu (Bobby Smith) is ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
'68
Set in the late '60s in tumultuous San Francisco, a Hungarian immigrant family struggles to define their individual roles in the rapidly changing world ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Courtship
Horton Foote is the author and his daughter Hallie Foote the star of The Courtship. Set in 1915, ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
The Darkside
A naive taxi driver helps a porno star escape from several pursuing crooks, and ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
The Everlasting Secret Family
"Everlasting Secret Family" is the name of a sub-rosa homosexual brotherhood in this riveting ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Heat and Sunlight
Rob Nilsson both directed and starred in Heat and Sunlight. Nilsson plays a San ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Lensed on a smile and a shoeshine on 16 millimeter, I've Heard the ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
La Mentira
Based on Caridad Bravo Adams' novel, this is the story of a man who ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Lust for Freedom
After watching her partner get murdered, a policewoman packs it in and hits the road. She ends up near the Mexican border, where she is unjustly picked up with several other women and charged with white slavery. She must fight ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Mission Manila
After dropping out of the CIA while in Manila, a man descends into drug addiction. After his recovery, an old flame asks him to help his own brother, who has suffered much the same ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Veronico Cruz
Originally titled La Deuda Interna, the Argentine/British Veronico Cruz is set during the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands. The title character, played by Gonzalos Morales, is ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Wedding in Galilee
Filmed in the Arabic and Hebrew languages, Wedding in Galilee takes place in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. The story is set in motion by a village elder, who intends to give his son a traditional ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Winners Take All
After Billy Robinson (Robert Krantz) finds success as a professional motorcycle racer, he returns to his hometown where he faces adulation and jealousy as a result of his success. When a local motorcycle race is put ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
La Monaca di Monza
Luciano Odorisio's Italian-made exploitation film La Monaca di Monza travels into the deepest and ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Robinson's Garden
A subtle metaphor for the increasing depersonalization of Japanese society caused by the country's ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
The Bretts
This British television miniseries centers around the Brett family, local darlings of London's theater world in the 1920s. Directed by Ronnie Wilson, David Reynolds, Bill Hays, and John Bruce, this ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Inspector Morse: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
This series follows the criminal investigations of the title hero, portrayed by John Thaw. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Inspector Morse: Service of All the Dead
This series follows the criminal investigations of the title hero, ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Sworn to Silence
In this drama, two young attorneys jeopardize their careers by defending a hated accused murderer whom they believe is innocent. Unfortunately, his confidential confession to them indicates otherwise. ~ ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Krotki Film o Zabijaniu
This disturbing and violent feature opens with a scene of a dead rat and a lifeless cat hanging by the neck. As the plot unfolds, Yatzek (Miroslaw Baka) is a 20-year-old drifter who murders a testy taxi driver (Jan Tesarz) in a ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
One of the most acclaimed films in Japanese anime, The Winds of Honneamise tells the story of a group of would-be astronauts on a planet that is not Earth -- but not unlike Earth. ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
The House of Bernarda Alba
In this somber and slow-moving drama, the overbearing mother of six ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
On the Banks of the River Niemen
Based on the novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa, On the Banks of the ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Two of Us
This British made-for-television film was deemed somewhat controversial in its premiere year due its delicate subject matter. The film tells the story of two male classmates who decide to run away together to ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
El Hijo de Pedro Navaja
Based on the song Mack the Knife, the very popular Rubén Blades song Pedro Navajas was the inspiration for a very popular Mexican movie taking the song name as its title, about a pimp and prostitute whose love/hate ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
The Kid Brother
Kenny is a Canadian kid who has a couple of pals and, like a lot of the ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Medea
Shooting entirely on analog video, Lars von Trier directs the ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Damned If You Don't
Informed by director Su Friedrich's fractured relationship with Catholicism, Damned If You Don't concerns a nun who is wrestling mightily with her ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
Devil Angel
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Fields of Fire
Fields of Fire was the first of three Australian miniseries inspired by Robert Donaldson's novel Cane. Todd ... [ Drama movie - 1987 ]
