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Best Movies of 1985, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
94 films from 1985 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Back to the Future ('1985), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Clue, 7.3 on IMDb against 41 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back to the Future '1985 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 8.5 | 93% | 88 | 8.3 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2 | Come and See '1985 | Drama / War / Horror | 8.3 | 90% | - | 8.2 | Elem Klimov |
| 3 | Ran '1985 | Action / Drama | 8.2 | 96% | 97 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 4 | The Breakfast Club '1985 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 87% | 66 | 7.7 | John Hughes |
| 5 | Brazil '1985 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 98% | 84 | 7.7 | Terry Gilliam |
| 6 | The Goonies '1985 | Comedy | 7.7 | 77% | 62 | 7.5 | Richard Donner |
| 7 | The Color Purple '1985 | Drama | 7.7 | 73% | 78 | 7.7 | Steven Spielberg |
| 8 | After Hours '1985 | Comedy / Thriller / Drama | 7.6 | 90% | 89 | 7.5 | Martin Scorsese |
| 9 | Blood Simple '1985 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 94% | 84 | 7.2 | Joel Coen |
| 10 | The Purple Rose of Cairo '1985 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 93% | 75 | 7.4 | Woody Allen |
| 11 | Tampopo '1985 | Comedy | 7.9 | 100% | 87 | 7.8 | Jūzō Itami |
| 12 | Clue '1985 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.3 | 73% | 41 | 7.2 | Jonathan Lynn |
| 13 | Witness '1985 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.3 | 92% | 76 | 7.1 | Peter Weir |
| 14 | Police Story '1985 | Action / Crime / Comedy | 7.5 | 90% | 78 | 7.6 | Jackie Chan |
| 15 | The Return of the Living Dead '1985 | Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 71% | 66 | 7.2 | Dan O'Bannon |
| 16 | Pale Rider '1985 | Western / Drama | 7.3 | 94% | 61 | 7.2 | Clint Eastwood |
| 17 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters '1985 | Drama | 7.9 | 79% | 84 | 7.8 | Paul Schrader |
| 18 | Out of Africa '1985 | Romance / Drama | 7.2 | 62% | 69 | 7.1 | Sydney Pollack |
| 19 | To Live and Die in L.A. '1985 | Crime / Thriller / Action | 7.3 | 89% | 81 | 7.1 | William Friedkin |
| 20 | My Life as a Dog '1985 | Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 100% | 82 | 7.2 | Lasse Hallström |
| 21 | Silverado '1985 | Western / Action / Drama | 7.2 | 78% | 64 | 6.9 | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 22 | Fright Night '1985 | Comedy / Horror | 7.1 | 83% | 62 | 7.0 | Tom Holland |
| 23 | Day of the Dead '1985 | Horror / Drama / Mystery | 7.1 | 61% | 60 | 7.0 | George A. Romero |
| 24 | Re-Animator '1985 | Sci-Fi / Comedy / Horror | 7.1 | 88% | 73 | 7.1 | Stuart Gordon |
| 25 | Vagabond '1985 | Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Agnès Varda |
| 26 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure '1985 | Comedy | 7.1 | 78% | 47 | 6.5 | Tim Burton |
| 27 | Runaway Train '1985 | Action / Thriller / Drama | 7.2 | 84% | 67 | 7.0 | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| 28 | Mask '1985 | Drama | 7.2 | 93% | 73 | 7.3 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 29 | Better Off Dead... '1985 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 75% | 51 | 6.6 | Savage Steve Holland |
| 30 | Kiss of the Spider Woman '1985 | Drama | 7.3 | 88% | 80 | 7.0 | Héctor Babenco |
| 31 | Rocky IV '1985 | Drama / Action | 6.9 | 38% | 40 | 7.1 | Sylvester Stallone |
| 32 | Angel's Egg '1985 | Animation / Fantasy / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | - | - | 7.7 | Mamoru Oshii |
| 33 | Fletch '1985 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 6.9 | 79% | 68 | 6.8 | Michael Ritchie |
| 34 | Ladyhawke '1985 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 68% | 64 | 7.0 | Richard Donner |
| 35 | Enemy Mine '1985 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 61% | 59 | 7.0 | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 36 | The Sure Thing '1985 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 81% | 76 | 6.5 | Rob Reiner |
| 37 | Real Genius '1985 | Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 77% | 71 | 6.7 | Martha Coolidge |
| 38 | Vampire Hunter D '1985 | Animation / Fantasy / Horror | 7.0 | 82% | - | 6.6 | Toyoo Ashida |
| 39 | RETURN '1985 | Drama | - | - | - | 6.8 | Norihiko Morinaga |
| 40 | Young Sherlock Holmes '1985 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 70% | 65 | 6.8 | Barry Levinson |
| 41 | Year of the Dragon '1985 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 6.8 | 55% | 58 | 6.8 | Michael Cimino |
| 42 | My Beautiful Laundrette '1985 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 6.8 | 95% | 76 | 6.7 | Stephen Frears |
| 43 | The Last Dragon '1985 | Action / Comedy / Drama | 6.8 | 57% | 59 | 6.6 | Michael Schultz |
| 44 | Asterix vs. Caesar '1985 | Comedy / Animation | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Gaëtan Brizzi |
| 45 | Commando '1985 | Action / Thriller | 6.7 | 70% | 51 | 6.8 | Mark L. Lester |
| 46 | Cocoon '1985 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Mystery / Drama | 6.7 | 82% | 65 | 6.6 | Ron Howard |
| 47 | Return to Oz '1985 | Fantasy | 6.7 | 59% | 42 | 6.7 | Walter Murch |
| 48 | Phenomena '1985 | Horror / Thriller | 6.7 | 76% | 57 | 6.8 | Dario Argento |
| 49 | The Quiet Earth '1985 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.7 | 75% | - | 6.7 | Geoff Murphy |
| 50 | Prizzi's Honor '1985 | Romance / Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 85% | 84 | 6.4 | John Huston |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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