1985 movies

Black Cauldron, The (1985)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bardsley, Grant | Sheridan, Susan | Jones, Freddie | Hawthorne, Nigel | Malet, Arthur | Byner, John | Rich, Lindsay | Call, Brandon | Levinson, Gregory | Merin, Eda Reiss | Malis-Morey, Adele | Hayes, Billie | Fondacaro, Phil | Renaday, Peter | Almanzar, James
Directors: Berman, Ted
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Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory.

Pocket Full of Rye, A (1985)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | West, Timothy | Drake, Fabia | Merrison, Clive | Bell, Rachel | Davison, Peter | Low, Frances | Dorning, Stacy | Stanbridge, Martyn | Wilkinson, Tom | Glover, Jon | Cadell, Selina | Badland, Annette | Kendall, Merelina | Mills, Frank
Directors: Slater, Guy
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Wealthy business man Rex Fortescue collapses when he reaches his office. It is determined that he was poisoned. No one seems too upset, as everyone agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon however Rex’s young wife also turns up poisoned. The maid, Gladyes, whom Miss Marple trained, writes to Miss Marple asking for help. Miss Marple arrives too late, as Gladyses’ body is found strangled and strung up on the clothes line. Now it’s personal, and Miss Marple is determined to see the murderer punished.

Murder Is Announced, A (1985)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Howells, Ursula | Asherson, Renée | Bond, Samantha | Shepherd, Simon | King, Nicola | Ives-Cameron, Elaine | Michael, Ralph | Syms, Sylvia | Solon, Matthew | Kerridge, Mary | Sims, Joan | Dionisotti, Paola | Moore, Vivienne | Collings, David
Directors: Giles, David
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A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock’s two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of “just walking by” or “Was in the neighborhood”. At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone’s face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.

Moving Finger, The (1985)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Culver, Michael | Counsell, Elizabeth | Appleby, Deborah | Gleeson, Lucy | Mansfield, Stuart | Bicknell, Andrew | Franklyn, Sabina | Pearson, Richard | Mason, Hilary | Hamlett, Dilys | Arnatt, John | Payne, Sandra | Fisk, Martin | Lee, Penelope
Directors: Boulting, Roy
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Squadron Leader Gerry Burton is sent to a tranquil country village to recover from the effects of a plane crash and be nursed back to health by his beautiful sister Joanna. As they are new to the community, they are shocked to receive an anonymous, sexually explicit poison pen letter. They later find that other village gentry have been victimized by the same crank writer, and the vicar’s wife sends for her friend Miss Marple in hopes of exposing the perpetrator. When a solicitor’s wife apparently takes poison after receiving a particularly vicious message, Miss Marple suspects that the letters are a smokescreen for something more ominous. When a house maid is found bludgeoned to death, she knows she is right.

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Crenna, Richard | Napier, Charles | Berkoff, Steven | Nickson-Soul, Julia | Kove, Martin | Cheung, George | Wood, Andy | Ghent, William | Goric, Voyo | Lee, Dana | Coleman, Baoan | Williams, Steven | Collins, Don | Grant, Christopher
Directors: Cosmatos, George P.
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John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW’s still held in Vietnam. Rambo’s assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky. Rambo falls in love with Co Bao, and when Co Bao is killed by Captain Vinh, Rambo wants revenge, so he starts killing every enemy in sight while still focusing on his intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of Rambo’s superiors.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Turner, Tina | Spence, Bruce | Cockburn, Adam | Thring, Frank | Rossitto, Angelo | Larsson, Paul | Anderson, Angry | Grubb, Robert | Spartels, George | Hodgeman, Edwin | Hornery, Bob | Oh, Andrew | Hall, Ollie | Rice, Lee
Directors: Miller, George
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Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie’s rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie’s Bartertown.

Pale Rider (1985)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Moriarty, Michael | Snodgress, Carrie | Penn, Chris | Dysart, Richard | Penny, Sydney | Kiel, Richard | McGrath, Doug | Russell, John | Hallahan, Charles | McIntyre, Marvin J. | Ryan, Fran | Hamilton, Richard | Paul, Graham | Lafont, Chuck
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Clint Eastwood is a mysterious preacher who comes to a gold mining camp near a small town in the mountains. The miners are in grave danger as a ruthless landowner decides to take their land, with the support of the sheriff. The only one who seems brave enough to save them is this preacher who came from nowhere and nobody knows his past or his real name. Why is the sheriff afraid of him? Why is he such a good shooter? Is he really a preacher?

Return to Oz (1985)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Balk, Fairuza | Williamson, Nicol | Jean Marsh | Laurie, Piper | Clark, Matt | Sundin, Michael | Rose, Timothy M. | Barrett, Sean | Wilson, Mak | Bryer, Denise | Henson, Brian | Larange, Stewart | Conway, Lyle | Norrington, Stephen | Case, Justin
Directors: Murch, Walter
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It has been six months since Dorothy has returned to Kansas from Oz and she still can not sleep. She has been going on about imaginary places and people so much that Aunt Em takes her to see a doctor. Dorothy promptly escapes from the mental hospital and wakes up in Oz where her favorite chichen can now talk. There she meets a whole new bunch of friends and they set off to rescue the Scarecrow from an evil Nome King who has found her Ruby Slippers and has used them to lay waste to the Emerald city and take over Oz.

White Nights (1985)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Baryshnikov, Mikhail | Hines, Gregory | Skolimowski, Jerzy | Mirren, Helen | Page, Geraldine | Rossellini, Isabella | Glover, John | Gryff, Stefan | Hootkins, William | Rimmer, Shane | Faure, Florence | Savile, David | Liston, Ian | Young, Benny | Drake, Hilary
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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Nikolai Rochenko, a Russian ballet dancer who 8 years ago defected to the West. He is in a plane flying over Russia when all of a sudden, a malfunction forces the plane to land in Russia. The KGB tells everyone that his injuries are so severe that he has to remain confide for a while. But in reality they want him to return to them, so they bring him to his old apartment and an American, Raymond Greenwood, who himself defected to Russia several years ago, is placed there to keep an eye on him. However, Rochenko is not about to give in and is determined to escape. So with help from his former lover, he gets word to the Americans. And even Raymond is started to be disillusioned with Russia, and he has to decide if he is going to do what he was sent to do or help Rochenko.

Falcon and the Snowman, The (1985)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutton, Timothy | Penn, Sean | Hingle, Pat | Van Patten, Joyce | Reed, Rob | Newell, Rob | West, Karen | Camacho, Art | Kozuch, Annie | Dysart, Richard | Pointer, Priscilla | Makepeace, Chris | Harewood, Dorian | Kaplan, Mady | McCalman, Macon
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can’t last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.