Best Movies of 1985 Ranked

Back to the Future: Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first mee

Come and See: The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fi

Shoah: Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews

Anne of Green Gables: At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan

Ran: Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlor

Waiting for the Hearse: Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious fi

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a

Tampopo: In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen n

Angel's Egg: In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a

The Color Purple: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incre

The Breakfast Club: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The d

Brazil: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a

Threads: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the

Love and Pigeons: In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation.

Police Story: Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and

The Goonies: Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving t

After Hours: Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup

Tango: A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping fur

The Official Story: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school histor

Taipei Story: A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend