#149 – Blue Velvet, 1986, David Lynch
The 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 criminals who have kidnapped her child.
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#229: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
#229 – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986, John Hughes
A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
#275: Aliens
#275 – Aliens, 1986, James Cameron
When Ripley’s lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story—all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.
#320: Jean de Florette
#320 – Jean de Florette, 1986, Claude Berri
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter’s hearts, they think only of getting the water.
#533: Stand by Me
#533 – Stand by Me, 1986, Rob Reiner
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
#586: Platoon
#586 – Platoon, 1986, Oliver Stone
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
#592: The Sacrifice
#592 – The Sacrifice, (Offret), 1986, Andrei Tarkovsky
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
#775: Laputa: Castle in the Sky
#775 – Laputa: Castle in the Sky, (天空の城ラピュタ), 1986, Hayao Miyazaki
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
#808: The Green Ray
#808 – The Green Ray, (Le rayon vert), 1986, Éric Rohmer
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
#906: A Better Tomorrow
#906 – A Better Tomorrow, (英雄本色), 1986, John Woo
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
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