TV 7.3 Bleak House

Bleak House

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.

NR BBC Two
7.3
1985 Drama 60 min Play
7.3 A Zed & Two Noughts

A Zed & Two Noughts

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

NR
7.3
1985 Comedy 115 min Play
7.1 To Live and Die in L.A.

To Live and Die in L.A.

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

R
7.1
1985 Action 116 min Play
6.7 The Falcon and the Snowman

The Falcon and the Snowman

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

R
6.7
1985 Crime 132 min Play
6.4 Jagged Edge

Jagged Edge

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn't handled a criminal case for many years. There's a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves.

R
6.4
1985 Thriller 108 min Play
6.6 The Quiet Earth

The Quiet Earth

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

R
6.6
1985 Drama 91 min Play
6.6 Subway

Subway

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.

NR
6.6
1985 Action 104 min Play
6.6 The Heavenly Kid

The Heavenly Kid

When Bobby dies in a car accident he is not allowed to enter heaven but has to stay in one of the lower levels until he has worked enough as an guardian angel in order to deserve paradise. One of his jobs is Lenny, a gifted boy, who loves his schoolmate Sharon who is the most beautiful girl of the class. But she does not even notice him so that he is about to commit suicide. Bobby prevents this and dresses Lenny up making him a playboy and tough guy so that he gets what he wants although ...

PG-13
6.6
1985 Comedy 90 min Play
5.8 The Man with One Red Shoe

The Man with One Red Shoe

A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.

PG
5.8
1985 Action 90 min Play
6.3 The Last Dragon

The Last Dragon

A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.

PG-13
6.3
1985 Action 108 min Play
6 Tuff Turf

Tuff Turf

The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.

R
6
1985 Action 112 min Play
6.3 Santa Claus: The Movie

Santa Claus: The Movie

The first half of this film, set hundreds of years ago, shows how the man who eventually became Santa Claus was given immortality and chosen to deliver toys to all the children of the world. The second half moves into the modern era, in which Patch, the head elf, strikes out on his own and falls in with an evil toy manufacturer who wants to corner the market and eliminate Santa Claus.

PG
6.3
1985 Adventure 108 min Play
5.7 Perfect

Perfect

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

R
5.7
1985 Drama 115 min Play
4.8 Ghoulies

Ghoulies

A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.

PG-13
4.8
1985 Comedy 81 min Play
6.8 Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.

PG-13
6.8
1985 Adventure 109 min Play
6.9 Mr. Vampire

Mr. Vampire

The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.

NR
6.9
1985 Action 96 min Play
6.8 White Nights

White Nights

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

PG-13
6.8
1985 Drama 136 min Play
8.2 Waiting for the Hearse

Waiting for the Hearse

Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?

NR
8.2
1985 Comedy 87 min Play
6.5 Flesh + Blood

Flesh + Blood

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

NR
6.5
1985 Adventure 126 min Play
6.2 Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

PG
6.2
1985 Adventure 102 min Play
6.7 Fandango

Fandango

Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

PG
6.7
1985 Comedy 91 min Play
5.6 Invasion U.S.A.

Invasion U.S.A.

A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.

R
5.6
1985 Action 107 min Play
6.8 Fletch

Fletch

When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.

PG
6.8
1985 Comedy 98 min Play
7.9 Tampopo

Tampopo

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

NR
7.9
1985 Comedy 115 min Play