1986

Top 10 of the year

The ten highest-voted films and series that premiered in 1986, via TMDB discover rankings.

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Movies

1
Film
Aliens
- “[to the Alien Queen who is about to kill Newt] Get away from her, you BITCH!”
- “You better just start dealing with it, Hudson! Listen to me! Hudson, just deal with it, because we need you and I'm sick of your bullshit.”
- “You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see w:Alien_(Alien_franchise) fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.”
★ 8.0 · 10,859 votes
2
Film
Top Gun
- “I feel the need - the need for speed!.”
- “I feel the need for speed”
- “I feel the need!!!! The need for speed!!!!”
★ 7.1 · 9,566 votes
3
Film
Stand by Me
- “"If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life?" "That's easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it."”
- “After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body.”
- “Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives.”
★ 7.8 · 6,517 votes
4
Film
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- “After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip…”
- “Leisure rules.”
- “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
★ 7.6 · 5,380 votes
5
Film
Platoon
- “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.”
- “As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis…”
- “The first casualty of war is innocence.”
★ 7.7 · 5,104 votes
6
Film
The Fly
- “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
- “Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.”
- “When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself.”
★ 7.4 · 4,965 votes
7
Film
Castle in the Sky
- “A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.”
- “A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates…”
- “One day, a girl came down from the sky…”
★ 8.0 · 4,680 votes
8
Film
Blue Velvet
- “It's a strange world, isn't it?”
- “The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.”
- “The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young…”
★ 7.6 · 3,824 votes
9
Film
Big Trouble in Little China
- “Jack Burton's in for some serious trouble and you're in for some serious fun.”
- “Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see." Besides that, it's all in the reflexes.”
- “Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.”
★ 7.2 · 3,332 votes
10
Film
The Name of the Rose
- “14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances.”
- “To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.”
- “Who, in the name of God, is getting away with murder?”
★ 7.5 · 3,319 votes

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