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The Best Movies of 1985
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Movie: Porky's Revenge ( 1985 )
As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game because he's betting on the opposing team.
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Movie: King Solomon's Mines ( 1985 )
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
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Movie: Revolution ( 1985 )
A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.
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Movie: Seven Minutes in Heaven ( 1985 )
When her father goes out of town, beautiful A-student Natalie lets best friends Jeff and Polly move in. Separately and together, the trio of young teens learn much about life, love, and growing up.
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Movie: My Science Project ( 1985 )
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.
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Movie: D.A.R.Y.L. ( 1985 )
A seemingly normal young boy turns out to be a top secret, military-created robot with superhuman abilities.
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Movie: Code of Silence ( 1985 )
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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Movie: Lost in America ( 1985 )
A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.
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Movie: Shoah ( 1985 )
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
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Movie: The New Kids ( 1985 )
A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.
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Movie: Death of a Salesman ( 1985 )
An aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.
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Movie: American Flyers ( 1985 )
Sports physician Marcus persuades his unstable brother David to come with him and train for a bicycle race across the Rocky Mountains. Marcus doesn't tell David that he has a brain aneurysm which could render him paralyzed or dead at any given moment. While David powerfully heads for the victory, Marcus has to realize that the contest is now beyond his capabilities. / Features great views of the Rockies and an insight in the tactics of bicycle races.
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Movie: Follow That Bird ( 1985 )
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker named Miss Finch. Unhappy, he runs away from there, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
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Movie: Heaven Help Us ( 1985 )
A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.
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Movie: Murphy's Romance ( 1986 )
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex-husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, with Emma's son liking Murphy but desperately wanting his father back.
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Movie: Sweet Dreams ( 1985 )
Patsy Cline was the first female solo artist to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Thirty-two years after her untimely death in a plane crash in Tennessee, her "Greatest Hits" album sold over six million copies. Loved by her fans today as much - if not more - than she was at the height of her fame, the life, the loves and most of all the voice of Patsy Cline is legendary. This film tells the story of the passionate, fun-loving, soft-spoken, loud-living life of one of country music's - and one of popular music's - greatest singing stars. This film covers the years 1956 through 1963, from her rise to fame and the top of the charts through TB talent shows and country bars - through her turbulent marriage to Charlie Dick and the demands of touring which would lead to the fatal plane crash.
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Movie: That Was Then... This Is Now ( 1985 )
Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.
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Movie: The Boys Next Door ( 1986 )
Roy and Bo leave their small California town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to Los Angeles. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.
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Movie: Warning Sign ( 1985 )
A woman working as a security guard in an agricultural research facility finds herself and her co-worker Schmidt fighting to survive against their former friends.
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Movie: Invasion U.S.A. ( 1985 )
A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
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Movie: The Protector ( 1985 )
Two New York City cops, Billy Wong and Danny Garoni, head to Hong Kong after the daughter of a rich businessman is kidnapped by the drug lord, Mr. Ko.
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Movie: Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly (TV Special 1985) ( 1985 )
Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.
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Movie: The Quest ( 1986 )
American boy, Cody, whose parents have died, lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive, and inquisitive. He comes across some strange events happening in Devil's Knob national park associated with an aboriginal myth about "frog dreamings". Cody tries to investigate...
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Movie: The Aviator ( 1985 )
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
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Movie: The Adventures of Hercules ( 1985 )
Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.
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Movie: Moving Violations ( 1985 )
The goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.
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Movie: The Coca-Cola Kid ( 1985 )
Ex-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where everyone is guzzling homegrown brew - and not a drop of his company's cola.
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Movie: The Dirt Bike Kid ( 1985 )
When his mother sends Jack off with money to buy groceries, he comes home with a magic supercharged dirt bike instead. His mother is furious, but when Jack uses the magic bike to save the local hot dog stand from the clutches of corrupt big business, he becomes the town hero.
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Movie: Godzilla 1985 ( 1985 )
Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.
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Movie: Missing in Action 2: The Beginning ( 1985 )
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
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Movie: The Mean Season ( 1985 )
Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. Before Malcolm can hand in his notice, the murderer from his latest article phones him. The murderer tells Malcolm that he's going to kill again. The phone calls and murders continue, soon Malcolm finds that he's not just reporting the story, he is the story.
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Movie: Agnes of God ( 1985 )
When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.
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Movie: King David ( 1985 )
The Biblical story of Israel's greatest King.
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Movie: Santa Claus: The Movie ( 1985 )
The legend of Santa Claus is put in jeopardy when an unscrupulous toy manufacturer attempts to take over Christmas.
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Movie: Plenty ( 1985 )
A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.
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Movie: Target ( 1985 )
When American Donna Lloyd is kidnapped during a trip to Europe, her son Chris and her husband Walter start searching for her.
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Movie: Krush Groove ( 1985 )
In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker manages all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove Records, which include Run-D.M.C., Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kurtis Blow, while Rick (Rubin) produces the label's records. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell doesn't have the money to press records, he borrows money from a street hustler. At the same time, Russell and and his brother Run both compete for the heart of R&B singer Sheila E.
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Movie: Head Office ( 1986 )
Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.
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Movie: Max Headroom ( 1985 )
In the dystopic near future, a crusading TV reporter investigates news stories with the help of a wisecracking computer version of himself.
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Movie: The Care Bears Movie ( 1985 )
The Care Bears watch over a young brother and sister who have lost their trust in humanity. Meanwhile an evil wizard wishes to cover the Earth in concrete.
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Movie: Fool for Love ( 1986 )
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
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Movie: Bad Medicine ( 1985 )
Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But instead he gets a chance to study medicine abroad, in a small Latin American dictatorship, governed by Ramon Madera, who falls in love with Jeff's girlfriend, also a medical student.
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Movie: Breaking All the Rules ( 1985 )
The story of two guys and two girls who meet and fall in love in an amusement park on the last day of summer. All the while outwitting three moronic would-be jewel thieves.
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Movie: I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later ( 1985 )
Jeannie uses her magic powers to thwart her sister, Jeannie II, who has designs on Major Nelson.
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Movie: Morons from Outer Space ( 1985 )
A trio of moronic aliens crash-land on Earth and become celebrities, while a fourth alien, who arrives separately, finds himself ignored.
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Movie: Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer ( 1985 )
Rainbow Brite must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra.
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Movie: John and Yoko: A Love Story ( 1985 )
Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.