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Movies from 1986

8.4
Aliens (1986) movie poster
Aliens (1986)

Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

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.

5.6
Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986) movie poster
Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction

The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.

5.8
Cobra (1986) movie poster
Cobra (1986)

Action, Crime, Thriller

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

7.8
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) movie poster
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Comedy

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

6
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) movie poster
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that Jason Voorhees isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.

7.3
Labyrinth (1986) movie poster
Labyrinth (1986)

Adventure, Family, Fantasy

When teen Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him.

7.1
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) movie poster
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Horror, Comedy

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.

8.1
Platoon (1986) movie poster
Platoon (1986)

Drama, War, Action

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.

5.6
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) movie poster
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

Horror, Thriller

The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religeous zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne.

5.4
Psycho III (1986) movie poster
Psycho III (1986)

Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls 'mother'. One day a nosey journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.

8.1
Stand by Me (1986) movie poster
Stand by Me (1986)

Crime, Drama

Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern are four friends who decide to hike to find the corpse of Ray Brower, a local teenager, who was hit by a train while plucking blueberries in the wild.

7.3
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) movie poster
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Science Fiction, Adventure

It's the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In a frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk and his crew must time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien as anything they've ever encountered in the far reaches of the galaxy. A thrilling, action-packed Star Trek adventure!

7
The Color of Money (1986) movie poster
The Color of Money (1986)

Drama

Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.

7.6
The Fly (1986) movie poster
The Fly (1986)

Horror, Science Fiction

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

5.2
The Naked Cage (1986) movie poster
The Naked Cage (1986)

Action, Drama

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

5.6
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) movie poster
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

Comedy, Horror

Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally disturbed Chop-Top. This time, the masked killer has set his sights on pretty disc jockey Vanita "Stretch" Brock, who teams up with Texas lawman Lefty Enright to battle the psychopath and his family deep within their lair, a macabre abandoned amusement park.

6.9
Top Gun (1986) movie poster
Top Gun (1986)

Romance, Drama, Action

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

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