1985 Movies and Tvshows

Seattle veteran cop Richard Beck becomes a sexual assault victim and must deal with the painful aftermath

Moved by the work of director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozus films

Unable to gain acceptance into an American medical school, aspiring physician Jeff Marx studies abroad in a small Latin American medical program run by the countrys dictator

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free t

In San Francisco, an immigrant widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness shes sixty two now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year shell

In this parody of documentaries, host Martin Mull discusses the contributions that white people have made to the USA, visits the Institute of White Studies, and follows a typical white family as they go about their everyday lives

The zany adventures of a suburban family, their next door neighbors, and an innovative robot designed to look like a human child

An elite special missions force fights against the terrorist forces of Cobra

A team of lawyers take on the heads of Argentinas bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time

The adventures of a family of Raccoons and their friends

The misadventures and trials of an aspiring singer and her co workers at a greasy spoon diner

In 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film

This spin off of Dynasty 1981 featured the adventures of Jeff and Fallon Colby and Jeffs other wealthy relatives in California

This series took place in an apartment building numbered 227 The cast would frequently be sitting outside on a large set of stone stairs, involved in some discussion that would unfold into the weekly plotline

Matt Houston is a wealthy Texan who moves to California to oversee his familys offshore drilling enterprises but spends most of his time dabbling in his private investigator hobby

Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany Louises husband Heinz soon

Inspector Jean Darbley is assigned to the small Lancashire town of Hartley Initially, the long serving sergeants at the station, Joe Beck and George Parrish, are sceptical and uneasy about having a female boss But gradually she earn

A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and Yoshioka who has become a campus nobody

The humourous adventures of an English housekeeper working for an American family

An orphaned New Zealand girl married to an older, wealthy businessman learns to deal with his strange sexual desires

Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune But the

A little town in the north of France, 1941 Blanche has three children She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too In the netw

A desk bound cop secretly fights crime as the test pilot for a prototype combat motorcycle

Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War

Homicidal sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo is tasked with escorting a mobster to Malta When the prisoner escapes, Geronimo goes to catch him

A bevy of international beauties complete a chain of liaisons where every urge is fulfilled and no taboo is left unbroken Will it take more than one man to satisfy a nymphomaniacs voracious needs

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 ensn

Stig Helmer takes another vacation with his Norwegian friend Ole This time its time for a skiing vacation in the Alps Of course, Stig Helmer has never learned downhill skiing, but he attends a ski school And together they manage

Marauders raid the Ewok village and steal a power supply they believe to be magical Wicket helps Cindel escape the evil witch Charal, and they befriend a hermit who may help them save the village

In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house Louis presumably provokes the death of Fi

At a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder there, is still investigating helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day

A serial killer roams the city of Milan, Italy, using scissors to assassinate and kill top models A park ranger from USA arrives in the city to protect his sister, but realizes that she has vanished He starts searching for her, mee

American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines

When construction worker Greg becomes fed up with his foreman and the city life, he takes his wife and kids on a wilderness adventure

A rancher comes in conflict with a gang of renegade Aborigines on the run from their tribes posse They try to kill him, but he gets away and hides in the woods His posh wife and her lover, a local alcoholic cop, go to rescue him

Chitti Babu begins to suspect his elder brothers life is in danger after they team up to lock horns with their village president and overthrow his unlawful 30 year old regime

Survivors of a shipwreck wash up on an island, and run into small vicious creatures

The lives of an ex con, a coffee shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City

The story of two adolescent boys who are guests at a Florida resort for the week end Their only interest is, of course, chasing girls, but fate has much more in store for them

A major league star who is on the verge of breaking a record, meets a singer and they get married, but they have different goals, so they separate, jeopardizing his opportunity in sports and the possibility of making up with his wife

When a teenager is shot at the beach, a journalist from The Miami Journal is sent to cover the story Hes called by the murderer and told therell be four more

Murder victims spirit reaches out from beyond the grave in an attempt to possess the body of a young woman who has moved into his old apartment

The story of two guys and two girls who meet and fall in love in an amusement park on the last day of summer All the while outwitting three moronic would be jewel thieves

Five orphans in an orphanage dont want the authorities to break up the family they made of each other Arthur, the eldest, who writes the advice column Dear Lola Ben who eats paper introvert James Cassie, the only girl and Edmo

Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but hes reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where hes become an honest fisherman

In Cheech and Chongs Get Out Of My Room, the stoners hit the streets of L A in a mockumentary about themselves Featuring their classic songvideo Born In East L A , co starring Beverly DAngelo, Jan Michael Vincent