1986 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1986

Notable Films Released in 1986

U.S.A. unless stated

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• 3:15, aka 3:15: The Moment of Truth, starring Adam Baldwin
• 8 Million Ways to Die, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Andy García
• 9½ Weeks, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke
• 52 Pick-Up, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Roy Scheider, John Glover, Clarence Williams III, Vanity, Ann-Margret

A

• Aakhree Raasta (The Last Option), starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
• Abel, directed by and starring Alex van Warmerdam - (Netherlands)
• About Last Night..., directed by Edward Zwick, starring Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins
• Absolute Beginners, directed by Julien Temple, starring David Bowie and Patsy Kensit - (U.K.)
• The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood - (Canada)
• The Adventures of Milo and Otis (Koneko monogatari) - (Japan)
• The Adventures of the American Rabbit - (U.S.A./Japan)
• The AIDS Show
• Alex Holeh Ahavah (Alex is Lovesick) - (Israel)
• Aliens, directed by James Cameron, starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein, Paul Reiser
• Los Amantes del Señor de la Noche (The Lovers of the Lord of the Night) - (Mexico)
• American Anthem, starring Mitch Gaylord and Janet Jones
• An American Tail, directed by Don Bluth with the voices of Phillip Glasser and Dom DeLuise
• El Amor brujo (a.k.a. Wedded by Witchcraft), directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
• Amorosa, directed by Mai Zetterling - (Sweden)
• Armed and Dangerous, starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan
• Armed Response, starring David Carradine and Lee Van Cleef
• Armour of God (Long xiong hu di), starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)
• As Is, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, starring Colleen Dewhurst, Robert Carradine, Jonathan Hadary
• The Assault (De aanslag) - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Space Needle award - (Netherlands)
• At Close Range, starring Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn
• Attention bandits!, aka Bandits, directed by Claude Lelouch (France)
• Avenging Force, starring Michael Dudikoff

B

• BabaKiueria - (Australia)
• Back to School, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Keith Gordon, Adrienne Barbeau, Burt Young, Robert Downey, Jr.
• Backlash - (Australia)
• Band of the Hand, starring Stephen Lang and Lauren Holly
• Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bashu, gharibeye koochak) - (Iran) - banned until 1989
• The Beekeeper (O Melissokomos) - (Greece)
• Behind Enemy Lines, starring David Carradine
• A Better Tomorrow (Jing hung bun sik), directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
• Betty Blue (37°2 le matin), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, starring Béatrice Dalle - Golden Needle award for 1992 - (France)
• The Big Parade (Dà Yuèbīng), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
• Big Trouble, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Valerie Curtin
• Big Trouble in Little China, directed by John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong
• Black Moon Rising, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton
• Blue City, starring Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy
• Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch, starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
• Boris Godunov, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Boy Who Could Fly, directed by Nick Castle, starring Lucy Deakins and Jay Underwood
• Brighton Beach Memoirs, directed by Gene Saks, starring Jonathan Silverman, Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith Ivey
• Bullies - (Canada)
• By Touch (Przez dotyk) - (Poland)

C

• Il camorrista (The Professor), starring Ben Gazzara - (Italy)
• Captain EO, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Michael Jackson
• The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, starring Alyson Court, Cree Summer, Hadley Kay - (Canada)
• Caravaggio, directed by Derek Jarman, starring Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton - (U.K.)
• Castaway, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed - (U.K.)
• Cat City (Macskafogó) - (Hungary)
• Children of a Lesser God, directed by Randa Haines, starring William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
• Choke Canyon a.k.a. On Dangerous Ground
• The Clan of the Cave Bear, starring Daryl Hannah
• Clockwise, starring John Cleese - (U.K.)
• Club Paradise, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy
• Cobra, starring Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Brian Thompson
• The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Forest Whitaker
• Comrades, starring Keith Allen - (U.K.)
• Crawlspace, starring Klaus Kinski
• Crimes of the Heart, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Tess Harper
• Critters, starring Dee Wallace-Stone and M. Emmet Walsh
• "Crocodile" Dundee, directed by Peter Faiman, starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski - (Australia)

D

• Dangerously Close, starring John Stockwell
• Dead Man's Folly, starring Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Nicollette Sheridan
• Dead Man's Letters (Pisma myortvogo cheloveka) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand - (Canada)
• The Delta Force, starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin
• Desert Bloom, starring Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Ellen Barkin
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss
• Down by Law, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
• Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam, starring Jim Varney
• Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (Doragon Bōru Shenron no Densetsu) - (Japan)
• Duet for One, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, starring Julie Andrews
• Dust in the Wind (Liàn liàn fēng chén) - (Taiwan)

E

• Echo Park, starring Tom Hulce and Susan Dey
• Extremities, starring Farrah Fawcett, Alfre Woodard, Diana Scarwid, James Russo
• Eye of the Tiger, starring Gary Busey

F

• F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off, directed by John Hughes, starring Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones
• Fire with Fire, starring Craig Sheffer and Virginia Madsen
• Firewalker, starring Chuck Norris
• Flight of the Navigator, directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Veronica Cartwright, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joey Kramer
• The Fly, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis
• Footrot Flats - (New Zealand)
• Forbidden Dreams (Smrt krásných srnců) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Foreign Body, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Amanda Donohoe and Victor Banerjee - (U.K.)
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, starring Thom Mathews
• The Fringe Dwellers, directed by Bruce Beresford - (Australia)

G

• Genesis, directed by Mrinal Sen, starring Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina (India / Switzerland / Belgium / France)
• Ginger and Fred, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina - (Italy)
• A Girl from Hunan (Xiāngnǔ xiāoxiāo) - (China)
• GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords, featuring the voices of Margot Kidder, Telly Savalas and Roddy McDowall
• The Golden Child, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis
• Gonza the Spearman (Yari no gonza) - (Japan)
• Good to Go, starring Art Garfunkel
• Gothic, directed by Ken Russell, starring Gabriel Byrne, Natasha Richardson, Julian Sands
• The Great Mouse Detective
• A Great Wall - (U.S.A./China)
• The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer - Golden Lion award - (France)
• Gung Ho!, directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton

H

• Half Moon Street, starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine - (U.K. / U.S.A.)
• Hamburger... The Motion Picture, starring Dick Butkus and Randi Brooks
• Hannah and Her Sisters, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Barbara Hershey
• Haunted Honeymoon, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Gilda Radner and Dom DeLuise
• Heartbreak Ridge, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Mario van Peebles, Marsha Mason, Boyd Gaines
• Heartburn, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson
• Heat, starring Burt Reynolds
• Heathcliff: The Movie
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, starring Michael Rooker
• Hibiscus Town (Fu rong zhen), directed by Xie Jin - (China)
• Highlander, directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery - (U.K. / U.S.A.)
• The Hitcher, directed by Robert Harmon, starring Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Hoosiers, directed by David Anspaugh, starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
• The Horse Thief (Dao ma zei) - (China)
• Hôtel du Paradis, starring Fernando Rey - (France)
• House, starring William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt
• House on Fire (Kataku no hito), starring Ken Ogata - (Japan)
• Howard the Duck, starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins

I

• Invaders from Mars, directed by Tobe Hooper
• Iron Eagle, starring Louis Gossett, Jr. and Jason Gedrick

J

• Jake Speed, starring Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, John Hurt
• Jean de Florette, directed by Claude Berri, starring Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil - (France)
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, directed by and starring Richard Pryor
• Jumpin' Jack Flash, directed by Penny Marshall, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Carol Kane
• Just Between Friends, starring Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston

K

• The Karate Kid, Part II, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita
• Karma, starring Dilip Kumar and Nutan - (India)
• Kin-dza-dza! - (U.S.S.R.)
• Knights of the City

L

• Labyrinth, directed by Jim Henson, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly - (U.K. / U.S.A.)
• Lady Jane, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, Patrick Stewart - (U.K.)
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta) - (Japan)
• Legal Eagles, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah
• Let's Get Harry, starring Robert Duvall
• Link, starring Terence Stamp and Elisabeth Shue - (U.K.)
• Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Frank Oz, starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin and the voice of Levi Stubbs
• Love Me Forever or Never (Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar) - (Brazil)
• Lucas, starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Winona Ryder
• Luxo Jr.

M

• Malcolm - (Australia)
• The Manhattan Project, starring John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon
• Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann, starring William Petersen, Kim Greist, Dennis Farina, Tom Noonan and Brian Cox (as Hannibal Lecter)
• Manon des Sources, directed by Claude Berri, starring Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart - (France)
• Martial Arts of Shaolin (Nan bei Shao Lin), starring Jet Li - (Hong Kong)
• Matador, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas - (Spain)
• Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood), starring Michel Piccoli and Juliette Binoche - (France)
• Maximum Overdrive, directed by Stephen King, starring Emilio Estevez, featuring a soundtrack by AC/DC
• The Men's Club, starring Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Craig Wasson, David Dukes, Frank Langella, Treat Williams
• Miracles, starring Tom Conti and Teri Garr - (U.K. / U.S.A.)
• The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé, starring Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally - Palme d'Or award - (U.K.)
• Modern Girls, starring Virginia Madsen
• Mona Lisa, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine - (U.K.)
• The Money Pit, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long
• Monster in the Closet, starring Claude Akins, Henry Gibson, Paul Dooley, Stella Stevens
• The Morning After, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges
• The Mosquito Coast, directed by Peter Weir, starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix
• Mr. Bharath - (India)
• Murder in Three Acts, starring Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms
• Murphy's Law, starring Charles Bronson
• My Chauffeur, starring Deborah Foreman
• My Little Girl, starring Mary Stuart Masterson
• My Little Pony: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Madeline Kahn

N

• Naam (Name), starring Nutan and Sanjay Dutt - (India)
• The Name of the Rose, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater - (West Germany/Italy/France)
• 'night, Mother, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft
• Night of the Pencils (La noche de los lápices) - (Argentina)
• No Mercy, starring Kim Basinger and Richard Gere
• Nomads, starring Pierce Brosnan and Lesley-Anne Down
• Nothing in Common, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint, Héctor Elizondo, Sela Ward

O

• Off Beat, starring Judge Reinhold
• Old Well (Lao jing) - (China)
• One Crazy Summer, starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait
• One More Saturday Night, starring Al Franken
• On the Edge, starring Bruce Dern and Pam Grier
• Otello, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Plácido Domingo - (Italy)
• Out of Bounds, starring Anthony Michael Hall

P

• The Park Is Mine, starring Tommy Lee Jones
• Parting Glances, starring Steve Buscemi
• The Patriot, starring Gregg Henry and Jeff Conaway
• Peggy Sue Got Married, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage
• Peking Opera Blues (Dao ma dan), directed by Tsui Hark - (Hong Kong)
• The Pied Piper (Krysař) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Walter Matthau - (France / Tunisia)
• Platoon, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side, starring Craig T. Nelson
• Poor Butterfly (Pobre mariposa) - (Argentina)
• Power, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Richard Gere, Denzel Washington, Julie Christie, Kate Capshaw, Gene Hackman
• Pretty in Pink, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, James Spader
• Project A-ko - (Japan)
• A Promise (Ningen no yakusoku) - (Japan)
• Psycho III, directed by and starring Anthony Perkins, with Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey

Q

• Quicksilver, starring Kevin Bacon
• Quiet Cool, starring James Remar

R

• Rad, directed by Hal Needham
• Raw Deal, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Red Headed Stranger, starring Willie Nelson and Morgan Fairchild
• Regalo di Natale (Christmas Present) - (Italy)
• Rita, Sue and Bob Too - (U.K.)
• River's Edge, starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Dennis Hopper
• Robotech: The Movie, directed by Carl Macek and Noboru Ishiguro - (U.S.A. / Japan)
• Rosa Luxemburg (aka Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Barbara Sukowa - (West Germany)
• Round Midnight, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Dexter Gordon - (U.S.A. / France)
• Running Scared, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal
• Ruthless People, directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bill Pullman

S

• The Sacrifice (Offret), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (Sweden/U.K./France)
• Salvador, directed by Oliver Stone, starring James Woods and James Belushi
• Sarraounia - (Burkina Faso/France/Mauritania)
• Saving Grace, starring Tom Conti
• Scene of the Crime (Le lieu du crime), directed by André Téchiné, starring Catherine Deneuve - (France)
• The Sea and Poison (Umi to dokuyaku) - (Japan)
• Seize the Day, starring Robin Williams
• Shanghai Surprise, starring Madonna and Sean Penn - (U.K.)
• She's Gotta Have It, directed by Spike Lee
• Short Circuit, directed by John Badham, starring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg
• Sid and Nancy, directed by Alex Cox, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb - (U.K.)
• Solarbabies, starring Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Richard Jordan, Lukas Haas
• Something Wild, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta
• Soul Man, starring C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones
• SpaceCamp, starring Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson and Kelly Preston
• Stammheim (aka Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht) - Golden Bear award - (West Germany)
• Stand by Me, directed by Rob Reiner, starring River Phoenix, Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, directed by and starring Leonard Nimoy, with William Shatner and Catherine Hicks
• Streets of Gold, starring Wesley Snipes and Klaus Maria Brandauer
• A Successful Man (Un hombre de éxito) - (Cuba)
• Sweet Liberty, directed by and starring Alan Alda, with Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Lois Chiles, Lise Hilboldt, Lillian Gish

T

• Tai-Pan, starring Bryan Brown and Joan Chen
• Tenue de soirée (Evening Dress), directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou - (France)
• The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi) - (Taiwan)
• TerrorVision, starring Gerrit Graham and Chad Allen
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, starring Dennis Hopper
• That's Life!, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews
• ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, Chevy Chase
• Tiempo de Silencio (Time of Silence), starring Victoria Abril - (Spain)
• Time After Time, starring John Gielgud and Googie Withers - (U.K./Australia)
• Toby McTeague - (Canada)
• Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott, starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt
• Touch and Go, starring Michael Keaton
• Tough Guys, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Dana Carvey, Darlanne Fleugel, Alexis Smith, Eli Wallach
• The Transformers: The Movie, starring Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Orson Welles
• Trick or Treat, starring Marc Price, Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne
• Troll, starring Michael Moriarty
• True Stories, directed by and starring David Byrne

U-V

• Under the Cherry Moon, directed by and starring Prince, with Jerome Benton and Kristin Scott Thomas
• Vamp, starring Grace Jones
• Violets Are Blue, starring Sissy Spacek and Kevin Kline
• Voyage to Nowhere (El viaje a ninguna parte) - (Spain)

W

• Wahnfried (Richard und Cosima) - (West Germany)
• When the Wind Blows, starring John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft - (U.K.)
• Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn, Nipsey Russell, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, LL Cool J
• Wisdom, directed by and starring Emilio Estevez, with Demi Moore
• De Wisselwachter (The Pointsman) - (Netherlands)
• The Wraith, starring Charlie Sheen and Sherilyn Fenn

XYZ

• X: The Unheard Music
• The Year of Enlightenment (El Año de las Luces) - (Spain)
• Youngblood, starring Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Gibb