1986 Directorial Debut Movies

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Crocodile Dundee(1986)

PG-13

3.2/5 (with 810 votes)

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. Dundee proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.

Directed by Peter Faiman - With Linda Kozlowski, Paul Hogan, Mark Blum, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Reginald VelJohnson, ...

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The Great Mouse Detective(1986)

| 1h 14min | Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 715 votes)

When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil the perfect crime.

Directed by Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, John Musker, David Michener

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The Hitcher(1986)

| 1h 38min | Horror, Action, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 406 votes)

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.

Directed by Robert Harmon - With Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Armin Shimerman, John M. Jackson, ...

Critters(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 22min | Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 394 votes)

A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.

Directed by Stephen Herek - With Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Scott Grimes, Billy Zane, Ethan Phillips, Terrence Mann, ...

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Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies(1986)

| 50min | Action, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 167 votes)

The great King Gurumes is searching for the Dragon Balls in order to put a stop to his endless hunger. A young girl named Pansy who lives in the nearby village has had enough of the treachery and decides to seek Muten Rōshi for assistance. Can our heroes save the village and put a stop to the Gurumes Army?

Directed by Daisuke Nishio

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Maximum Overdrive(1986)

| 1h 37min | Horror, Action, Science Fiction

2.9/5 (with 301 votes)

When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.

Directed by Stephen King - With Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith, Frankie Faison, Leon Rippy, ...

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Hoosiers(1986)

| 1h 54min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 255 votes)

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

Directed by David Anspaugh - With Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Chelcie Ross, Sheb Wooley

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Children of a Lesser God(1986)

| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 130 votes)

Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodial staff. In spite of Sarah's withdrawn emotional state, a romance slowly develops between the pair.

Directed by Randa Haines - With William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco, Bob Hiltermann, Emmanuelle Laborit, ...

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Pretty in Pink(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.4/5 (with 487 votes)

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.

Directed by Howard Deutch - With Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts, James Spader, ...

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Psycho III(1986)

| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

2.8/5 (with 155 votes)

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.

Directed by Anthony Perkins - With Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell, Donovan Scott, Katt Shea, ...

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Vamp(1986)

| 1h 33min | Comedy, Horror

3.0/5 (with 65 votes)

Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.

Directed by Richard Wenk - With Chris Makepeace, Grace Jones, Dedee Pfeiffer, Robert Rusler, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Drago, ...

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Witchboard(1986)

| 1h 38min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 76 votes)

Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.

Directed by Kevin S. Tenney - With Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, Todd Allen, Kathleen Wilhoite, Burke Byrnes, Rose Marie, ...

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Lucas(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 110 votes)

A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love – fall for each other.

Directed by David Seltzer - With Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Winona Ryder, Guy Boyd, ...

Slaughter High(1986)

| 1h 30min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 49 votes)

Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.

Directed by Peter Litten - With Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore

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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer(1986)

1h 23min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 279 votes)

Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.

Directed by John McNaughton - With Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold

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Quicksilver(1986)

| 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama

2.8/5 (with 38 votes)

Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which relies on bicycles to avoid traffic jams of San Francisco, is attracted to a fellow bicycler, Terri, and befriends Hector, a budding entrepreneur. Can Jack regain his nerve and his self-respect, and rebuild his life on a more sound basis?

Directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly - With Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Laurence Fishburne, Louie Anderson, Charles McCaughan, Paul Rodriguez, ...

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True Stories(1986)

| 1h 29min | Comedy, Music

3.4/5 (with 47 votes)

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

Directed by David Byrne - With John Goodman, Spalding Gray, Tito Larriva, David Byrne, Annie McEnroe, John Ingle, ...

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About Last Night...(1986)

| 1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 88 votes)

A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jim Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzo, Megan Mullally, ...

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Trick or Treat(1986)

| 1h 38min | Horror, Comedy, Music

3.1/5 (with 66 votes)

Eddie Weinbauer, a metalhead teen who is bullied at school, looks to his heavy metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr, for guidance. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of Curr's unreleased album, which, when played backwards, brings Sammi back to life. As Halloween approaches, Eddie begins to realize that this isn't only rock 'n roll...it's life and death.

Directed by Charles Martin Smith - With Doug Savant, Glen Morgan, Genero Simones, Ozzy Osbourne, Marc Price, Charles Martin Smith, ...

Night of the Creeps(1986)

| 1h 28min | Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 252 votes)

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

Directed by Fred Dekker - With Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins, Allan Kayser, David Paymer, David Oliver, ...

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Nomads(1986)

| 1h 33min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

2.4/5 (with 44 votes)

One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear.

Directed by John McTiernan - With Lesley-Anne Down, Anna Maria Monticelli, Adam Ant, Nina Foch, Adam and the Ants, ...

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Blue City(1986)

| 1h 23min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

2.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own hands and go up against a ruthless local mob boss in a desperate search to find the killer.

Directed by Michelle Manning - With Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Paul Winfield, Scott Wilson, Julie Carmen, ...

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Dead Man's Letters(1986)

1h 23min | Science Fiction, Drama

3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will never be read.

Directed by Konstantin Lopushansky - With Rolan Bykov

Parting Glances(1986)

| 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.

Directed by Bill Sherwood - With Steve Buscemi, Kathy Kinney, Patrick Tull, Yolande Bavan

Modern Girls(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 24min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

Margo, Kelly, and CeCe have three things in common: they're roommates, they're gorgeous, and they're hooked on the glamour and excitement of L.A.'s rock and roll night life. When they get mixed up with a rock star, an arrogant ex-boyfriend, a pseudo-sadist, and the nicest nerd in The City Of Angels, it's a full night to say the least!

Directed by Jerry Kramer - With Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibb, Daphne Zuniga, Clayton Rohner, Martin Ferrero

Stewardess School(1986)

| 1h 29min | Comedy

2.4/5 (with 14 votes)

A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.

Directed by Ken Blancato - With Brett Cullen, Don Most, Judy Landers, Mary Cadorette, Alan Rosenberg, Wendie Jo Sperber, ...

Mala Noche(1988)

| 1h 15min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 54 votes)

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire to possess Johnny prompts a sexual awakening that results in taboo trysts and a tangled love triangle.

Directed by Gus Van Sant

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Fire with Fire(1986)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.

Directed by Duncan Gibbins - With Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Kari Wuhrer, Tim Russ, D. B. Sweeney, Jon Polito, ...

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Jumpin' Jack Flash(1986)

| 1h 40min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 146 votes)

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

Directed by Penny Marshall - With Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Peter Michael Goetz, Carol Kane, ...

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Seven Minutes in Heaven(1985)

PG-13

| 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she thinks, while her best friend Polly falls in love with baseball player Zoo Knudsen.

Directed by Linda Feferman - With Jennifer Connelly, Maddie Corman, Michael Zaslow, Marshall Bell, Terry Kinney, Spalding Gray, ...

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1986 Directorial Debut Movies

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Crocodile Dundee(1986)

The Great Mouse Detective(1986)

The Hitcher(1986)

Critters(1986)

Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies(1986)

Maximum Overdrive(1986)

Hoosiers(1986)

Children of a Lesser God(1986)

Pretty in Pink(1986)

Psycho III(1986)

Vamp(1986)

Witchboard(1986)

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Lucas(1986)

Slaughter High(1986)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer(1986)

Quicksilver(1986)

True Stories(1986)

About Last Night...(1986)

Trick or Treat(1986)

Night of the Creeps(1986)

Nomads(1986)

Blue City(1986)

Dead Man's Letters(1986)

Parting Glances(1986)

Modern Girls(1986)

Stewardess School(1986)

Mala Noche(1988)

Fire with Fire(1986)

Jumpin' Jack Flash(1986)

Seven Minutes in Heaven(1985)

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