Best award winning movies with an applauded ending from 1985

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an applauded ending from 1985! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an applauded ending from 1985, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

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1985-03-01 | Fantasy / Comedy

Cast

Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels

Rating

rating icon 7.394
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #92 for
    escapist fantasy
  2. Ranked #116 for
    nifty
  3. Ranked #131 for
    highly imaginative

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2 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 8.317
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    multiverse
  2. Ranked #70 for
    time-loop
  3. Ranked #105 for
    punching bag

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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.

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1985-06-01 | Action / Drama

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao

Rating

rating icon 8.073
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #42 for
    backstabbing
  2. Ranked #62 for
    with mercenaries
  3. Ranked #99 for
    implacable

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4 Witness (1985)

A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.

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1985-02-08 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis

Rating

rating icon 7.096
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #64 for
    gruesome murder
  2. Ranked #85 for
    horrific crimes
  3. Ranked #91 for
    fish out of water

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5 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 7.171
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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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6 Legend (1985)

Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lili and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.

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1985-08-28 | Adventure / Fantasy

Cast

Tom Cruise, Mia Sara

Rating

rating icon 6.209
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #135 for
    fairytale-like
  2. Ranked #163 for
    visual marvel
  3. Ranked #174 for
    like Harry Potter

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7 The Color Purple (1985)

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

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1985-12-18 | Drama / History

Cast

Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover

Rating

rating icon 7.759
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  2. Ranked #116 for
    dialed down acting
  3. Ranked #137 for
    critically acclaimed

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8 Prizzi's Honor (1985)

Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.

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1985-06-14 | Romance / Comedy

Cast

Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner

Rating

rating icon 6.363
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #24 for
    like Scarface
  2. Ranked #63 for
    seriocomedy
  3. Ranked #80 for
    Multigenre

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9 Revolution (1985)

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.

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1985-12-25 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland

Rating

rating icon 5.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #66 for
    history buff
  2. Ranked #105 for
    gung-ho
  3. Ranked #125 for
    barely intelligible

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10 Shoah (1985)

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

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1985-04-21 | Documentary / History

Cast

Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik

Rating

rating icon 8.27
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #93 for
    low-key approach
  2. Ranked #151 for
    archival footage
  3. Ranked #171 for
    mythology extending

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