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• April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason
  Morgan Mason
  
  Alexander Morgan Mason is an politician, film producer and actor. He was born in Beverly Hills, California and is the son of the late Academy Awards-nominated United Kingdom actor James Mason and his wife Pamela Mason, actress and commentator....
   marries The Go-Go's
  The Go-Go's
  
  The Go-Go?s are an all-female American Pop music band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-women band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
   Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Carlisle
  
  Belinda Jo Carlisle is an United States singer. Carlisle has enjoyed success twice during her career, first as lead singer and founding member of the seminal, all-female band New Wave music band The Go-Go's, then as a successful international solo artist....
  
• Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger
  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  
  Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and Politics of the United States, currently serving as the List of Governors of California Governor of California of the state of California....
   marries television journalist Maria Shriver
  Maria Shriver
  
  Maria Owings Shriver is an award-winning United States journalist, author and First Lady of California. She is married to Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, and is a member of the Kennedy family....
  .
• Actress Heather Locklear
  Heather Locklear
  
  'Heather Deen Locklear' is an American actor. She is primarily known for her television work, her most notable roles being "Sammy Jo Carrington" on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty , "Officer Stacy Sheridan" on the 1980s cop drama T.J....
   marries Mötley Crüe
  Mötley Crüe
  
  M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
   drummer Tommy Lee
  Tommy Lee
  
  Tommy Lee is an United States musician, and founding member of heavy metal music band M?tley Cr?e. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects....
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• Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white movie classics.
• Dar Robinson
  Dar Robinson
  
  Dar Allen Robinson was an American film stuntman and film actor.Dar broke 9 world records and made 21 "worlds firsts." He invented the decelerator which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as he fell without accidentally showing the airbag on the ground....
  , considered the greatest stuntman ever, is killed on the set of the film Million Dollar Mystery
  Million Dollar Mystery
  
  Million Dollar Mystery is a 1987 United States film released as a promotional piece for Glad brand bags. It was performing a routine stunt for this film that cost legendary stuntman Dar Robinson his life on November 21, 1986....
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Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Platoon

Platoon (film)

Platoon is a 1986 in film war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon, Keith David, John C....
- Hemdale

Hemdale Film Corporation

Hemdale Film Corporation , known as Hemdale Communications after 1993, was an independent film production company and distributor founded in London in the early 1970s as Hemdale Films by David Hemmings and John Daly , headed by John Daly and Derek Gibson....
, Orion

Orion Pictures

Orion Pictures Corporation was an United States company that produced film from 1978 until 1998. It was formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros....

Best Director: Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
 - Platoon

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Paul Newman

Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman was an United States actor, film director, entrepreneur, Humanitarianism, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a...
 - The Color of Money

The Color of Money

The Color of Money is a 1984 novel by American writer Walter Tevis, continuing the story of Edward "Fast Eddie" Felson from The Hustler ....

Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin

Marlee Beth Matlin is an American actress who is Hearing impairment. She is the youngest woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, which she won at the age of 21....
 - Children of a Lesser God

Children of a Lesser God

Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 in film film that tells the story of a speech teacher at a school for deaf students who falls in love with a deaf woman who also works there....

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Michael Caine

Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
 - Hannah and Her Sisters

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award....
 - Hannah and Her Sisters

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: The Assault

The Assault (film)

The Assault is a 1986 film adaptation of the The Assault by Harry Mulisch. The film was directed and produced by Fons Rademakers. The main character is played by both Derek de Lint and Marc van Uchelen , whereas Monique van de Ven plays two different roles, one in the present and one in the past ....
(De Aanslag), directed by Fons Rademakers

Fons Rademakers

Fons Rademakers was a Netherlands filmmaker and actor.During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including The Assault , which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959....
, Netherlands

Drama:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Platoon

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins

Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. is an England actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for his performances in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook ....
 - Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa (film)

Mona Lisa is a 1986 in film British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan....

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Hannah and Her Sisters

Hannah and Her Sisters

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 in film comedy film drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Paul Hogan - Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee is a Australian films of the 1980s Cinema of Australia comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Michael "Crocodile" Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton....

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
 - Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Beth Henley....

Other

Best Director

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Oliver Stone, Platoon

Best Foreign Language Film

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: The Assault, Netherlands

The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer

Éric Rohmer

?ric Rohmer is a French film director and screenwriter. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war French New Wave and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cin?ma....
, France

• 37°2 le matin
  37°2 le matin
  
  Betty Blue is a 1986 in film France film. Its original French title is 37?2 le matin, which means "37.2?C in the Morning". The film was directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix and stars B?atrice Dalle as Betty....
  (Betty Blue), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
  Jean-Jacques Beineix
  
  Jean-Jacques Beineix is a France film director....
  , Golden Needle award for 1992
• 52 Pick-Up
  52 Pick-Up
  
  Released in 1986, 52 Pick-Up is an action/thriller that details blackmail and murder in the wake of an affair. The movie stars Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret, was directed by John Frankenheimer, and is based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name....
  
• 8 Million Ways to Die
  8 Million Ways to Die
  
  8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American crime film, the last to be directed by Hal Ashby. The film was the first attempt to adapt the popular Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen....
  
• 9½ Weeks
  9½ Weeks
  
  ?9? Weeks is a 1986 in film erotic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. The film is based on the novella of the same title by Elizabeth McNeill....
  
• About Last Night
  About Last Night
  
  About Last Night is an Extended play by New Buffalo , released on September 10, 2001....
  
• The Adventures of the American Rabbit
  The Adventures of the American Rabbit
  
  The Adventures of the American Rabbit is an animated film released in 1986 by Clubhouse Pictures, and subsequently on DVD by MGM....
  
• The AIDS Show
  The AIDS Show
  
  The AIDS Show is a collaboratively written theater piece about AIDS, and a documentary video about the making of the stage show....
  
• Aliens
  Aliens (film)
  
  Aliens is a 1986 science fiction film/action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, and Bill Paxton....
  
• An American Tail
  An American Tail
  
  An American Tail is a 1986 in film animation film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth, originally released in movie theatres on November 21, 1986....
  
• Amorosa
  Amorosa
  
  Amorosa is a 1986 in film Swedish film starring Stina Ekblad and Erland Josephson and directed by Mai Zetterling. The story, an adaptation of the life of writer Agnes Von Krusenstjarna , details her sexually charged and often turbulent relationship with the bisexual Joseph Sprengel ....
  
• The Assault
  The Assault (film)
  
  The Assault is a 1986 film adaptation of the The Assault by Harry Mulisch. The film was directed and produced by Fons Rademakers. The main character is played by both Derek de Lint and Marc van Uchelen , whereas Monique van de Ven plays two different roles, one in the present and one in the past ....
  - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Space Needle award
• As Is
  As Is (film)
  
  As Is is a 1986 film adapted by William M. Hoffman from his play of the same title. that set its focus on the effect AIDS, then a fairly new epidemic, has on a group of friends living in New York City....
  , directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
  Michael Lindsay-Hogg
  
  Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet is a British television and Stage Theatre director and an occasional writer and actor....
  , starring Colleen Dewhurst
  Colleen Dewhurst
  
  Colleen Dewhurst was a Canada actress whose distinguished stage career also encompassed significant work in film and television....
  , Robert Carradine
  Robert Carradine
  
  Robert Reed Carradine is an United States actor. He may be best known for portraying Lewis Skolnick in the successful Revenge of the Nerds series, or as Lizzie McGuire 's father, Sam McGuire, on the Disney Channel TV series Lizzie McGuire....
   and Jonathan Hadary
  Jonathan Hadary
  
  Jonathan Hadary is an United States actor.Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, Hadary made his New York City stage debut in the 1976 Playwrights Horizons staging of Albert Innaurato's Gemini ....
  
• At Close Range
  At Close Range
  
  At Close Range is a film based on the real life rural Pennsylvania crime family led by Bruce Johnston which operated during the 1960s and 1970s....
  
• Attention! Bandits!
  Attention! Bandits!
  
  Achtung! Banditi! also known as Attention Bandits is a 1951 in film Italy World War II film drama directed by Carlo Lizzani starring Gina Lollobrigida and Andrea Checchi....
  , aka Bandits, directed by Claude Lelouch
  Claude Lelouch
  
  Claude Lelouch is a France film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor and film producer....
   (France)
• Back to School
  Back to School
  
  Back to School is a 1986 in film comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, William Zabka, Sam Kinison, and Robert Downey, Jr....
  
• Big Trouble in Little China
  Big Trouble in Little China
  
  Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 in film Cinema of the United States comedy/action film, directed by John Carpenter and stars Kurt Russell as truck driver Jack Burton who helps his friend Wang Chi rescue Wang's green-eyed girlfriend from bandits in Chinatown, San Francisco, California....
  , starring Kurt Russell
  Kurt Russell
  
  'Kurt Vogel Russell' is an United States actor and celebrity. He started acting as a child in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has continued appearing in a wide variety of films since, including The Thing , Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Silkwood, Stargate , Backdraft , Tombstone , Vanilla...
  , Kim Cattrall
  Kim Cattrall
  
  Kim Victoria Cattrall is an England-Canada actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy and Mannequin ....
  , Dennis Dun
  Dennis Dun
  
  Dennis Dun is a Chinese American actor from Stockton, California, currently residing in Los Angeles....
  , James Hong
  James Hong
  
  James Hong is an United States actor and former president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists ....
   and Victor Wong
  Victor Wong
  
  Victor Wong was an United States character actor who appeared in supporting roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s.He has no relation to the 1930s/40s actor Victor Wong , best remembered for supporting roles as Charlie the Chinese cook in King Kong and The Son of Kong, both from 1933....
  
• Blue Velvet
  Blue Velvet
  
  Blue Velvet is a mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch, that exhibits elements of both film noir and surrealism. The film features Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern....
  
• The Boy Who Could Fly
  The Boy Who Could Fly
  
  The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 in film film written and directed by Nick Castle. The film was produced by Lorimar Productions for 20th Century Fox, and originally released to movie theatres in August 14, 1986....
  
• By Touch
  By Touch
  
  By Touch is a 1986 in film Poland film directed by Magdalena Lazarkiewicz and written by Lazarkiewicz and Ilona Lepkowska. It was released in Poland on September 24 1986....
  
• The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (a prequel
  Prequel
  
  A prequel is a work that portrays events and/or aspects of a previously completed narrative, but is set prior to the existing narrative. The word is a neologism, formed as a portmanteau from pre-, meaning before, and sequel, a work which takes place after a previous one ....
   to the original Care Bears Movie
  The Care Bears Movie
  
  The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 in film animation feature film. It was the first film to feature the popular Care Bears toy characters, and one of the first to be based directly on a toy line....
   from 1985
  1985 in film
  
  Events* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton....
  ), starring Alyson Court
  Alyson Court
  
  Alyson Court is a Canadian actor who first appeared in the 1985 children's film Follow That Bird, and played summer camper Dawn in the animated film The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation the following 1986....
  , Cree Summer
  Cree Summer
  
  Cree Summer Francks , best known as Cree Summer, is a Canadian-United States actress, musician, and Emmy Award-nominated voice actress. She has followed a Native Americans in the United States spiritual lifestyle for most of her adult life....
   and Hadley Kay
  Hadley Kay
  
  Hadley Kay is a Canada-born voice actor who appeared in the first two Care Bears movies: as the voice of magician Nicholas in The Care Bears Movie and as the villain Dark Heart in Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation....
  
• Casper's Wonderful Island
• Castaway
  Castaway (film)
  
  Castaway is a 1986 in film film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, and directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was film adaptation from the 1984 Castaway by Lucy Irvine, telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the isolated island of Barney Island, Queensland, between New Guinea and Australia....
  , directed by Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Roeg
  
  'Nicolas Jack Roeg', British Society of Cinematographers is an England film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death , and co-directing Performance , he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Walkabout , Don'...
  , starring Amanda Donohoe
  Amanda Donohoe
  
  Amanda Donohoe is an England actress....
   and Oliver Reed
  Oliver Reed
  
  Robert Oliver Reed was an England actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include Oliver! , Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers , Tommy , Castaway and Gladiator ....
  
• Children of a Lesser God
  Children of a Lesser God
  
  Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 in film film that tells the story of a speech teacher at a school for deaf students who falls in love with a deaf woman who also works there....
  
• Club Paradise
  Club Paradise
  
  Club Paradise is a 1986 in film comedy film directed by Harold Ramis starring Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, and Jimmy Cliff. The film reunites director/cowriter Ramis with most of his Second City Television co-stars -- SCTV cast members Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, and Robin Duke play supporting roles in th...
  , starring Robin Williams
  Robin Williams
  
  Robin McLaurim Williams is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy Award-winning United Statesn comedian and actor.Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
  , Jimmy Cliff
  Jimmy Cliff
  
  Jimmy Cliff Jamaican Order of Merit is a Jamaican ska and reggae musician. He is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Sittin' in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "Many Rivers to Cross" from the The Harder They Come to The Harder They Come which helped popularize reggae across the world; and for his cover...
  , Peter O'Toole
  Peter O'Toole
  
  Peter Seamus O'Toole is an Irish people actor of stage and screen who achieved instant stardom in 1962 playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia ....
  , Rick Moranis
  Rick Moranis
  
  Frederick Alan "Rick" Moranis is a Canadian comedian, actor and musician, known for his work on Second City Television, as well as his appearances in several Hollywood films including Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors , Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs, Parenthood and My Blue Heaven ....
   and Eugene Levy
  Eugene Levy
  
  Eugene Levy is a Canada Emmy- and Grammy Award-winning actor, television director, Television producer, musician and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, United States film and television movies....
  
• The Color of Money
  The Color of Money
  
  The Color of Money is a 1984 novel by American writer Walter Tevis, continuing the story of Edward "Fast Eddie" Felson from The Hustler ....
  , directed by Martin Scorsese
  Martin Scorsese
  
  Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
  , starring Paul Newman
  Paul Newman
  
  Paul Leonard Newman was an United States actor, film director, entrepreneur, Humanitarianism, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a...
   and Tom Cruise
  Tom Cruise
  
  Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
  
• Cobra
  Cobra (film)
  
  Cobra is a 1986 in film action film directed by George Pan Cosmatos, starring Sylvester Stallone, Reni Santoni and Brigitte Nielsen.The movie was loosely based on the novel Fair Game by Paula Gosling, which was also filmed Fair Game in 1995 in film; it also arose out of Stallone's original ideas for the film Beverly Hills Cop....
  
• Crocodile Dundee
  Crocodile Dundee
  
  Crocodile Dundee is a Australian films of the 1980s Cinema of Australia comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Michael "Crocodile" Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton....
  
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain
  Le Déclin de l'empire américain
  
  The Decline of the American Empire is a 1986 in film Canadian comedy film/drama film directed by Denys Arcand. It was followed by a sequel, The Barbarian Invasions in 2003....
  , (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand
  Denys Arcand
  
  Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an Academy Awards-winning Canadian film director, screenwriter and Film producer....
  
• The Delta Force
  The Delta Force (film)
  
  The Delta Force is a 1986 action film starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of special forces troops based on the real life U.S....
  
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  
  Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 United States comedy film, based on the France Play Boudu Saved from Drowning, which had previously been adapted on film in 1932 by Jean Renoir....
  
• Down by Law
  Down by Law (film)
  
  Down by Law is a 1986 in film black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni....
  , directed by Jim Jarmusch
  Jim Jarmusch
  
  Jim Jarmusch is an United States independent filmmaker and script writer....
  , starring Tom Waits
  Tom Waits
  
  Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
  , John Lurie
  John Lurie
  
  John Lurie is an actor, musician, painter and producer born in Minneapolis, MN, United States....
  , Roberto Benigni
  Roberto Benigni
  
  Roberto Remigio Benigni, Italian orders of merit is an Academy Awards-winning Italian actor, comedian, writer and film director of film, theatre and television....
  
• Extremities
  Extremities (film)
  
  Extremities is a 1986 film starring Farrah Fawcett, Alfre Woodard, Diana Scarwid and James Russo. It was adapted from the successful, yet controversial, Extremities by William Mastrosimone....
  
• F/X
  F/X
  
  F/X is a 1986 in film action film-thriller film about Rollie Tyler , an expert in the art of Special Effects with a reputation built on many low-budget hack and slash films ....
  , starring Bryan Brown
  Bryan Brown
  
  Bryan Neathway Brown Order of Australia is an Australian actor....
   and Brian Dennehy
  Brian Dennehy
  
  Brian Mannion Dennehy is an American actor of film Theatre and television....
  
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  
  Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 in film comedy film written and directed by John Hughes . It stars Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones and Jennifer Grey....
  
• Firewalker
  Firewalker (film)
  
  Firewalker is a 1986 in film action/adventure film starring Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett, Jr., Will Sampson and Melody Anderson. It was directed by J....
  
• Flight of the Navigator
  Flight of the Navigator
  
  Flight of The Navigator is a 1986 Walt Disney Pictures science fiction film directed by Randal Kleiser and was written by Mark H. Baker and Michael Burton....
  
• The Fly
  The Fly (1986 film)
  
  The Fly is an American science fiction horror film released in . Produced by Mel Brooks and 20th Century Fox, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz, it is a big budget remake of the The Fly of the same name, but with a substantially different Plot ....
  
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
  Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
  
  Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is a 1986 slasher film, the sixth film in the Friday the 13th . The film was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin....
  
• The Fringe Dwellers
  The Fringe Dwellers
  
  The Fringe Dwellers is a 1986 Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford, based on a 1961 novel written by Nene Gare. A young Indigenous peoples girl dreams of life beyond the family camp that sits on the fringe of white society....
  
• Genesis
  Genesis (1986 film)
  
  Genesis is a 1986 in film Hindi-language movie directed by Mrinal Sen. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri....
  , starring Shabana Azmi
  Shabana Azmi
  
  Shabana Azmi is one of the leading actresses of Parallel Cinema. She is a film actress as well as a social activist, and her performances in films in a variety of genres have generally earned her praises and awards including five wins of National Film Award for Best Actress....
  , Naseeruddin Shah
  Naseeruddin Shah
  
  Naseeruddin Shah aka Nasiruddin Shah is an highly acclaimed Indian Cinema of India actor born in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh....
  , Om Puri
  Om Puri
  
  Om Puri OBE is an Indian actor who has appeared in both mainstream Indian Cinema films as well as art films. His credits also include appearances in United Kingdom and United States films....
  , M.K. Raina (India / Switzerland / Belgium / France)
• GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
  GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
  
  GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords was an animated movie based on the Gobots toy and Television franchise. This movie was produced by Hanna-Barbera and released in 1986 in television....
  
• The Golden Child
  The Golden Child
  
  The Golden Child is a 1986 in film Cinema of the United States mysticism comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy plays Chandler Jarrell, a social worker who is confronted by a young Asian people woman , who tells him that he is The One destined to save The Golden Child, the saviour of all mankind, from the clutches of the demon Sardo Nu...
  
• Good to Go
  Good to Go (film)
  
  Good to Go is a 1986 in film film directed by Blaine Novak, starring Art Garfunkel as a Washington, D.C. journalist who struggles to clear his name after being framed for rape and murder....
  
• The Great Mouse Detective
  The Great Mouse Detective
  
  The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was originally released to movie theaters on July 2, 1986 by Walt Disney Pictures....
  
• The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert) - Golden Lion award
• Gung Ho!
  Gung Ho (film)
  
  Gung Ho is a 1986 in film Ron Howard comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. The film's story portrayed the takeover of an United States automobile manufacturing plant by a Japanese corporation ....
  
• Hannah and Her Sisters
  Hannah and Her Sisters
  
  Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 in film comedy film drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner....
   - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Heartbreak Ridge
  Heartbreak Ridge
  
  Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 in film war film, starring Clint Eastwood and Mario Van Peebles, about the 1983 United States invasion of Grenada, West Indies....
  
• Heathcliff: The Movie
  Heathcliff: The Movie
  
  Heathcliff: The Movie is an animated film from the now-defunct DiC Entertainment, released by Atlantic Releasing on January 17, 1986. In it, the Heathcliff tells of his past exploits to his three nephews , through a compilation of episodes originally broadcast on the show....
  
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
  
  Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 film directed by John McNaughton about the random crimespree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity....
  
• Highlander
  Highlander (film)
  
  Highlander is a 1986 Fantasy film action film directed by Russell Mulcahy and based on a story by Gregory Widen. It stars Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown and Roxanne Hart....
  
• The Hitcher
• Hoosiers
  Hoosiers
  
  Hoosiers is 1986 sports film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship. The film is set during 1952, when all high schools in Indiana, regardless of school size, competed in one state championship tournament....
  
• Hôtel du Paradis
• Howard the Duck
  Howard the Duck (film)
  
  Howard the Duck , is a 1986 live-action film produced by Lucasfilm and Universal Pictures, directed by Willard Huyck from a script by Huyck and his wife, Gloria Katz....
  
• Invaders from Mars
  Invaders from Mars
  
  Invaders from Mars is the name of:*Invaders from Mars *Invaders from Mars , a remake of the 1953 film*Invaders from Mars , a Doctor Who audio drama from 2002...
  
• Iron Eagle
  Iron Eagle
  
  Iron Eagle is a 1986 in film action film. The films stars Jason Gedrick and Academy Award winner Louis Gossett, Jr. as Col. Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair and features the hit songs "One Vision" and "We're Not Gonna Take It " as part of its soundtrack....
  
• Jean de Florette
  Jean de Florette
  
  Jean de Florette is a 1986 France List of historical drama films film directed by Claude Berri, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol. It is part of a duology, and is followed by Manon des Sources ....
  , starring Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Depardieu
  
  name = G?rard DepardieuNational Order of Quebec| image = G?rard Depardieu 2008.jpg| imagesize =| caption = G?rard Depardieu, 2008...
   and Yves Montand
  Yves Montand
  
  Yves Montand was an Italy-born France actor and singer....
  
• The Jet Benny Show
  The Jet Benny Show
  
  The Jet Benny Show is a 1986 in film science fiction parody film, in which the Title role is a spoof of Jack Benny. The plot is a broad parody of the Star Wars films, and is deliberately low-budget in appearance....
  
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
  Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
  
  Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is a 1986 in film film starring Richard Pryor in his directorial debut....
  
• Jumpin' Jack Flash
  Jumpin' Jack Flash (film)
  
  Jumpin' Jack Flash is a 1986 in film comedy film-thriller film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane, John Wood , Annie Potts, and Jonathan Pryce....
  , starring Whoopi Goldberg
  Whoopi Goldberg
  
  Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
  , Annie Potts
  Annie Potts
  
  Annie Potts is an American television and film actress....
  , Jon Lovitz
  Jon Lovitz
  
  Jonathan M. "Jon" Lovitz is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live and the voice of Jay Sherman in The Critic....
  , Carol Kane
  Carol Kane
  
  Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane is an Academy Award-nominated , two-time Emmy-winning United States Actor, known for her work on theatre, film and television....
  
• The Karate Kid, Part II
  The Karate Kid, Part II
  
  The Karate Kid, Part II is a 1986 in film Cinema of the United States adventure film-drama film, and is a sequel to The Karate Kid. Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita reprise their roles of Daniel LaRusso and Kesuke Miyagi, respectively....
  
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky
  Castle in the Sky
  
  is a film written and film director by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1986. It is the first film created and released by Studio Ghibli, although is considered the second by some since Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind was created by the founding members two years before....
  (August 2 - Japan)
• Labyrinth
  Labyrinth (film)
  
  Labyrinth is a 1986 fantasy film, directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas, and designed by Brian Froud. Henson collaborated on the screenwriting with children's author Dennis Lee and Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones....
  , starring David Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
   and Jennifer Connelly
  Jennifer Connelly
  
  'Jennifer Lynn Connelly' is an United States film Actor and former child modeling. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities , she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama R...
  
• Little Shop of Horrors
  Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)
  
  Little Shop of Horrors is the musical film film adaptation of the off-Broadway Musical theatre Little Shop of Horrors by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises an obnoxious and vicious plant that feeds on human blood....
  
• Loyalties
• Lucas
  Lucas
  
  Lucas may refer to several things....
  
• Luxo Jr.
  Luxo Jr.
  
  Luxo Jr. is the first film produced in 1986 by Pixar, following its establishment as an independent film studio. It is a computer animation short film , demonstrating the kind of things the newly-established company was capable of producing....
  
• Malcolm
  Malcolm
  
  Malcolm, M?el Coluim, or Maol Choluim is a name of Gaelic origin and may refer to:...
  
• The Manhattan Project
• Manhunter
  Manhunter (film)
  
  Manhunter is a 1986 thriller based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon . Written and directed by Michael Mann , it features Brian Cox as the popular character Hannibal Lecter and stars William Petersen, Joan Allen, Kim Greist, Dennis Farina and Tom Noonan....
  , directed by Michael Mann
  Michael Mann (film director)
  
  Michael Kenneth Mann is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including those at British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes Film Festival and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts a...
   and starring William Petersen
  William Petersen
  
  William Louis Petersen is a Golden Globe and Emmy nominated American actor and producer, best known for playing Gil Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
  .
• Manon des Sources
  Manon des Sources (film)
  
  Manon des Sources is a critically acclaimed and commercially successful 1986 French language motion picture. Based upon the 1966 two-part novel by Marcel Pagnol, itself an adaptation of an earlier film of the same title by Pagnol, it is the sequel to Jean de Florette....
   starring Emmanuelle Beart
  Emmanuelle Béart
  
  Emmanuelle B?art is a French film actress....
   and Yves Montand
  Yves Montand
  
  Yves Montand was an Italy-born France actor and singer....
  
• Maximum Overdrive
  Maximum Overdrive
  
  Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 tongue-in-cheek horror film, written and Film director by horror novelist Stephen King. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story, Trucks , which was included in King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift ....
  
• The Morning After
  The Morning After (film)
  
  The Morning After is a 1986 in film film which tells the story of an alcoholism woman who wakes up after a long drinking bout to find a murdered man in the bed next to her....
  
• Miracles
  Miracles (1986 film)
  
  Miracles is a 1986 in film comedy film about a newly divorce couple who can't seem to get away from one another. The film was directed by Jim Kouf, and stars Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, and Christopher Lloyd....
  
• The Mosquito Coast
  The Mosquito Coast
  
  The Mosquito Coast is a 1982 in literature novel by Paul Theroux and a 1986 in film film based on the book. Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix star in the film directed by Peter Weir....
  
• The Mission
  The Mission (film)
  
  The Mission is a 1986 in film British film about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in eighteenth century South America. The film was written by Robert Bolt and directed by Roland Joff?....
   - Palme d'Or award
• Modern Girls
  Modern Girls
  
  Modern Girls is a 1986 in film comedy film. The film is directed by Jerry Kramer and stars Virginia Madsen and Cynthia Gibb....
  
• Mona Lisa
  Mona Lisa (film)
  
  Mona Lisa is a 1986 in film British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan....
  , directed by Neil Jordan
  Neil Jordan
  
  Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
  
• The Money Pit
  The Money Pit
  
  The Money Pit is a 1986 in film comedy film, and a remake of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Directed by Richard Benjamin and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the film stars Tom Hanks as Walter Fielding Jr., an entertainment industry lawyer, and Shelley Long as Anna Crowley, a violist, along with Alexander Godunov, who pl...
  , starring Tom Hanks
  Tom Hanks
  
  Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American film actor, film director, voice-over artist, writer and film producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia , the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander J...
   and Shelley Long
  Shelley Long
  
  Shelley Lee Long is a Golden Globe Award- and Emmy Award-winning United States feature film, Theatre and television dramatic and comedic actress....
  
• My Little Pony: The Movie
  My Little Pony: The Movie
  
  My Little Pony: The Movie is an animated feature film based on the popular My Little Pony toy line. It was released on June 20, 1986 by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group....
   (a feature-length adaptation of the TV series
  My Little Pony
  
  My Little Pony is a line of colorful toy pony marketed primarily to young girls and produced by the toy manufacturer Hasbro. Following the related My Pretty Pony toy, introduced in 1981, "My Little Pony" was launched in 1983....
   and toy line)
• 'night, Mother
  'night, Mother
  
  'night, Mother is a 1983 play by Marsha Norman about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma . The play opens with Jessie calmly telling Mama that by morning she'll be dead, as she plans to commit suicide that very evening ....
  , starring Sissy Spacek
  Sissy Spacek
  
  Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
   and Anne Bancroft
  Anne Bancroft
  
  Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
  
• The Name of the Rose
  The Name of the Rose (film)
  
  The Name of the Rose is a German-French-Italian 1986 in film film, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco....
  , starring Sean Connery
  Sean Connery
  
  Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scotland actor and film producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films....
   and Christian Slater
  Christian Slater
  
  Christian Michael Leonard Slater is an United States actor who has starred in films such as Heathers, Kuffs, True Romance and He Was a Quiet Man....
  
• No Mercy
  No Mercy (film)
  
  No Mercy is a 1986 in film starring Richard Gere and Kim Basinger about a cop who accepts an offer to kill a Cajun gangster....
  , starring Kim Basinger
  Kim Basinger
  
  'Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger' is an United States film actor and former fashion model.She won multiple best supporting actress awards for her role in the 1997 film L.A....
   and Richard Gere
  Richard Gere
  
  Richard Tiffany Gere is an United States actor. He began acting in the 1970s, and came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol....
  
• Off Beat
  Off Beat (film)
  
  Off Beat is a 1986 in film comedy film about a young librarian who impersonates a police officer. The film was directed by Michael Dinner, and stars Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, and Cleavant Derricks ....
  
• Out of Bounds
• Peggy Sue Got Married
  Peggy Sue Got Married
  
  Peggy Sue Got Married is a 1986 comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Kathleen Turner as a woman on the verge of a divorce, who finds herself transported back to the days of her senior year in high school....
   directed by Francis Ford Coppola
  Francis Ford Coppola
  
  Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
   starring Kathleen Turner
  Kathleen Turner
  
  Mary Kathleen Turner , better known as Kathleen Turner, is a Tony Award- and Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor....
  
• Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  
  Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
  , starring Walter Matthau
  Walter Matthau
  
  Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
  
• Platoon
  Platoon (film)
  
  Platoon is a 1986 in film war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon, Keith David, John C....
  , directed by Oliver Stone
  Oliver Stone
  
  William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
   - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Pretty in Pink
  Pretty in Pink
  
  Pretty in Pink is an 1986 film about teenage love and social cliques in 1980s American high schools. It is one of a group of John Hughes movies starring Molly Ringwald, and is commonly identified as a "Brat Pack " movie....
  , directed by Howard Deutch
  Howard Deutch
  
  Howard Deutch is an American Film director. His most recent theatrical release was My Best Friend's Girl , starring Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, and Alec Baldwin....
  , starring Molly Ringwald
  Molly Ringwald
  
  Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an United States actress, singer and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink....
  , Jon Cryer
  Jon Cryer
  
  Jonathan Niven "Jon" Cryer is an United States actor, screenwriter and film producer. He is the son of actress/singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut by starring in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but gained greater fame by starring as "Duckie" in the John Hughes film Pretty in Pink....
  , James Spader
  James Spader
  
  James Todd Spader is a three time Emmy Award-winning and Satellite Award-winning American actor. He is perhaps best known for his eccentric roles in film such as Pretty in Pink; Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Crash ; Stargate ; and Secretary ; as well as his portrayal of the colorful attorney Alan Shore on the television serie...
  
• Project A-ko
  Project A-ko
  
  is a popular movie that spun off 3 OVA movies and later two alternate-universe OVAs were released. This parody series references a number of other works of anime from the 1970s and 1980s....
  
• Psycho III
  Psycho III
  
  Psycho III is a 1986 sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho . The film stars Anthony Perkins , Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey and Roberta Maxwell....
  , directed by Anthony Perkins
  Anthony Perkins
  
  Anthony Perkins was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels....
  , starring Anthony Perkins
  Anthony Perkins
  
  Anthony Perkins was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels....
  , Diana Scarwid
  Diana Scarwid
  
  Diana Scarwid is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor. Scarwid has done work in film, television and theater....
  , Jeff Fahey
  Jeff Fahey
  
  Jeffrey David Fahey is an American film and television actor....
  
• Quicksilver
  Quicksilver (film)
  
  Quicksilver is a 1986 in film feature film starring Kevin Bacon. Written and directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly, the film also includes Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Louie Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, and Rudy Ramos....
  
• Raw Deal
  Raw Deal (1986 film)
  
  Raw Deal is an action movie film, released on Friday, June 6, 1986, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's the story of an FBI agent who wants to get revenge against a Mafia organization, and sends a former FBI agent played by Schwarzenegger to destroy the organization from the inside....
  , starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  
  Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and Politics of the United States, currently serving as the List of Governors of California Governor of California of the state of California....
  
• River's Edge
  River's Edge
  
  River's Edge is a 1986 in film United States drama/dark comedy movie starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, and Dennis Hopper....
  (1986 film), starring Crispin Glover
  Crispin Glover
  
  Crispin Hellion Glover is an American film actor and self-published author. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen, such as George McFly in Back to the Future, Layne in River's Edge, the undertaker in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the "Creepy Thin Man" in the big screen adaptation of Charlie's Angels and Wi...
  
• Robotech: The Movie
  Robotech: The Movie
  
  Robotech: The Movie, also called Robotech: The Untold Story, was the first new Robotech adventure created by Harmony Gold USA after the 1985 premiere of the Robotech ....
  , directed by Carl Macek
  Carl Macek
  
  Carl Macek is an United States writer and controversial anime pioneer and producer of the 1980s and 1990s....
   and Noboru Ishiguro
  Noboru Ishiguro
  
  Noboru Ishiguro is an animator who was born in Tokyo, Japan on August 24, 1938. He is noteworthy for directing the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Century Orguss, Yokai Ningen Bem, Megazone 23, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and the ongoing series Tytania....
  
• Round Midnight
  Round Midnight (film)
  
  Round Midnight is a 1986 film directed by Bertrand Tavernier that tells the story of an African American tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s who becomes befriended by an unsuccessful France graphic designer who idolizes the musician and tries to help him to get out of his life of Alcoholism....
  
• Ruthless People
  Ruthless People
  
  The 1986 movie Ruthless People is a black comedy starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater.It was directed by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, best known for the Airplane! and The Naked Gun comedies....
  
• Shanghai Surprise
  Shanghai Surprise
  
  Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 in film film starring then-newlyweds Madonna and Sean Penn, produced by George Harrison's Handmade Films. Harrison appeared as a night club singer, and also recorded several songs for the film's soundtrack including the song "Breath Away From Heaven", which was re-recorded and released on his album Cloud Nine...
  , starring Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
   and Sean Penn
  Sean Penn
  
  Sean Justin Penn is an United States film actor. He is also a filmmaker and political activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Awa...
  
• Short Circuit
  Short circuit
  
  A short circuit in an electrical circuit that allows a Electric current along a different path from the one intended.The electrical opposite of a short circuit is an "open circuit", which is an infinite resistance between two nodes....
  , starring Steve Guttenberg
  Steve Guttenberg
  
  Steven Robert "Steve" Guttenberg is an United States actor and comedian. He became known during the 1980s, after a series of starring roles in major Hollywood films, including Cocoon , Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy , and Short Circuit....
  
• Sid and Nancy
  Sid and Nancy
  
  Sid and Nancy is a 1986 in film film directed by Alex Cox. The film materialized during a time of renewed interest in the period of punk rock, heroin addiction and specifically the life of Sid Vicious....
  , starring Gary Oldman
  Gary Oldman
  
  Gary Leonard Oldman is an English people actor, writer, Film director, Film producer, voice-over artist and occasional musician who found fame in roles such as Sid Vicious in 1986 in film biopic Sid & Nancy and Count Dracula in 1992 in film blockbuster Dracula ....
   and Chloe Webb
  Chloe Webb
  
  Chloe Webb is an United States actress. Webb was born in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. She grew up in Syracuse, New York. She starred in the 1986 feature film Sid and Nancy, which was based on the relationship of the Sex Pistols bassist, Sid Vicious, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen....
  
• Something Wild
  Something Wild
  
  Something Wild is the debut album by the Finland melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, released in 1997.The album presents a darker and generally more experimental sound than the one present in their later albums, and contributed most to the infamous genre controversy of their classification as a death metal or black metal band at...
  , starring Jeff Daniels
  Jeff Daniels
  
  Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an United States actor, musician and playwright....
  , Melanie Griffith
  Melanie Griffith
  
  Melanie Griffith is an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-award winning United States actress. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas....
   and Ray Liotta
  Ray Liotta
  
  Raymond Liotta is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States actor....
  
• Stammheim
  Stammheim (film)
  
  Stammheim is a 1986 in film Cinema of Germany directed by Reinhard Hauff. It tells the story of the trial in Stammheim Prison of the Baader-Meinhof Group of left-wing terrorists....
  - Golden Bear award
• Stand by Me
  Stand by Me (film)
  
  Stand by Me is a 1986 in film adventure film-drama film directed by Rob Reiner. The title comes from a Stand by Me by Ben E. King and is based on the novella The Body by Stephen King....
  
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  
  Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is the fourth feature film based on the Star Trek science fiction television series. It completes the loose story trilogy started in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock....
  
• Stoogemania
  Stoogemania
  
  Stoogemania is a 1986 film about a fan of the Three Stooges. It was directed by Chuck Workman, and starred Josh Mostel. The film experienced an extremely small theatrical release and was poorly received by critics....
  
• That's Life!
  That's Life!
  
  That's Life! was a magazine-style television series on BBC between 1973 and 1994, television presenter by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters....
  
• ¡Three Amigos!
  ¡Three Amigos!
  
  ?Three Amigos! is a 1986 in film comedy film Western film, produced by George Folsey, Jr. and Lorne Michaels. John Landis directed for HBO....
  , starring Steve Martin
  Steve Martin
  
  Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor, comedian, writer, playwright, Film producer, musician, and composer....
  , Martin Short
  Martin Short
  
  Martin Hayter Short, Order of Canada is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, singer and television producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs Second City Television and Saturday Night Live....
  , and Chevy Chase
  Chevy Chase
  
  Cornelius Crane ?Chevy? Chase is an United States Emmy Award comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase quickly became a key cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live, where his Weekend Update skit quickly became a staple of the show....
  
• Toby McTeague
  Toby McTeague
  
  Toby McTeague is a 1986 in film film about a teenager who does not care much about school. In fact, he has his eyes on the title of a prestigious dog-sleigh race....
  
• Top Gun
  Top Gun (film)
  
  Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures....
  
• Tough Guys
  Tough Guys
  
  Tough Guys is a 1986 in film comedy starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach and Dana Carvey. The movie was directed by Jeff Kanew, who also directed Revenge of the Nerds....
  
• Trick or Treat
  Trick or Treat (1986 film)
  
  Trick or Treat is a 1986 in film horror film by DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, starring Marc Price , Tony Fields, and Lisa Orgolini, with special appearances by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne....
  , starring Marc Price
  Marc Price
  
  Marc Price is a television actor who is best known for his role as Erwin "Skippy" Handleman on Family Ties.Price also starred in the movie Trick or Treat in 1986 and Killer Tomatoes Eat France in 1991....
  , Gene Simmons
  Gene Simmons
  
  Gene Simmons is an United States hard rock bassist, Singing, and actor. He is best known as "The Demon," the blood-spitting, fire-breathing, and tongue-wagging bassist in the hard rock band Kiss , an act he co-founded in the early 1970s....
  , and Ozzy Osbourne
  Ozzy Osbourne
  
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
  
• The Transformers: The Movie
  The Transformers: The Movie
  
  The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated feature film based on the Transformers . It was released in North America on August 8, 1986....
  , starring Eric Idle
  Eric Idle
  
  Eric Idle is an England comedian, actor, author, singer and composer of comic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python....
  , Judd Nelson
  Judd Nelson
  
  'Judd Asher Nelson' is an United States actor. He is arguably most known for his roles as John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbary in St....
  , and Orson Welles
  Orson Welles
  
  George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
  
• Wildcats
  Wildcats (film)
  
  Wildcats is a 1986 in film motion picture starring Goldie Hawn and costarring Jan Hooks and Swoosie Kurtz. It also features LL Cool J and is the first film to feature Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson....
  , starring Goldie Hawn
  Goldie Hawn
  
  Goldie Jean Hawn is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe- winning United Statesn actress, film director and film producer, best known for her 'dumb blonde' persona in a series of popular comedy....
  , Nipsey Russell
  Nipsey Russell
  
  Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an United States comedian, best known today for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially Match Game, Password , Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth and Pyramid ....
  , Wesley Snipes
  Wesley Snipes
  
  Wesley Trent Snipes is an United States actor, film producer and martial artist. He has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, and dramatic feature films but is best known for his role as Blade in the Blade ....
  , Woody Harrelson
  Woody Harrelson
  
  Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an United States Emmy Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actor. Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the classic sitcom Cheers as Woody Boyd....
   and LL Cool J
  LL Cool J
  
  James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies love Cool James." He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "Headsprung", "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Mama Said Knock You O...
  
• Wisdom
  Wisdom (film)
  
  Wisdom is a 1987 in film Cinema of the United States crime film film. It was written by its star, Emilio Estevez, who co-directed with executive producer Robert Wise....
  
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Births

• January 24 - Mischa Barton
  Mischa Barton
  
  Mischa Anne Marsden Barton, is an English people film, television, and stage actress, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the United States television series The O.C....
  , English-born American actress
• February 19 - Maria Mena
  Maria Mena
  
  Maria Viktoria Mena is a Norway pop music artist....
  , Norwegian singer
• March 9 - Brittany Snow
  Brittany Snow
  
  Brittany Anne Snow is an American television and film actress....
  , American actress
• March 14 - Jamie Bell
  Jamie Bell
  
  Jamie Bell is a BAFTA-winning English actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the title character in the film Billy Elliot , for which he won the 2001 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role....
  , English actor
• April 3 - Amanda Bynes
  Amanda Bynes
  
  'Amanda Laura Bynes' is an American actor, former show host on Nickelodeon , singer and Voice acting. After appearing in several successful television series on Nickelodeon in the mid-to late 1990s and early 2000s, Bynes transitioned to a film career, starring in several films aimed at teenage audiences, including She's the Man and Hair...
  , American actress and variety show host
• June 11 - Shia LaBeouf
  Shia LaBeouf
  
  Shia Saide LaBeouf is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor and comedian.After growing up in California, LaBeouf became known with a starring role in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens....
  , American actor
• June 13 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
  Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
  
  Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are American actor, best known for playing the role of Michelle Tanner on the sitcom Full House. Both have appeared in television and films since infancy....
  , American actresses and entrepreneurs
• July 2 - Lindsay Lohan
  Lindsay Lohan
  
  Lindsay Dee Lohan is an United States actress, fashion model and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a Child modeling for magazine advertisement and television commercials....
  , American actress
• August 16 - Shawn Pyfrom
  Shawn Pyfrom
  
  Shawn Caminiti Pyfrom is an United States actor who has appeared in several television series and movies.Pyfrom was born in Tampa, Florida, and is of Wales and Italy descent....
  , American actor
• September 12 - Emmy Rossum
  Emmy Rossum
  
  Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She has starred in films such as The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon , The Phantom of the Opera and Dragonball Evolution....
  , American actress and singer
• October 2 - Camilla Belle
  Camilla Belle
  
  Camilla Belle is the stage name of Camilla Belle Routh , an US actress. Some of her works include The Lost World: Jurassic Park, When a Stranger Calls and 10,000 B.C....
  , American actress

Deaths

• March 10 - Ray Milland
  Ray Milland
  
  Ray Milland was a Wales-born United States actor and Film director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ....
  , British actor
• April 13 - Stephen Stucker
  Stephen Stucker
  
  Stephen Stucker was an American actor, known for portrayals of larger-than-life flamboyant characters, notably the insane control-room worker Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs in the Airplane! movies and the cross-dressing, rubber-penis-waving stenographer in the courtroom sequence in 1977's The Kentucky Fried Movie....
  , comedy actor
• June 13 - Benny Goodman
  Benny Goodman
  
  Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
  , musician, actor
• September 27 - Cliff Burton
  Cliff Burton
  
  Clifford Lee Burton was a bassist best known for his work with the American Heavy metal music band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986....
  , american musician, Metallica
• October 5 - Hal B. Wallis
  Hal B. Wallis
  
  Hal B. Wallis, C.B.E. was an Academy Award-winning United States film film producer....
  , major American film producer
• November 21 - Dar Robinson
  Dar Robinson
  
  Dar Allen Robinson was an American film stuntman and film actor.Dar broke 9 world records and made 21 "worlds firsts." He invented the decelerator which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as he fell without accidentally showing the airbag on the ground....
  , film stuntman
• November 29 - Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  
  Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
  , actor
• December 13 - Heather Angel
  Heather Angel
  
  Heather Angel may refer to:*Heather Angel *Heather Angel ...
  , actress
• December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky
  Andrei Tarkovsky
  
  Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russians filmmaker, writer and opera director.Tarkovksy is listed among the 100 most critically acclaimed film directors; director Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life...
  , Russian film director