Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.

1985 film by Wim Wenders

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

女高中生安然（邹倚天 饰）聪明爽朗，能理解深厚博大的情感却不甚了了生活中与利益相关的琐碎规则，她坚信“正义感和诚实”是做人的准则，在班主任语文老师韦婉的课上当众指出了后者教学错误，然而同学们并不支持她。
米晓玲和刘东虎是和安然走得比较近的同学，他们也有自己的不如意，和安然“姐们”相称的米晓玲因为家庭原因不得不放弃学业改做售货员，同住一栋楼内的刘东虎父母情感不和，面临着家庭的解体……班长祝文娟为人明哲保身，却很受班级上下欢迎。
安然的母亲为家庭放弃了自己的专业，长年的刻板生活让他满腹抱怨，督促安然为高一的三好学生名额努力，因为这事关女儿前途……父亲（朱旭 饰）思想开明，却因不愿用自己的画作迎合外界需求而不得志。家里最爱安然的姐姐安静（罗燕 饰）借职务便利发表了韦老师的蹩脚诗作来换取安然提名三好学生的资格……
八十年代中期，一个普通家庭作为时代的剖面，透露了人性在经历特殊时期之后的斑斑印迹。
本片获第五届中国电影金鸡奖和第八届电影百花奖最佳故事片奖，根据铁凝小说《没有纽扣的红衬衫》改编。

1985 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

1985 film directed by Edward Yang

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

1985 film by Aki Kaurismäki

The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.