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Tampopo (1985)

Summary: A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

Genre: Comedy

Director: Jûzô Itami

Writer: Jûzô Itami

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Itami Productions, New Century Productions

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Republic Pictures Home Video, Fox Lorber Home Video, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 224,097

International: $ 223,247

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
37 votes

Shoah (1985)

Summary: Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Writer: Claude Lanzmann

Runtime: 9 h 26 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Films Aleph, Historia, Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), IFC Films, The Criterion Collection, Why Not Productions

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 20,175

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
34 votes

My Life as a Dog (1985)

Summary: In the late '50s, young Ingemar learns a lot about life and himself when he is sent away from his sick mother to live with his aunt and uncle in a town full of eccentrics.

Release Date: May 01, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Lasse Hallström

Writers: Reidar Jönsson

, Lasse Hallström

, Brasse Brännström

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), FilmTeknik

Country: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Domestic: $ 8,345,266

International: $ 4,018

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
12 votes

The Official Story (1985)

Summary: During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Release Date: November 08, 1985

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Luis Puenzo

Writers: Aída Bortnik

, Luis Puenzo

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Historias Cinematograficas, Progress Communications

Distributor: Almi Pictures, Fox Lorber Home Video, Koch Lorber Films, Pacific Arts Video

Country: Argentina

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 29,426

International: $ 40,406

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
10 votes

Dreamchild (1985)

Summary: Ian Holm is children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy-drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson.

Release Date: October 04, 1985

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Gavin Millar

Writer: Dennis Potter

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: PfH Ltd., Thorn EMI

Distributor: Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, EastWest Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Thorn EMI/HBO Video, Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,215,923

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
10 votes

The Trip to Bountiful (1985)

Summary: Carrie Watts is an elderly woman who decides to visit her childhood home in Bountiful one last time. There, she meets a young woman with whom she shares her secrets and memories.

Release Date: January 24, 1986

Genre: Drama

Director: Peter Masterson

Writer: Horton Foote

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Bountiful Film Partners, FilmDallas Pictures

Distributor: Nelson Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,491,903

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
9 votes

Death of a Salesman (1985)

Summary: An aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.

Release Date: September 15, 1985

Genre: Drama

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Writer: Arthur Miller

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Roxbury Productions, Punch Productions

Distributor: Image Entertainment, KCET, New Video, Shout Select, Shout! Factory, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
7 votes

When Father Was Away on Business (1985)

Summary: A family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.

Release Date: October 11, 1985

Genre: Drama

Director: Emir Kusturica

Writer: Abdulah Sidran

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: R

Production: Centar Film, Forum Sarajevo, Televizija Sarajevo

Distributor: Cannon Film Distributors, Koch Lorber Films

Country: Yugoslavia

Language: Serbo-Croatian

Domestic: $ 16,131

International: $ 18,620

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
6 votes

Taipei Story (1985)

Summary: Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.

Genre: Drama

Director: Edward Yang

Writers: T'ien-wen Chu

, Hsiao-Hsien Hou

, Edward Yang

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Evergreen Film Company, Evergreen Film Company

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: Taiwan

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 12,897

International: $ 22,439

98 - Rotten Tomatoes
50 votes

Brazil (1985)

Summary: A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

Release Date: December 18, 1985

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Terry Gilliam

Writers: Terry Gilliam

, Tom Stoppard

, Charles McKeown

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Embassy International Pictures

Distributor: MCA Home Video, MCA Television, The Criterion Collection, MCA/Universal Home Video, TNT, The Criterion Channel, Tubi TV, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 9,929,135

International: $ 20,818

98 - Rotten Tomatoes
43 votes

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Summary: An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

Release Date: April 04, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Stephen Frears

Writer: Hanif Kureishi

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Working Title Films, SAF Productions, Channel Four Films

Distributor: Orion Classics, Karl-Lorimar Home Video (KLV-TV), MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 650,000

Domestic: $ 2,451,545

International: $ 9,432

97 - Rotten Tomatoes
86 votes

Back to the Future (1985)

Summary: Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Release Date: July 03, 1985

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Writers: Robert Zemeckis

, Bob Gale

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, U-Drive Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Back to the Future

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 214,077,472

International: $ 170,500,000

97 - Rotten Tomatoes
36 votes

Come and See (1985)

Summary: After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Release Date: September 03, 1985

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Elem Klimov

Writers: Ales Adamovich

, Elem Klimov

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Belarusfilm, Mosfilm

Distributor: Sovexportfilm, Seagull Films, International Film Exchange (IFEX), Kino Video, RUSCICO, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 71,909

International: $ 20,857,739

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
89 votes

Ran (1985)

Summary: In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

Release Date: June 01, 1985

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Hideo Oguni

, Masato Ide

Runtime: 2 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Orion Classics, CBS/Fox, StudioCanal, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, Wellspring Media

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,135,750

International: $ 37,121

94 - Rotten Tomatoes
62 votes

Re-Animator (1985)

Summary: After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.

Release Date: April 01, 2022

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Stuart Gordon

Writers: H.P. Lovecraft

, Dennis Paoli

, William Norris

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Empire Pictures, Re-Animator Productions

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Arrow Films, Avid Home Entertainment, Elite Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, Live Home Video, Modern Entertainment, Re-Animator Productions, Sci-Fi Channel, Tubi TV, Vestron Television, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 900,000

Domestic: $ 2,023,414

International: $ 1,600

93 - Rotten Tomatoes
42 votes

Witness (1985)

Summary: While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.

Release Date: February 08, 1985

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Peter Weir