Best award winning movies with top-notch special effects from 1985

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

1 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 #103 for
    punching bag

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2 Fright Night (1985)

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

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1985-08-02 | Comedy / Horror

Cast

Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    Slasher Film
  2. Ranked #216 for
    like Clue
  3. Ranked #222 for
    smooth talker

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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 8.071
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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 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 6.205
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #137 for
    fairytale-like
  2. Ranked #164 for
    visual marvel
  3. Ranked #172 for
    like Harry Potter

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5 The Quiet Earth (1985)

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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1985-09-08 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge

Rating

rating icon 6.629
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #123 for
    Apocalypse Film
  2. Ranked #147 for
    purgatory
  3. Ranked #161 for
    Space Opera

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6 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

rating icon 6.933
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #32 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #96 for
    matte shot
  3. Ranked #105 for
    Space Opera

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7 Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.

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1985-12-04 | Mystery / Adventure

Cast

Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox

Rating

rating icon 6.736
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #49 for
    canonical
  2. Ranked #86 for
    third wheel
  3. Ranked #106 for
    escapist entertainment

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8 Ladyhawke (1985)

Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.

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1985-03-27 | Adventure / Comedy

Cast

Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer

Rating

rating icon 7.028
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #19 for
    arthurian
  2. Ranked #50 for
    anachronistic
  3. Ranked #76 for
    chivalry

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9 Re-Animator (1985)

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

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1985-10-18 | Science Fiction / Comedy

Cast

Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott

Rating

rating icon 7.053
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #17 for
    Grand-Guignol
  2. Ranked #60 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #79 for
    Splatter Movie

Trailer

Re-Animator trailer
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10 Lifeforce (1985)

A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible.

Info

1985-06-21 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Steve Railsback, Peter Firth

Rating

rating icon 6.253
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #95 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #148 for
    Cosmic Horror
  3. Ranked #170 for
    Apocalypse Film

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Lifeforce trailer
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