Essential Films of 1985

Favorites

After Hours
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
Clue
Hannah and Her Sisters
Prizzi’s Honor
St. Elmo’s Fire
Top Gun

Honorable mention

Blue Velvet
Fletch
Real Genius
Spies Like Us

All ages

Back to the Future

Guilty pleasures

Holiday

Want to see

Betty Blue (French)
Brazil
The Color Purple
Come and See
Fandango
Just One of the Guys
Out of Africa
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Ran (Kurosawa)
Silverado
The Sure Thing
To Live and Die in L.A.

Not worth the time

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Essential music of 1985

Albums

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Honorable mention

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The greatest songs of 1985

  1. Aikea-Guinea - Cocteau Twins

  2. Secret - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

  3. So Young - The Stone Roses

  4. Take On Me - a-ha

  5. Tell Me - The Stone Roses

1985 Playlists by Month

January

Take On Me - a-ha
Secret - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

February

So In Love - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

August

Tell Me - The Stone Roses

September

So Young - The Stone Roses

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