Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

The Dream Is Alive

1985

English

7.6

♡ 7

92%

Graeme Ferguson Director

Sally Ride as Herself

David Leestma as Himself

George Nelson as Himself

Walter Cronkite as Narrator

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with them the delights of zero gravity while working, eating and sleeping in orbit around the Earth. Float as never before over the towering Andes, the boot of Italy, Egypt and the Nile. Witness firsthand a tension-filled satellite capture and repair and the historic first spacewalk by an American woman.

The Aviator

1985

English

5.6

♡ 12

20%

George Miller Director

Sam Wanamaker as Bruno Hansen

Paul Lichtman as Customer

Marcia Strassman as Rose Stiller

Rosanna Arquette as Tillie Hansen

A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.

Naked Vengeance

1985

English

5.7

♡ 19

44%

Cirio H. Santiago Director

Joseph Zucchero as Dr. Fellows

Kaz Garas as Fletch

Nigel Hogge as Investigator

Terrence O'Hara as Mark Harris

After witnessing her husband's brutal murder, Carla travels to her parents' home in a small mountain town to start over. When she's repeatedly harassed by redneck locals, Carla seeks help from the town sheriff but is met with indifference. This continues until Carla's finally attacked, raped, and her parents executed by the twisted townies. Carla, after escaping a mental hospital, resolves to get bloody revenge.

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1985

English

7.2

♡ 25

80%

Will Vinton Director

Mark Gustafson as Calaveras Miner

Scott Menville as Various

Phillip Glasser as Various

Kath Soucie as Various

Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the human race, is intent upon finding Halley's Comet and crashing into it, achieving his "destiny." It's up to Tom, Becky, and Huck to convince him that his judgment is wrong and that he still has much to offer humanity that might make a difference. Their efforts aren't just charitable; if they fail, they will share Twain's fate. Along the way, they use a magical time portal to get a detailed overview of the Twain philosophy, observing the "historical" events that inspired his works.

The Official Story

1985

Spanish

7.7

♡ 17

100%

89%

Action

buenos aires, argentina

husband wife relationship

military dictatorship

War

Luis Puenzo Director

Marcos Woinsky as

Pablo Rago as

Norma Aleandro as Alicia

Héctor Alterio as Roberto

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

The Park Is Mine

1985

English

6.1

♡ 9

60%

Action

based on novel or book

Steven Hilliard Stern Director

Lawrence Dane as Commissioner Keller

Philip Akin as Hardy

Eric Peterson as Mike

Tommy Lee Jones as Mitch

A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.

Blue Money

1985

English

6.0

♡ 8

62%

Action

Comedy

Crime

Colin Bucksey Director

Billy Connolly as Des

John Bird as Harry Diamond

Tim Curry as Larry Gormley

Ian Mercer as Young Butcher

Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.

Stick

1985

English

5.7

♡ 12

38%

Burt Reynolds Director

Richard Lawson as Cornell

Alex Rocco as Firestone

Gary Carlos Cervantes as Nestor's Hood

Burt Reynolds as Stick

After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by the same people, who work for mobster Chucky, Stick gets a job as a chauffeur for millionaire Barry Braham and lies low. As he gets used to his new routine, Stick woos Barry's financial consultant, Kyle McClaren, but must fight back when Chucky's men come after him.

The Black Cannon Incident

1985

Chinese

7.4

♡ 6

Jianxin Huang Director

Beilong Wang as Wang Hongye Hui Ge

Hui Ge as Wu Kegong

Xiuling Zhao as Zhao's girlfriend Wang Yi

Wang Yi as Zhou Yuzhen

A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings.

Corporate Assets

1985

English

5.6

♡ 91

Thomas Paine Director

Robert Bullock as (as Richard Parnes)

Paul Thomas as Dildo

Herschel Savage as Louis

Nick Random as Phil

Jill's life has been reduced to nothing more than an on-call prostitute, charged with taking care of the other girls in a corporation's illicit harem. But as her secret pen pal relationship with Winston, a mild mannered park ranger with a violent past, grows into something more sensual, she begins to realize that with his help, she may be able to destroy the evil empire holding her hostage.

Agnes of God

1985

English

6.6

♡ 13

44%

59%

Action

based on play or musical

Norman Jewison Director

Jane Fonda as Doctor Martha Livingston

Anne Bancroft as Mother Miriam Ruth

Meg Tilly as Sister Agnes

Françoise Berd as Sister Thérèse

When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.

16 Days of Glory

1985

English

7.8

♡ 4

Action

Documentary

los angeles, california

olympic games

Sport

sports

Bud Greenspan Director

Ronald Reagan as Self

Rafer Johnson as Self

Mary Lou Retton as Self

Béla Károlyi as Self - Attendee

The definitive photographic record of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told "from the inside" through the lives of the participants, the words of David Perry, and the singing voice of Placido Domingo. From the opening to closing ceremonies, this unique style of storytelling shows a side of the Olympic Games not seen by television audiences.

Lost in America

1985

English

7.0

♡ 15

95%

Albert Brooks Director

Albert Brooks as David Howard

Candy Ann Brown as David's Secretary

Donald Gibb as Ex-Convict

Charles Boswell as Highway Patrolman

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

Death of a Salesman

1985

English

7.2

♡ 20

100%

parent child relationship

profession

Volker Schlöndorff Director

John Malkovich as Biff Loman

Stephen Lang as Harold 'Happy' Loman

Jon Polito as Howard Wagner

Dustin Hoffman as William 'Willy' Loman

Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.

The Mean Season

1985

English

6.1

♡ 18

64%

Phillip Borsos Director

Richard Jordan as Alan Delour

Joe Pantoliano as Andy Porter

Kurt Russell as Malcolm Anderson

Andy Garcia as Ray Martinez

A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.

Massacre in Dinosaur Valley

1985

Italian

5.2

♡ 23

31%

Michele Massimo Tarantini Director

Jonas Dalbecchi as Carlito

Paul Sky as Drunk

Adalberto Silva as Hotel Desk Clerk Ney Pen

Ney Pen as Native

A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.

Insignificance

1985

English

6.4

♡ 15

73%

Nicolas Roeg Director

Raymond J. Barry as Ballplayer's Father

Lou Hirsch as Charlie

Tony Curtis as Senator

Gary Busey as The Ballplayer

Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flashbacks and flashforwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories, and apprehensions for the future.

The Protector

1985

English

5.7

♡ 31

44%

Action

Crime

Thriller

James Glickenhaus Director

Jackie Chan as Billy Wong

Sandy Alexander as Gang Leader

John Spencer as Ko's Pilot

Sally Yeh as Sally

Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.

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Corporate Assets

Agnes of God

16 Days of Glory

Lost in America

Death of a Salesman

The Mean Season

Massacre in Dinosaur Valley

Insignificance

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