Best Movies of 1985
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
RanKurosawa's King Lear becomes a war of colour-coded armies and silent slaughter, as gorgeous as it is pitiless.Read the review
Back to the FutureThe most efficiently plotted studio comedy ever made; nothing in it is decorative.
A Room with a ViewSharper and funnier than its reputation for tasteful upholstery suggests, and only the leading man lets it down.
My Beautiful LaundretteA television budget and a script with no interest in being tasteful outrun a decade of British prestige pictures.
Come and SeeWar photographed as a boy's face aging past repair, and the sound design does half the damage.
The Breakfast ClubOne room, five archetypes and a monologue that gave the teen movie permission to be serious.