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Browsing: Movies 1985
Based on a true incident, Agnes of God tells of the tragic events surrounding the birth of a baby in a Catholic convent of cloistered nuns. The…
Young Vietnamese refugee Dinh (Ho Nguyen) arrives in the small Texan shrimp-fishing community of Port Alamo to find work. But resentment from the locals is…
The threat of a terminal genetic condition sparks the reconciliation of two brothers (Kevin Costner and David Grant) during America’s toughest bicycle race in the…
This sequel to Angel (1984) has former teen hooker Molly “Angel” Stewart (now played by Betsy Russell replacing winsome Donna Wilkes, star of the first…
Patchy comedy about a wild party for a soon-to-be-married young man played with moderate charm by Tom Hanks. Aside from Hanks’ likeable presence, the film…
Insecure but intelligent and wise-cracking 17-year-old Hill Valley High student Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) is working as an assistant to his eccentric scientist pal…
Sydneysider Harry Joy (Barry Otto) is a successful advertising man, with a nice house, a wife he loves (Lynette Curran) and two children, David (Miles…
Terry Gilliam has a warped mind. We all knew he was a tad bizarre when we saw his animation on Monty Python’s Flying Circus in the…
“I want to be just like you. I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights” The Breakfast Club was a proud member of…
Three horror-thriller tales from Stephen King revolve around a mysterious stray cat which is attempting to find a little girl in trouble. The first story…
Set in a baroque country mansion in New England in 1954, and based on the Parker Brothers board game Cluedo (marketed as ‘Clue’ in America), the…
A fizzy, offbeat Aussie comedy about corporate ideals, from Serbian director Dusan Makavejev. Eric Roberts is Becker, a go-getting Coca-Cola troubleshooter who is sent to Australia to boost…
“We won’t get any older, and we won’t ever die.” Ron Howard delivered this nice 80s sci-fi flick about an alien named Walter (Brian Dennehy)…
Anyone who believed Steven Spielberg was incapable of anything but adventure sagas for the teenage consumer should have been surprised by The Color Purple. Based on…
In a post-apocalyptic future dystopian Britain, aspiring comedian Sam Coex (Steve Munroe) murders Joey Myers (Jeff Pirie), the leading comic on the club circuit, and…
Arnold Schwarzenegger gets the good-guy role in his first movie after finding cult success with The Terminator (1984). Although he still looks a little awkward with…
Without a doubt the most ambitious made-for-television musical movie ever made, Copacabana is based on the Top 10 million-selling 1978 single of the same name by…
Naive and clean-cut young Vic Ajax (Reed Birney) has been sentenced to death in the electric chair for crimes he didn’t commit. The story unfolds…
The last film in George A Romero’s classic original zombie trilogy, Day of the Dead was generally considered to be the weakest of the three…
