Get Out of My Room

1985

English

4.7

♡ 16

40%

Cheech Marin Director

Mary Woronov as

Beverly D'Angelo as Harriet

Javier Grajeda as Illegal Alien

Sal Lopez as Illegal Alien

Get Out of My Room, was a mockumentary in the style of This Is Spinal Tap, written and directed by Cheech Marin. In the film, he and Tommy Chong are shown attempting to finish a "video album" for their novelty record Get Out of My Room.

Lifeforce

1985

English

6.2

♡ 38

58%

Tobe Hooper Director

Peter Firth as Col. Colin Caine

Patrick Stewart as Dr. Armstrong

John Hallam as Lamson

Burnell Tucker as N.A.S.A. Man

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

1985

English

7.1

♡ 39

78%

Tim Burton Director

Alex Sharp as Cowboy #2

Phil Hartman as Reporter

Tony Bill as Terry Hawthorne

Tim Burton as Thug in alley

The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.

Three Men and a Cradle

1985

French

6.6

♡ 2

72%

56%

Comedy

woman director

Coline Serreau Director

Herma Vos as Clotilde

Christian Zanetti as Le premier loubard

Dominique Lavanant as Mme Rapons

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvia

Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

1985

English

5.4

♡ 17

61%

Jim Wheat Director

Siân Phillips as Charal

Eric Walker as Mace

Wilford Brimley as Noa

Carel Struycken as Terak

The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing Cindel's family. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and meet Teek in the forest, a naughty and very fast animal. Teek takes them to a house in which an old man, Noa, lives. Like Cindel, he also crashed with his Starcruiser on Endor. Together they fight Terak and Charal.

King David

1985

English

5.3

♡ 11

8%

Bruce Beresford Director

Richard Gere as David

David Graham as Ephraimite Elder

John Hallam as Philistine Armour Bearer

Denis Quilley as Samuel

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

Calamari Union

1985

Finnish

6.9

♡ 9

81%

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Kari Väänänen as Frank

Aki Kaurismäki as Ruumisauton kuljettaja

Pirkko Hämäläinen as Sihteeri

Casablanca Vox as Yhtye

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.

Fast Forward

1985

English

5.6

♡ 3

83%

Drama

Musical

Sidney Poitier Director

Constance Towers as Jessie Granger

Valentin de Vargas as M.C

Rick Rossovich as Self

Stephen Beach as Tenemant Boy #1

Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they take part in it. So they try to do their best to survive in the Big Apple before competition, and get some lessons about the real World.

Dario Argento's World of Horror

1985

Italian

6.4

♡ 6

63%

Biography

Documentary

Michele Soavi Director

Karl Malden as Franco Arnò

Joan Bennett as Madame Blanc

Ken Foree as Peter

Jennifer Connelly as Self

Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.

The Color Purple

1985

English

7.7

♡ 53

73%

Steven Spielberg Director

Whoopi Goldberg as Celie Johnson

Susan Beaubian as Corrine

Leon Rippy as Store Clerk

Laurence Fishburne as Swain

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 off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

Flesh and Bullets

1985

English

4.1

♡ 4

Crime

Carlos Tobalina Director

Cornel Wilde as Captain of Police Department

Robert Z'Dar as Don

Cesar Romero as Judge in Santa Monica

Aldo Ray as Lieutenant in Police Department

Two men who meet in a bar in Las Vegas discover that they have one big problem in common, their wives. They decide to do something drastic about it.

Death in a French Garden

1985

French

6.8

♡ 7

Michel Deville Director

Richard Bohringer as Daniel Forest

Michel Piccoli as Graham Tombsthay

Nicole Garcia as Julia Tombsthay

Élisabeth Vitali as Waitress

A wealthy wife's affair with her daughter's guitar tutor is threatened when the tutor is attacked and rescued by a hired killer, leading him to suspect their secret is out.

Story of a Junkie

1985

English

6.2

♡ 2

Lech Kowalski Director

John Spacely as Self

Steven Shingles as Self

Claude du Sorbier as Self Eddie

Eddie as Self

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.

Kuyucakli Yusuf

1985

Turkish

5.8

♡ 7

Drama

Feyzi Tuna Director

Nilgün Nazli as

Ali Osman Okumus as

Bülent Oran as

Savas Akova as

An idealist district governor, Selahattin Bey, adopts Yusuf, orphaned after his family was killed by thugs. Yusuf falls in love with Muazzez, the daughter of Selahattin. But when Hilmi Bey’s son Şakir also wants to marry Muazzez, a conflict escalates.

Ran

1985

Japanese

8.2

♡ 102

96%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Yûichi Hibi as

Masuo Amada as

Susumu Terajima as Foot soldier

Mieko Harada as Lady Kaede

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

One Magic Christmas

1985

English

6.4

♡ 12

47%

parent child relationship

Phillip Borsos Director

Harry Dean Stanton as Gideon

Wayne Robson as Harry Dickens

Timothy Webber as Herbie Conklin

Debra McGrath as Mrs. Noonan

Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.

Heaven Help Us

1985

English

6.9

♡ 15

33%

75%

boston, massachusetts

Michael Dinner Director

Douglas Seale as Brother Domenic

John Heard as Brother Timothy

Wallace Shawn as Father Abruzzi

Mel Winkler as Willie

Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.

Blood Tracks

1985

English

4.2

♡ 7

30%

Derek Ford Director

Michael Fitzpatrick as Bob

Peter Merrill as Dave

Jeff Harding as John

Tina Shaw as Sarah

A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.

The Master Strikes Back

1985

Chinese

5.5

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Chung Sun Director

Han Chiang as

Hui Yuen as Mi Tien

Mi Tien as

Elvis Tsui as (as Chin-Chiang Hsu)

In The Master Strikes Back, Hong Kong's Steadicam pioneering director Sun Chung brings back legendary Ti Lung to play famous weapons instructor Tung Tieh-cheng, who is invited to teach a Ching official's soldiers, in this unofficial sequel to The Kung-fu Instructor. But after his son is kidnapped and castrated what follows is a chaotic, human whirlwind of slicing and dicing compliments of the highly touted martial arts director and one of Jackie Chan's kung-fu classmates, Yuan Te.