1985 in film

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The following is an overview of events in 1985 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1985 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1985^[1]
Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Back to the Future	Universal	$210,609,762
2	Rambo: First Blood Part II	TriStar / Carolco	$150,415,432
3	Rocky IV	MGM	$127,873,716
4	The Color Purple	Warner Bros.	$94,175,854
5	Out of Africa	Universal	$87,071,205
6	Cocoon	Fox	$76,113,124
7	The Jewel of the Nile	Fox	$75,973,200
8	Witness	Paramount	$68,706,993
9	The Goonies	Warner Bros.	$61,389,680
10	Spies Like Us	Warner Bros.	$60,088,980

Context

The year was considered an unsuccessful one for film. Despite a record number of film releases, many films failed at the box office, and ticket sales were down 17% compared with 1984.^[2]^[3] Industry executives believed the problem, in part, was a lack of original concepts.^[4] Films about fantasy and magic failed, as audiences leaned towards science-fiction.^[5]^[3] Janet Maslin said the fault for this lay partly with Steven Spielberg, who had created such a successful template with films like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind that many fantasy films had imitated them.^[6] There was also a saturation of youth-oriented films targeted at those under 18. Executives were not fond of these films, but the financial rewards were too significant to ignore. The few films aimed at older audiences, like Cocoon, were surprise successes.^[3]^[7] Only Back to the Future and Rambo: First Blood Part II were successful blockbusters, earning more than double the box office of Cocoon.^[3] Films offering escapism and pro-America themes like Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV had also fared well.^[7]

The glut of youth-targeted films like Return to Oz and The Black Cauldron, and science-fiction comedies like Weird Science, Real Genius, and My Science Project had resulted in a string of failures. Executives said that the films were all very similar and marketed in the same way, offering no variety for audiences.^[3]^[5]

Events

June 5 – The Chicago Cubs play the Atlanta Braves in a baseball game at Wrigley Field. Excerpts from the broadcast later pin this date as the day featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
December 3 – Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.

Awards

Category/Organization	43rd Golden Globe Awards January 24, 1986		39th BAFTA Awards March 16, 1986	58th Academy Awards March 24, 1986
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	39th BAFTA Awards March 16, 1986	58th Academy Awards March 24, 1986
Best Film	Out of Africa	Prizzi's Honor	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Out of Africa
Best Director	John Huston Prizzi's Honor		N/A	Sydney Pollack Out of Africa
Best Actor	Jon Voight Runaway Train	Jack Nicholson Prizzi's Honor	William Hurt Kiss of the Spider Woman
Best Actress	Whoopi Goldberg The Color Purple	Kathleen Turner Prizzi's Honor	Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India	Geraldine Page The Trip to Bountiful
Best Supporting Actor	Klaus Maria Brandauer Out of Africa		Denholm Elliott Defence of the Realm	Don Ameche Cocoon
Best Supporting Actress	Meg Tilly Agnes of God		Rosanna Arquette Desperately Seeking Susan	Anjelica Huston Prizzi's Honor
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Woody Allen The Purple Rose of Cairo		Richard Condon and Janet Roach Prizzi's Honor	Kurt Luedtke Out of Africa
Best Screenplay, Original	Woody Allen The Purple Rose of Cairo		Woody Allen The Purple Rose of Cairo	Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley and Pamela Wallace Witness
Best Original Score	John Barry Out of Africa		Maurice Jarre Witness	John Barry Out of Africa
Best Original Song	"Say You, Say Me" White Nights		N/A	"Say You, Say Me" White Nights
Best Foreign Language Film	The Official Story		Colonel Redl	The Official Story

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu), directed by Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi), directed by Agnès Varda, France / U.K.

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Die Frau und der Fremde (The Woman and the Stranger), directed by Rainer Simon, East Germany

Wetherby, directed by David Hare, United Kingdom

Notable films released in 1985

United States unless stated

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28 Up, a documentary film - (U.K.)

1985 Wide-release films in the U.S.

January–March

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	8	The Mutilator	Ocean King Releasing	Buddy Cooper, John S. Douglass (directors); Matt Mitler, Bill Hitchcock, Ruth Martinez, Connie Rogers, Morey Lampley, Frances Raines, Jack Chatham, Bennie Moore, Trace Cooper, Pamela Weddle Cooper	Slasher	Live action
	8	Rockin' Road Trip	Troma Entertainment	William Olsen (director); Leon Rippy, Martin Tucker, Pat Miller, Garth McLean, Katherine Harrison, Leland Gantt, Steve Boles, Margaret Currie	Comedy	Live action
	11	Too Scared to Scream	The Movie Store	Tony Lo Bianco (director); Mike Connors, Anne Archer, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ian McShane, Ruth Ford, John Heard, Carrie Nye, Maureen O'Sullivan, Murray Hamilton, Val Avery, Sully Boyar, Ken Norris, Chet Doherty, Karen Rushmore, Rony Clanton, Beeson Carroll, Victoria Bass, Dick Boccelli, Fred Ford, Ernesto Gasco, Adrienne Howard, Yvonne Talton Kersey, Gaetano Lisi, Harry Madsen, John Ring,	Independent, Slasher	Live Action
		Walking the Edge	Empire Pictures	Norbert Meisel (director); Robert Forster, Nancy Kwan, Joe Spinell, A Martinez, James McIntire, Wayne Woodson, Luis Contreras, Russ Courtney, Doug Toby, Phil H. Fravel, Terrence Beasor, Bernard Erhard, James Fitzpatrick, Ivy Bethune, Jackie Giroux, Aarika Wells, Howard Honig, Frankie Hill, Jerry Jones, Leonard D'John, Peter Pan, Jamie V. Arias, Rosa M. Torres, Stan Kamber, Falling Idols	Crime, Action	Live action
		Water	Empire Pictures	Dick Clement (director/screenplay); Ian La Frenais, Bill Persky (screenplay); Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Billy Connolly, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Ringo Starr	Comedy	Live action
	17	Avenging Angel	New World Pictures	Robert Vincent O'Neil (director); Betsy Russell, Rory Calhoun, Susan Tyrrell, Ossie Davis, Steven M. Porter, Robert F. Lyons, Paul Lambert, Frank Doubleday, Barry Pearl, Ross Hagen	Action, Thriller	Live action
	17	Tuff Turf	New World Pictures	Fritz Kiersch (director); Jette Rinck (screenplay); James Spader, Kim Richards, Paul Mones, Matt Clark, Claudette Nevins, Robert Downey, Olivia Barash, Catya Sassoon, Bill Beyers, Gene Pietragallo, Panchito Gomez, Michael Wyle, Herb Mitchell, Lou Fant, Donald Fullilove, Jered Barclay, Evonne Kezios, Cheryl Ann Clark, Matt Gavin, Chad McCann, Vivian Brown, Ceil Cabot, Donna Fuller, Rosa Sabina Rodriguez, Frank McCarthy, Art Evans, Jeffrey Dawson	Drama	Live action
	18	Blood Simple	Circle Films / River Road Productions / Foxton Entertainment	Joel Coen (director/screenplay); Ethan Coen (screenplay); John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams, Holly Hunter, Barry Sonnenfeld	Neo-Noir, Crime	Live action
		The New Kids	Columbia Pictures	Sean S. Cunningham (director); Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin, James Spader, John Philbin, Eddie Jones, Eric Stoltz, Tom Atkins, David H. MacDonald, Vince Grant, Theron Montgomery, Lucy Martin, Paige Lyn Price, Court Miller, Jean De Baer, Robertson Carricart	Horror, Thriller	Live action
		That's Dancing!	MGM/UA Entertainment Company	Jack Haley Jr. (director/screenplay); Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ray Bolger, Sammy Davis Jr., Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Tommy Abbott, June Allyson, Ann-Margret, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Jennifer Beals, Busby Berkeley, Eric Blore, Monte Blue, John Brascia, Lucille Bremer, James Cagney, Irene Cara, Leslie Caron, Gower Champion, Marge Champion, Cyd Charisse, Joan Crawford, Dan Dailey, Jacques d'Amboise, Doris Day, Gloria DeHaven, Isadora Duncan, Buddy Ebsen, Taina Elg, Eliot Feld, Margot Fonteyn, Loie Fuller, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Virginia Gibson, Cary Grant, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton, Carol Haney, June Haver, Robert Helpmann, Judy Holliday, José Iturbi, Michael Jackson, Marine Jahan, Van Johnson, Ruby Keeler, Paula Kelly, Michael Kidd, Charles Laskey, Ruta Lee, Vivien Leigh, Bambi Linn, Peter Lorre, Susan Luckey, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Léonide Massine, Matt Mattox, Joan McCracken, Ray McDonald, Ann Miller, James Mitchell, Ricardo Montalbán, Annabelle Moore, Tony Mordente, George Murphy, Gene Nelson, Julie Newmar, Rudolf Nureyev, Donald O'Connor, Anna Pavlova, Marc Platt, Dick Powell, Eleanor Powell, Jane Powell, Tommy Rall, Debbie Reynolds, Jeff Richards, Chita Rivera, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Wini Shaw, Moira Shearer, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, Tucker Smith, James Stewart, Lyle Talbot, Russ Tamblyn, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Taylor, Anthony 'Scooter' Teague, Shirley Temple, Tamara Toumanova, John Travolta, Lana Turner, Bobby Van, Vera-Ellen, Ethel Waters, Bobby Watson, Esther Williams, David Winters, Vera Zorina, Vincent Price, Robert Banas	Compilation	Live action
	27	The Falcon and the Snowman	Orion Pictures	John Schlesinger (director); Steven Zaillian (screenplay); Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten, Richard Dysart, Priscilla Pointer, Chris Makepeace, Dorian Harewood, Macon McCalman, Nicholas Pryor, Jerry Hardin, Lori Singer, David Suchet, Boris Leskin	Spy, Drama	Live action
	27	Fandango	Warner Bros. / Amblin Entertainment	Kevin Reynolds (director/screenplay); Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Chuck Bush, Brian Cesak, Suzy Amis, E.G. Daily, Glenne Headly, Marvin J. McIntyre, Stanley Grover, Jane A. Johnston	Comedy	Live action
F E B R U A R Y	8	Heaven Help Us	TriStar Pictures	Michael Dinner (director); Charles Purpura (screenplay); Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Malcolm Danare, Kate Reid, Wallace Shawn, John Heard, Donald Sutherland, Jay Patterson, Patrick Dempsey, Stephen Geoffreys, Dana Barron, Yeardley Smith	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Mischief	20th Century Fox	Mel Damski (director); Noel Black (screenplay); Doug McKeon, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelly Preston, Chris Nash, D.W. Brown, Jami Gertz, Margaret Blye, Graham Jarvis, Terry O'Quinn	Teen, Comedy	Live action
		Witness	Paramount Pictures	Peter Weir (director); Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubeš, Josef Sommer, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover, Brent Jennings, Patti LuPone, Angus MacInnes, Viggo Mortensen, Frederick Rolf, Timothy Carhart, Richard Chaves, Robert Earl Jones, Sylvia Kauders, John Garson, Ed Crowley, Beverly May	Crime, Drama	Live action
	15	The Breakfast Club	Universal Pictures	John Hughes (director/screenplay); Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, John Kapelos, Ron Dean	Teen, Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Fast Forward	Columbia Pictures	Sidney Poitier (director); Timothy March, Richard Wesle (screenplay); John Scott Clough, Don Franklin, Gretchen Palmer, Karen Kopins, Irene Worth, Sam McMurray, Michael DeLorenzo, Doris Belack, David White, Constance Towers, Robert DoQui, Paul Ryan, Tamara Mark, Tracy Silver, Cindy McGee, Monique Cintron, Debra Varnado, Noel Conlon, Robin Bach, Phyllis Enrlich, Bobbie Jordan	Drama, Musical	Live action
		Into the Night	Universal Pictures	John Landis (director); Ron Koslow (screenplay); Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth, Irene Papas, Kathryn Harrold, Dan Aykroyd, Bruce McGill, David Bowie, Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Stacey Pickren, Art Evans, John Hostetter, John Landis, Jack Arnold, Rick Baker, Paul Bartel, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, Richard Franklin, Carl Gottlieb, Amy Heckerling, Jim Henson, Colin Higgins, Lawrence Kasdan, Jonathan Lynn, Paul Mazursky, Carl Perkins, Daniel Petrie, Dedee Pfeiffer, Waldo Salt, Don Siegel, Jake Steinfeld, Roger Vadim, "Blue" Lou Marini	Comedy, Thriller	Live action
		The Mean Season	Orion Pictures	Phillip Borsos (director); Leon Piedmont (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Richard Bradford, Joe Pantoliano, Andy García, William Smith	Crime, Thriller	Live action
		Turk 182	20th Century Fox	Bob Clark (director); Denis Hamill, John Hamill, James Gregory Kingston (screenplay): Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp, Darren McGavin, Peter Boyle, Steven Keats, Paul Sorvino, James Tolkan, Thomas Quinn, Norman Parker, Dick O'Neill, Maury Chaykin, Richard Zobel, David Wohl	Action, Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Vision Quest	Warner Bros.	Harold Becker (director); Darryl Ponicsan (screenplay); Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling, Ronny Cox, Frank Jasper, Harold Sylvester, Daphne Zuniga, Charles Hallahan, J.C. Quinn, R.H. Thomson, Gary Kasper, Raphael Sbarge, Forest Whitaker, Roberts Blossom, James Gammon, Madonna, Ken Pelo, Jana Marie Hupp, Andrew Shue	Romance, Drama	Live action
M A R C H	1	Certain Fury	New World Pictures	Stephen Gyllenhaal (director); Michael Jacobs (screenplay); Tatum O'Neal, Irene Cara, George Murdock, Moses Gunn, Peter Fonda, Nicholas Campbell, Campbell Lane, Frank C. Turner	Action, Drama	Live action
		Lust in the Dust	New World Pictures	Paul Bartel (director); Philip John Taylor (screenplay); Tab Hunter, Divine, Lainie Kazan, Cesar Romero, Geoffrey Lewis, Henry Silva, Courtney Gains, Gina Gallego, Nedra Volz, Woody Strode, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Noah Wyle	Western, Comedy	Live action
		A Private Function	HandMade Films	Malcolm Mowbray (director/screenplay); Alan Bennett (screenplay); Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths, Tony Haygarth, John Normington, Bill Paterson, Liz Smith, Alison Steadman, Jim Carter, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Davies, Reece Dinsdale	Comedy	Live action
		The Purple Rose of Cairo	Orion Pictures	Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Edward Herrmann, John Wood, Deborah Rush, Zoe Caldwell, Van Johnson, Karen Akers, Milo O'Shea, Dianne Wiest, Michael Tucker, Glenne Headly, George Martin, Loretta Tupper	Romance, Fantasy, Comedy	Live action
		The Sure Thing	Embassy Pictures	Rob Reiner (director); Steven L. Bloom, Jonathan Roberts (screenplay); John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Viveca Lindfors, Nicollette Sheridan, Anthony Edwards, Tim Robbins, Boyd Gaines, Lisa Jane Persky, Sarah Buxton, Fran Ryan, Larry Hankin	Adventure, Comedy, Romance	Live action
	2	Ghoulies	Empire Pictures	Luca Bercovici (director/screenplay); Jefery Levy (screenplay); Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Scott Thomson, Mariska Hargitay, Jack Nance, Tamara De Treaux, Ralph Seymour, Keith Joe Dick, David Dayan, Victoria Catlin, Charene Cathleen, Peter Risch, Bobbie Bresee, Jamie Bronow, Brian Connolly, Annie Stocking, Craig Talmy	Horror, Comedy	Live action
	2	Missing in Action 2: The Beginning	Cannon Films	Lance Hool (director); Arthur Silver, Larry Levinson, Steve Bing (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams, Bennett Ohta, Cosie Costa, Joe Michael Terry, Christopher Cary, John Wesley, David Chung, Professor Toru Tanaka, Sergio Kato	Action, Adventure	Live action
	8	The Hit	Palace Pictures	Stephen Frears (director); Peter Prince (screenplay); John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Terence Stamp, Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey, Lennie Peters, Willoughby Gray, Jim Broadbent	Road, Crime	Live action
	8	Mask	Universal Pictures	Peter Bogdanovich (director); Anna Hamilton Phelan (screenplay); Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Laura Dern, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Micole Mercurio, Harry Carey, Jr., Dennis Burkley, Barry Tubb, Lawrence Monoson, Ben Piazza, L. Craig King, Alexandra Powers, Kelly Jo Minter, Todd Allen, Howard Hirdler, Les Dudek, Marsha Warfield	Biographical, Drama	Live action
	15	Lost in America	Warner Bros.	Albert Brooks (director/screenplay); Monica Johnson (screenplay); Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Maggie Roswell, Michael Greene, Garry Marshall, Donald Gibb, Charles Boswell	Comedy	Live action
	15	Sylvester	Columbia Pictures	Tim Hunter (director); Carol Sobieski (screenplay); Richard Farnsworth, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Schoeffling, Constance Towers, Arliss Howard, James Gammon, Peter Kowanko	Family, Drama	Live action
	22	Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend	Touchstone Films / Silver Screen Partners II	Bill L. Norton (director); Clifford Green, Ellen Green (screenplay); William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes, Kyalo Mativo, Hugh Quarshie, Olu Jacobs, Eddie Tagoe, Edward Hardwicke	Adventure, Fantasy	Live Action
		Friday the 13th: A New Beginning	Paramount Pictures	Danny Steinmann (director/screenplay); Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen (screenplay); Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, Dick Wieand, Tiffany Helm, Juliette Cummins, Marco St. John, Jerry Pavlon, Carol Locatell, Debi Sue Voorhees, Vernon Washington, John Robert Dixon, Ron Sloan, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Jere Fields, Rebecca Wood, Bob DeSimone, Corey Parker, Anthony Barrile, William Caskey Swaim, Dominick Brascia, Mark Venturini, Richard Lineback, Ric Mangini, Corey Feldman, Tom Morga	Slasher	Live action
		The Last Dragon	TriStar Pictures	Michael Schultz (director); Louis Venosta (screenplay); Taimak, Julius J. Carry III, Chris Murney, Leo O'Brien, Faith Prince, Glen Eaton, Vanity, Jim Moody, Mike Starr, Ernie Reyes, Jr., Esther Marrow, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Chazz Palminteri, William H. Macy, Carl Anthony Payne II, Thomas Ikeda, Jamal Mason, B.J. Barie, London Reyes, Lisa Loving, Jeffrey Dawson	Martial arts, Comedy	Live action
		Porky's Revenge!	20th Century Fox	James Komack (director); Ziggy Steinberg (screenplay); Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Tony Ganios, Mark Herrier, Kaki Hunter, Scott Colomby, Nancy Parsons, Chuck Mitchell, Eric Christmas, Kimberly Evenson, Bill Hindman, Nancy Hassinger, Rose McVeigh, Wendy Feign, Fred Buch, Ilse Earl, Ron Campbell, Mal Jones	Comedy	Live action
		The Secret of the Sword	Atlantic Releasing	Ed Friedman, Lou Kachivas, Marsh Lamore, Bill Reed, Gwen Wetzler (directors); Larry DiTillio, Bob Forward (screenplay); John Erwin, Melendy Britt, Alan Oppenheimer, Linda Gary, George DiCenzo, Erika Scheimer, Lou Scheimer	Adventure	Animation
	24	The Care Bears Movie	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	Arna Selznick (director); Peter Sauder (screenplay); Mickey Rooney, Jackie Burroughs, Georgia Engel, Sunny Besen Thrasher, Eva Almos, Patricia Black, Melleny Brown, Bobby Dermer, Jayne Eastwood, Anni Evans, Gloria Figura, Cree Summer Francks, Brian George, Janet Laine-Green, Luba Goy, Terri Hawkes, Dan Hennessey, Jim Henshaw, Hadley Kay, Marla Lukofsky, Pauline Rennie, Billie Mae Richards, Brent Titcomb, Harry Dean Stanton	Fantasy	Animation
	29	Desperately Seeking Susan	Orion Pictures	Susan Seidelman (director); Leora Barish (screenplay); Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy, Laurie Metcalf, Anna Levine, Will Patton, Peter Maloney, Steven Wright, John Turturro, Anne Carlisle, José Angel Santana, Giancarlo Esposito, Richard Hell, Rockets Redglare, Annie Golden, Richard Edson, Ann Magnuson, John Lurie, Victor Argo, Shirley Stoler, Arto Lindsay, Kim Chan, Michael Badalucco, Carol Leifer, Eddy, David and Robert	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		King David	Paramount Pictures	Bruce Beresford (director); Andrew Birkin, James Costigan (screenplay); Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige, Denis Quilley, Niall Buggy, Cherie Lunghi, Hurd Hatfield, Jack Klaff, John Castle, Tim Woodward, David de Keyser, Simon Dutton, Jean-Marc Barr, George Eastman, Arthur Whybrow, Christopher Malcolm, Valentine Pelka, Gina Bellman, James Coombes, Jason Carter, Aïché Nana, Ishia Bennison, Marino Masé, Anton Alexander, Tomás Milián, John Barrard, John Gabriel, Lorenzo Piani, David Graham, John Hallam, Ian Sears, Ned Vukovic, James Lister, Genevieve Allenbury, Massimo Sarchielli, Jenny Lipman, Roberto Renna, Michael Müller, Mark Drewry, Nicholas van der Weide, Shimon Avidan, Peter Frye, David George, Nicola Di Gioia	Epic, Historical, Drama	Live action
		Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment	Warner Bros.	Jerry Paris (director); Barry W. Blaustein, David Sheffield (screenplay); Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Bruce Mahler, Colleen Camp, Art Metrano, Marion Ramsey, Howard Hesseman, George Gaynes, Peter Van Norden, Ed Herlihy, Lance Kinsey, George R. Robertson, Tim Kazurinsky, Arthur Batanides, Jackie Joseph, Andrew Paris, Jennifer Darling, Lucy Lee Flippin, Jason Hervey, Diana Bellamy, Rich Hall, Bobcat Goldthwait	Comedy	Live action
		The Slugger's Wife	Columbia Pictures	Hal Ashby (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Ritt, Randy Quaid, Cleavant Derricks, Lisa Langlois, Loudon Wainwright III, Georgann Johnson, Lynn Whitfield, Danny Tucker	Romance, Drama	Live action

April–June

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	3	Alamo Bay	TriStar Pictures	Louis Malle (director); Alice Arlen (screenplay); Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Ho Nguyen, Donald Moffat, William Frankfather, Bill Thurman, Truyen V. Tran, Rudy Young, Cynthia Carle, Martin LaSalle, Lucky Mosley	Drama	Live action
	10	Private Resort	TriStar Pictures	George Bowers (director); Alan Wenkus, Gordon Mitchell, Ken Segall (screenplay); Rob Morrow, Johnny Depp, Emily Longstreth, Karyn O'Bryan, Andrew Dice Clay, Hector Elizondo, Dody Goodman, Leslie Easterbrook, Michael Bowen, Hilary Shepard Turner, Tony Azito, Jill Selkowitz	Adventure, Comedy	Live action
	12	Cat's Eye	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.	Lewis Teague (director); Stephen King (screenplay); Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan, Robert Hays, Candy Clark, James Naughton, James Rebhorn, Charles S. Dutton, Mike Starr, Mary D'Arcy	Horror, Thriller	Live action
		Girls Just Want to Have Fun	New World Pictures	Alan Metter (director); Amy Spies (screenplay); Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Montgomery, Morgan Woodward, Jonathan Silverman, Shannen Doherty, Helen Hunt, Ed Lauter, Holly Gagnier, Lee Arnone, Terry McGovern, Biff Yeager, Kristi Somers, Robin Antin, Stuart Fratkin, Gina Gershon, Bruce Goldstein, Scott Coffey, Hank Azaria, Cyndi Lauper, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Howell, Wayne Bascomb	Romance, Comedy, Dance	Live action
		Ladyhawke	Warner Bros.	Richard Donner (director); Edward Khmara, Michael Thomas, Tom Mankiewicz, David Peoples (screenplay); Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood, Ken Hutchison, Alfred Molina, Giancarlo Prete, Loris Loddi	Fantasy	Live action
	25	Crimewave (US)	Columbia Pictures	Sam Raimi (director/screenplay); Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (screenplay); Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Sheree J. Wilson, Edward R. Pressman, Bruce Campbell, Reed Birney, Antonio Fargas, Richard Bright, Richard DeManicor, Emil Sitka, Wiley Harker, Robert Symonds, Frances McDormand, Ted Raimi, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Rob Tapert, Julie Harris	Comedy, Horror	Live action
	26	Just One of the Guys	Columbia Pictures	Lisa Gottlieb (director); Dennis Feldman, Jeff Franklin (screenplay); Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jacoby, Toni Hudson, William Zabka, Leigh McCloskey, Sherilyn Fenn, Arye Gross, Kenneth Tigar	Comedy	Live action
	26	Stick	Universal Pictures	Burt Reynolds (director); Elmore Leonard, Joseph Stinson (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, George Segal, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Annie Potts, Jose Perez, Richard Lawson, Cástulo Guerra, Dar Robinson, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Sachi Parker, Alex Rocco, Thomas Rosales, Jr.	Crime	Live action
M A Y	3	Code of Silence	Orion Pictures	Andrew Davis (director); Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack, Mike Gray (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Molly Hagan, Dennis Farina, Mike Genovese, Nathan Davis, Ralph Foody, Ron Dean, Joseph Kosala, Gene Barge, Ronnie Barron, John Mahoney	Action	Live action
		Gotcha!	Universal Pictures	Jeff Kanew (director); Dan Gordon (screenplay); Anthony Edwards, Linda Fiorentino, Nick Corri, Alex Rocco, Marla Adams, Klaus Löwitsch, Bata Kameni, Kari Lizer, David Wohl, Christie Claridge, Christopher Rydell, Brad Cowgill, Irene Olga López, Reggie Thompson	Action, Comedy	Live action
		Gymkata	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Robert Clouse (director); Charles Robert Carner (screenplay); Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani, Richard Norton, Conan Lee, Buck Kartalian, Tadashi Yamashita, Slobodan Dimitrijević, Edward Bell, John Berrett, Bob Schott, Eric Lawson, Sonny Barnes, Sharan Lea, Zlatko Pokupec, Ivo Kristof	Martial Arts	Live action
	8	Creature	Trans World Entertainment	William Malone (director/screenplay); Alan Reed (screenplay); Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe, Diane Salinger, Klaus Kinski, Annette McCarthy, Marie Laurin	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
	10	Rustlers' Rhapsody	Paramount Pictures	Hugh Wilson (director/screenplay); Tom Berenger, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Fernando Rey, Andy Griffith, Sela Ward, Brant Van Hoffman, Christopher Malcolm, Jim Carter, Patrick Wayne, Paul Maxwell, Billy J. Mitchell, John Orchard	Comedy, Western	Live action
	17	Goodbye, New York	Castle Hill Productions	Amos Kollek (director/screenplay); Julie Hagerty, Amos Kollek, Shmuel Shilo, Aviva Ger, Dudu Topaz, Jennifer Prichard, Christopher Goutman, Hanan Goldblatt, Mosko Alkalai, Joseph Kaplanian, Ron Rabinovich, Sophie Haber	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	17	Ordeal by Innocence	Cannon Films	Desmond Davis (director); Alexander Stuart (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Sarah Miles, Ian McShane, Diana Quick, Annette Crosbie, Michael Elphick, George Innes, Valerie Whittington, Phoebe Nicholls, Michael Maloney, Cassie Stuart, Anita Carey, Ron Pember, Kevin Stoney, Brian Glover	Mystery	Live action
	22	Brewster's Millions	Paramount Pictures	Walter Hill (director); Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod (screenplay); Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, David White, Jerome Dempsey, Jerry Orbach, Pat Hingle, David Wohl, Tovah Feldshuh, Hume Cronyn, Joe Grifasi, Peter Jason, Rick Moranis	Comedy	Live action
		Rambo: First Blood Part II	TriStar Pictures	George P. Cosmatos (director); Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff, Julia Nickson, Martin Kove, George Cheung, Andy Wood, William Ghent, Voyo Goric, Dana Lee, Steve Williams	Action	Live action
		A View to a Kill	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	John Glen (director); Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson (screenplay); Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Patrick Bauchau, David Yip, Willoughby Gray, Fiona Fullerton, Manning Redwood, Alison Doody, Robert Brown, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Geoffrey Keen, Walter Gotell, Papillon Soo Soo, Daniel Benzali, Mary Stavin, Bogdan Kominowski, Dolph Lundgren, Maud Adams, Jean Rougerie	Spy	Live action
	31	Fletch	Universal Pictures	Michael Ritchie (director); Andrew Bergman (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Tim Matheson, M. Emmet Walsh, George Wendt, Kenneth Mars, Geena Davis, Bill Henderson, George Wyner, Larry "Flash" Jenkins, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chick Hearn, Ralph Seymour	Neo-Noir, Comedy, Thriller	Live action
J U N E	7	The Goonies	Warner Bros. / Amblin Entertainment	Richard Donner (director); Chris Columbus (screenplay); Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Jonathan Ke Huy Quan, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, John Matuszak, Anne Ramsey, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano, Mary Ellen Trainor, Keith Walker, Steve Antin, Lupe Ontiveros, Michael Paul Chan, Richard Donner, Nick McLean, Charles McDaniel, Paul Tuerpe	Adventure, Comedy	Live action
	7	Perfect	Columbia Pictures	James Bridges (director/screenplay); Aaron Latham (screenplay); John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jann Wenner, Marilu Henner, Laraine Newman, Anne De Salvo, Matthew Reed, Stefan Gierasch, Murphy Dunne, Kenneth Welsh, Robert Parr, Rosalind Ingledew, Chelsea Field, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Carly Simon, Lauren Hutton, Tom Schiller, Paul Kent, Paul Barresi, Alma Beltran, Kenny Griswold	Romance, Drama	Live action
	13	Prizzi's Honor	20th Century Fox	John Huston (director); Richard Condon, Janet Roach (screenplay); Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, John Randolph, William Hickey, Lee Richardson, Michael Lombard, C.C.H. Pounder, Lawrence Tierney, Dick O'Neill, Sully Boyar, Joseph Ruskin, Stanley Tucci, Ann Selepegno, Vic Polizos, Raymond Heller, Seth Allen, Dominic Barto, George Santopietro	Black Comedy, Crime	Live action
	13	Warriors of the Wind	Toei Company	Hayao Miyazaki (director/screenplay); Sumi Shimamoto, Goro Naya, Yoji Matsuda, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Iemasa Kayumi, Ichiro Nagai, Miina Tominaga, Makoto Terada, Hisako Kyoda, Minoru Yada, Mahito Tsujimura, Kohei Miyauchi, Joji Yanami, Rihoko Yoshida, Tetsuo Mizutori, Hochu Otsuka, Bin Shimada, Takako Ota, Chika Sakamoto, Tarako, Masako Sugaya	Epic, Fantasy, Adventure	Animation
	14	D.A.R.Y.L.	Paramount Pictures	Simon Wincer (director); David Ambrose, Allan Scott, Jeffrey Ellis (screenplay); Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Danny Corkill, Josef Sommer, David Wohl, Colleen Camp, Steve Ryan, Amy Linker, Kathryn Walker, Hardy Rawls, Jim Fitzpatrick	Sci-Fi	Live action
		Secret Admirer	Orion Pictures	David Greenwalt (director/screenplay); Jim Kouf (screenplay); C. Thomas Howell, Kelly Preston, Lori Loughlin, Fred Ward, Dee Wallace Stone, Cliff DeYoung, Leigh Taylor-Young, Casey Siemaszko, Geoffrey Blake, Scott McGinnis, Corey Haim, Courtney Gains, Janet Carroll	Romance, Comedy	Live action
		The Stuff	New World Pictures	Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Danny Aiello, Patrick O'Neal, Alexander Scourby, Russell Nype, Gene O'Neill, Brian Bloom, Harry Bellaver, Rutanya Alda, David Rees Snell, Heidi Miller, John Newton, Brooke Adams, Laurene Landon, Tammy Grimes, Abe Vigoda, Clara Peller, Anthony Perkins, Jason Evers, Barbara Crampton, Jeffrey Combs, Eric Bogosian, Patrick Dempsey, Mira Sorvino, John Laughlin	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
	21	Cocoon	20th Century Fox	Ron Howard (director); Tom Benedek (screenplay); Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, Barret Oliver, Linda Harrison, Tyrone Power Jr., Clint Howard, Charles Lampkin, Rance Howard, Jim Fitzpatrick, Mike Nomad, Jorge Gil, James Ritz	Sci-Fi, Comedy, Drama	Live action
	21	Return to Oz	Walt Disney Pictures	Walter Murch (director/screenplay); Gill Dennis (screenplay); Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, Matt Clark, Emma Ridley, Justin Case, Pons Maar, Sophie Ward, Fiona Victory, Bruce Boa, Denise Bryer, Sean Barrett, Brian Henson, Lyle Conway, Mak Wilson, Timothy D. Rose, Michael Sundin, Steve Norrington, Deep Roy, John Alexander, Rachael Ashton, Robbie Barnett, Ailsa Berk, Peter Elliott, Roger Ennals, Michele Hine, Mark Hopkins, Colin Skeaping, Ken Stevens, Philip Tan, Rob Thirtle, Beatrice Murch	Fantasy	Live action
	26	Pale Rider	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood (director); Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Richard Dysart, Chris Penn, Sydney Penny, John Russell, Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath, Jeffrey Weissman, S.A. Griffin, Billy Drago, John Dennis Johnston, Charles Hallahan, Fran Ryan, Richard Hamilton, Terrence Evans, Chuck Lafont, Jack Radosta, Robert Winley, Jeffrey Josephson, Marvin J. McIntyre	Western	Live action
	28	St. Elmo's Fire	Columbia Pictures	Joel Schumacher (director/screenplay); Carl Kurlander (screenplay); Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, Andrew McCarthy, Martin Balsam, Andie MacDowell, Joyce Van Patten, Jenny Wright, Blake Clark, Matthew Laurance, Gina Hecht, Anna Maria Horsford, Whip Hubley, Jim Turner, Mario Machado, Thom Bierdz	Drama, Romance	Live action

July–September

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	3	Back to the Future	Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment	Robert Zemeckis (director/screenplay); Bob Gale (screenplay); Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, James Tolkan, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, Jeffrey Jay Cohen, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, Harry Waters Jr., Donald Fullilove, Will Hare, Jason Hervey, Courtney Gains, Elsa Raven, Huey Lewis	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live action
	3	Red Sonja	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.	Richard Fleischer (director); Clive Exton, George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay); Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith, Ernie Reyes, Jr., Ronald Lacey, Pat Roach, Terry Richards, Janet Agren, Hans Meyer, Tutte Lemkow, Tad Horino, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Erik Holmey	Epic	Live action
	5	The Lift	Tuschinski Film Distribution / Island Alive	Dick Maas (director/screenplay); Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Josine van Dalsum	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
	10	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	Warner Bros.	George Miller (director/screenplay); George Ogilvie (director); Terry Hayes (screenplay); Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto, Paul Larsson, Angry Anderson, Robert Grubb, Helen Buday, Edwin Hodgeman, George Spartels, Tom Jennings, Rod Zuanic	Action	Live action
	12	Explorers	Paramount Pictures	Joe Dante (director); Eric Luke (screenplay); Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Amanda Peterson, Bobby Fite, Dana Ivey, Taliesin Jaffe, James Cromwell, Robert Picardo, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Dick Miller, Meshach Taylor, Mary Kay Place, Brooke Bundy, Leslie Rickert	Sci-Fi, Fantasy	Live action
	12	Silverado	Columbia Pictures	Lawrence Kasdan (director/screenplay); Mark Kasdan (screenplay); Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Linda Hunt, Joe Seneca, Ray Baker, Thomas Wilson Brown, Jeff Fahey, Lynn Whitfield, Amanda Wyss, Richard Jenkins, Brion James, James Gammon, Sheb Wooley, Earl Hindman, Pepe Serna	Western	Live action
	14	The Coca-Cola Kid	Roadshow Film Distributors	Dušan Makavejev (director); Frank Moorhouse (screenplay); Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, Kris McQuade, Max Gillies, Tony Barry, Paul Chubb, David Slingsby, Tim Finn, Colleen Clifford, Rebecca Smart, Esben Storm, Steve Dodd, Ian Gilmour	Romance, Comedy	Live action
	19	Day of the Dead	United Film Distribution Company	George A. Romero (director/screenplay); Lori Cardille, Joseph Pilato, Terry Alexander, Jarlath Conroy, Richard Liberty, Anthony Dileo Jr., Sherman Howard, Gary Howard Klar, Ralph Marrero, John Amplas, Phillip G. Kellams, Taso Stavrakis, Gregory Nicotero, George A. Romero	Horror	Live action
		Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam	GoodTimes Home Video	John R. Cherry III (director/screenplay); Jim Varney	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live action
		The Legend of Billie Jean	TriStar Pictures	Matthew Robbins (director); Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal (screenplay); Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Christian Slater, Peter Coyote, Richard Bradford, Martha Gehman, Yeardley Smith, Dean Stockwell, Barry Tubb	Drama	Live action
		The Man with One Red Shoe	20th Century Fox	Stan Dragoti (director); Robert Klane (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher, Jim Belushi, Edward Herrmann, David Ogden Stiers, Tom Noonan, Gerrit Graham, David L. Lander, Art LaFleur, Irving Metzman	Comedy	Live action
		Wetherby	MGM/UA Classics	David Hare (director/screenplay); Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Stuart Wilson, Tim McInnerny, Suzanna Hamilton, Tom Wilkinson, Marjorie Yates, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Katy Behean, Robert Hines	Mystery, Drama	Live action
	26	The Black Cauldron	Walt Disney Pictures	Ted Berman, Richard Rich (directors); Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, John Byner, Nigel Hawthorne, John Hurt, Phil Fondacaro, Freddie Jones, Arthur Malet, Billie Hayes, Peter Renaday, Wayne Allwine, Steve Hale, Phil Nibbelink, John Huston, Eda Reiss Merin, Adele Mails-Morey, James Almanzar, Jack Laing	Fantasy	Animation
		The Heavenly Kid	Orion Pictures Corporation	Cary Medoway (director/screenplay); Martin Copeland (screenplay); Lewis Smith, Jason Gedrick, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Mulligan, Mark Metcalf, Nancy Valen, Lynne Griffin, Christopher Greenbury	Romance, Comedy, Fantasy	Live action
		Kiss of the Spider Woman	Island Pictures	Héctor Babenco (director); Leonard Schrader (screenplay); William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, Míriam Pires, Nuno Leal Maia, Fernando Torres, Patricio Bisso, Herson Capri, Denise Dumont, Ana Maria Braga, Sergio Kato, Miguel Falabella, Antonio Petrin, Wilson Grey	Drama	Live action
		National Lampoon's European Vacation	Warner Bros.	Amy Heckerling (director); John Hughes, Robert Klane (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Jason Lively, John Astin, Malcolm Danare, William Zabka, Gary Owens, Jeannette Charles, Mel Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Maureen Lipman, Paul McDowell, Ballard Berkeley, Eric Idle, Jacques Herlin, Willy Millowitsch, Claudia Neidig, Victor Lanoux, Moon Unit Zappa	Comedy	Live action
A U G U S T	2	Fright Night	Columbia Pictures	Tom Holland (director/screenplay); Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Roddy McDowall, Stephen Geoffreys, Jonathan Stark, Dorothy Fielding, Art J. Evans, Stewart Stern, Ernie Holmes, Nick Savage, Heidi Sorenson	Horror	Live action
		Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird	Warner Bros.	Ken Kwapis (director); Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss (screenplay); Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson, Kathryn Mullen, Pam Arciero, Martin P. Robinson, Sally Kellerman, Laraine Newman, Brian Hohlfeld, Cathy Silvers, Eddie Deezen, Tim Gosley, Noel MacNeal, Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman, Linda Bove, Emilio Delgado, Sonia Manzano, Alaina Reed, Loretta Long, Kermit Love, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Alyson Court, Waylon Jennings, Sandra Bernhard, Chevy Chase, John Candy, Paul Bartel	Musical, Comedy	Live action
		Weird Science	Universal Pictures	John Hughes (director/screenplay); Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Rusler, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson, Vernon Wells, Britt Leach, Ivor Barry, Pamela Gordon, Michael Berryman, John Kapelos, D'Mitch Davis, Jill Whitlow, Wally Ward, Renee Props	Teen, Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live action
	7	Real Genius	TriStar Pictures	Martha Coolidge (director); Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Peter Torokvei (screenplay); Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton, Robert Prescott, Jon Gries, Mark Kamiyama, Ed Lauter, Louis Giambalvo, Patti D'Arbanville, Severn Darden, Beau Billingslea, Joanne Baron, Sandy Martin, Dean Devlin, Yuji Okumoto, Deborah Foreman, Stacy Peralta	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live action
	9	My Science Project	Touchstone Films	Jonathan R. Betuel (director/screenplay); John Stockwell, Danielle von Zerneck, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge, Richard Masur, Barry Corbin, Ann Wedgeworth, Dennis Hopper	Teen, Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live action
		Pee-wee's Big Adventure	Warner Bros.	Tim Burton (director); Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Michael Varhol (screenplay); Paul Reubens, E.G. Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen, Alice Nunn, Phil Hartman, John Harris, Daryl Keith Roach, Carmen Filpi, Jan Hooks, Jason Hervey, Tony Bill, Lynne Marie Stewart, John Paragon, Cleve Hall, Tim Burton, Michael Varhol, Ed Herlihy, Cassandra Peterson, James Brolin, Morgan Fairchild, Twisted Sister, Milton Berle, John Moody, Ralph Seymour	Adventure, Comedy	Live action
		Pray for Death	Transworld Entertainment	Gordon Hessler (director); James Booth (screenplay); Sho Kosugi, Norman Burton, James Booth, Kane Kosugi, Donna K. Benz, Michael Constantine, Parley Baer, Robert Ito, Shane Kosugi, Matthew Faison	Martial Arts, Action	Live action
		Summer Rental	Paramount Pictures	Carl Reiner (director); Mark Reisman, Jeremy Stevens (screenplay); John Candy, Karen Austin, Kerri Green, Joey Lawrence, Aubrey Jene, Rip Torn, Richard Crenna, John Larroquette, Richard Herd, Lois Hamilton, Carmine Caridi, Frank McCarthy, Bob Wells, Dick Anthony Williams, Reni Santoni	Comedy	Live action
	14	Key Exchange	20th Century Fox	Barnet Kellman (director); Paul Kurta, Kevin Scott (screenplay); Brooke Adams, Ben Masters, Danny Aiello, Seth Allen, Kerry Armstrong, Sandra Beall, Annie Golden, Peter Brinkerhoff, Ian Calderon, Keith Charles, Roger Christiansen, John Cunningham, Ned Eisenberg, Terri Garber, Deborah Offner, Maggie Renzi, Tony Roberts, Bill Smitrovich, John Spencer, Daniel Stern, Holland Taylor, Dan Ziskie, Barnet Kellman, Mayor Edward I. Koch	Romance, Comedy	Live action
	16	American Flyers	Warner Bros.	John Badham (director); Steve Tesich (screenplay); Kevin Costner, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul, David Grant, Janice Rule, Jennifer Grey, Robert Townsend, John Amos, Luca Bercovici	Sports, Drama	Live action
		The Return of the Living Dead	Orion Pictures	Dan O'Bannon (director/screenplay); Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Brian Peck, Linnea Quigley, Mark Venturini, Jonathan Terry, Cathleen Cordell, Allan Trautman, John Durbin, Drew Deighan, James Dalesandro, Terrence Houlihan, Jerome Coleman, Cherry Davis, David Bond	Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Volunteers	TriStar Pictures	Nicholas Meyer (director); Keith F. Critchlow, David Isaacs, Ken Levine (screenplay); Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, Gedde Watanabe, George Plimpton, Allan Arbus, Xander Berkeley, Ernest Harada	Comedy	Live action
		Year of the Dragon	MGM/UA Entertainment Company	Michael Cimino (director/screenplay); Oliver Stone (screenplay); Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane, Dennis Dun, Raymond J. Barry, Leonard Termo, Caroline Kava, Eddie Jones, Victor Wong, Tony Lip, Roza Ng	Neo-Noir, Crime, Thriller	Live action
	21	Agnes of God	Columbia Pictures	Norman Jewison (director); John Pielmeier (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Anne Pitoniak, Winston Rekert, Gratien Gélinas, Gabriel Arcand, Françoise Faucher, Françoise Berd, Guy Hoffman, Jacques Tourangeau, Janine Fluet, Deborah Grover, Michele George, Samantha Langevin, Jacqueline Blais, Mimi D'Estée, Rita Tuckett, Lillian Graham, Norma Dell'Agnese, Muguette Moreau, Janice Bryan, Agnes Middleton	Neo-Noir, Drama, Mystery	Live action
	23	Better Off Dead	Warner Bros.	Savage Steve Holland (director/screenplay); John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby, Curtis Armstrong, Amanda Wyss, Yuji Okumoto, Dan Schneider, Chuck Mitchell, Vincent Schiavelli, Taylor Negron, Rick Rosenthal, E.G. Daily, Aaron Dozier, Demian Slade, Scooter Stevens, Brian Imada, Laura Waterbury	Teen, Black Comedy	Live action
		Godzilla 1985	New World Pictures / Toho Pictures, Inc.	R.J. Kizer, Koji Hashimoto (directors); Shuichi Nagahara, Lisa Tomei (screenplay); Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Keiju Kobayashi, Shin Takuma, Eitaro Ozawa, Hiroshi Koizumi, Mizuho Suzuki, Taketoshi Naito, Yoshifumi Tajima, Justin Gocke, Tony Plana, Lara Cody, Gregory Snegoff, Kenpachiro Satsuma	Action, Horror, Sci-Fi	Live action
		Teen Wolf	Atlantic Releasing Corporation	Rod Daniel (director); Jeph Loeb, Matthew Weisman (screenplay); Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine, Matt Adler, Lorie Griffin, Jim McKrell, Mark Arnold, Jay Tarses, Mark Holton, Scott Paulin, Doug Savant	Coming-of-Age, Romance, Fantasy, Comedy	Live action
	30	American Ninja	Cannon Film Distributors	Sam Firstenberg (director); Paul De Mielche (screenplay); Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Koock, John Fujioka, Don Stewart, John La Motta, Tadashi Yamashita, Phil Brock	Martial Arts, Action	Live action
		Compromising Positions	Paramount Pictures	Frank Perry (director); Susan Isaacs (screenplay); Susan Sarandon, Raúl Juliá, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt, Anne De Salvo, Josh Mostel, Deborah Rush, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen	Comedy, Drama, Mystery	Live action
		Flesh+Blood	Orion Pictures / Riverside Pictures / Impala Studios	Paul Verhoeven (director/screenplay); Gerard Soeteman (screenplay); Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Susan Tyrrell, Ronald Lacey, Jack Thompson, Fernando Hilbeck, Brion James, Bruno Kirby, Simon Andreu, John Dennis Johnston, Marina Saura, Kitty Courbois, Jake Wood, Nancy Cartwright, Héctor Alterio, Siobhan Hayes, Anne Lockhart, Blanca Marsillach, Jorge Bosso, Mario De Barros, Hans Veerman, Ida Bons, Jaime Segura, Bettina Brenner, Susan Beresford, Mònica Lucchetti	Romance, Historical, Adventure	Live action
S E P T E M B E R	10	Plenty	20th Century Fox	Fred Schepisi (director); David Hare (screenplay); Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting, Ian McKellen, Sam Neill, Burt Kwouk, Pik-Sen Lim	Drama	Live action
	10	Smooth Talk	American Playhouse / Goldcrest Films	Joyce Chopra (director); Tom Cole (screenplay); Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Elizabeth Berridge, Levon Helm, Geoff Hoyle, William Ragsdale, Michael French, Margaret Welsh, Sara Inglis, David Berridge, Mark McKay, Joy Carlin, Carl Mueller, Cab Covay	Drama	Live action
	13	After Hours	Warner Bros.	Martin Scorsese (director); Joseph Minion (screenplay); Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Cheech Marin, Catherine O'Hara, Dick Miller, Will Patton, Bronson Pinchot, Rocco Sisto, Larry Block, Victor Argo, Clarence Felder, Martin Scorsese	Black Comedy	Live action
	20	Creator	Universal Pictures	Ivan Passer (director); Jeremy Leven (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, John Dehner, Karen Kopins, Kenneth Tigar, Elsa Raven, Rance Howard, Ellen Geer, Ian Wolfe, Byrne Piven, Jordan Charney, William H. Bassett, Jeff Corey, Michael McGrady, Eve McVeagh	Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi	Live action
	25	Marie	MGM/UA Entertainment	Roger Donaldson (director); John Briley (screenplay); Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Morgan Freeman, Keith Szarabajka, Fred Dalton Thompson, Lisa Banes, Trey Wilson, John Cullum, Don Hood, Graham Beckel, Macon McCalman, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Vincent Irizarry, Clarence Felder, Lisa Foster, Leon Rippy, Timothy Carhart, Stephen Henderson, Jane Powell, Melissa Sue Anderson	Biography	Live action
	27	Invasion U.S.A.	Cannon Films	Joseph Zito (director); James Bruner, Chuck Norris (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch, Eddie Jones, Billy Drago, Jaime Sánchez, Dehl Berti, Martin Shakar, James Pax, Melissa Prophet, Alexander Zale, Alex Colon, Jon DeVries, James O'Sullivan, Stephen Markle, Shane McCamey	Action	Live action
		The Journey of Natty Gann	Walt Disney Pictures	Jeremy Kagan (director); Jeanne Rosenberg (screenplay); Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Lainie Kazan, Scatman Crothers, Barry Miller, Verna Bloom, John P. Finnegan, Garry Chalk, Frank C. Turner, Gabrielle Rose, Don S. Davis, Alek Diakun, Grant Heslov, Bruce M. Fischer, Zachary Ansley, Campbell Lane, Jed the Wolfdog, Matthew Faison, Jordan Pratt, Jack Rader, Max Trumpower	Adventure, Family	Live action
		Maxie	Orion Pictures	Paul Aaron (director); Patricia Resnick (screenplay); Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon, Barnard Hughes, Valerie Curtin, Michael Ensign, Harry Hamlin, Leeza Gibbons, Googy Gress, Lou Cutell, Michael Laskin, Nelson Welch	Fantasy, Comedy	Live action

October–December

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	4	Commando	20th Century Fox	Mark L. Lester (director); Steven E. de Souza (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly, Bill Duke, Dan Hedaya, Drew Snyder, Michael Delano, Chelsea Field, Bill Paxton	Action	Live action
		Dreamchild	Thorn EMI	Gavin Millar (director); Dennis Potter (screenplay); Coral Browne, Peter Gallagher, Ian Holm, Jane Asher, Nicola Cowper, Caris Corfman, Amelia Shankley, Alan Bennett, Ken Campbell, Tony Haygarth, Fulton Mackay, Frank Middlemass, Julie Walters, Big Mick, Ron Mueck, Karen Prell, Michael Sundin, Steve Whitmire	Drama	Live action
		Jagged Edge	Columbia Pictures	Richard Marquand (director); Joe Eszterhas (screenplay); Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, John Dehner, Karen Austin, Guy Boyd, Marshall Colt, Louis Giambalvo, Lance Henriksen, LeVar Burton, James Karen, Leigh Taylor-Young, William Allen Young, John Clark, Ben Hammer, Sanford Jensen, Diane Erickson, Maria Mayenzet	Neo-Noir, Thriller	Live action
		Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Warner Bros.	Paul Schrader (director/screenplay); Leonard Schrader (screenplay); Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Yasosuke Bando, Masayuki Shionoya, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroshi Mikami, Naoko Otani, Haruko Kato, Kōichi Satō, Hisako Manda, Chishū Ryū, Naomi Oki, Miki Takakura, Reisen Lee, Setsuko Karasuma, Sachiko Hidari, Tadanori Yokoo, Yasuaki Kurata, Hiroshi Katsuno, Jun Negami, Hiroki Ida, Naoya Makoto, Ryō Ikebe, Alan Mark Poul, Roy Scheider	Biography	Live action
		Sweet Dreams	TriStar Pictures	Karel Reisz (director); Robert Getchell (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley, Gary Basaraba, John Goodman, P.J. Soles, Jerry Haynes, Boxcar Willie	Biography	Live action
		A Zed & Two Noughts	Artificial Eye / Channel Four Films	Peter Greenaway (director/screenplay); Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	6	The Long Hot Summer	NBC / Leonard Hill Films / Long Hot Productions	Stuart Cooper (director); William Faulkner, Rita Mae Brown, Dennis Turner (screenplay); Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Judith Ivey, Cybill Shepherd, William Russ, Ava Gardner, Wings Hauser, Albert Hall, William Forsythe, James Gammon, Rance Howard, Alexandra Johnson, Stephen Davies, Charlotte Stanton	Romance, Drama	Live action
	11	Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins	Orion Pictures	Guy Hamilton (director); Christopher Wood (screenplay); Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley, J.A. Preston, George Coe, Charles Cioffi, Kate Mulgrew, Michael Pataki, Reginald VelJohnson, Jon Polito, Gene LeBell, Sebastian Ligarde, Tom McBride, Suzanne Snyder, William Hickey, Patrick Kilpatrick	Action, Adventure	Live action
	11	Silver Bullet	Paramount Pictures	Dan Attias (director); Stephen King (screenplay); Corey Haim, Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Megan Follows, Terry O'Quinn, Lawrence Tierney, Bill Smitrovich, Kent Broadhurst, David Hart, James Gammon, Tovah Feldshuh, Joe Wright, Robin Groves	Horror	Live action
	18	The Holcroft Covenant	Universal Pictures	John Frankenheimer (director); Edward Anhalt, George Axelrod, John Hopkins (screenplay); Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, Michael Lonsdale, Bernard Hepton, Shane Rimmer, Alexander Kerst, Richard Münch, Michael Wolf	Thriller	Live action
		The Quiet Earth	Skouras Pictures	Geoff Murphy (director); Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence, Sam Pillsbury (screenplay); Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Peter Smith	Sci-Fi	Live action
		Re-Animator	Empire International Pictures	Stuart Gordon (director); Brian Yuzna (screenplay); Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson, Al Berry, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Ian Patrick Williams, Gerry Black, Peter Kent, Craig Reed	Horror, Comedy	Live action
		Wild Geese II	Frontier Films / Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment	Peter Hunt (director); Reginald Rose (screenplay); Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier, Robert Freitag, Kenneth Haigh, Stratford Johns, Derek Thompson, Robert Webber	Action, Thriller	Live action
	20	I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later	NBC / Sony Pictures Television / Columbia Pictures Television / Can't Sing Can't Dance Productions	William Asher (director); Irma Kalish (screenplay); Barbara Eden, Wayne Rogers, Bill Daily, Hayden Rorke, Mackenzie Astin, André De Shields, Dody Goodman, John Bennett Perry, Dori Brenner, Nicole Eggert, Michael Fairman	Fantasy, Comedy	Live action
	23	Twice in a Lifetime	Bud Yorkin Productions	Bud Yorkin (director); Colin Welland (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy, Brian Dennehy, Stephen Lang, Darrell Larson	Drama	Live action
	25	Krush Groove	Warner Bros.	Michael Schultz (director); Ralph Farquhar (screenplay); Blair Underwood, Sheila E., Run-DMC, Jam Master Jay, The Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow, New Edition, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Russell Simmons, Richard Gant, LisaGay Hamilton, Rick Rubin, Nayobe, Vicky Ruane, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, Brian "B-Fine" George, Paul Anthony George, Chris Rock, Kara Vallow, Coati Mundi, Donnie Simpson	Musical, Comedy, Drama	Live action
N O V E M B E R	1	Death Wish 3	Cannon Film Distributors	Michael Winner (director/screenplay); Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alex Winter, Marina Sirtis, Ricco Ross, Barbie Wilde, Manning Redwood	Action, Thriller	Live action
		A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge	New Line Cinema / Heron Communications / Smart Egg Pictures	Jack Sholder (director); David Chaskin (screenplay); Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Christie Clark, Marshall Bell, Melinda O. Fee, Tom McFadden, Sydney Walsh, Lyman Ward, JoAnn Willette, Steve Eastin, Brian Wimmer, Kerry Remsen, Robert Shaye	Slasher	Live action
		To Live and Die in L.A.	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.	William Friedkin (director/screenplay); Gerald Petievich (screenplay); William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro, Darlanne Fluegel, Dean Stockwell, Steve James, Robert Downey Sr., Michael Greene, Jack Hoar, Christopher Allport, Valentin de Vargas, Dwier Brown, Jane Leeves, Dar Robinson, Thomas F. Duffy, Gary Cole, Gerald Petievich, Michael Chong, Jacqueline Giroux	Neo-Noir, Action, Thriller	Live action
	3	North and South	ABC / David L. Wolper Productions / Warner Bros. Television	Richard T. Heffron (director); Douglas Heyes, John Jakes, Paul F. Edwards, Patricia Green, Kathleen A. Shelley (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, James Read, Lesley-Anne Down, Wendy Kilbourne, Kirstie Alley, Jean Simmons, Mitchell Ryan, Terri Garber, Genie Francis, David Ogden Stiers, David Carradine, Jonathan Frakes, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook, Philip Casnoff, Lewis Smith, John Stockwell, Wendy Fulton, Morgan Fairchild, Inga Swenson, Jim Metzler, Tony Frank, David Harris, Erica Gimpel, Forest Whitaker, Andrew Stahl, Olivia Cole, Elizabeth Taylor, Georg Stanford Brown, John Anderson, Lee Bergere, Mark Moses, Robert Guillaume, Johnny Cash, Chris Douridas, James Rebhorn, Temi Epstein, Cary Guffey	Drama, History, Romance	Live action
	8	Bring On the Night	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	Michael Apted (director/screenplay); Sting, Omar Hakim, Darryl Jones, Kenny Kirkland, Branford Marsalis, Dolette McDonald, Janice Pendarvis	Documentary	Live action
		Target	Warner Bros.	Arthur Penn (director); Jose Luis Navarro, Don Petersen, Leonard B. Stern (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Josef Sommer, Guy Boyd, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Herbert Berghof, Richard Münch, Werner Pochath, Jany Holt, Ilona Grübel, James Selby, Ray Fry	Mystery, Thriller	Live action
		That Was Then... This Is Now	Paramount Pictures	Christopher Cain (director); Emilio Estevez (screenplay); Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer, Kim Delaney, Jill Schoelen, Larry B. Scott, Barbara Babcock, Morgan Freeman, Frank McCarthy, Ramon Estevez, Frank Howard, Diane Dorsey	Drama	Live action
		Transylvania 6-5000	New World Pictures	Rudy De Luca (director/screenplay); Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Joseph Bologna, Carol Kane, Jeffrey Jones, John Byner, Geena Davis, Michael Richards, Donald Gibb, Norman Fell, Teresa Ganzel, Rudy De Luca, Inge Appelt, Božidar Smiljanić	Horror, Comedy	Live action
	15	My Beautiful Laundrette	Mainline Pictures / Orion Pictures / Working Title Films / Channel Four Films	Stephen Frears (director); Hanif Kureishi (screenplay); Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Shirley Anne Field	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Once Bitten	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	Howard Storm (director); Jonathan Roberts, David Hines, Jeffrey Hause (screenplay); Lauren Hutton, Jim Carrey, Karen Kopins, Cleavon Little, Richard Schaal, Peggy Pope, Megan Mullally, Joseph Brutsman, Stuart Charno, Carey More, Thomas Ballatore, Skip Lackey, Jeb Stuart Adams, Robin Klein, Glen Mauro, Gary Mauro	Teen, Comedy	Live action
		Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer	Warner Bros.	Kimio Yabuki, Bernard Deyriès (directors); Jean Chalopin, Howard R. Cohen (screenplay); Bettina, Patrick Fraley, Peter Cullen, Robbie Lee, Andre Stojka, David Mendenhall, Les Tremayne, Mona Marshall, Jonathan Harris, Scott Menville, Charlie Adler, Rhonda Aldrich, Marissa Mendenhall, David Workman	Fantasy	Animation
	22	Bad Medicine	20th Century Fox	Harvey Miller (director/screenplay); Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin, Julie Hagerty, Bill Macy, Curtis Armstrong, Julie Kavner, Joe Grifasi, Robert Romanus, Taylor Negron, Candi Milo, Gilbert Gottfried, Eileen Way, Allan Corduner, Tresa Hughes, José Canalejas, John Sterland	Comedy	Live action
		Fever Pitch	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.	Richard Brooks (director/screenplay); Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Bridgette Andersen, Chad Everett, John Saxon, Hank Greenspun, William Smith, Keith Hefner, Patrick Cassidy, William Prince, Chad McQueen, Fred Robledo	Drama	Live action
		King Solomon's Mines	The Cannon Group	J. Lee Thompson (director); Gene Quintano, James R. Silke (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu, Shaike Ophir, June Buthelezi, Sam Williams, Mick Lesley, Vincent Van der Byl, Bob Greer, Oliver Tengende, Neville Thomas, Bishop McThuzen, Isiah Murert	Action, Adventure	Live action
		One Magic Christmas	Walt Disney Pictures	Phillip Borsos (director); Thomas Meehan (screenplay); Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Hill, Elisabeth Harnois, Michelle Meyrink, Elias Koteas, Wayne Robson, Jan Rubeš, Sarah Polley, Graham Jarvis, Robbie Magwood, Timothy Webber, Joy Thompson, John Friesen	Fantasy	Live action
		Starchaser: The Legend of Orin	Atlantic Releasing	Steven Hahn (director); Jeffrey Scott (screenplay); Joe Colligan, Carmen Argenziano, Anthony De Longis, Noelle North, Tyke Caravelli, Les Tremayne, Daryl Bartley, Tina Romanus, Thomas H. Watkins, Mickey Morton, John Moschitta, Jr., Ken Sansom, Mona Marshall, Herb Vigran, Cathy Cavadini, Marilyn Schreffler, Susan Silo	Fantasy	Animation
		White Nights	Columbia Pictures	Taylor Hackford (director); James Goldman, Eric Hughes (screenplay); Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page, Isabella Rossellini, John Glover, Stefan Gryff, William Hootkins, Shane Rimmer, Marc Sinden, Maryam d'Abo, Daniel Benzali	Drama	Live action
	27	Rocky IV	MGM/UA Entertainment Company	Sylvester Stallone (director/screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Dolph Lundgren, Brigitte Nielsen, Tony Burton, Michael Pataki, Rocky Krakoff, LeRoy Neiman, Burgess Meredith, James Brown, Stu Nahan, Warner Wolf, R.J. Adams, Barry Tompkins, Al Bandiero, David Lloyd Austin	Sports, Drama	Live action
	27	Santa Claus: The Movie	TriStar Pictures	Jeannot Szwarc (director); David Newman (screenplay); Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston, Judy Cornwell, Burgess Meredith, Jeffrey Kramer, Christian Fitzpatrick, Carrie Kei Heim, John Barrard, Anthony O'Donnell, Melvyn Hayes, Don Estelle, Tim Stern, Peter O'Farrell, Christopher Ryan, Keith Hayden, Shannon Spruill, Nigel Paterson	Adventure, Family, Fantasy	Live action
D E C E M B E R	4	Young Sherlock Holmes	Paramount Pictures / Amblin Entertainment	Barry Levinson (director); Chris Columbus (screenplay); Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Anthony Higgins, Sophie Ward, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Freddie Jones, Nigel Stock, Brian Oulton, Susan Fleetwood, Earl Rhodes, Patrick Newell, Donald Eccles, Walter Sparrow, Nadim Sawalha, Roger Brierley, Vivienne Chandler, Lockwood West, John Scott Martin, Willoughby Goddard, Ralph Tabakin, Nancy Nevinson, Michael Hordern	Mystery, Adventure	Live action
	6	Fool for Love	The Cannon Group, Inc.	Robert Altman (director); Sam Shepard (screenplay); Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid	Drama	Live action
		Runaway Train	The Cannon Group, Inc.	Andrei Konchalovsky (director); Djordje Milicevic, Paul Zindel, Edward Bunker (screenplay); Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner, John P. Ryan, T.K. Carter, Kenneth McMillan, Edward Bunker, John Bloom, Norton E. "Hank" Worden, Danny Trejo, Tiny Lister, Dennis Franz, Stacey Pickren, Walter Wyatt, Reid Cruickshanks, Dan Wray, Michael Lee Gogin	Action, Thriller	Live action
		Spies Like Us	Warner Bros.	John Landis (director); Dan Aykroyd, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, William Prince, Steve Forrest, Tom Hatten, Bernie Casey, Charles McKeown, Vanessa Angel, James Daughton, Jim Staahl, Frank Oz, Terry Gilliam, Ray Harryhausen, Derek Meddings, Joel Coen, Sam Raimi, Martin Brest, Costa-Gavras, Bob Hope, B.B. King, Michael Apted, Larry Cohen, Heidi Sorenson, Edwin Newman	Comedy	Live action
	9	Alice in Wonderland	CBS / Sony Pictures Television / Columbia Pictures Television / Irwin Allen Productions	Harry Harris (director); Lewis Carroll, Paul Zindel (screenplay); Natalie Gregory, Red Buttons, Anthony Newley, Jayne Meadows, Carol Channing, Roddy McDowall, Ann Jillian, Pat Morita, Robert Morley, Sheila Allen, Sherman Hemsley, Donald O'Connor, Shelley Winters, Scott Baio, Sammy Davis Jr., Robert Axelrod, Martha Raye, Imogene Coca, Telly Savalas, Arte Johnson, Selma Archerd, George Savalas, Sid Caesar, Ringo Starr, Tom McLoughlin, Harvey Korman, Jack Warden, Sally Struthers, Donna Mills, Merv Griffin, Patrick Duffy, Steve Allen, George Gobel, Eydie Gormé, Steve Lawrence, Karl Malden, Louis Nye, Jonathan Winters, John Stamos, Ernest Borgnine, Beau Bridges, Don Matheson, Lloyd Bridges, Sharee Gregory, Charles Dougherty, Billy Braver, Ernie F. Orsatti, Scotch Byerley, Lana Beeson, Michael Chieffo, Jeffrey Winner, John Walter Davis, James Joseph Galante, Candance Savalas, Troy Jordan, Patrick Culliton, Laura Carlson, Kristi Lynes, Desiree Sbazo, Barbie Alison, Janie Walton, Dee Brantlinger	Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical	Live action
	11	The Jewel of the Nile	20th Century Fox	Lewis Teague (director); Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focás, Avner Eisenberg, Hamid Fillali, Daniel Peacock, Holland Taylor, Guy Cuevas, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Peter De Palma, Mark Daly Richards	Action, Adventure, Romance, Comedy	Live action
	13	A Chorus Line	Columbia Pictures	Richard Attenborough (director); Arnold Schulman (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Terrence Mann, Sharon Brown, Jan Gan Boyd, Gregg Burge, Tony Fields, Audrey Landers, Nicole Fosse, Vicki Frederick, Janet Jones, Matt West, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges, Cameron English, Michelle Johnston, Pam Klinger, Charles McGowan, Justin Ross, Blane Savage	Drama, Musical	Live action
		Clue	Paramount Pictures	Jonathan Lynn (director/screenplay); John Landis (screenplay); Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Colleen Camp, Lee Ving, Bill Henderson, Jane Wiedlin, Jeffrey Kramer, Kellye Nakahara, Howard Hesseman	Black Comedy, Mystery	Live action
		Legend	Universal Pictures	Ridley Scott (director); William Hjortsberg (screenplay); Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert, Kiran Shah, Robert Picardo, Peter O'Farrell, Annabelle Lanyon, Tina Martin	Epic, Fantasy, Adventure	Live action
		Trouble in Mind	Alive Films	Alan Rudolph (director/screenplay); Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold, Joe Morton, Dirk Blocker, George Kirby, Divine, John Considine, Albert Hall, Gailard Sartain, Robert Gould	Neo-noir	Live action
	18	Brazil	20th Century Fox (International) / Universal Pictures (United States)	Terry Gilliam (director/screenplay); Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown (screenplay); Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist, Jim Broadbent, Brian Miller, Sheila Reid, Simon Nash, Barbara Hicks, Kathryn Pogson, Bryan Pringle, Derrick O'Connor, Elizabeth Spender, Derek Deadman, Nigel Planer, Charles McKeown, Ray Cooper, Gorden Kaye, John Pierce Jones, Ann Way, Myrtle Devenish, Simon Jones, Bill Wallis, Don Henderson, Howard Lew Lewis, Oscar Quitak, Harold Innocent, John Grillo, Patrick Connor, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jack Purvis, Andre Gregory, Terry Gilliam, Sue Hodge	Sci-Fi	Live action
		The Color Purple	Warner Bros.	Steven Spielberg (director); Menno Meyjes (screenplay); Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Akosua Busia, Adolph Caesar, Willard Pugh, Rae Dawn Chong, Larry Fishburne, Carl Anderson, Grand L. Bush, Dana Ivey, Bennet Guillory, James Tillis, Leonard Jackson, Desreta Jackson, Táta Vega, Gayle King	Coming-of-Age, Period, Drama	Live action
		Out of Africa	Universal Pictures	Sydney Pollack (director); Kurt Luedtke (screenplay); Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Shane Rimmer, Michael Gough, Suzanna Hamilton, Rachel Kempson, Graham Crowden, Leslie Phillips, Annabel Maule, Donal McCann, Benny Young, Iman, Jon Seda, Malick Bowens, Joseph Thiaka, Stephen Kinyanjui	Epic, Romance, Drama	Live action
	20	Enemy Mine	20th Century Fox	Wolfgang Petersen (director); Edward Khmara (screenplay); Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick, Bumper Robinson, Lance Kerwin, Herb Andress, Jim Mapp, Scott Kraft, Lou Michaels, Andy Geer, Henry Stolow, Danmar, Mandy Hausenberger	Sci-Fi, Drama	Live action
	25	Murphy's Romance	Columbia Pictures	Martin Ritt (director); Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch (screenplay); Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Dennis Burkley, Carole King, Georgann Johnson, Anna Levine, Charles Lane, Bruce French, John C. Becher, Dortha Duckworth, Michael Prokopuk, Billy Ray Sharkey, Michael Crabtree, Henry Slate	Romance, Comedy	Live action
		Revolution	Warner Bros.	Hugh Hudson (director); Robert Dillon (screenplay); Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Dexter Fletcher, Sid Owen, Joan Plowright, Dave King, Steven Berkoff, John Wells, Annie Lennox, Richard O'Brien, Paul Brooke, Frank Windsor, Jesse Birdsall, Graham Greene, Robbie Coltrane	Historical, Drama	Live action
		The Trip to Bountiful	Island Pictures	Peter Masterson (director); Horton Foote (screenplay); Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay, Kevin Cooney, Dave Tanner, Gil Glasgow, Mary Kay Mars, Norman Bennett, Harvey Lewis, Kirk Sisco, Wezz Tildon, Peggy Ann Byers, David Romo, Tony Torn, John Torn, Alexandra Masterson, Don Wyse	Drama	Live action
	27	Joey	New World Pictures	Roland Emmerich (director/screenplay); Hans J. Haller, Thomas Lechner (screenplay); Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll	Horror, Fantasy	Live action

Births

January 3 - Nicole Beharie, American actress
January 11 – Aja Naomi King, American actress^[8]
January 16 – Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor^[9]
January 19 - Damien Chazelle, American film director^[10]
February 7 - Tina Majorino, American actress
March 13 - Emile Hirsch, American actor^[11]
March 15
- Eva Amurri, American actress
- Kellan Lutz, American actor
March 23
- Maryana Spivak, Russian actress
March 26
- Jonathan Groff, American actor and singer
- Keira Knightley, English actress^[12]
March 27 – Ram Charan, Indian film actor^[13]
April 16
- Rhiana Griffith, Australian actress
- Gregor Schmidinger, Austrian screenwriter and director
April 17 - Rooney Mara, American actress
April 23 - Rachel Skarsten, Canadian actress
April 27 - Sheila Vand, American actress
April 30 - Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model^[14]
May 5 - Clark Duke, American actor, comedian and director
May 10 - Odette Annable, American actress
May 28 - Tao Okamoto, Japanese actress
May 28 - Carey Mulligan, English actress^[15]
May 29 - Blake Foster, American actor
May 30 - Sam Gifaldi, American actor
June 2 - Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress
June 7 - Adam Nagaitis, British actor
June 9 – Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model^[16]
June 12
- Dave Franco, American actor
- Liisa Pulk, Estonian actress
June 21 - Lana Del Rey, American singer and songwriter^[17]
July 1 - Léa Seydoux, French actress
July 2 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
July 18 - Chace Crawford, American actor
July 21 - Vanessa Lengies, Canadian actress and singer
July 22 - Blake Harrison, English actor, voice actor and dancer
August 9 - Anna Kendrick, American actress and singer
August 23 - Juss Haasma, Estonian actor
September 4 - Morgan Garrett, American voice actress
September 10
- Monica Lopera, Colombian-American actress
- Elyse Levesque, Canadian actress
September 16 - Madeline Zima, American actress
September 22 - Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
September 24 - Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress and singer
October 1 - Emerald Fennell, English screen actress and director
October 11 - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
October 26 - Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress^[18]
October 28 - Troian Bellisario, American actress
October 31 - Kether Donohue, American actress and singer
November 2 - Josh Grelle, American voice actor
November 7 - Lucas Neff, American actor
November 10 - Giovonnie Samuels, American actress
November 20 - Dan Byrd, American actor
November 23 - Katie Crown, Canadian-American actress, voice actress, comedian and writer
November 30
- Gia Crovatin, American actress and producer
- Kaley Cuoco, American actress
December 3 - Amanda Seyfried, American actress and singer
December 5 - Frankie Muniz, American actor
December 10 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	5	Robert Surtees	78	US	Cinematographer	The Graduate Ben-Hur
	5	John Paxton	73	US	Screenwriter	Murder, My Sweet Crossfire
	11	Edward Buzzell	89	US	Director	Go West Neptune's Daughter
	12	Paul Luty	52	UK	Actor	The Water Babies The Dresser
	13	Carol Wayne	42	US	Actress	The Party Heartbreakers
	14	Jetta Goudal	93	Netherlands	Actress	Lady of the Pavements Paris at Midnight
	18	Wilfrid Brambell	72	UK	Actor	Steptoe and Son A Hard Day's Night
	25	Paul J. Smith	78	US	Composer, Orchestrator	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella
February
	4	Fred Ryan	67	UK	Boom Operator	Doctor Blood's Coffin I Was Monty's Double
	6	Neil McCarthy	52	UK	Actor	Where Eagles Dare Clash of the Titans
	6	James Hadley Chase	78	UK	Writer, Miscellaneous	The Night of the Generals Palmetto
	10	Wanda Tuchock	86	US	Screenwriter	Finishing School The Foxes of Harrow
	11	Henry Hathaway	86	US	Director, Producer	True Grit How the West Was Won
	12	Nicholas Colasanto	61	US	Actor	Raging Bull Fat City
	16	Larry Ward	60	US	Actor, Writer	Hombre The Dakotas
	19	Dorothy Black	85	South Africa	Actress	The Night Has Eyes The Farmer's Wife
	20	Clarence Nash	80	US	Actor	The Three Caballeros Fun and Fancy Free
	21	Ina Claire	91	UK	Actress	The Awful Truth Ninotchka
	21	Louis Hayward	75	UK	Actor, Director, Producer	House by the River And Then There Were None
	27	J. Pat O'Malley	80	UK	Actor, Voice Actor	One Hundred and One Dalmatians Hello, Dolly!
	27	David Huffman	39	US	Actor, Producer	Firefox F.I.S.T.
March
	1	Alfred Zeisler	92	US	Producer, Director	Victor and Victoria Fear
	3	Noel Purcell	84	Ireland	Actor	Moby Dick Mutiny on the Bounty
	5	Thomas Little	98	US	Set Decorator	All About Eve The Day the Earth Stood Still
	8	Edward Andrews	70	US	Actor	The Harder They Fall Sixteen Candles
	19	Anthony Nelson Keys	73	UK	Producer	Dracula The Curse of Frankenstein
	21	Michael Redgrave	77	UK	Actor, Writer	The Lady Vanishes The Importance of Being Earnest
	21	Michael Trubshawe	79	UK	Actor	The Pink Panther The Guns of Navarone
April
	16	Scott Brady	60	US	Actor	Johnny Guitar The China Syndrome
	21	John Welsh	70	UK	Actor, Production Manager	Krull Lucky Jim
	23	Kent Smith	78	US	Actor	Cat People Nora Prentiss
	25	Richard Haydn	80	UK	Actor	The Sound of Music Alice in Wonderland
	26	Albert Maltz	76	US	Screenwriter	This Gun for Hire Broken Arrow
May	1	George Pravda	68	UK	Actor	Thunderball Firefox
	4	Harry Earles	83	US	Actor	Freaks The Unholy Three
	5	Mildred Dixon	74	US	Actress
	7	Dawn Addams	54	UK	Actress	The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll The Robe
	8	Susan Morrow	53	US	Actress	The Savage Cat-Women of the Moon
	8	Dolph Sweet	64	US	Actor	Finian's Rainbow Colossus: The Forbin Project
	9	Edmond O'Brien	69	US	Actor	The Barefoot Contessa The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
	11	Chester Gould	84	US	Writer, Cartoonist	Dick Tracy Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
	13	Selma Diamond	64	US	Actress, Writer	My Favorite Year Bang the Drum Slowly
	13	Leatrice Joy	91	US	Actress	Vanity Triumph
	14	Frank Westmore	62	??	Makeup Artist	The Ten Commandments The Towering Inferno
	16	Margaret Hamilton	82	US	Actress	The Wizard of Oz Brewster McCloud
	17	Hugh Burden	72	UK	Actor, Writer	The Ruling Class Funeral in Berlin
	22	Wolfgang Reitherman	75	US	Animator, Director, Producer	The Jungle Book Robin Hood
	22	Gerald Case	80	UK	Actor	Vampyres The Elephant Man
	25	Robert Nathan	91	US	Writer, Actor	The Clock Pagan Love Song
	26	Harold Hecht	77	US	Producer	Marty Sweet Smell of Success
	30	Talbot Jennings	90	US	Screenwriter	Mutiny on the Bounty Knights of the Round Table
June	1	Richard Greene	66	UK	Actor, Producer	Kentucky The Hound of the Baskervilles
	7	Gordon Rollings	59	UK	Actor	The Comedy Man Carry on Doctor
	9	Clifford Evans	73	UK	Actor, Writer	The Kiss of the Vampire The Curse of the Werewolf
	10	George Chandler	86	US	Actor	Fury Roxie Hart
	17	John Boulting	71	UK	Producer, Director	Lucky Jim I'm All Right Jack
	24	Valentine Dyall	77	UK	Actor	Henry V Ivanhoe
	28	James Craig	73	US	Actor, Writer	Kitty Foyle The Human Comedy
July	1	Elsie Wagstaff	86	UK	Actress	Meet Sexton Blake The Interrupted Journey
	3	Nelson Leigh	80	US	Actor	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Yukon Manhunt
	7	Ewen Solon	67	NZ	Actor	Tarzan the Magnificent The Curse of the Werewolf
	8	Phil Foster	71	US	Actor	Bang the Drum Slowly Conquest of Space
	8	Victor Rendina	68	US	Actor	The Godfather Racing with the Moon
	17	Margo	68	Mexico	Actress	The Leopard Man Lost Horizon
	18	Louisa Ghijs	83	Belgium	Actress	De vier Mullers
	20	Estelle Evans	78	US	Actress	To Kill a Mockingbird The Learning Tree
	23	Kay Kyser	80	US	Musician, Actor	Playmates My Favorite Spy
	23	Mickey Shaughnessy	64	US	Actor	Designing Woman Jailhouse Rock
	28	Grant Williams	53	US	Actor	The Incredible Shrinking Man PT 109
August
	2	Bob Holt	56	US	Actor	Gremlins Bedknobs and Broomsticks
	2	Frank Faylen	79	US	Actor	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Funny Girl
	7	Grayson Hall	62	US	Actress	House of Dark Shadows The Night of the Iguana
	8	Louise Brooks	78	US	Actress	Pandora's Box Diary of a Lost Girl
	8	Milton H. Greene	63	US	Producer	The Prince and the Showgirl Bus Stop
	10	Kenny Baker	72	US	Singer, Actor	The Harvey Girls At the Circus
	12	Patrick Hines	55	US	Actor	Amadeus 1776
	13	Marion Martin	77	US	Actress	The Big Street The Big Store
	14	Gale Sondergaard	86	US	Actress	Anthony Adverse Anna and the King of Siam
	15	Lester Cole	81	US	Screenwriter	Blood on the Sun High Wall
	24	Morrie Ryskind	89	US	Screenwriter	A Night at the Opera My Man Godfrey
	28	Ruth Gordon	88	US	Actress, Writer	Rosemary's Baby Harold and Maude
	29	Evelyn Ankers	67	US	Actress	The Wolf Man The Ghost of Frankenstein
	29	Patrick Barr	77	UK	Actor	The Longest Day Octopussy
	30	Tom Howard	75	UK	Special Effects	Blithe Spirit Tom Thumb
September	4	George O'Brien	86	US	Actor, Producer	Sunrise She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
	6	Johnny Desmond	65	US	Actor, Singer	Escape from San Quentin Calypso Heat Wave
	6	Jane Frazee	67	US	Actress, Singer	San Antonio Rose Calendar Girl
	10	Alexa Kenin	23	US	Actress	Honkytonk Man Pretty in Pink
	14	Julian Beck	60	US	Actor	The Cotton Club Oedipus Rex
	16	Art Scholl	53	US	Stuntman, Actor
	24	Paul Mann	71	US	Actor	America, America Fiddler on the Roof
	27	Lloyd Nolan	83	US	Actor	Peyton Place Hannah and Her Sisters
	28	L. B. Abbott	77	US	Special Effects	Patton Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
	29	Arthur Krams	73	US	Set Decorator	The Rose Tattoo Holiday in Mexico
	30	Simone Signoret	64	France	Actress	Room at the Top Ship of Fools
	30	Floyd Crosby	85	US	Cinematographer	High Noon The Pit and the Pendulum
October	2	George Savalas	60	US	Actor	Kelly's Heroes The Greatest Story Ever Told
	2	Rock Hudson	59	US	Actor	Giant Pillow Talk
	6	Nelson Riddle	64	US	Composer, Orchestrator	The Great Gatsby Lolita
	10	Yul Brynner	65	US	Actor	The King and I The Magnificent Seven
	10	Orson Welles	70	US	Actor, Writer, Director	Citizen Kane Touch of Evil
	13	Francesca Bertini	93	Italy	Actress	Odette 1900
	16	Franklin Milton	78	US	Recording Supervisor	Ben-Hur Grand Prix
	22	Stefano Satta Flores	48	Italy	Actor	We All Loved Each Other So Much Four Flies on Grey Velvet
	25	Gary Holton	33	UK	Actor	Quadrophenia The Gentle Touch
	30	Kirby Grant	73	US	Actor	Trail of the Yukon Northwest Territory
	30	David Oxley	64	Spain	Actor	The Hound of the Baskervilles House of the Living Dead
November	1	Phil Silvers	74	US	Actor	You're in the Army Now It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	12	Dimitar Panov	83	Bulgaria	Actor	The Prince Whale
	19	Jimmy Ritz	81	US	Actor, Writer	On the Avenue Pack Up Your Troubles
	19	Stepin Fetchit	83	US	Actor	Zenobia Charlie Chan in Egypt
	23	Leslie Mitchell	80	UK	Newsreel Commentator	British Movietone News
December	11	Kathleen Ryan	63	Ireland	Actress	Odd Man Out Esther Waters
	12	Anne Baxter	62	US	Actress	The Razor's Edge All About Eve
	12	Phil Karlson	77	US	Director	The Silencers Kid Galahad
	14	Bruce Weintraub	33	US	Set Decorator	Scarface Prizzi's Honor
	17	Harry M. Leonard	85	US	Sound Recordist	Laura Captain Eddie
	23	Gina Kaus	92	Austria	Screenwriter	The Red Danube The Robe
	26	Margarete Schön	90	Germany	Actress, Director	Die Nibelungen The Street Song
	28	Renato Castellani	72	Italy	Director, Writer	Romeo and Juliet Under the Sun of Rome
	31	Ricky Nelson	45	US	Actor, Singer	Rio Bravo The Wackiest Ship in the Army
	31	Sam Spiegel	84	UK	Producer	Lawrence of Arabia On the Waterfront

Film debuts

Joan Allen - Compromising Positions
Sean Astin - The Goonies
Fairuza Balk - Return to Oz
Josh Brolin - The Goonies
Tim Burton (director) - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Helena Bonham Carter - A Room with a View
Steve Buscemi – The Way It Is
Don Cheadle - Moving Violations
Blake Clark - St. Elmo's Fire
Patrick Dempsey - Heaven Help Us
Linda Fiorentino - Vision Quest
Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple
Ethan Hawke - Explorers
John Hawkes - Future-Kill
Richard Jenkins - Silverado
Elias Koteas - One Magic Christmas
LL Cool J - Krush Groove
Stephen Lang - Twice in a Lifetime
Hugh Laurie - Plenty
Joey Lawrence - Summer Rental
John Leguizamo - Mixed Blood
Melissa Leo - Always
Tom Lister, Jr. - Runaway Train
Dolph Lundgren - A View to a Kill
Madonna - Vision Quest
Lesley Manville - Dance with a Stranger
Alyssa Milano - Commando
Rob Morrow - Private Resort
Viggo Mortensen - Witness
Brigitte Nielsen - Red Sonja
Danny Nucci - Explorers
River Phoenix - Explorers
Keanu Reeves - One Step Away
Miranda Richardson - Dance with a Stranger
Mia Sara - Legend
Kyra Sedgwick - War and Love
Christian Slater - The Legend of Billie Jean
Yeardley Smith - Heaven Help Us
Danny Trejo - Runaway Train
Stanley Tucci - Prizzi's Honor
Blair Underwood - Krush Groove
Thomas F. Wilson - Back to the Future
Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple
Noah Wyle - Lust in the Dust
Billy Zane - Back to the Future

References

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^ Canby, Vincent (December 29, 1985). "Film View; Vivid Joys Among The Vast Array Of Failures". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Harmetz, Aljean (September 2, 1985). "A Bleak Summer For Movie Makers". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 23, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ Harmetz, Aljean (July 3, 1985). "'Pale Rider' Heads List In Theaters". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Canby, Vincent (September 8, 1985). "Film: Season Preview; Even Wands Can't Create Magic At The Box Office". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 22, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
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^ ^a ^b Harmetz, Aljean (January 15, 1986). "Christmas Film Sales Set Record". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "UPI Almanac for Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020". United Press International. January 11, 2020. Archived from the original on January 12, 2020. Retrieved February 3, 2020. …actor Aja Naomi King in 1985 (age 35)
^ "Sidharth Malhotra turns 30, ready for 'action'". The Times of India. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
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^ Hooli, Shekhar H. (27 March 2018). "Ram Charan birthday: Rana, Kajal, others wish, share Rangasthalm star's rare photos". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
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[1] "1985 Domestic Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 7 April 2014.

[NYTimes1985Review-2] Canby, Vincent (December 29, 1985). "Film View; Vivid Joys Among The Vast Array Of Failures". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[NYTimesSeptBOOverview-3] Harmetz, Aljean (September 2, 1985). "A Bleak Summer For Movie Makers". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 23, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[NYTimes1985July3-4] Harmetz, Aljean (July 3, 1985). "'Pale Rider' Heads List In Theaters". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.

[NYTimes1985PostMortemCanby-5] Canby, Vincent (September 8, 1985). "Film: Season Preview; Even Wands Can't Create Magic At The Box Office". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 22, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[NYTimesMaslinSpielberg-6] Maslin, Janet (July 21, 1985). "Film View; Maverick Tales Add Spice To Summer". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 25, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2020.

[NYTimes1985Xmas-7] Harmetz, Aljean (January 15, 1986). "Christmas Film Sales Set Record". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[8] "UPI Almanac for Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020". United Press International. January 11, 2020. Archived from the original on January 12, 2020. Retrieved February 3, 2020. …actor Aja Naomi King in 1985 (age 35)

[9] "Sidharth Malhotra turns 30, ready for 'action'". The Times of India. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2015.

[10] "Damien Chazelle | Biography, Movies, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 7, 2019.

[11] "Emile Davenport Hirsch 03/13/1985". California Birth Index. Retrieved January 30, 2014.

[12] "Monitor". Entertainment Weekly (1252): 30. 29 March 2013.

[13] Hooli, Shekhar H. (27 March 2018). "Ram Charan birthday: Rana, Kajal, others wish, share Rangasthalm star's rare photos". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 9 November 2019.

[14] Vanessa Oswald (15 July 2019). Gal Gadot: A New Kind of Action Hero. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-5345-6778-8.

[15] Editors of Chase's (24 September 2019). Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 296. ISBN 978-1-64143-316-7. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

[16] "Sonam Kapoor". Hindustan Times. 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2013.

[17] Hiatt, Brian (July 18, 2014). "Lana Del Rey – The Saddest, Baddest Diva in Rock". Rolling Stone (1212): 44.

[18] "I am only 23: Asin". The Times of India. 21 April 2009. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2013.

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