Best thought-provoking award winning movies from 1986

View today’s top 10 movies with thought-provoking from 1986 based on the crowd's interest from popular searches across the country. People have searched for the greatest movies of all time with thought-provoking from 1986.

1 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.

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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

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2 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

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1986-02-07 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey

Rating

rating icon 7.505
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #43 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #118 for
    unfaithful partner
  3. Ranked #129 for
    smart and witty dialogue

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3 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.

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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

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4 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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5 Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (1986)

A documentary following a sex surrogate and two of her clients.

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1986-09-26 | Documentary

Cast

Maureen Sullivan, Warren Robert Jason

Rating

rating icon 4.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #148 for
    therapeutic
  2. Ranked #340 for
    rather corny
  3. Ranked #715 for
    thought-provoking

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6 A Room with a View (1986)

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

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1986-03-07 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands

Rating

rating icon 6.987
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #11 for
    prissy
  2. Ranked #13 for
    scrawny
  3. Ranked #43 for
    sabbatical

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7 'Round Midnight (1986)

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

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1986-01-09 | Drama

Cast

Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet

Rating

rating icon 7.08
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #76 for
    cautionary tale
  2. Ranked #108 for
    boppy
  3. Ranked #150 for
    putting a foot wrong

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8 Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

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1986-10-10 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage

Rating

rating icon 6.123
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #76 for
    multiverse
  2. Ranked #98 for
    time-loop
  3. Ranked #150 for
    plain

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9 Let's Hope It's a Girl (1986)

Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.

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1986-02-06 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Liv Ullmann, Catherine Deneuve

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #125 for
    odd casting
  2. Ranked #531 for
    slight miscast
  3. Ranked #597 for
    lack of charisma

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10 Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodial staff. In spite of Sarah's withdrawn emotional state, a romance slowly develops between the pair.

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1986-09-13 | Drama / Romance

Cast

William Hurt, Marlee Matlin

Rating

rating icon 6.923
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #53 for
    extraordinary
  2. Ranked #162 for
    little lame
  3. Ranked #176 for
    for heartbroken viewers

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