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

rating icon 7.176
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #31 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #46 for
    sad

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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

rating icon 7.308
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #47 for
    prosaic
  2. Ranked #69 for
    neo-realism
  3. Ranked #71 for
    ambling

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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.

Info

1985-06-01 | Action / Drama

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao

Rating

rating icon 8.071
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #42 for
    backstabbing
  2. Ranked #65 for
    with mercenaries
  3. Ranked #104 for
    implacable

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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.

Info

1985-11-15 | Action / Thriller

Cast

Jon Voight, Eric Roberts

Rating

rating icon 6.906
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #81 for
    implacable
  2. Ranked #97 for
    haywire
  3. Ranked #140 for
    most underrated

Trailer

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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.

Info

1985-08-16 | Comedy / Thriller

Cast

Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #77 for
    seriocomedy
  2. Ranked #102 for
    like The Revenant
  3. Ranked #119 for
    jittery

Trailer

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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

rating icon 8.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    multiverse
  2. Ranked #70 for
    time-loop
  3. Ranked #104 for
    punching bag

Trailer

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7 Cop au Vin (1985)

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

Info

1985-04-10 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran

Rating

rating icon 6.151
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #35 for
    iconoclast
  2. Ranked #63 for
    gastronomic
  3. Ranked #65 for
    ramshackle house

Trailer

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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.

Info

1985-03-29 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Rosanna Arquette, Madonna

Rating

rating icon 6.053
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #82 for
    scuzzy
  2. Ranked #90 for
    devil-may-care
  3. Ranked #106 for
    madcap comedy

Trailer

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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.

Info

1985-04-03 | Drama / History

Cast

Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio

Rating

rating icon 7.486
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    confusing
  2. Ranked #44 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #115 for
    teaching tool

Trailer

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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.

Info

1985-03-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech

Rating

rating icon 6.844
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #205 for
    glitzy
  2. Ranked #210 for
    jarring sound
  3. Ranked #263 for
    jingoistic

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