Drama Movies of 1985
Twice in a Lifetime
On the occasion of his 50th birthday, blue-collar family man Gene Hackman is possessed by our old friend, The Mid-Life Crisis. Visiting a local tavern, Hackman ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Death of a Salesman
In 1984, actor Dustin Hoffman starred in a ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Arch of Triumph
Erich Maria Remarque's novel Arch of Triumph was originally adapted to film in 1948 with stars Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman under the direction ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Plenty
Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan Traherne, a woman looking for solace and a decent life in the ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
St. Elmo's Fire
Post-collegiate angst, '80s style, is the subject of this coming-of-age ensemble piece, ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby is a Friend of Mine
Mary Trimble wrote this TV adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story. Brian Svrusis, a 12-year-old ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Mussolini and I
The last days in the life of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his family are told from the point of view of his ill-fated son-in-law ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
White Nights
The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Hold the Dream
This television mini-series sequel to A Woman of Substance ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Out of Africa
Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
An Early Frost
Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn plays a personable ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Mask
This is the true story of Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), a personable young man suffering from "lionitis," a fatal disease which causes hideous facial ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Stone Pillow
The ads for The Stone Pillow tended to suggest that this ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Malice in Wonderland
When the made-for-TV The Rumor Mill first aired on May 12, 1985, it bore the title Malice in Wonderland. This joyously inaccurate ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
The Color Purple
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Sins
In this drama, a woman struggles to rise to the top of the fashion industry, but as she does, her past business sins ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Rocky IV
The third sequel to Sylvester Stallone's boxing blockbuster combines the ringside sports melodrama of the previous installments with the Cold War patriotism of the star/director's other motion picture series of the 1980s, the Rambo saga. ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Fool for Love
Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Perfect
Based on a series of Rolling Stone articles by Aaron Latham, this romance was set in the world of L.A.'s hip fitness scene. Rolling Stone reporter Adam Lawrence (John Travolta) comes to L.A. to write ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
The Trip to Bountiful
Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Turk 182!
Timothy Hutton stars in this rabble-rousing movie in the tradition of Rocky, directed by Bob Clark. Hutton plays Jimmy Lynch, the younger ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Miami Vice: Season 02
Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), Dade County's coolest undercover vice cops, are back for more MTV-influenced adventures as Miami Vice ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Agnes of God
Agnes of God is an "opened up" adaptation of the minimalist stage play by John Pielmeier. ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Rendez-Vous
Juliette Binoche teams with Lambert Wilson in this erotic drama. Binoche plays Nina, the young ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Deadly Justice
Made for television, Broken Badge originally aired as The Rape of Richard Beck. Richard Crenna plays Beck, a hard-bitten cop who has little patience for female rape victims. Then he himself is sexually assaulted by two assailants. Crenna's ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
The Burning Bed
Farrah Fawcett earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal of Francine Hughes in the television movie The Burning Bed. The film is structured as a series of flashbacks while Francine's character ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
American Flyers
It takes a fierce three-day bicycle race up in the ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Wetherby
In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling, director David Hare has created an engaging ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Dance with a Stranger
This darkly haunting slightly fictionalized film is a retelling of the life and death of Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson), the last woman to be ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Enemy Mine
Love means never having to say that you're ugly in the extravagant fantasy film Enemy Mine. Earthling Dennis Quaid is Davidge, one of many space warriors engaged in a bloody extraterrestrial battle against the Draconians. Crash-landing on a ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
On the Edge
Looking none the worse for his age, Bruce Dern ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Sweet Dreams
Patsy Cline was one of the first great female stars of country music, and her best-known hits (such as "Sweet ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
The Boys Next Door
The "boys next door" are Roy Alston (Maxwell Caulfield) and Bo Richards (Charlie Sheen), typical ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
City Limits
This bleak post-apocalyptic science fiction actioner substitutes a ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Silas Marner
This TV adaptation of George Elliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner was one of the rare single-episode presentations of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. Ben ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Under the Biltmore Clock
In this light-weight romantic story, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Myra Meets ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Lamb
Michael Lamb (Liam Neeson) is a member of the Christian Brotherhood, working as a teacher in a private special-ed school in Ireland. Having recently ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Dallas: Season 09
The infamous ninth season of Dallas begins with Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) grieving over the death of her ex-husband Bobby, who was killed saving Pamela from her vengeful half-sister, Katherine Wentworth. To Pamela, the whole ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
King David
Director Bruce Beresford has safely stayed within the domain of the Bible and not strayed into patches of Hollywood fiction in this routine version of the story of David (Richard Gere). For that reason, ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Smooth Talk
Produced for PBS' American Playhouse series, Smooth Talk was given a brief theatrical release before its "official" February 9, 1987 TV debut. Laura Dern plays a ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
That Was Then... This Is Now
Emilio Estevez adapted S.E. Hinton's teen coming-of-age novel for the screen in this film ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Tuff Turf
This routine film catalogues what happens to a teen's life when he is wrenched from an easy existence in affluent, East Coast suburbia and dropped into the lean, mean streets of a ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Vision Quest
According to high school wrestler Matthew Modine, a spiritual "Vision Quest" ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Baby... Secret of the Lost Legend
Eight years before the dinosaur mania created by Jurassic Park, Bill L. Norton released this more dinosaur-friendly story about a 10-foot baby dinosaur in dire straits in Africa because Dr. Eric Kiviat ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
1918
Adapted by Horton Foote from his own play, 1918 focuses on a small Texas town beset by a ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Sylvester
Melissa Gilbert acquits herself well in this old-fashioned family drama about a gritty Texas orphan named Charlie (Gilbert), a substitute parent for her brothers, determined to ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Colonel Redl
The second film in the trilogy made by director Istvan Szabo and actor ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a 6-part British miniseries, first telecast in the US on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. The series covers the years 1946 through 1947, during which time the British government granted ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Always
Henry Jaglom, the best professional "home movie" maker in the business, produced, directed, wrote and starred in Always. Also appearing ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
A Chorus Line
Broadway's celebratory musical about rejection makes it to the screen in a fizzless adaptation by Richard Attenborough that misses the ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
My Beautiful Laundrette
After the death of his wife and his subsequent descent ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
The Twilight Zone [TV Series] [1985]
Twenty-one years after its network cancellation, Rod Serling's classic sci-fi/fantasy anthology The Twilight Zone was revived by CBS -- minus Serling, who had passed away in ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Desert Hearts
Director Donna Deitch makes a strong impression in her ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
American Commandos
A former Green Beret becomes a low-budget Rambo after he stops a gang from robbing his LA gas station and they retaliate by slaughtering his family. Enraged, the veteran joins forces with a CIA agent and a mercenary band. Together ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Vagabond
Vagabond, directed by Agnes Varda is the dark disturbing story of a female drifter named Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire). The film opens as Mona's frozen body is found in a drainage ditch and ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Bittere Ernte
This West German film was first released in 1985 under the title Bittere Ernte. Armin-Mueller Stahl plays a ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Cut and Run
In this Italian adventure, the deadly drug manufacturing and export operation of a prominent South- American drug czar is discovered by an investigative TV news correspondent and her cameraman who went to the ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
The Emerald Forest
The Emerald Forest is based on a true story, as related by Los ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
The Official Story
This is an emotionally gripping, fictional look at a couple torn apart by the infamous Argentine campaign of killings and torture that sent thousands of ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
A Hora da Estrela
This is a sympathetic, observant drama about the trials and tribulations of Macabea (Marcelia Cartaxo) who has left her home in northeastern Brazil to seek her fortune in Sao Paulo. Macabea misses her friends and family but ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
South Bronx Heroes
Filmed independently in 1983, Runaways was released in 1985 under two alternate titles, South Bronx Heroes and ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Private Passions
The initiation of young Mark (Gavin Brannan) into his first sexual encounter is the objective and focus of this run-of-the-mill teen drama by Kikuo Kawasaki. When Mark goes to visit his cousin Toni ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
In Paul Schrader's unusual biopic, Ken Ogata stars as Yukio Mishima, perhaps the most ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Krush Groove
In-between rappin' numbers by groups like Run-DMC and The Fat Boys, ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
November Moon
Homosexual love among the ravages of war would be more ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Rappin'
In Rappin', Mario Van Peebles is John Hood, a con who when released from jail goes back to his neighborhood to find his girl shacked up with a nasty gang-leader named ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Wuthering Heights
Jacques Rivette's version of Emily Bronte's novel might as well be called "Withering Heights" since only segments of the full plot are used, and the setting has been changed to France in the 1930s. The vengeful Heathcliff ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
And the Children Shall Lead
In honor of Martin Luther King's birthday, PBS' Wonderworks presentation of January 14, 1985 was And the Children Shall Lead. Set in ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Bleak House
This 1985 television production faithfully adapts Charles Dickens' Bleak House, an indictment of Victorian England's corrupt legal and class systems that prey on the weak and the innocent. Esther Summerson (Suzanne Burden), a kind and ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Bridge to Terabithia
Jess is determined to be the fastest kid in his ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Combat Shock
This violent film follows the miserable life of a miserable Vietnam vet as it goes from awful, to disgusting, to almost ludicrous (the life and the film). First the vet helps ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Fortress
In an Australian outback town so small that children of all ages share a single classroom, teacher Sally (Rachel Ward) suffers the typical ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Into Thin Air
In this docudrama, Ellen Burstyn stars as the mother of a Canadian teen who mysteriously vanishes while traveling to school in Colorado. Robert Prosky portrays the detective who ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
In this adventure film, the ill-matched passengers on an airplane riding above the jungles and rainforests of South America struggle to survive when their ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Oliver Twist
The second British miniseries adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Oriana
In this interesting cinematic tour of a woman's memory (winner of the 1985 ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Las Barras Bravas
Barras Bravas is a Spanish film about the evil workings of a ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Escape Sangriento
Escape Sangriento concerns an unjustly incarcerated man named Pedro Montes (Mario Almada). Filled ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Girls from Nowolipki
In this Polish film, a group of young Warsaw girls help each other through the trials of growing up. ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Meteor and Shadow
The eccentric life and poignant death of Greek poet Napoleon Lapathiotis are the subject of this mannered, stylized biography by Takis Spetsiotis. Takis ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Esther
In this experimental film that deals metaphorically with Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East, left-leaning director Amos Gitai uses Biblical history to ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Private Sessions
In this drama, the failed pilot for a TV series, a psychologist endeavors to balance his turbulent personal life, with ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Room to Move
In this drama two teens become quite close when their parents refuse to listen. ~ Sandra ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Heart of the High Country
A woman starting a new life in a new land finds that fate has some unpleasant surprises in store in this made-for-TV drama. Ceci is a young woman in her teens who has decided to leave her home in Great Britain and strike out on her ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Last Images of the Shipwreck
The director of the enigmatic, entirely memorable feature Man Facing Southeast confronts ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Coming Through
The romantic entanglements of renowned author D.H. ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
Vabank II Czyli Riposta
This is a sequel to the domestically popular Va Banque about the antagonism between Kramer (Leonard Peetraszak) a double-crossing, unscrupulous ex-thief, now in jail, and his former partner Kwintz (Jan ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
No Love Juice
When 28-year-old Tomomi is unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend, she ... [ Drama movie - 1985 ]
