Caravaggio (1986)

Absolute Beginners (1986)

Summary: In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.

Release Date: April 18, 1986

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Julien Temple

Writers: Colin MacInnes

, Michael Hamlyn

, Richard Burridge

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Goldcrest Films International, Palace Pictures, Virgin

Distributor: Cannon Home Video, HBO/Cannon Video, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Orion Home Video, Twilight Time

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 930,211

Avenging Force (1986)

Summary: A senator is targeted by the Pentangle, a right wing paramilitary group. His pal, a former CIA agent and martial artist, tries to help him. The group kidnaps the agent's sister and tries to hunt him down, "The Most Dangerous Game"...

Release Date: September 12, 1986

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Sam Firstenberg

Writer: James Booth

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Distributor: Media Home Entertainment, Viacom, Video Treasures, Image Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Alpha Video Distributors

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,679,650

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Summary: A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

Release Date: January 31, 1986

Genre: Comedy

Director: Paul Mazursky

Writers: René Fauchois

, Paul Mazursky

, Leon Capetanos

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Films, Silver Screen Partners II

Distributor: Touchstone Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000

Domestic: $ 62,134,225

Aliens (1986)

Summary: Decades 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.

Release Date: July 18, 1986

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: James Cameron

Writers: James Cameron

, David Giler

, Walter Hill

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Brandywine Productions, Pinewood Studios, SLM Production Group

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, CBS, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Tubi TV

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Alien

Movie budget: $ 18,500,000

Domestic: $ 85,160,248

International: $ 45,900,000

Max mon amour (1986)

Summary: A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.

Release Date: October 22, 1986

Genre: Comedy

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

Writers: Nagisa Ôshima

, Jean-Claude Carrière

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: Serge Silberman, Greenwich Film Productions, Greenwich Films, Films A2

Countries: France, United States

Language: French

Mala Noche (1986)

Summary: A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really strange and undesirable.

Release Date: June 19, 1987

Genre: Drama

Director: Gus Van Sant

Writers: Walt Curtis

, Gus Van Sant

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Distributor: Gus Van Sant, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000

Domestic: $ 25,386

International: $ 37,357

Highlander (1986)

Summary: An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".

Release Date: March 07, 1986

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Writers: Gregory Widen

, Peter Bellwood

, Larry Ferguson

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Davis-Panzer Productions, Highlander Productions Limited

Distributor: Thorn EMI, Twentieth Century Fox, HBO/Cannon Video, HBO Video, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Image Entertainment, Weintraub Entertainment Group, Republic Pictures Home Video, WGN, Republic Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, StudioCanal, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Highlander

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,900,000

International: $ 712

Native Son (1986)

Summary: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Release Date: December 12, 1986

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Jerrold Freedman

Writers: Richard Wesley

, Richard Wright

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: American Playhouse, Cinecom Pictures, Cinétudes Films

Distributor: Cinecom Pictures, Avid Home Entertainment, Lightning Video, Live Home Video, MCM Entertainment, Monterey Home Video, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,301,121

Working Girls (1986)

Summary: A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch as the madam manipulates her "girls". Watc...

Release Date: March 20, 1987

Genre: Drama

Director: Lizzie Borden

Writers: Lizzie Borden

, Sandra Kay

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Alternate Current, New York State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, First Run Features, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 300,000

Domestic: $ 1,777,378

Soul Man (1986)

Summary: To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.

Release Date: October 24, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Steve Miner

Writer: Carol Black

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Balcor Film Investors, Steve Tisch Company, Balcor Film Investors

Distributor: New World Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, New World Video, Warner Bros. Television Distribution, Starmaker Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 27,820,000

Willy/Milly (1986)

Summary: Tomboy Milly wishes to be a boy as she's tired of her mom pushing girly stuff on her and boys are freer. After an eclipse, s/he wakes up with a willy. He gets a haircut and starts at a new school as Willy.

Release Date: November 14, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Paul Schneider

Writers: Alan Friedman

, Walter Carbone

, Carla Reuben

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Griffon Productions, Imageworks, CRC Productions (II), Willy Milly Associates

Distributor: Cinema Group Ventures, AMC Networks, Continental Video, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, Magnum Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 277,405

The Decline of the American Empire (1986)

Summary: Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.

Release Date: November 14, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Denys Arcand

Writers: Denys Arcand

, Gabriel Arcand

, Mark Blandford

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Corporation Image M & M, Malofilm, National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Société Générale du Cinéma du Québec, Société Radio-Canada, Corporation Image M & M, Téléfilm Canada

Distributor: Cineplex Odeon Films, Pyramide Films, Koch Lorber Films, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video

Country: Canada

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

Domestic: $ 1,902,706

International: $ 13,086

Haunted Honeymoon (1986)

Summary: Two radio voice actors are getting married. Larry has fits of fear. A shrink needs 36 hours to scare him to death and cure him - during a family reunion at a scary family castle.

Release Date: July 25, 1986

Genre: Comedy

Director: Gene Wilder

Writers: Gene Wilder

, Terence Marsh

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, HBO/Cannon Video, Kino Lorber

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,033,397

Heilt Hitler! (1986)

Summary: Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German named Herbert (Achternbusch) gets hit. Fast forward forty years after the war to Munich's Hofgarten, where in front of the patched-up ...

Release Date: March 20, 1986

Genre: Comedy

Director: Herbert Achternbusch

Writer: Herbert Achternbusch

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

Production: Herbert Achternbusch Filmproduktion

Country: West Germany

Language: German