Best Movies of 1985

These are the 26 best-rated movies released in 1985, led by The Broken Landlord, Ölüm Yolu and Women. Ranked by audience score, with cast, trailers and legal places to watch on every page.

1. The Broken Landlord (1985)

★ 8.2/10

The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everything starts to go bad for the Agha. Due to the long…
2. Ölüm Yolu (1985)

★ 7.5/10

The film tells the love story between an escaped convict and the daughter of a famous businessman. Zeynep is the daughter of a well-known businessman. She is returning from vacation with her fiancé Tarık. A prison…
3. Women (1985)

★ 7.0/10

Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her sisters put on, beneath it all, each of them secretly yearns for a man in…
4. Came a Hot Friday (1985)

★ 6.8/10

Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife with illegal gambling corruption, and eccentricity.
5. About Tap (1985)

★ 6.7/10

ABOUT TAP features stylistic performances and recollections by three of America’s leading male tap dancers: Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde, and Chuck Green.
6. Saagar (1985)

★ 6.6/10

Raja, a fisherman is secretly in love with Mona. When wealthy Ravi comes to live with his grandmother, Kamladevi, he sees Mona and falls in love with her. Mona also reciprocates his love. Raja is devastated by this…
7. Outlaws (1985)

★ 6.6/10

A handful of teenagers, boys and girls, escape from a reform school and go round town. They go to a ball, the owner asks them to pay the bill.This man is very unpleasant, he hates the youth of today and he is a…
8. Sosyete Şaban (1985)

★ 6.5/10

Country bumpkin Şaban Ağa has long dreamed of winning the heart of Peri, the high-society belle he plans to marry, though she doesn’t even know he exists. Spurned when Peri agrees to wed him for his money then flees…
9. One Woman One Life (1985)

★ 6.5/10

Learning that her husband is cheating on her with a woman who is her family friend, Nuran starts to struggle to save her marriage even though she is very upset.
10. Love Is Never Silent (1985)

★ 6.3/10

A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own…
11. Flying Devils (1985)

★ 6.0/10

A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However, personal dramas and financial difficulties soon threaten to overtake…
12. Eleni (1985)

★ 5.9/10

Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as…
13. The Frogs (1985)

★ 5.6/10

In the half-light of dawn, Halil falls down dead, murdered. His wife, Elmas, cries for justice, but, in fact, there will be no investigation. Life goes on for Elmas: during the day she works in the rice paddies with…
14. Robin Hood (1985)

★ 5.6/10

With good King Richard away at war, the greedy Sheriff has forced the residents of Nottingham to pay all their money to him. But Robin Hood, with the help of his friend Maid Marion, a spy in the Sheriff's castle, is…
15. Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)

★ 5.5/10

A singing cowboy roams the Wild West with his sidekick, dancing horse and fancy wardrobe.
16. Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues (1985)

★ 5.5/10

A Wyoming cop teams with a Beverly Hills policeman to track down the killer of her best friend.
17. No Man's Land (1985)

★ 5.3/10

Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to…
18. The Empty Beach (1985)

★ 4.9/10

Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of greed and dishonesty. Singer's widow, Marion, believes he's still…
19. Turn of the Screw (1985)

★ 4.8/10

A young man is hired to take care of two orphaned siblings in a remote seaside mansion and soon realizes that someone... or something from the past is out to get the children.
20. Beer (1985)

★ 4.4/10

An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.
21. Transmutations (1985)

★ 3.9/10

When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr…
22. Victims! (1985)

★ 1.8/10

Four young girls on a camping trip in the woods are stalked by a pair of crazed serial killers.
23. African Fever (1985)

★ 0.0/10

A young woman decides to organize an intercontinental festival of African songs in Cameroon.
24. In Her Own Time (1985)

★ 0.0/10

A documentary about Dr. Barbara Myerhoff and Los Angeles's Fairfax district.
25. The Lion's Share (1985)

★ 0.0/10

An Italian cop returns to his birthplace of South Africa to investigate his father's death
26. The Hatbox (1985)

★ 0.0/10

This short silent film—the first movie directed by THE DAYTRIPPERS filmmaker Greg Mottola, who also shot and edited it—was made during Mottola’s brief stint at Pittsburgh Filmmakers in 1985.