1985 Top Ten List
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra)
A Room With a View (James Ivory)
Additional 1985 Films By Rating
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
Come and See (Elem Klimov)
Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman)
My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström)
Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)
A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
Vagabond (Agnès Varda)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller & George Ogilvie)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
Prizzi's Honor (John Huston)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)
Police (Maurice Pialat)
Fright Night (Tom Holland)
To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin)
Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
Police Story (Jackie Chan)
The Stuff (Larry Cohen)
Fandango (Kevin Reynolds)
Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch)
The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon)
Fool for Love (Robert Altman)
Heaven Help Us (Michael Dinner)
Flesh + Blood (Paul Verhoeven)
Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack)
Legend (Ridley Scott)
Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (Jack Sholder)
Crimewave (Sam Raimi)
Phenomena (Dario Argento)
Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg)
Volunteers (Nicholas Meyer)
Commando (Mark L. Lester)
Teen Wolf (Rod Daniel)
The Practice of Love (Valie Export)
L'amour braque (Andrzej Zulawski)
Gymkata (Robert Clouse)
Ladyhawke (Richard Donner)
Real Genius (Martha Coolidge)
St. Elmo's Fire (Joel Schumacher)
Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper)
Weird Science (John Hughes)
The Goonies (Richard Donner)
Clue (Jonathan Lynn)