Best Drama movies of 1985

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Daisuke Ryû, Jinpachi Nezu,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

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.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Verna Bloom, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

Actors : Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez,
Directors : John Hughes,

Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

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

Actors : Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : James Ivory,

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting...

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.

Actors : John Cusack, Anthony Edwards, Daphne Zuniga, Boyd Gaines,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

A college student plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman. They hate each other, so naturally...

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Katherine Helmond, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

A bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error, and becomes an enemy of the state.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, José Lewgoy, William Hurt,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

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.

Actors : Mark Blum, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Madonna,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Kelly McGillis, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

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.

Actors : Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meryl Streep, Michael Kitchen,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

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

Actors : Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Michael Douglas, Yamil Borges,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.

Actors : Mike Genovese, Bert Remsen, Chuck Norris, Henry Silva,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Actors : Andrew McCarthy, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

A group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood.

Actors : John Pankow, Willem Dafoe, William Petersen, Debra Feuer,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop's men for ...

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner, Eric Roberts, Jon Voight,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

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

Actors : John Randolph, Robert Loggia, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : John Huston,

A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love.