Ran(1985)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.



Back to the Future(1985)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.



The Color Purple(1985)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.



The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 59

In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.



Cocoon(1985)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 52

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.



Kiss of the Spider Woman(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.



Witness(1985)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.



Out of Africa(1985)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 33

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.



Runaway Train(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.





Mask(1985)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.



White Nights(1985)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...



Agnes of God(1985)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 19

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.



The Trip to Bountiful(1985)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.