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Best Movies of 1986, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
92 films from 1986 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Aliens ('1986), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Highlander, 7.0 on IMDb against 24 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aliens '1986 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 8.4 | 93% | 84 | 8.0 | James Cameron |
| 2 | Stand by Me '1986 | Drama | 8.1 | 89% | 76 | 7.8 | Rob Reiner |
| 3 | Platoon '1986 | Drama / War / Action | 8.0 | 89% | 92 | 7.7 | Oliver Stone |
| 4 | Castle in the Sky '1986 | Fantasy / Animation / Action | 8.0 | 97% | 78 | 8.0 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 5 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off '1986 | Comedy | 7.8 | 85% | 61 | 7.6 | John Hughes |
| 6 | Blue Velvet '1986 | Mystery / Thriller / Crime | 7.7 | 87% | 75 | 7.6 | David Lynch |
| 7 | The Name of the Rose '1986 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.7 | 74% | 54 | 7.5 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 8 | The Fly '1986 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 82% | 81 | 7.5 | David Cronenberg |
| 9 | Hannah and Her Sisters '1986 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 92% | 90 | 7.5 | Woody Allen |
| 10 | Jean de Florette '1986 | Drama | 8.1 | 93% | 75 | 7.7 | Claude Berri |
| 11 | Down by Law '1986 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 7.7 | 85% | 75 | 7.4 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 12 | The Sacrifice '1986 | Drama | 7.8 | 88% | 85 | 7.7 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 13 | Manon of the Spring '1986 | Drama | 8.0 | 81% | 70 | 7.6 | Claude Berri |
| 14 | Labyrinth '1986 | Fantasy | 7.3 | 63% | 50 | 7.3 | Jim Henson |
| 15 | The Mission '1986 | Drama / Action | 7.4 | 63% | 55 | 7.4 | Roland Joffé |
| 16 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home '1986 | Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 82% | 71 | 7.2 | Leonard Nimoy |
| 17 | Hoosiers '1986 | Drama | 7.4 | 90% | 77 | 7.0 | David Anspaugh |
| 18 | Big Trouble in Little China '1986 | Action / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | 65% | 53 | 7.2 | John Carpenter |
| 19 | Manhunter '1986 | Crime / Horror / Thriller | 7.2 | 82% | 75 | 7.0 | Michael Mann |
| 20 | Kin-dza-dza! '1986 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | - | - | 7.7 | Georgiy Daneliya |
| 21 | A Better Tomorrow '1986 | Action / Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 95% | 78 | 7.4 | John Woo |
| 22 | The Hitcher '1986 | Horror / Action / Thriller | 7.2 | 63% | 32 | 6.9 | Robert Harmon |
| 23 | A Room with a View '1986 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | 83 | 6.9 | James Ivory |
| 24 | Little Shop of Horrors '1986 | Horror / Comedy | 7.1 | 91% | 81 | 7.0 | Frank Oz |
| 25 | The Transformers: The Movie '1986 | Animation / Sci-Fi / Action | 7.2 | 63% | 43 | 7.2 | Nelson Shin |
| 26 | When the Wind Blows '1986 | Animation / War / Drama | 7.7 | 88% | - | 7.5 | Jimmy T. Murakami |
| 27 | Top Gun '1986 | Action / Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 57% | 51 | 7.1 | Tony Scott |
| 28 | Salvador '1986 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.3 | 91% | 69 | 7.0 | Oliver Stone |
| 29 | The Great Mouse Detective '1986 | Animation / Mystery / Crime | 7.1 | 79% | 73 | 7.0 | Ron Clements |
| 30 | Betty Blue '1986 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 78% | 56 | 7.2 | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| 31 | Highlander '1986 | Action / Fantasy | 7.0 | 70% | 24 | 6.9 | Russell Mulcahy |
| 32 | The Green Ray '1986 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Éric Rohmer |
| 33 | Mona Lisa '1986 | Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.3 | 98% | 85 | 6.9 | Neil Jordan |
| 34 | The Color of Money '1986 | Drama | 7.0 | 87% | 77 | 6.9 | Martin Scorsese |
| 35 | Children of a Lesser God '1986 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 81% | 80 | 6.9 | Randa Haines |
| 36 | Luxo Jr. '1986 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.0 | John Lasseter |
| 37 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer '1986 | Crime / Horror / Thriller / Drama | 7.0 | 89% | 80 | 6.7 | John McNaughton |
| 38 | Shadows in Paradise '1986 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 7.3 | Aki Kaurismäki |
| 39 | Sid and Nancy '1986 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 87% | 76 | 6.7 | Alex Cox |
| 40 | Crossroads '1986 | Drama / Musical | 7.1 | 74% | 55 | 7.4 | Walter Hill |
| 41 | Asterix in Britain '1986 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Pino Van Lamsweerde |
| 42 | An American Tail '1986 | Animation / Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | 76% | 38 | 6.8 | Don Bluth |
| 43 | Mauvais Sang '1986 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.2 | 85% | 74 | 7.1 | Leos Carax |
| 44 | Flight of the Navigator '1986 | Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 85% | 64 | 7.0 | Randal Kleiser |
| 45 | Ruthless People '1986 | Comedy | 6.9 | 93% | 78 | 6.6 | Jim Abrahams |
| 46 | Armour of God '1986 | Action / Comedy | 6.9 | 80% | - | 7.0 | Jackie Chan |
| 47 | Something Wild '1986 | Crime / Comedy / Romance | 6.9 | 92% | 73 | 6.6 | Jonathan Demme |
| 48 | At Close Range '1986 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.9 | 88% | 67 | 6.8 | James Foley |
| 49 | The Fugitives '1986 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Francis Veber |
| 50 | Matador '1986 | Drama / Thriller | 6.9 | 93% | - | 6.7 | Pedro Almodóvar |
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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