Best award winning movies with a cruel twist from 1985
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a cruel twist from 1985! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a cruel twist from 1985, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Out of Africa (1985)
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
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- 1985-12-20 | History / Romance
Cast
- Robert Redford, Meryl Streep
Rating
- 7.176
2 Vagabond (1985)
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
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- 1985-12-04 | Drama
Cast
- Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril
Rating
- 7.308
3 Ran (1985)
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
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- 1985-06-01 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao
Rating
- 8.071
4 Runaway Train (1985)
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
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- 1985-11-15 | Action / Thriller
Cast
- Jon Voight, Eric Roberts
Rating
- 6.906
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5 After Hours (1985)
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
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- 1985-08-16 | Comedy / Thriller
Cast
- Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette
Rating
- 7.5
6 Back to the Future (1985)
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
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- 1985-07-03 | Adventure / Comedy
Cast
- Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
Rating
- 8.3
7 Cop au Vin (1985)
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
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- 1985-04-10 | Crime / Mystery
Cast
- Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran
Rating
- 6.151
8 Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
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- 1985-03-29 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Rosanna Arquette, Madonna
Rating
- 6.053
9 The Official Story (1985)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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- 1985-04-03 | Drama / History
Cast
- Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio
Rating
- 7.486
10 Colonel Redl (1985)
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
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- 1985-03-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech
Rating
- 6.844