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Best Movies of 1985

The highest-rated films released in 1985, ranked by TMDB user score among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 67 titlesavg ★ 6.77 avg 104 min Comedy Drama Adventure Thriller

Most watched in 1985

Back to the Future1985 · ★ 8.3 · 1h 56m

The Breakfast Club1985 · ★ 7.7 · 1h 38m

The Goonies1985 · ★ 7.5 · 1h 54m

Rocky IV1985 · ★ 7.1 · 1h 31m

Rambo: First Blood Part II1985 · ★ 6.7 · 1h 36m

Brazil1985 · ★ 7.7 · 2h 23m

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#1 Back to the Future (1985) · ★ 8.3 · 22,492 votes · 1h 56m · comedy, adventure, science-fiction
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu…
#2 Come and See (1985) · ★ 8.2 · 1,977 votes · 2h 22m · drama, horror, history
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Flyora into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl,…
#3 Ran (1985) · ★ 8.0 · 1,921 votes · 2h 40m · action, drama, history
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.…
#4 The Breakfast Club (1985) · ★ 7.7 · 8,752 votes · 1h 38m · comedy, drama
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast…
#5 Brazil (1985) · ★ 7.7 · 3,844 votes · 2h 23m · comedy, science-fiction
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a cas…
#6 The Color Purple (1985) · ★ 7.7 · 2,041 votes · 2h 34m · drama, history, crime
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marrie…
#7 Angel's Egg (1985) · ★ 7.7 · 609 votes · 1h 11m · fantasy, science-fiction, animation
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 boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.…
#8 The Goonies (1985) · ★ 7.5 · 6,430 votes · 1h 54m · comedy, adventure, family
Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition. However, on their quest to find…
#9 After Hours (1985) · ★ 7.5 · 1,830 votes · 1h 37m · comedy, thriller, drama
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.…
#10 Police Story (1985) · ★ 7.5 · 1,054 votes · 1h 39m · action, comedy, thriller
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the…
#11 The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) · ★ 7.4 · 1,180 votes · 1h 22m · comedy, fantasy, romance
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia…
#12 Mask (1985) · ★ 7.3 · 508 votes · 2h 0m · drama
A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.…
#13 The Return of the Living Dead (1985) · ★ 7.2 · 2,313 votes · 1h 31m · comedy, horror, science-fiction
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an…
#14 Clue (1985) · ★ 7.2 · 2,071 votes · 1h 34m · comedy, thriller, crime
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the k…
#15 Blood Simple (1985) · ★ 7.2 · 1,676 votes · 1h 37m · thriller, drama, crime
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues afte…
#16 Pale Rider (1985) · ★ 7.2 · 1,247 votes · 1h 55m · drama, western
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.…
#17 Rocky IV (1985) · ★ 7.1 · 4,992 votes · 1h 31m · action, drama
Rocky Balboa holds the world heavyweight championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.…
#18 Witness (1985) · ★ 7.1 · 1,966 votes · 1h 52m · thriller, romance, drama
While protecting an Amish boy—the sole witness to a brutal murder—and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life comes under threat.…
#19 Re-Animator (1985) · ★ 7.1 · 1,733 votes · 1h 26m · comedy, horror, science-fiction
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re…
#20 Out of Africa (1985) · ★ 7.1 · 1,584 votes · 2h 41m · romance, drama, history
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiog…
#21 To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) · ★ 7.1 · 839 votes · 1h 56m · action, thriller, crime
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.…
#22 Fright Night (1985) · ★ 7.0 · 1,596 votes · 1h 47m · comedy, horror
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to be…
#23 Day of the Dead (1985) · ★ 7.0 · 1,454 votes · 1h 41m · drama, horror, mystery
As the world is overrun by zombies, scientists and military personnel in an underground Florida bunker must decide on how they should deal with the undead.…
#24 Ladyhawke (1985) · ★ 7.0 · 1,302 votes · 2h 1m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes th…
#25 Enemy Mine (1985) · ★ 7.0 · 1,139 votes · 1h 48m · drama, science-fiction
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band t…
#26 Runaway Train (1985) · ★ 7.0 · 686 votes · 1h 51m · action, adventure, thriller
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while…
#27 Silverado (1985) · ★ 6.9 · 853 votes · 2h 13m · action, drama, western
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corr…
#28 Phenomena (1985) · ★ 6.8 · 945 votes · 1h 55m · thriller, horror
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of m…
#29 Fletch (1985) · ★ 6.8 · 801 votes · 1h 38m · comedy, crime, mystery
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who of…
#30 Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) · ★ 6.8 · 717 votes · 1h 49m · adventure, thriller, mystery
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. Whe…
#31 Year of the Dragon (1985) · ★ 6.8 · 509 votes · 2h 14m · action, thriller, crime
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthles…
#32 Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) · ★ 6.7 · 4,457 votes · 1h 36m · action, adventure, thriller
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.…
#33 Commando (1985) · ★ 6.7 · 3,282 votes · 1h 30m · action, adventure, thriller
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find h…
#34 Return to Oz (1985) · ★ 6.7 · 1,096 votes · 1h 49m · fantasy, adventure, family
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.…
#35 Cat's Eye (1985) · ★ 6.7 · 767 votes · 1h 34m · thriller, horror
Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we m…
#36 Silver Bullet (1985) · ★ 6.7 · 725 votes · 1h 35m · horror
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread.…
#37 Real Genius (1985) · ★ 6.7 · 524 votes · 1h 46m · comedy, romance, science-fiction
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.…
#38 Cocoon (1985) · ★ 6.6 · 1,460 votes · 1h 57m · comedy, drama, science-fiction
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.…
#39 Brewster's Millions (1985) · ★ 6.6 · 699 votes · 1h 37m · comedy
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and witho…
#40 Demons (1985) · ★ 6.6 · 665 votes · 1h 29m · horror
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.…