25 greatest films of 1985

In 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.

Marty 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.

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.

While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.

Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

Two professional assassins fall in love.

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Ordinary word processor Paul Hackett experiences the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit Marcy, a Soho resident that he met that evening at a coffee shop.

In the late '50s, young Ingemar learns a lot about life and himself when he is sent away from his sick mother to live with his aunt and uncle in a town full of eccentrics.

A family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.

A 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.

After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.

A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

Carrie Watts is an elderly woman who decides to visit her childhood home in Bountiful one last time. There, she meets a young woman with whom she shares her secrets and memories.

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.