1985: My favorite movies
Top 5 of 110 in 1985 - Gilliam's "BRAZIL", Draskovic's "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL", Babenco's "KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN", German's "MY FRIEND IVAN LAPSHIN" and Greenaway's "A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS". Best Comedy - "LOVE AND PIGEONS", Best fantasy - "LEGEND", Best Musical - "YESTERDAY", Best Mystery - "O-BI, O-BA: THE END OF CIVILIZATION", Best Thriller - "SUBWAY", Best Crime - "VABANK II", Best Action - "BACK TO THE FUTURE" and "ENEMY MINE", Best Adventure - "LADYHAWKE" and "THE JEWEL OF THE NILE", Best Cartoon - "ANGEL'S EGG". In the list of 6 films from USA, 5 films from USSR, 3 films from Poland, on 2 movie from UK, Japan, France and Yugoslavia, one film from Netherlands, Spain and Canada.
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- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJonathan PryceKim GreistRobert De NiroA bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsAndrei BoltnevNina RuslanovaAndrey MironovRussian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBrian DeaconEric DeaconAndréa FerréolTwin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
- DirectorBoro DraskovicStarsRade SerbedzijaDragan NikolicSonja SavicSick of the system he works in, an engineer stops the train in the middle of nowhere. The passengers decide to spend time in a local cafe, where their arguments lead to violence.
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsWilliam HurtRaul JuliaSonia BragaA gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsMeryl StreepRobert RedfordKlaus Maria BrandauerIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRutger HauerJennifer Jason LeighTom BurlinsonIn medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevArkadi NasyrovAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyyA former star dancer gives tap dancing lessons to an untalented young man.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsSandrine BonnaireMacha MérilStéphane FreissA young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
- DirectorViktor AristovStarsYury BelyayevSvetlana BragarnikLyubov KalyuzhnayaIt is based on real historical events related to the defense of Leningrad by the Red Army and the subsequent blockade of the city by the troops of the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. In the autumn of 1941, under the fire of German artillery and air raids, a small Soviet detachment delivered gunpowder necessary for the defense of the city from Kronstadt to Leningrad.
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsKader BoukhanefRémi MartinLaure DuthilleulIn a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
- DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsAleksandr MikhaylovNina DoroshinaLyudmila GurchenkoInjured on the job Vasily Kuzyakin gets a ticket to the resort. There he meets femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, and once under the charm, moves to live with her. Unfortunately, a new life is not all that sweet as dreamed hapless Vasily.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsTom CruiseMia SaraTim CurryA young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMatthew BroderickRutger HauerMichelle PfeifferThe thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
- DirectorRadoslaw PiwowarskiStarsPiotr SiwkiewiczAnna KazmierczakAndrzej ZielinskiThe growing up of four teenagers is connected with the songs of the Beatles.
- DirectorPiotr SzulkinStarsJerzy StuhrKrystyna JandaKalina JedrusikA man searches for survival after nuclear war forces people into an underground bunker. The inhabitants await rescue while their refuge decays around them.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsChristopher LambertIsabelle AdjaniRichard BohringerOn improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Metro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsJan MachulskiLeonard PietraszakWitold PyrkoszConvict Kramer manages to escape from prison. Before leaving for Switzerland, he wants to take revenge on Kwinto, the man who sent him to jail.
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsDennis QuaidLouis Gossett Jr.Brion JamesDuring a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
- DirectorLewis TeagueStarsMichael DouglasKathleen TurnerDanny DeVitoWhen Joan Wilder is abducted while on a trip along the Nile, her boyfriend, Jack Colton, and pal Ralph rush to rescue her and retrieve a fabled jewel.
- DirectorMamoru OshiiStarsMako HyôdôJinpachi NezuKeiichi NodaA mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.