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The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the…
Plenty (1985)
David Hare’s account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find…
Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns…
No Surrender (1985)
It’s New Year’s Eve in Thatcher’s de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather…
Howling II: Stirba – Werewolf Bitch (1985)
When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the mysterious Stefan Crosscoe, that his sister has succumbed to the werewolf curse.
The Bride (1985)
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make…
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1985)
A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a survivor…
Insignificance (1985)
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…
The Emerald Forest (1985)
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the…
Lifeforce (1985)
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley’s Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London’s population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and…
Return to Oz (1985)
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
Wetherby (1985)
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even…
Bloodstream (1985)
After a low-budget horror filmmaker is swindled by a home video distributor, he decides to make a snuff film where he murders all those who have wronged him.
Restless Natives (1985)
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands….
Shadey (1985)
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the…
A View to a Kill (1985)
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB….
Steaming (1985)
Englishwomen band together when they learn that the public bathhouse they frequent for relaxation will be closed down.
Parker (1985)
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
Déjà Vu (1985)
A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated also believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous life, a ballerina.
Titus Andronicus (1985)
Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The newly-dead Roman Emperor’s two sons, Saturninus…
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating…
Florence Nightingale (1985)
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering…
King David (1985)
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period…
Not Quite Paradise (1985)
Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure, hide from their pasts or…
Romance on the Orient Express (1985)
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance…
Secret Weapons (1985)
Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with…
Blue Money (1985)
Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.
Variety (1985)
A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tickets.
Brazil (1985)
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led…
The Angelic Conversation (1985)
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic…
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Water (1985)
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural…
Contact (1985)
A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.
Love’s Labour’s Lost (1985)
When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they’ve forgotten that the daughter…
Patmos (1985)
As an older man, the Apostle John was sentenced to forced labor on the Island of Patmos. God honored John with His visions, faithfully transcribed to become the Book of…
Much Ado About Nothing (1984)
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice’s friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick’s best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he’s on….