Drama Movies
After Hours (1985)
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Agnes of God (1985)
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…
Buddies (1985)
David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a ‘buddy’ for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family…
Chain Letters (1985)
Nine Manhattanites receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters can encounter romance, fulfillment — and…
The Quiet Earth (1985)
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Mata Hari (1985)
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military…
Typhoon Club (1985)
Flesh + Blood (1985)
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble’s son. As the plague and warfare…
Warning Sign (1985)
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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…
American Flyers (1985)
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace…
Death of a Salesman (1985)
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…
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)
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…
Thunder Alley (1985)
A group of friends start a rock band, but as they start their rise in the music world, they get mixed up with drugs.
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina,…
The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)
Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to…
Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985)
Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him incessantly, and his employer at work is distant and cold. As his isolation from…
Day of the Dead (1985)
A small group of scientists and soldiers take refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating dead that walks the Earth above.
La Casa Que Arde de Noche (1985)
St. Elmo’s Fire (1985)
A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to pay for law school. His roommate…
Pale Rider (1985)
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
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…
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.
No End (1985)
Deceptions (1985)
Twin sisters — one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife — impulsively decide to swap lives and identities for a week, with unforseen results.