Best award winning movies with bells and whistles from 1985

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with bells and whistles from 1985! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with bells and whistles from 1985, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Back to the Future (1985)

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

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1985-07-03 | Adventure / Comedy

Cast

Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd

Rating

rating icon 8.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    multiverse
  2. Ranked #70 for
    time-loop
  3. Ranked #105 for
    punching bag

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2 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. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.

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1985-05-24 | Adventure / Action

Cast

Roger Moore, Grace Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.226
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #128 for
    like Cape Fear
  2. Ranked #162 for
    globetrotting
  3. Ranked #176 for
    action-packed finale

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3 Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.

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1985-12-04 | Mystery / Adventure

Cast

Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #49 for
    canonical
  2. Ranked #85 for
    third wheel
  3. Ranked #107 for
    escapist entertainment

Trailer

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4 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 his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.

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1985-06-14 | Family / Science Fiction

Cast

Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt

Rating

rating icon 6.362
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #78 for
    cyborg
  2. Ranked #180 for
    Family Drama
  3. Ranked #187 for
    artificial intelligence

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D.A.R.Y.L. trailer
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5 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 to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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1985-02-20 | Comedy / Science Fiction

Cast

Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist

Rating

rating icon 7.677
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #20 for
    orwellian
  2. Ranked #60 for
    futuristic society
  3. Ranked #123 for
    Black Comedy

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6 Fright Night (1985)

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

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1985-08-02 | Comedy / Horror

Cast

Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale

Rating

rating icon 7.029
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #57 for
    Slasher Film
  2. Ranked #218 for
    like Clue
  3. Ranked #218 for
    smooth talker

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7 Explorers (1985)

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.

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1985-07-12 | Family / Science Fiction

Cast

Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #43 for
    techno-geek
  3. Ranked #71 for
    friendly neighborhood

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8 Ladyhawke (1985)

Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.

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1985-03-27 | Adventure / Comedy

Cast

Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer

Rating

rating icon 7.034
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #19 for
    arthurian
  2. Ranked #49 for
    anachronistic
  3. Ranked #77 for
    chivalry

Trailer

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9 The Quiet Earth (1985)

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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1985-09-08 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge

Rating

rating icon 6.629
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #123 for
    Apocalypse Film
  2. Ranked #147 for
    purgatory
  3. Ranked #159 for
    Space Opera

Trailer

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10 Witness (1985)

A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.

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1985-02-08 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #64 for
    gruesome murder
  2. Ranked #85 for
    horrific crimes
  3. Ranked #91 for
    fish out of water

Trailer

Witness trailer
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