What's everyone's top movies of 1985?

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Honorable mentions:
Police Story, Runaway Train, Phenomena, Fright Night, Cocoon, St. Elmo’s Fire, Silver Bullet, Lifeforce, American Ninja, Mask, Rambo: First Blood II, Legend, Year of the Dragon, Silverado and Weird Science.

15. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
14. Teen Wolf (Rod Daniel)
13. Commando (Mark L. Lester)
12. Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand)
11. Witness (Peter Weir)
10. Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)
9. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
8. Into the Night (John Landis)
7. The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O’Bannon)
6. Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
5. The Goonies (Richard Donner)
4. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
3. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
1. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)



Need to re-watch:
Young Sherlock Holmes, Jewel of the Nile, Flesh + Blood, Spies Like Us, Out of Africa, The Last Dragon, The Sure Thing, Fletch and A View to a Kill.



My top 10 in no particular order:

The Goonies
Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf
Pale Rider
The Return of the Living Dead
Silver Bullet
Back to the Future
Cocoon
Enemy Mine
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

Honorable Mentions: The Breakfast Club, Brewster's Millions, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Ghoulies, American Ninja, Rambo: First Blood Part 2,
Red Sonja, Teen Wolf, Weird Science



10. Heaven Help Us
9. Police Story
8. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
7. Prizzi's Honor
6. Jagged Edge
5. Back to the Future
4. Re-Animator
3. The Return of the Living Dead
2. Ran
1. The Breakfast Club



The thing isolated becomes incomprehensible
1. The Breakfast Club
2. Das Boot
3. Come and See
4. After Hours
5. Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
6. Back to the Future
7. My Life as a Dog
8. A View to a Kill
9. My Friend Ivan Lapshin



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Das Boot is a good shout.
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#1) Ran


#2) Desert Hearts


#3) Fright Night


#4) Teen Wolf


#5) Flesh + Blood


#6) To Live and Die in L.A.


#7) Vagabond


#8) Back to the Future


#9) Day of the Dead


#10) The Last Dragon

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Back to the Future
The Emerald Forest
Joshua Then and Now
The Color Purple
You Got to Move
Tampopo
A Room with a View
Come and See
God's Country
No End
Das Boot
Young Sherlock Holmes
Year of the Dragon
Witness
My Sweet Little Village
Tokyo-Ga
To Live and Die in L.A.
That's Dancing!
The Sure Thing
Silverado
Runaway Train
Re-Animator
Ran
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Prizzi's Honor
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pale Rider
Out of Africa
Colonel Redl
Murphy's Romance
My Life as a Dog
Mischief
Mask
Marie
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Ladyhawke
Police Story
Jagged Edge
Heaven Help Us
The Goonies
Fright Night
Fletch
Flesh+Blood
Cocoon
The Bride
The Breakfast Club
Brazil
The Black Cauldron
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4. The Breakfast Club
3. After Hours



2 (by far). Back to the Future



1. (by far) Come and See

still a lot to see, holy **** mark has anyone told you you've seen a lot of movies?
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My Favorite 1985 Movies:
Back to the Future
That's Dancing!
White Nights
American Flyers
Witness
Jagged Edge
Real Genius
A Chorus Line
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Cocoon
The Goonies
Explorers
The Breakfast Club
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Teen Wolf
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Rustlers' Rhapsody
Sweet Dreams
D.A.R.Y.L.
Better Off Dead
Clue



These are movies that I saw many years ago, and I remember liking them, but I can't call them "favorites" because it's been too long since I've seen them:

Murphy's Romance
Just One of the Guys
The Falcon and the Snowman
Mask
Fright Night
Enemy Mine
The Legend of Billie Jean
Young Sherlock Holmes
The Journey of Natty Gann
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Witness
Explorers
Fledge
Against all odds
Cobra
Life force
After hours



Back to the future
Brazil
Breakfast Club
Goonies
The Color Purple
After Hours
Witness
To live and die in LA
The Purple rose of Cairo
Mask



1. after hours
2. fletch
3. back to the future
4. lost in america
5. pale rider
6. purple rose of cairo
7. mad max: beyond thunderdome
8. my life as a dog
9. commando
10. pee-wee’s big adventure
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“I was cured, all right!”
1 - Police Story
2 - Come and See
3 - Ran
4 - Rambo: First Blood part II
5 - Taipei Story
6 - Commando
7 - My Friend Ivan Lapshin
8 - Rocky IV
9 - After Hours
10 - To Live and Die in L.A.



1. Hail Mary (Godard)
2. Vagabond (Varda)
3. Chain Letters (Rappaport)
4. Shoah (Lanzmann)
5. Ran (Kurosawa)

6. Tapei Story (Yang)
7. “The Book of Mary” (Miéville)
8. A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway)
9. Lifeforce (Hooper)
10. Ornette: Made in America (Clarke)

11. Desperately Seeking Susan (Seidelman)
12. Re-Animator (Gordon)
13. Police (Pialat)
14. Tampopo (Itami)
15. Parking (Demy)