Best 1985 movies
Stacker compiled a list of the best 1985 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.
#20. Real Genius
- Stacker score: 75.3
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 40,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Martha Coolidge
- Actors: Val Kilmer, Stacy Peralta, Daniel Ades
- Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $12,952,019
#19. Out of Africa
- Stacker score: 75.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 90,000)
- Metascore: 69
- Director: Sydney Pollack
- Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
- Runtime: 2 hours 41 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $87,071,205
#18. My Beautiful Laundrette
- Stacker score: 77.4
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Stephen Frears
- Actors: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $2,451,545
#17. Re-Animator
- Stacker score: 77.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 76,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Stuart Gordon
- Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
- Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
- Rating: Unrated
- Box office: $2,023,414
#16. The Breakfast Club
- Stacker score: 77.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 462,000)
- Metascore: 66
- Director: John Hughes
- Actors: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $45,875,171
#15. Mask
- Stacker score: 78.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 34,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Peter Bogdanovich
- Actors: Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $48,230,162
#14. The Sure Thing
- Stacker score: 78.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Rob Reiner
- Actors: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $18,135,531
#13. Lost in America
- Stacker score: 79.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Albert Brooks
- Actors: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Sylvia Farrel
- Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $10,179,000
#12. Witness
- Stacker score: 80.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 111,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Peter Weir
- Actors: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $68,706,993
#11. Prizzi's Honor
- Stacker score: 81.2
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: John Huston
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia
- Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $26,657,534
#10. The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Stacker score: 81.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 58,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Woody Allen
- Actors: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
- Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $10,631,333
#9. Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Stacker score: 82.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Hector Babenco
- Actors: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: R
- Box office: $17,005,229
#8. To Live and Die in L.A.
- Stacker score: 82.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 45,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: William Friedkin
- Actors: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $17,307,019
#7. A Room with a View
- Stacker score: 83.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 51,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: James Ivory
- Actors: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $20,966,644
#6. The Color Purple
- Stacker score: 83.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 102,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
- Runtime: 2 hours 34 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $98,467,863
#5. Brazil
- Stacker score: 87.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 218,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Terry Gilliam
- Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro
- Runtime: 2 hours 12 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $9,929,135
#4. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Stacker score: 87.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 16,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Paul Schrader
- Actors: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: R
- Box office: $437,547
#3. After Hours
- Stacker score: 88.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 91,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Actors: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $10,609,321
#2. Back to the Future
- Stacker score: 92.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 1.4 million)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $214,553,307
#1. Shoah
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.7 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 99
- Director: Claude Lanzmann
- Actors: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl
- Runtime: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $20,175
