Top Movies of 1985


The top movies of 1985 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

61. Death of a Salesman

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning, Jon Polito

62. When Father was Away on Business ( Otac na sluzbenom putu )

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Serbian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Emir Kusturica
Actors: Mira Furlan, Miki Manojlovic, Moreno D'E Bartolli, Mirjana Karanovic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Predrag Lakovic

63. The Hit

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Bill Hunter, Jim Broadbent
Plot: Two younger hit men take to the road with a veteran gangster (their intended quarry) and a prostitute, meditating on life and death on the way.

64. Insignificance

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Will Sampson, Patrick Kilpatrick
Plot: A fictional meeting in a post WWII world imagines what it would be like for Albert Einstein, Senator Joe McCarthy, Joe Dimaggio and Marilyn Monroe to meet together and discover the conversations and ideas they would share.

65. Commando

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark L. Lester
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly

66. The Trip to Bountiful

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Masterson
Actors: Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Rebecca De Mornay, Richard Bradford, Kevin Cooney
Plot: A elderly woman is determined to escape her son's cramped suburban home and return to the small town where she was born and raised.

67. A Chorus Line

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Attenborough
Actors: Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges, Michael Douglas, Jan Gan Boyd, Sharon Brown, Gregg Burge
Plot: Follows a group of hopeful dancers as the audition for a demanding director for an upcoming new musical.

68. Phenomena

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Fiore Argento, Donald Pleasence, Patrick Bauchau, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Plot: A young girl is sent to an exclusive Swiss boarding school where a series of girls have gone missing. With her unique ability to communicate with insects she works with a prominent entomologist to discover the culprit before she becomes a victim herself.

69. Mr. Vampire ( Geung si sin sang )

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ricky Lau
Actors: Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-hou Chin, Ricky Hui, Moon Lee, Billy Lau, Pauline Wong

70. Flesh & Blood

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Bruno Kirby, Nancy Cartwright
Plot: A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son.

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