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Private Function, A (1985)
- Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott
- Michael Palin and Maggie Smith star in Alan Bennett's savage satire of class hypocrisy. Set in post–WW2 Britain during food rationing, secret…
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (1985)
- Dir. Kirby Dick
- The debut feature from bold documentarian Kirby Dick (SICK) is this fascinating and humane portrait of a sex surrogate Maureen Sullivan, who is…
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston
- Jack Nicholson plays a Mafia hitman, embroiled in some ripely comic and sexy intrigues.
Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
- Exceptional comic fantasy about a depression–era housewife (Mia Farrow) whose solace in the movies blossoms into a romance with a screen…
Quiet Earth, The (1985)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge
- New Zealand's best attempt yet at the sci–fi genre. Bruno Lawrence wakes one morning to find himself apparently the only person left on earth.…
Raising Arizona (1985)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter
- Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter can't concieve a baby of their own, so they steal a quintuplet from a redneck tycoon. Highly original, off–beat…
Rambo 2 (1985)
- Dir. George Pan Cosmatos
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier
- Iconic actioner in which traumatised commando John Rambo (Stallone) returns to Vietnam to rescue imprisoned G.I.s. Simplistic and violent, but a key…
Ran (1985)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai
- The title translates to 'chaos'; it is Kurosawa's vast and bloody interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Grandiose in every sense – a…
Ray Bradbury Theater, The (TV Series) (1985-1992)
- An HBO–originated fantasy anthology series entirely scripted by the eponymous (and prolific) author, based on his short stories and novels. A…
Re-Animator (1985)
- Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
- Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…