Best Movies of 1985 – page 4

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 8.4
 95K
Come and See (1985)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, atrocity, occupation, anti war, nazi, war, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future
Place: germany, ussr, persia, europe, russia ...
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 7.0
 5K
Sweet Dreams (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country singer who died in a tragic plane crash.
Style: factual, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gothic ...
Plot: biopic, musician's life, showbiz, fame, historical figure, air disaster, family problems, love and romance, country music, rising to stardom, celebrity culture, couples ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1985, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: west virginia, virginia, nashville tennessee
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Style: cult classic, road movie, action adventure, cyber, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, lone hero, dystopia, end of the world, post apocalyptic, desert, mad max, car chase, wasteland, dystopian future, survival, chase ...
Time: future, 20th century, 80s
Place: australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
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Defense of the Realm (1985)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government ...
Style: political thriller, cult classic, noir, political, neo noir ...
Plot: journalism, spy, member of parliament, reporter, political corruption, conspiracy, kgb, journalist, cold war, newspaper, espionage, mole ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, london, europe
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Code of Silence (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style: exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police officer, one man army, revenge, explosions, police, mafia, gangster, chase, hitman, police investigation, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: chicago, usa
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The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Style: parody, colorful, cult classic, spoof, fast ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, mistaken identity, femme fatale, intelligence agency, espionage, undercover, home invasion, mind game, attempted murder, concert, surveillance, cia agent ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: virginia
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 5.4
 17K
American Ninja (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter will little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a ...
Style: cult classic, entertaining, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: ninja, martial arts, chase, assassin, fight scenes, karate, heroes, military, master warrior, violence, amnesia, mortal combat ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: the philippines, asia
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 6.2
 9K
Gotcha! (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron curtain by a sexy spy.
Style: sexy, spoof, sexual, erotic, action comedy ...
Plot: spy, cold war, college, chase, female nudity, espionage, age difference, city, urban, violence, spy spoof, subculture ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: europe, paris france, germany, soviet union, east berlin ...
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Heaven Help Us (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 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 his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Style: humorous, sentimental, sincere, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, coming of age, male nudity, dating, friendship, teenage life, teachers and students, society, youth, rebelliousness, corporal punishment, brat pack ...
Time: 60s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, boston, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The army of the Marauders, led by by King Terak and the witch Charal attack the Ewoks village. The parents and the brother of Cindel all die in this attack. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and in a forrest they meet Teek a naughty and very fast ...
Style: saga, parody, epic, sweet, cute ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: star wars, space and aliens, space exploration, alien, village, intergalactic, space opera, galaxy, space adventure, alien invasion, new world, extraterrestrial ...
Time: 80s
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 6.6
 8K
Agnes of God (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough ...
Style: atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: nun, mental illness, psychiatrist, murder, investigation, clergy, religion, trial, convent, life is a bitch, women, psychiatry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: montreal, quebec, canada
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 6.7
 2K
Dreamchild (1985)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks ...
Style: fairy tale, touching, stylized, serious, period drama ...
Plot: alice in wonderland, writers, flashback, female protagonist, memory, dream, poet, artist, child, past, publisher, fantasy world ...
Time: victorian era, year 1985, 1930s, 1860s, 19th century
Place: new york, usa, england
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A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, erotic, black comedy ...
Plot: death, obsession, amputation, surrealism, grief, car accident, zoologist, bestiality, zoo, death of wife, brother brother relationship, absurdism ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
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 6.3
 14K
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's ...
Style: colorful, mindfuck, epic, uplifting, serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: childhood, robot, artificial intelligence, computer, child, memory loss, cyborgs, youth, family relations, gate, amnesia, forest ...
Time: year 1985
Place: north carolina, south carolina, washington d.c., virginia
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Insignificance (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Four 1950s cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the ...
Style: philosophical, cerebral, realistic, clever, witty ...
Plot: hotel, mccarthyism, satire, baseball, guilt, hotel room, cold war, alternate history, women, art, couples, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1950s, year 1985, 20th century, 50s, year 1954
Place: new york, hiroshima japan
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 5.5
 17K
Once Bitten (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she ...
Style: spoof, light, melancholic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: vampire, halloween, female vampire, aging, transformation, supernatural, virginity, femme fatale, blood, nude painting, virgin, woman seduces a man ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
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The Mean Season (1985)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.
Style: neo noir, retro, spectacular, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, journalism, murder, journalist, newspaper, reporter, killer, corrupt cop, killing, crime investigation, investigative journalism, corrupt ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: usa, miami, florida
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President.
Style: exciting, independent film, cult classic, humorous, fantasy adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, spy, vigilante, kung fu, conspiracy, mentor, espionage, korean war veteran, race against time, hitman, soldier, assassin ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, usa, pentagon, washington d.c., korea
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Style: philosophical, mind bending, mindfuck, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, alone, male nudity, dystopia, end of the world, post apocalyptic, disaster, distopia, vestiges of humanity, love triangle, cyberpunk ...
Time: year 1985, future
Place: new zealand
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The Boys Next Door (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trial of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.
Style: disturbing, controversial, road movie, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, college, violence spree, brutality, hate crime, killing spree, big city, night, killer, exploitation, teenager ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 6.5
 2K
Wetherby (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: loneliness, angst, heartache, memory, solitude, obsession, investigation, world war two, adultery, spinster, dinner party, school teacher ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: yorkshire, england
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Trouble in Mind (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
Style: independent film, neo noir, tech noir, offbeat, perverse ...
Plot: dystopia, big city, diner, gangster, restaurant, sex scene, shootout, female nudity, rain, robbery, dystopian future, redemption ...
Time: year 1985, future, 1940s
Place: seattle, usa
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts the ...
Style: surreal, serious, atmospheric, cerebral, anthology ...
Plot: suicide, art, rebellion, friendship, nationalism, writers, emperor, radical, political unrest, state affairs, tragic hero, writer's life ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 60s, post world war two
Place: japan, mount fuji, kyoto japan, tokyo
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King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led ...
Style: fantasy adventure, retro, grindhouse, funny, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: treasure, treasure hunt, chase, adventurer, giant spider, escapades, artifact, treasure hunter, lost world, cannon, afrikaans, explorer ...
Time: victorian era, year 1985, 20th century, 1910s, 1900s
Place: africa, south africa, ottoman empire
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Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, independent film, fast ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, violence, one man army, vigilantism, cold war, machismo, spy, explosions, revenge, terrorism, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: florida, miami, usa, everglades, atlanta georgia
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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, prison, jungle, military, one man army, martial arts, explosions, survival, cannon, war, vietcong, betrayal ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: vietnam, asia, washington d.c.
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Love is Never Silent (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds ...
Plot: deaf, family relations, deafness, sign language, parent child relationship, marriage, father daughter relationship, great depression, guilt, mother daughter relationship
Time: 1940s, 1930s
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, treason, double agent, drug, political conspiracy, buddies, society, dishonesty, hitman, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: usa, california, soviet union, mexico city, mexico
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My Science Project (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to ...
Style: semi serious, offbeat, humorous, fast, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, teenager, school, high school, coming of age, technology gone awry, mutant, science, time loop, science and technology, reptiles ...
Time: future, year 1985
Place: vietnam
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One Magic Christmas (1985)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
Style: christmas classics, touching, emotional, sentimental, surprise ending ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, christmas spirit, angel, coming of age, dysfunctional family, redemption, bittersweet, small town, christmas season, xmas ...
Time: year 1985
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