Best movies of 1985 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

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...

Actors : Sophie Ward, Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

Actors : Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...

Actors : Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Leonard Termo, Ariane,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.

Actors : Anne Pitoniak, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

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

Actors : J.A. Preston, Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.

Actors : Lainie Kazan, Ray Wise, John Cusack, Meredith Salenger,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Sally Field, James Garner,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Richard Bradford, John Heard, Carlin Glynn,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

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

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate....

Actors : Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon, Barnard Hughes, Glenn Close,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

A 1920s flapper who haunts her old house possesses a dull housewife who just moved in. Hilarity ensues.

Actors : Call Ricketson, John Clayton, Michele Fawdon, Norman Kaye,
Directors : Bob Ellis,

Maureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover from years ago she decides he might be ...