Top Movies of 1986


The top movies of 1986 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

11. Hoosiers

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Anspaugh
Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons, Chelcie Ross
Plot: Based on a true story of the 1954 Milan Indians, a coach with a checkered past and a former-player-turned alcoholic take an unlikely group of athletes on a journey to become contenders for the state basketball championship.

12. Down by Law

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin, Billie Neal
Plot: Three men in a Louisiana prison: DJ Zack, the pimp Jack and eccentric Italian Roberto, hatch an escape plan.

13. The Fly

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Leslie Carlson, John Getz, Joy Boushel, George Chuvalo
Plot: A scientist who hates riding in cars develops a way to transport from one area to another with out traveling but his experiment goes wrong as he some how turns into a giant fly.

14. Pretty in Pink

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Howard Deutch
Actors: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy
Plot: A working class high school girl gets romantically involved with a rich boy. Meanwhile, another boy is crushing on her.

15. The Great Mouse Detective

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson
Actors: Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek, Candy Candido, Diana Chesney
Plot: Basil of Baker Street is the rodent equal to Sherlock Holmes. When a toymaker is abducted, a young mouse turns to the great detective to find her missing father. As his investigation goes deeper, a simple kidnapping leads to plot against the Crown itself.

16. Big Trouble in Little China

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Chao Li Chi, Donald Li
Plot: When his best freind's finacee is kidnapped by an ancient sorcerer and a trio of demons in Chinatown, it's up to tough-talking truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) to save the day.

17. Sid and Nancy

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Cox
Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley
Plot: A look into the true love story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.

18. A Room with a View

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Ivory
Actors: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Simon Callow, Judi Dench
Plot: Lucy Honeychurch is a girl engaged to be married, but the trip to Italy and a new acquaintance with one passionate Englishman she met there, changed her so much that once back home she has to reconsider her choices and obligations.

19. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig
Plot: After an unknown probe threatens Earth, Kirk and company must go back in time to the 1980's so they can bring back Humpback whales out of extinction.

20. An American Tail

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Don Bluth
Actors: Phillip Glasser, Christopher Plummer, Dom DeLuise, John Finnegan, Nehemiah Persoff, Madeline Kahn
Plot: Fievel, a Russian mouse, is separated from his family as he becomes an immigrant in the U.S.

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