Category:1985, Top Films

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-- #2. Ran -- #7. The Purple Rose of Cairo -- #8. The Goonies -- #13. My Life as a Dog -- #16. Tampopo -- #21. Shoah -- #27. Witness

Notable Mention

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-- #1. <Brazil> (Gilliam) -- #3. <Back to the Future> (Zemeckis) -- #4. <The Breakfast Club> (Hughes) -- #5. <After Hours> (Scorsese) -- #6. <Come and See> (Klimov) -- #50+. <Out of Africa> (Pollack) <Best Picture & Director> -- #50+. <Broken Rainbow> (Mudd) <Best Doc> .

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

-- #1. <Brazil> -- #2. Ran -- #3. <Back to the Future> -- #4. <The Breakfast Club> -- #5. <After Hours> -- #6. <Come and See> -- #7. The Purple Rose of Cairo -- #8. The Goonies -- #9. Vagabond -- #10. Mishima

-- #11. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure -- #12. Day of the Dead -- #13. My Life as a Dog -- #14. A Room with a View -- #15. A Zed and Two Noughts -- #16. Tampopo -- #17. The Color Purple -- #18. Re-Animator -- #19. Phenomena -- #20. To Live and Die in L.A.

-- #21. Shoah -- #27. Witness -- #31. When Father Was Away on Business -- #31. My Beautiful Laundrette -- #45. The Official Story

Flickchart, Best Films

-- @1. Back to the Future -- @2. <Come and See> -- @3. <The Breakfast Club> -- @4. Ran -- @5. The Goonies -- @6. <Brazil> -- @7. The Purple Rose of Cairo -- @8. <After Hours> -- @9. Re-Animator -- @10. Clue

-- @11. The Return of the Living Dead -- @12. Better Off Dead -- @13. Tampopo -- @14. Pale River -- @15. Mishima: A lIfe in Four Chapters -- @16. Witness -- @17. Fright Night -- @18. Day of the Dead -- @19. To Live and Die in L.A. -- @20. Police Story

CriticsTop10, Best Films

-- =1. Prizzi's Honor -- =2. The Purple Rose of Cairo -- =3. Witness -- =4. Kiss of the Spider Woman -- =5. <Back to the Future> -- =6. Ran -- =7. <After Hours> -- =8. The Color Purple -- =9. Out of Africa -- =10. Cocoon

-- #11. Blood Simple -- #12. Brazil -- #13. Lost in America -- #14. The Official Story -- #15. Shoah -- #16. Mask -- #17. Desperately Seeking Susan -- #18. The Emerald Forest -- #19. Silverado -- #20. The Trip to Bountiful -- #21. Streetwise -- #22. The Breakfast Club -- #23. Sweet Dreams -- #24. The Shooting Party -- #25. Wetherby -- #26. Dreamchild -- #27. Twice in a Lifetime -- #28. Runaway Train -- #29. The Falcon and the Snowman -- #30. Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Oscar, Best Films

-- <Out of Africa> -- The Color Purple -- Kiss of the Spider Woman -- Prizzi's Honor -- Witness -- Ran

Golden Globe, Best Films

-- <Out of Africa> -- Prizzi's Honor -- The Official Story (La historia oficial) (Argentina) -- Witness -- The Color Purple -- Kiss of the Spider Woman -- The Purple Rose of Cairo

Top Grossing Films

-- Back to the Future -- Rambo: First Blood Part II -- Rocky IV -- The Color Purple -- Out of Africa -- Cocoon -- The Jewel of the Nile -- Witness -- The Goonies -- Spies Like Us

National Board of Review

-- The Color Purple -- <Out of Africa> -- The Trip to Bountiful -- Witness -- Kiss of the Spider Woman -- Prizzi's Honor -- Back to the Future -- The Shooting Party -- Blood Simple -- Dreamchild

National Film Registry

-- The Goonies -- Back to the Future -- <The Breakfast Club>

NYT, Best Films

-- My Life as a Dog -- Ran -- The Purple Rose of Cairo -- Tampopo -- <The Breakfast Club> -- Lost in America -- <Brazil> -- Dance with a Stranger -- Desperately Seeking Susan -- Shoah -- Kiss of the Spider Woman -- Re-Animator -- Prizzi's Honor -- Back to the Future -- My Beautiful Laundrette -- Huey Long -- Sherman's March -- A Room with a View -- The Trip to Bountiful

TSPDT, Best Films

-- My Life as a Dog -- Ran -- The Purple Rose of Cairo -- <Back to the Future> -- <The Breakfast Club> -- <Come and See> -- <Brazil> -- The Time to Live and the Time to Die -- Vagabond -- My Friend Ivan -- Taipei Story -- Shoah

Top10ner, Best Films

-- My Life as a Dog -- Ran -- The Purple Rose of Cairo -- Tampopo -- Back to the Future -- <The Breakfast Club> -- <Come and See> -- <Brazil> -- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters -- After Hours -- Police Story -- The Color Purple

Film101, Best Films

-- Ran -- My Life as a Dog -- Shoah -- A Room with a View -- <Come and See> -- Back to the Future -- Prizzi's Honor -- Witness -- <Brazil> -- Out of Africa -- Tampopo -- The Purple Rose of Cairo -- The Color Purple -- Vagabond -- Kiss of the Spider Woman -- The Official Story

ChildActors, Best Films

-- Cocoon -- D.A.R.Y.L. -- The Goonies -- Konrad -- My Life as a Dog (Sweden) -- Witness

-- Come and See (URSS) -- Oliver Twist -- When Father Was Away On Business (Yugoslavia)

-- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Ask Max -- Bayo (Canada) -- The Beniker Gang -- Blue Yonder, The / Time Flyer -- Chicken Thing -- Daemon (UK) -- Davandeh / The Runner Iran -- Detstvo Bambi / Bambi's Childhood (Soviet Union) -- The Dirt Bike Kid -- Displaced Person / D.P. -- Drzanje za vazduh (Yugoslavia) -- Explorers -- Fortress (Australia) -- Hodja fra pjort (Denmark) -- I Live With Me Dad (Australia) -- Joey / Making Contact (West Germany) -- Johannes' hemmelighed (Denmark) -- Kanashii kibun de joke / Joke with a Sorrowful Heart (Japan) -- Lent (UK) -- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Australia) -- Martin's Day (Canada) -- Le matou (Canada) -- Murphy's Romance -- Otra vuelta de tuerca / The Turn of the Screw (Spain) -- Los pazos de Ulloa / The Ulloa Country Mansions (Spain) -- The Peanut Butter Solution (Canada) -- Pequeña revancha (Venezuela) -- Petka s hvezdickou (Czechoslovakia) -- Piccoli fuochi (Italy) -- Playa Prohibida / Forbidden Beach (Mexico) -- Pohadka o malickovi / Spriditis Czechoslovakia (Soviet Union) -- Porwanie (Poland) -- A Reason to Live -- Revolution (UK) -- Silver Bullet -- South Bronx Heroes -- The Stuff -- A Summer to Remember -- Tarsi se saprug za mama / A Husband for Mum (Bulgaria) -- Terry on the Fence (UK) -- A Time to Live -- Unternehmen Geigenkasten (East Germany) -- The War Boy (Canada) -- Weird Science -- Weiße Wolke Carolin (East Germany) -- Winners: The Paper Boy (Australia) -- Yo, 'El Vaquilla' (Mexico)