Midnight Girls (1986)
Bad Girls Dormitory (1986)
Inmates at a women’s prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.
The Horse Thief (1986)
Places Not Our Own (1986)
Silas Marner (1985)
Adaption of George Eliot’s novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is…
Female Leopard (1985)
Murphy’s Romance (1985)
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when…
The Color Purple (1985)
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 marries her…
Getting Personal (1985)
A prostitute and a down-on-his-luck illegal immigrant decide to marry, both to cure her loneliness and grant him U.S. citizenship. However, when the couple falls on hard times, they are…
A Chorus Line (1985)
A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among…
Fool for Love (1985)
A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave…
Pulgasari (1985)
In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under…
Story of a Junkie (1985)
Filmed in documentary-style, the film follows the character of Gringo, a young man looking for fortune in New York, only to fall into heroin addiction.
Rocky IV (1985)
After Apollo Creed is killed by Ivan Drago in a match, Rocky Balboa becomes depressed and becomes determined to get revenge.
Mesmerized (1985)
An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he’s a miser who spies on her.
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Sacred Hearts (1985)
A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
Cry from the Mountain (1985)
The film centers on an emotional kayaking trip between a father and a son. The father has taken his boy into the deep Alaskan wilderness to tell him that he…
The Good Father (1985)
Bill is a man who’s very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife…
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Tracked (1985)
Krush Groove (1985)
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and…
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local…
Don’t Mess with My Sister! (1985)
Steven, a meek accountant-in-training, is living contentedly with his wife Clara and working for her brothers, managing the books at their junkyard. All of this changes when the belly dancer…
Yusuf of Kuyucak (1985)
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)
A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film – told through five…
Kuei-mei a Woman (1985)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
The Fourth Power (1985)
Smooth Talk (1985)
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find…