# List of LGBTQ-related films of 1985

This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-related films released in 1985. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.

## Films

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| The Angelic Conversation | Derek Jarman | United Kingdom | Drama | Dave Baby, Timothy Burke, Simon Costin, Christopher Hobbs, Philip McDonald, Toby Mott, Steve Randall, Robert Sharp, Tony Wood, Judi Dench (narrator) and Paul Reynolds | Juxtaposition of slow moving photographic images while Dench reads the sonnets of William Shakespeare |
| Aqueles Dois | Sérgio Amon | Brazil | Drama | Pedro Wayne, Beto Ruas | a.k.a. Those Two Based on the story of the same name by Caio Fernando Abreu |
| Avenging Angel | Robert Vincent O'Neil | United States | Action | Betsy Russell, Rory Calhoun, Susan Tyrrell | |
| The Berlin Affair | Liliana Cavani | Italy West Germany | Drama | Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki, Hanns Zischler, Andrea Prodan, Massimo Girotti, Pieter Daniel, William Berger, John Steiner, Edward Farrelly, Philippe Leroy and Claudio Lorimer | Based on the novel Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki |
| The Boys Next Door | Penelope Spheeris | United States | Drama | Charlie Sheen, Maxwell Caulfield | |
| Buddies | Arthur J. Bressan Jr. | United States | Drama | Geoff Edholm, Damon Hairston, Joyce Korn, Billy Lux, David Rose, Libby Saines, David Schachter, Susan Schneider and Tracy Vivat | First film to deal with the AIDS pandemic |
| La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding | Georges Lautner | France Italy | Comedy | Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Antonella Interlenghi | |
| A Chorus Line | Richard Attenborough | United States | Musical, comedy, drama | Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Terrence Mann, Sharon Brown, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges, Jan Gan Boyd, Gregg Burge, Cameron English, Tony Fields, Audrey Landers, Nicole Fosse, Vicki Frederick, Michelle Johnston, Janet Jones, Pam Klinger, Charles McGowan, Justin Ross, Blane Savage and Matt West | Based on the musical of the same name |
| Colonel Redl | István Szabó | Austria Hungary West Germany | Drama | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe, Jan Niklas, László Mészáros, András Bálint, László Gálffi, Dorottya Udvaros, Károly Eperjes, Róbert Rátonyi and Flóra Kádár | Based on the play A Patriot for Me by John Osborne, which itself is based on the true story of Alfred Redl |
| The Color Purple | Steven Spielberg | United States | Drama | Whoopi Goldberg, Desreta Jackson, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Táta Vega, Akosua Busia, Adolph Caesar, Willard Pugh, Rae Dawn Chong, Laurence Fishburne, Grand Bush, Dana Ivey, Leon Rippy, Bennet Guillory, James Tillis and Leonard Jackson | Based on the epistolary novel of the same name by Alice Walker |
| Consenting Adult | Gilbert Cates | United States | Drama | Marlo Thomas, Martin Sheen, Barry Tubb, Talia Balsam | TV movie; based on the novel of the same name by Laura Z. Hobson |
| Desert Hearts | Donna Deitch | United States | Romance, drama | Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles, Dean Butler, James Staley, Katie La Bourdette, Alex McArthur, Tyler Tyhurst, Denise Crosby and Antony Ponzini | Based on the novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule |
| Dona Herlinda and Her Son | Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Mexico | Romance, comedy, drama | Arturo Meza, Marco Treviño (credited as Marco Antonio Treviño), Guadalupe Del Toro, Letícia Lupercio, Josefina González, Lucha Villa and Guillermina Alba | |
| An Early Frost | John Erman | United States | Drama | Aidan Quinn, Sylvia Sidney, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Sydney Walsh, Terry O'Quinn, John Glover, Bill Paxton, D.W. Moffett, Cheryl Anderson, Christopher Bradley, Sue Ann Gilfillan, Don Hood, Barbara Hey and Scott Jaeck | |
| Extramuros | Miguel Picazo | Spain | Drama | Carmen Maura, Mercedes Sampietro, Aurora Bautista, Assumpta Serna, Antonio Ferrandis, Manuel Alexandre, Conrado San Martín, Valentín Paredes, Marta Fernández Muro, Beatriz Elorrieta, Cándida Losada, Maite Brik, Amparo Valle, Maria Caro and Mari Paz Molinero | |
| Just One of the Guys | Lisa Gottlieb | United States | Comedy | Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jacoby, Toni Hudson, William Zabka, Leigh McCloskey, Sherilyn Fenn, Arye Gross and Kenneth Tigar | |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | Hector Babenco | Brazil United States | Drama | William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, Míriam Pires, Nuno Leal Maia, Fernando Torres, Patricio Bisso, Herson Capri, Denise Dumont, Antônio Petrin, Wilson Grey and Miguel Falabella | Based on the novel of the same name by Manuel Puig |
| The Court of the Pharaoh | José Luis García Sánchez | Spain | Comedy, musical | Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Antonio Banderas, Josema Yuste, Agustín González, Quique Camoiras, Mary Carmen Ramírez, Juan Diego, Guillermo Montesinos, María Luisa Ponte, Millán Salcedo, Antonio Gamero, Luis Ciges, Guillermo Marín and Pedro Farrés | a.k.a. La corte de Faraón |
| Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader | United States | Biography, drama | Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Toshiyuki Nagashima | Based on the life and work of Yukio Mishima |
| My Beautiful Laundrette | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom | Romance, drama | Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Derrick Branche, Rita Wolf, Souad Faress, Richard Graham, Shirley Anne Field and Stephen Marcus | |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | Jack Sholder | United States | Horror | Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler | |
| No Sad Songs | Nik Sheehan | Canada | Documentary | Jim Black, Catherine Hunt, Jim St. James and David Sereda | |
| November Moon [de] | Alexandra von Grote | West Germany France | Romance, war, drama | Maurice Arama, Daniel Berlioux, Denise Boulet, Antonin Brunel, Nicole Camus, Marc Delestre, Danièle Delorme, Albert Delpy, Ingrid Dupont, Wolfgang Finck, Robert Florent, Stéphane Garcin, René Geney, Andreas Grothusen, Alexander Hauff, Christiane Millet [fr] and Gabriele Osburg | aka Novembermond |
| Seduction: The Cruel Woman | Monika Treut | West Germany | Drama | Mechthild Großmann, Udo Kier, Sheila McLaughlin, Carola Regnier, Peter Weibel, Georgette Dee, Judith Flex, Barbara Ossenkopp, John Erdman, Daniela Ziegler, Katorka Takerka, Karin Roewer-Nennemann, George Lannan and Juerg Schlachter | aka Verführung: Die grausame Frau Inspired by the novella Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
| Westler | Wieland Speck | West Germany | Romance, drama | Sigurd Rachman, Rainer Strecker, Andy Lucas, Frank Rediess, Andreas Bernhardt, Sasha Kogo, Hans-Jürgen Punte, Zazie de Paris, Harry Baer, Christoph Eichhorn, Jörg Uwe Dost, Thomas Kretschmann, Georges Stamkowski and Andrew Kelner | |