Best award winning movies with a riveting finish from 1986

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a riveting finish from 1986! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a riveting finish from 1986, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Platoon (1986)

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

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1986-12-19 | Drama / War

Cast

Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe

Rating

rating icon 7.746
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    Aerial Combat
  2. Ranked #81 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #92 for
    remarkable

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2 Aliens (1986)

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

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1986-07-18 | Action / Thriller

Cast

Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn

Rating

rating icon 7.939
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #37 for
    gung-ho
  2. Ranked #47 for
    poindexter
  3. Ranked #84 for
    cyborg

Trailer

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3 The Fly (1986)

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

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1986-08-15 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #113 for
    for the fearless
  2. Ranked #129 for
    multiverse
  3. Ranked #131 for
    vomit-inducing

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4 Salvador (1986)

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.

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1986-04-23 | Drama / War

Cast

James Woods, Jim Belushi

Rating

rating icon 7.01
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #57 for
    scuzzy
  2. Ranked #99 for
    barn-burner
  3. Ranked #134 for
    sleazy

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5 Blue Velvet (1986)

Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.

Info

1986-09-19 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini

Rating

rating icon 7.624
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #63 for
    morally dubious
  2. Ranked #66 for
    showing underbelly
  3. Ranked #74 for
    lurid

Trailer

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6 The Mission (1986)

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

Info

1986-09-24 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons

Rating

rating icon 7.406
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #6 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #73 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #147 for
    tour de force

Trailer

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7 The Mosquito Coast (1986)

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.

Info

1986-11-26 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren

Rating

rating icon 6.36
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15 for
    monomaniacal
  2. Ranked #60 for
    smug
  3. Ranked #77 for
    vainglorious

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8 Mona Lisa (1986)

George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.

Info

1986-06-13 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson

Rating

rating icon 6.864
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    scuzzy
  2. Ranked #33 for
    subverting expectations
  3. Ranked #59 for
    murky

Trailer

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9 Otello (1986)

Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"

Info

1986-09-04 | Drama / Music

Cast

Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    blasphemous
  2. Ranked #124 for
    hissable
  3. Ranked #146 for
    symphonic music

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10 A Better Tomorrow (1986)

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

Info

1986-08-02 | Action / Crime

Cast

Ti Lung, Chow Yun-fat

Rating

rating icon 7.402
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #81 for
    chivalry
  2. Ranked #81 for
    game changer
  3. Ranked #96 for
    like The Equalizer

Trailer

A Better Tomorrow trailer
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