51. St. Elmo's Fire
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Andie MacDowell, Judd Nelson
Plot: A group college grads reunite to hang out and continue their friendship
when that doesn't work out because they are all more different than they
thought but still friends.
52. The Legend of Billie Jean
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matthew Robbins
Actors: Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Christian Slater, Richard Bradford, Peter Coyote, Yeardley Smith
Plot: A girl and her brother from Texas try to enjoy their summer when a local steals her scooter. All she wants is her scooter, but it takes a lot to get it back.
53. Shoah
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Actors: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Hanna Zaidl, Jan Piwonski, Itzhak Dugin
Plot: The ground-breaking documentary about the survivors of the Holocaust is 9 1/2 hours of candid interviews with the survivors, witnesses and, secretly, ex-Nazis whose first-hand experience of the horrific genocide that faced the Jewish population and also explores how anti-Semitism is still an everyday way of life in some parts of Europe.
54. 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.
55. Sweet Dreams
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Karel Reisz
Actors: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley, John Goodman
56. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Actors: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto
Plot: After being robbed, Mad Max finds himself at the mercy of Bartertown, where he finds himself in a power struggle between the cruel Aunt Entity and her rival Master Blaster. Things go from bad to worse as he is banished to the desert but finds refuge from a group of orphans looking for a leader.
57. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Paul Reubens, Mark Holton, Elizabeth Daily, Daryl Roach, Diane Salinger
Plot: An "interesting" man has his bike stolen from under his nose as he must investigate and travel around the country following clues to regain his state of the art bike.
58. Silver Bullet
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Attias
Actors: Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Terry O'Quinn, Megan Follows, Bill Smitrovich
Plot: A crippled young boy thinks that a werewolf is terrorizing his small town and the only ones who believe him are his prim sister and alcoholic uncle.
59. Fletch
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Ritchie
Actors: Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Tim Matheson, M. Emmet Walsh
Plot: Fletch is a journalist who takes his job very seriously - even to the point of taking on different personas to get the story. Researching drugs and their dealings as a bum, he is approached by Alan Stanwyk who wants to die before cancer kills him. As Fletch noses around, he discovers Stanwyk is hiding a few things and it's all linked to the drugs.
60. 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.
