The best movies 1985 Pagina 12

A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately...

A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who...

When Piet, an innocent man looking for work, gets roped up in an assassination on a local politician, he ends up working with the police to bring the...

80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close...

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

A wealthy wife's affair with her daughter's guitar tutor is threatened when the tutor is attacked and rescued by a hired killer, leading him to...

A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon he finds that he does it...

Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police...

Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new...

An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle.

A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs, and also offers the...

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to...

After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his...

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who...

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

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered...

Young Emil lives with his parents and younger sister on a small farm. Emil's kindness and energy make him interfere with everything around him, but...

Some of the best new talent is showcased in these annual comedy specials each year. Every show is hosted by a different accomplished comedian. In...

San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her...

Colored cotton was already being cultivated in Peru since the pre-ceramic era, that is, 4,500 years ago, and was the basis of the textile development...

A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and...

Documentary film directed by Manuel de Pedro and shot from 1983 to 1984. It portrays the creative, research, and learning process of a group of...

The dialogue of a woman with herself split into two unknown opposites.

Ecumenical version of the Bible in the Quechua of Huaraz.

Women in different situations of life, accompanied occasionally by images of nature. Men appear alone in different roles, like a ski athlete, a...

Five men escape from prison to get revenge on the accomplices who set them up for arrest.

A teenage couple spends their lives knowing that the way to success is to work on the railroad.

Mexican documentary short film about Bridget Tichenor, a Mexican surrealist painter.

Two little boys grow up and go after the two blackhats that killed their parents.

After the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in 1979 that liberated Nicaragua from dictatorship, different sectors of the population considered how...

Gregorio, a boy from the impoverished countryside of Peru emigrates to Lima, the capital city. Experiencing a cultural shock due to the chaotic...

Flipping through an album of old family photographs, a mother reminds her daughter of the beautiful kites she made when she was little. Although the...

The journey of a retired music teacher who witnesses the detention of a former student by the security agencies of dictatorship. This strong...

Audiovisual on three screens that commemorates a triple anniversary: 70 years of the Association of Medical Students, 65 of the Uruguayan Medical...

1980s. The Counter-Revolution from three media points of view: that of the United States, that of foreign countries and that of Nicaragua . ...

A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje".

The story of a peasant boy with an unknown father, his anguish and the rejection of a society that blames him for his bastard brand.

A prostitute meets her lover, an escaped prisoner disguised as a woman. Once his location is discovered, the criminal once again outsmarts his...