1986: My favorite movies
Top 5 of 114 in 1986 - Daneliya's "KIN-DZA-DZA!", Lynch's "BLUE VELVET", Tarkovsky's "THE SACRIFICE", Arcand's "THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE" and Jarman's "CARAVAGGIO". Best Comedy - "THE FUGITIVES", Best Action - "PLATOON", Best Thriller - "THE NAME OF THE ROSE" and "SALVADOR", Best Fantasy - "LABYRINTH" and "GOTHIC", Best Adventure - "MISSION" and "ARMOUR OF GOD", Best Sci-Fi - "ALIENS", Best Horror - "IN A GLASS CAGE" and "THE FLY", Best Cartoon - "CASTLE IN THE SKY". In the list 7 films from USA, 4 films from USSR, on 3 films from UK and France , 2 films from Spain, one film from Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, Italy, Sweden and Germany.
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- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsStanislav LyubshinEvgeniy LeonovYuriy YakovlevTwo Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDominique MichelDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalSexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsNoam AlmazDexter FletcherNigel TerryA retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsErland JosephsonSusan FleetwoodAllan EdwallAt the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsCharlotte RamplingAnthony HigginsVictoria AbrilA married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
- DirectorAleksei GermanStarsRolan BykovAnatoliy SolonitsynVladimir ZamanskiyA Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans.
- DirectorLeos CaraxStarsMichel PiccoliJuliette BinocheDenis LavantAs a deadly virus which infects people who have loveless sex sweeps Paris, a lonely pariah attempts to steal a potent antidote, only to fall for the mistress of his partner-in-crime. Is the infectious young love the cure to the bad blood?
- DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsVyacheslav IlyushchenkoLiubomiras LauceviciusLyudmila SavelevaIn 1946 Kazakhstan, breeding pigeons is one of the ways to escape from the grim post-war reality. When a fine white pigeon appears in the small town, teenager Ivan goes to great lengths to get it.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniGiulietta MasinaFranco FabriziAmelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsFyodor DunayevskyAnastasiya NemolyaevaOleg BasilashviliA teenage boy goes about his life during the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsWil WheatonRiver PhoenixCorey FeldmanA writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsÁngela MolinaPatrick BauchauFéodor AtkineLola, a factory worker, finally decides to run away from Mario, the drunk and aggressive man she loves. That same night she has a love affair with Roberto, a French rich man. Eventually they marry and have a daughter, apparently product of their first night. Four years later Mario has saved some money and begins haunting Lola in order to recover her and the girl he thinks is his daughter, not Roberto's.
- DirectorFrancis VeberStarsPierre RichardGérard DepardieuJean CarmetJean is taken hostage at a bank by a foolish bank robber. As Jean left prison an hour earlier, the police assume he's the robber. Everything goes comically wrong. The robber's little daughter joins the fugitives.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsSean ConneryChristian SlaterHelmut QualtingerAn intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsJames WoodsJim BelushiMichael MurphyA burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.
- DirectorJim HensonStarsDavid BowieJennifer ConnellyToby FroudTeenage Sarah journeys through a maze to save her baby brother from the Goblin King.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsGabriel ByrneJulian SandsNatasha RichardsonThe Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsRobert De NiroJeremy IronsRay McAnallyEighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
- DirectorJackie ChanEric TsangStarsJackie ChanAlan TamLola FornerAsian Hawk (Jackie Chan) and his bumbling sidekick are sent on a quest through Europe to find a mysterious treasure held by a shadowy organization of monks.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie HennDecades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
- DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsGünter MeisnerDavid SustMarisa ParedesA former Nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeff GoldblumGeena DavisJohn GetzA brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsMayumi TanakaKeiko YokozawaKotoe HatsuiPazu's life changes when he meets Sheeta, a girl whom pirates are chasing for her crystal amulet, which has the potential to locate Laputa, a legendary castle floating in the sky.
