21. Mask
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern
Plot: A boy with a disease that causes facial deformity has a mother who loves him.
22. Official Story, The ( historia oficial, La )
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Puenzo
Actors: Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana, Guillermo Battaglia, Chela Ruíz
23. Day of the Dead
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Terry Alexander, Lori Cardille, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy, Sherman Howard, Taso N. Stavrakis
Plot: As the dead have taken over most of the world, a group of scientists, along with a military unit, hole up in an underground bunker and attempt to cure the zombie problem.
24. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Junkichi Orimoto, Yasosuke Bando, Hisako Manda, Yasuaki Kurata
Plot: The life of Yukio Mishima, who committed public ritual suicide seppuku, is presented in both the day he died, his early life and three of his short stories brought to life. Explores Japanese nationalism, repressed sexuality and the secrets that define our lives.
25. Re-Animator
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbot, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson
Plot: A brilliant but misguided young scientist creates an agent that gives life to dead tissue. Test subjects are hard to come by and even worse, a professor has taken an unhealthy interest in his work.
26. Better Off Dead
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Actors: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Scooter Stevens, Diane Franklin
Plot: Layne Meyer (John Cusack) has just lost his beautiful girlfriend Beth (Amanda Wyss) to the most popular and best looking guy in school...who just happens to drive a really nice car also. Well, Layne has decided he's going to get Beth back by getting a job, getting a nice car, and winning the ski race down the feared K-12!
27. Weird Science
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Hughes
Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey, Jr., Robert Rusler
Plot: A couple of high school nerds create the perfect girl by using their computers.
28. Lost in America
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Albert Brooks
Actors: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Sylvia Farrel, Candy Ann Brown, Tina Kincaid, Maggie Roswell
Plot: A yuppie husband quits his job after being denied a promotion and decides the best course of action for him and his wife is to leave everything behind, buy a Winnebago and hit the American road! All goes well, until they find Vegas...
29. Enemy Mine
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick, Bumper Robinson
30. Real Genius
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martha Coolidge
Actors: Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Patti D'Arbanville, William Atherton, Jon Gries, Michelle Meyrink
Plot: A genius student needs to make an amazing laser breakthrough in order to graduate from college. But what is this technology going to be used for when it is done?
