Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 1986

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 1986.

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
*** = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.**

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1986

Down by Law
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Sacrifice
The Mission
Aliens
The Mosquito Coast
Manon of the Spring
Jean de Florette
Blue Velvet
Castle in the Sky
True Stories
Manhunter
Stand by Me
Three Amigos!
Labyrinth
River’s Edge
Man Facing Southeast
Platoon
The Color of Money
Big Trouble in Little China
Mona Lisa
Little Shop of Horrors
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Top Gun
Hoosiers

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1986

38 – Vienna Before the Fall A Deadly Business (John Korty) A Girl, She Is 100% (Naoto Yamakawa) A Zed and Two Noughts About Last Night… (Edward Zwick) At Close Range (James Foley) Bang! (Robert Breer) Betty Blue Caravagiio (Derek Jarman) Children of a Lesser God Combat Shock (Buddy Giovinazzo) Crime Story (Abel Ferrara) Crimes of the Heart Crossroads (Walter Hill) Desert Bloom Dona Herlinda and Her Son Down and Out in Beverly Hills Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Eight Million Ways to Die (Hal Ashby) Ginger and Fred God’s Country Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton) Horse Thief Joan Does Dynasty Landscape Suicide (James Benning) Le rayon vert (Eric Rohmer) Life Is a Dream (Raul Ruiz) Lucas Mammame (Raul Ruiz) Matador (Pedro Almodovar) Mauvais Sang Mauvais sang (Leos Carax) Melo (Alain Resnais) Mémoire des apparences Menage Miss Mary Noir et blanc (Claire Devers) Otello Parting Glances (Bill Sherwood) Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola) Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark) Precious Images Pretty in Pink Prisoner in the Dark (Mike de Leon) Richard III (Raul Ruiz) Rita, Sue and Bob Too! Rosa la rose, fille publique (Paul Vecchiali) Rosa Luxemburg ‘Round Midnight Routine Pleasures Ruthless People Salvador Seize the Day Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismäki) Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee) She’s Gotta Have It Sid and Nancy Sleepwalk Song of Experience (Stephen Frears) Summer Sweet Liberty That’s Life! The Assault The Big Easy (Jim McBride) The Cup and the Lip (Warren Sonbert) The Decline of the American Empire The Fly (David Cronenberg) The Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman) The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang) The Manhattan Project The Mexican Tapes: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law The New King (Mario O’Hara)* The Rose King (Werner Schroeter) The Singing Detective (Jon Amiel) The Terrorizer (Edward Yang) The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Therese (Alain Cavalier) Under the Cherry Moon (Prince) Universal Citizen Universal Hotel When the Wind Blows Working Girls (Lizzie Borden)

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