Best award winning movies with ratcheting up tension from 1985
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with ratcheting up tension from 1985! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with ratcheting up tension from 1985, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
7.099
2 Blood Simple (1985)
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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- 1985-01-18 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- John Getz, Frances McDormand
Rating
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7.248
3 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
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6.906
4 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
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8.3
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5 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
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8.071
6 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
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7.176
7 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
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6.376
8 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
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7.486
9 Enemy Mine (1985)
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
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- 1985-12-12 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr.
Rating
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6.936
10 Day of the Dead (1985)
A small group of scientists and soldiers take refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating dead that walks the Earth above.
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- 1985-07-03 | Horror / Drama
Cast
- Lori Cardille, Anthony Dileo Jr.
Rating
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7.04
