1986 Top Ten List

  • Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
  • Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
  • Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz)
  • The Fly (David Cronenberg)
  • The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese)
  • Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
  • Mix-Up (Françoise Romand)
  • Salvador (Oliver Stone)
  • Manhunter (Michael Mann)

    • Additional 1986 Films By Rating

  • Mauvais sang (Leos Carax)
  • Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
  • Aliens (James Cameron)
  • Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
  • Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
  • Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
  • Jimi Plays Monterey (D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus)
  • Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
  • Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Stand by Me (Rob Reiner)
  • The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
  • Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Coppola)
  • Summer (Eric Rohmer)
  • She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)
  • Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox)
  • The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovski)
  • Mala noche (Gus Van Sant)
  • Platoon (Oliver Stone)
  • The Great Mouse Detective (John Musker & Ron Clements & Dave Michener & Burny Mattinson)
  • Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
  • From Beyond (Stuart Gordon)
  • The Hitcher (Robert Harmon)
  • Highlander (Russell Mulcahy)
  • Fraulein (Michael Haneke)
  • Labyrinth (Jim Henson)
  • Top Gun (Tony Scott)
  • Rosa Luxemberg (Margarethe von Trotta)
  • Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood)
  • Letters From a Dead Man (Konstantin Lopushansky)
  • The Golden Child (Michael Ritchie)