Best movies of 1985

Titles indexed: 86

Malibu Express

Rating: 4.8

In this erotic spy tale private eye Cody Abilene teams up with the Contessa Luciana and policewoman Beverly McAfee to infiltrate a mansion a...

Star Quality

Rating: 5.0

Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her...

The Goonies

Rating: 7.5

Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demo...

Rocky IV

Rating: 7.1

Rocky Balboa holds the world heavyweight championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter w...

Stick

Rating: 5.3

After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting k...

Tuff Turf

Rating: 5.8

The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie....

Colonel Redl

Rating: 6.9

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer w...

A View to a Kill

Rating: 6.2

A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by...

The Bride

Rating: 5.3

Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes ...

Commando

Rating: 6.7

John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when hi...

Mask

Rating: 7.2

A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the...

Biohazard

Rating: 3.2

A group of skeptical government officials headed by General Randolph are brought to a remote laboratory for a demonstration in "Psychic Mate...

Big Business

Rating: 2.5

Gösta Eriksson, a hairdresser, buys a car from used-car dealer Bertil Planåker. But Gösta soon discovers that the car is a wreck. Planåker w...

Hellhole

Rating: 4.8

An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnes...

Brazil

Rating: 7.7

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving...

Ladyhawke

Rating: 7.0

Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night ...

A Chorus Line

Rating: 6.2

A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initia...

Enemy Mine

Rating: 6.9

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the en...

Phenomena

Rating: 6.8

A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual c...

Lifeforce

Rating: 6.3

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos....

Cocoon

Rating: 6.6

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor....

Pale Rider

Rating: 7.2

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land....

Vision Quest

Rating: 6.3

After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and...

Heaven Help Us

Rating: 6.3

Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in ...

Blood Simple

Rating: 7.3

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunder...

Re-Animator

Rating: 7.0

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student h...

Godzilla 1985

Rating: 6.8

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new ...

Lost in America

Rating: 6.9

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their ...

Private Resort

Rating: 5.7

Chasing women for the weekend at a luxurious Miami resort, teen buddies Ben and Jack get more than they bargained for after crossing paths w...

Rendez-vous

Rating: 5.6

Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she beco...

Turk 182!

Rating: 5.8

After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a you...

Up Your Anchor

Rating: 5.2

It's hi-jinks on the high seas when Benji, Bobby and Huey set sail on the cruise of a lifetime. While his friends walk the plank of mischiev...

Subway

Rating: 6.5

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just...

Murphy's Romance

Rating: 6.1

Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharm...

Thunder Run

Rating: 4.2

A vicious band of nuclear terrorists is threatening America's atomic weapons research. Truck jockey Charlie Morrison volunteers for a last-d...

Cut and Run

Rating: 5.3

A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are b...

Hail Mary

Rating: 6.3

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways....

Fortress

Rating: 6.8

After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals....

WrestleMania

Rating: 6.6

The first annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event taking place on March 31, 1985, at Madison Square Garden in New York...

The Big Bet

Rating: 4.6

A high school student obsessed with sex tries to seduce both his beautiful older neighbor and the shy new girl in school over a bet, only to...

Cavegirl

Rating: 3.8

On a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him ...

Pray for Death

Rating: 6.0

Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the fam...

Orion's Belt

Rating: 5.7

Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/smugglers/tourist guides Tom, Lars and Sv...

Virgin Forest

Rating: 5.8

A story set in the Philippine Republic in the 1900s where a lass, a Spanish mestizo, and a fisherman are caught up by Macabebe soldiers who ...

Irakal

Rating: 8.3

Mathews, a ruthless rubber baron, is involved in various criminal activities. Baby, Mathews' son, begins to turn violent due to the environm...

Miami Golem

Rating: 4.8

A Miami TV reporter is sent to a local university to do a story on a professor who is cloning a cell from DNA found inside a meteorite. Soon...

Boatman

Rating: 4.2

An erstwhile boatman wants to do a little more than paddle his own canoe in the town famed for its waterfalls. He leaves the village of his ...

Turbo Dragon

Rating: 0.0

A gifted young fighter undergoes some advanced bionic training making him an invincible martial artist; his skills are put to the ultimate t...

Gregorio

Rating: 6.8

Gregorio, a boy from the impoverished countryside of Peru emigrates to Lima, the capital city. Experiencing a cultural shock due to the chao...

Beasts of Prey

Rating: 3.6

A social drama about a man with an inferiority complex to his wife. When he seeks consolation in an extramarital affair, his mistress and wi...

The Bitter Herb

Rating: 6.5

This film is about the Jewish girl Sara and the ruin of her family during World War II. Her parents have to live in the Jewish ghetto in Ams...

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