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The Best Movies of 1985
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Movie: Screwballs II ( 1985 )
In the original tradition of "Screwballs," four horny teens try to get a shot at the sexy new French teacher.
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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: 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: Perfect ( 1985 )
A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.
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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: 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: Subway ( 1985 )
On improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Metro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.
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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: 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: 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: Evils of the Night ( 1985 )
Vacationing teens are systematically kidnapped and taken to a strange, rural hospital, run by a mysterious group that needs their blood.
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Movie: Tuff Turf ( 1985 )
The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.
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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: 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: 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: 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: The Journey of Natty Gann ( 1985 )
In the 1930s, a tomboy runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, where he has found work.
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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: Girls Just Want to Have Fun ( 1985 )
Janey is new in town and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general and "Dance TV" in particular.
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Movie: The Heavenly Kid ( 1985 )
A hip guardian angel named Bobby Fantana, who died in a car race in the 60s, reluctantly agrees to watch over lonely 80s high schooler Lenny Barnes who needs guidance on how to become cool.
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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 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: 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 Peanut Butter Solution ( 1985 )
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy.
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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: 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: Kiss of the Spider Woman ( 1985 )
A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
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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: The Purple Rose of Cairo ( 1985 )
In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
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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: 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: A Chorus Line ( 1985 )
Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
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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: Fandango ( 1985 )
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
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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: The Trip to Bountiful ( 1986 )
In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.
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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: 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: My Beautiful Laundrette ( 1986 )
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.