Best LGBTQ movies of 1985

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, José Lewgoy, William Hurt,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

Actors : Richard Graham, Saeed Jaffrey, Daniel Day-Lewis, Roshan Seth,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

Actors : Andra Akers, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Helen Shaver,
Directors : Donna Deitch,

It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly...

Actors : Alexandra Pigg, Tracy Marshak-Nash, Alfred Molina, Peter Firth,
Directors : Chris Bernard,

Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two ...

Actors : Harriet Walter, Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Frances Viner,
Directors : Mike Newell,

Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife, so that she can enter into a lesbian ...

Actors : Mark Joseph, Sarsi Emmanuelle, Maria Isabel Lopez, Myra Manibog,
Directors : Elwood Perez,

In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him--one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.

Actors : Dave Baby, Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, Judi Dench,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

An unseen woman recites Shakespeare's sonnets - fourteen in all - as a man wordlessly seeks his heart's desire. The photography is stop-motion, the music is ethereal, the scenery is often ...

Actors : Amanda Sandrelli, Stefania Sandrelli, Ben Cross, Arnoldo Foà,
Directors : Giovanni Soldati,

This is a story of love and lust shaded with overtones of incest and lesbianism. Livia is a woman trying to regain the affections of her husband Alberto, whose journalism career takes him ...

Actors : Patrick Macnee, Katherine Helmond, Billie Whitelaw, Antony Sher,
Directors : Philip Saville,

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film. He strikes a deal ...

Actors : Carlos Calvo, Víctor Laplace, Héctor Alterio, Ana María Picchio,
Directors : Enrique Dawi,

Roberto separates from his wife and needs a place to stay. When he moves in with gay Marcelo, he is clueless about Marcello's sexuality and the two become close friends. One night after ...

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Jan-Willem Hees, Melle van Essen, Bram van der Vlugt,
Directors : Orlow Seunke,

Two estranged brothers, one straight, one gay, return home at the death of their father. Their father's last wish forces them into a pilgramage together to bury the body and perhaps to bury long held grudges.