Best movies of 1986

Titles indexed: 109

Aliens

Rating: 8.0

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hype...

Top Gun

Rating: 7.1

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for ...

Stand by Me

Rating: 7.8

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, ...

Killer Party

Rating: 5.0

Three sorority pledges are tasked with ensuring that the gals of Sigma Alpha Pi throw a killer party at an abandoned fraternity house. Unfor...

Singhasan

Rating: 5.0

Maharaja Sharminder Bhupathi of Avanti and his wife, the Rajmata, would like to see peace in the region, and would like their daughter, Alak...

Platoon

Rating: 7.7

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man....

Highlander

Rating: 6.9

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His...

King Kong Lives

Rating: 5.1

After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial hear...

Mr. Boogedy

Rating: 6.3

A novelty-salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family s...

Thrashin'

Rating: 6.2

Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in ge...

The Fly

Rating: 7.4

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to ...

Solarbabies

Rating: 5.3

In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanag...

Labyrinth

Rating: 7.3

Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby...

Gung Ho

Rating: 6.0

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of...

Momo

Rating: 7.0

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But ...

Half Moon Street

Rating: 5.0

Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, sh...

Vamp

Rating: 5.8

Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires....

Blue Velvet

Rating: 7.6

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub sin...

Stagecoach

Rating: 5.3

Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken he...

Lucas

Rating: 6.7

A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother fi...

Cobra

Rating: 6.1

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans....

Crocodile Dundee

Rating: 6.4

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultu...

Deadly Friend

Rating: 6.1

When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technol...

The Mission

Rating: 7.4

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slav...

Wildcats

Rating: 6.3

High school track coach Molly McGrath knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becom...

The Hitcher

Rating: 7.0

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, p...

Tai-Pan

Rating: 5.1

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabite...

Let's Get Harry

Rating: 6.2

Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take...

Malcolm

Rating: 6.5

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released...

Chopping Mall

Rating: 5.8

High-tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mechanical "night watchmen" for the Park Pla...

The Fugitives

Rating: 6.8

Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-...

Running Scared

Rating: 6.0

Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed...

At Close Range

Rating: 6.8

Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the he...

They Were Eleven

Rating: 6.4

A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when th...

SpaceCamp

Rating: 5.9

Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zac...

Ankush

Rating: 6.8

Four unemployed young men befriend their new neighbors, but soon tragedy strikes and everything is shattered....

The Lone Runner

Rating: 4.6

The Summerking's daughter has been kidnapped, and the legendary hero of the desert comes to her rescue as he did when she was young. The Lon...

Janbaaz

Rating: 5.2

Rana Vikram Singh has two sons, police officer Rajesh and fun-loving playboy Amar. Rajesh has gone through a traumatic experience of losing ...

The Wind

Rating: 5.1

Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon he...

News at Eleven

Rating: 7.0

When television news director Eric Ross pressures esteemed senior anchor Frank Kenley to sensationalize the news, Kenley isn't pleased -- an...

The Whoopee Boys

Rating: 5.1

Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sneak into the wealthy high society of Pal...

Poor

Rating: 6.8

Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from ...

Peep Show

Rating: 4.5

A distinguished surgeon, married to a beautiful woman, has the habit of watching his wife in secret. The man decides to grant his wife to th...

Swati Muthyam

Rating: 6.6

After an autistic man impulsively marries a young widow, she must move to the city and ensure the welfare of her new family, against the gla...

Roller Blade

Rating: 3.4

In a futuristic society, rebels fighting against a fascist state are aided by a group of roller-skating nuns called the Bod Sisters....

The Devastator

Rating: 4.4

This war's in your own backyard. Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter reassembles his Combat Strike ...

Margo the Mouse

Rating: 8.0

Compilation of several episodes of the original animated TV series 'Przygody Myszki', Margo is a little mouse that lives quietly in a tree. ...

Acceptable Risks

Rating: 4.2

The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscien...

Flags and Waves

Rating: 5.4

This film test is a demonstration of Pixar's early attempts to research, analyze and recreate qualities of motion, shading and lighting that...

Mera Dharam

Rating: 9.0

Thakur and Sehgal get into a fight that leads to Sehgal's death and creates a rivalry between the two clans. Years later, Jai and Durga, eac...

Anjuman

Rating: 0.0

A young woman leads impoverished chikan embroidery workers in Lucknow in a strike against the greedy wholesalers who exploit them....

Bandera negra

Rating: 4.2

Begoña, a waitress at an elegant club in Bilbao, manages to get shipowner Javier Uriarte to hire her father, Patxi Barrenechea, as captain o...

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