Top 10 Films of 1985

1. "Brazil" (Terry Gilliam, UK)

2. "Runaway Train" (Andrei Konchalovsky, USA)

3. "The Purple Rose Of Cairo" (Woody Allen, USA)

4. "Come And See" (Elem Klimov, Soviet Union)

5. "Colonel Redl" (István Szabó, Hungary)

6. "The Emerald Forest" (John Boorman, USA)

7. "Ran" (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

8. "Prizzi's Honor" (John Huston, USA)

9. "The Company Of Wolves" (Neil Jordan, UK)

10. "After Hours" (Martin Scorsese, USA)

Other great films:

L'Amour braque (France)

Angry Harvest (Germany)

Back To The Future

Barbarian Queen

Bez konca (Poland)

The Black Cauldron
The Breakfast Club

Cocoon

The Color Purple
A Chorus Line

Commando

D.A.R.Y.L.
The Day Of The Dead

Le Declic (France)

Desperately Seeking Susan

Detective (France)

L'Effrontée (France)

Elvis Gratton (Canada)

Flesh Blood

The Goonies

The Grafenberg Spot

Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (East Germany)

The Hollywood Clowns

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions (Czechoslovakia)

Into The Night

Je vous salue Marie (Switzerland)

Joshua Then And Now (Canada)

The Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Brazil)

Lifeforce

The Lost Empire

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Australia)

Massacre In Dinosaur Valley (Brazil)

Mr Vampire (Hong Kong)

Nadzor (Poland)

Och Karol (Poland)

The Official Story (Argentina)
Out Of Africa

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Perinbaba (Czechoslovakia)

Piccoli fuochi (Italy)

Police (France)

Police Story (Hong Kong)
Pulgasari (North Korea)

Rambo: First Blood. Part II

Re-Animator

Ronja Rovardotter (Sweden)

Shoah (France)

Silip (Philippines)

Silverado
Subway (France)

Sugarbaby (Germany)

The Sure Thing

Sweet Dreams

That's Dancing
Trois Hommes et un couffin (France)

When Father Was Away On Business (Yugoslavia)
White Nights

Witness

Women In Fury (Brazil)

Year Of The Dragon

Short Top 3:

1. "Le Livre de Marie" (Anne-Marie Miéville, Switzerland)

2. "I Hate You Now" (Richard Kern, USA)

3. "Rainbow War" (Bob Rogers, Canada)

Other great shorts:

The Right Side Of My Brain

Thrust In Me

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Take On Me" (Steve Barron, A-Ha)

2. "Cry" (Godley and Creme, Godley and Creme)

3. "Don't Stop The Dance" (Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Bryan Ferry)

Other great music videos:

Don't Come Around Here No More
Money For Nothing

Top Commercial:

"Varför ska vi bry oss om varandra?" (Roy Andersson, Sweden)

Other great commercials:

HSB-Spjalsangen (Sweden)
Lemmings

Lotto-Familjen (Sweden)

TV Top 3:

1. "Moonlighting: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" (Peter Werner, ABC)

2. "Miami Vice: Out Where The Buses Don't Run" (Jim Johnston, NBC)

3. "Miami Vice: Evan" (Rob Cohen, NBC)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Jack Mac And Rad Boy Go!" (Wes Archer, USA)

2. "The Big Snit" (Richard Condie, NFB, Canada)

3. "Get A Job" (Brad Caslor, NFB, Canada)

Other great cartoons:

78 Tours (Switzerland)

Anna & Bella (Holland)

Boom Town
Carnival (UK)
Drawing On My Mind
Eldorado (Italy)
Garbage In Garbage Out
Incubus (Italy)

Weak films of 1985:

Agnes Of God
Crimewave

Jagged Edge
The Jewel Of The Nile
Ladyhawke
Letter To Brezhnev (UK)
Murphy's Romance
Padre Nuestro (Spain)
Poulet au vinaigre (France)
Le Pouvoir du mal
Sans toit ni loi (France)
Seduction: The Cruel Woman (Germany)
The Trip To Bountiful
A View To A Kill
Young Sherlock Holmes

Weak shorts:

The Wizard Of The Strings

Weak cartoons:

Break (Soviet Union)
Living In A Mobile Home (UK)
Love Addict
Love In The Fast Lane
Moebius Play
Second Class Mail (UK)
Street Of Crocodiles
Toilet Bowl (UK)
Tony de Peltrie (Canada)
Traveling Light
The Wreck Of Julie Plante (UK)

Top Musical of 1985

"White Nights" (Taylor Hackford, Columbia)