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Quiet Earth, The (1985): Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge; New Zealand's best attempt yet at the sci–fi genre. Bruno Lawrence wakes one morning to find himself apparently the only person left on earth.…
Raising Arizona (1985): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter; Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter can't concieve a baby of their own, so they steal a quintuplet from a redneck tycoon. Highly original, off–beat…
Rambo 2 (1985): Dir. George Pan Cosmatos
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier; Iconic actioner in which traumatised commando John Rambo (Stallone) returns to Vietnam to rescue imprisoned G.I.s. Simplistic and violent, but a key…
Ran (1985): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai; The title translates to 'chaos'; it is Kurosawa's vast and bloody interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Grandiose in every sense – a…
Ray Bradbury Theater, The (TV Series) (1985-1992): An HBO–originated fantasy anthology series entirely scripted by the eponymous (and prolific) author, based on his short stories and novels. A…
Re-Animator (1985): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton; Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
Real Genius (1985): Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink…; Kooky sci–fi comedy set on a Californian college campus, where a teenage genius develops a high powered chemical laser, but the CIA wants to…
Red Sonja (1985): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman…; Unremarkable except for its silliness, this excursion into CONAN territory pits uber–bimbo Nielsen against various diehard villains.…
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley…; Fred Ward plays a tough NYC cop whose death is faked and a new identity of "Remo Williams" is bestowed by a secret organization known as CURE who…
Restless Natives (1985): Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Ned Beatty…; Two Scottish friends become local folk heroes and tourist attractions when they start holding up tour buses with novelty items.

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