Best desperately hopping award winning movies from 1985

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1 The Trip to Bountiful (1985)

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

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1985-12-20 | Drama

Cast

Geraldine Page, John Heard

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #98 for
    harridan
  2. Ranked #101 for
    gut-punch
  3. Ranked #101 for
    mawkish

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2 Rocky IV (1985)

Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Ivan Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.

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1985-11-21 | Drama

Cast

Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire

Rating

rating icon 7.089
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #43 for
    jingoistic
  2. Ranked #75 for
    locking horns
  3. Ranked #75 for
    underdog

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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 Smooth Talk (1985)

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.

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1985-09-21 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Laura Dern, Treat Williams

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #48 for
    flirtatious
  2. Ranked #131 for
    scrawny
  3. Ranked #141 for
    smooth talker

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5 Tampopo (1985)

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

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1985-11-23 | Comedy

Cast

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto

Rating

rating icon 7.844
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    gastronomic
  2. Ranked #19 for
    grease monkey
  3. Ranked #169 for
    like Chef

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6 White Nights (1985)

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

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1985-11-22 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #180 for
    Cirque Du Soleil like
  2. Ranked #292 for
    desperately hoping
  3. Ranked #302 for
    athletic

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7 My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Info

1985-11-16 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis

Rating

rating icon 6.736
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #66 for
    with bangers
  2. Ranked #69 for
    neon-drenched
  3. Ranked #97 for
    plain

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8 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.

Info

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

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9 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.

Info

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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10 The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985)

A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately seek a reprieve.

Info

1985-11-17 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Graham Beckel, George Dzundza

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #312 for
    most heartbreaking
  2. Ranked #411 for
    most touching
  3. Ranked #418 for
    afterschool special

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