Highlander is a film and television franchise that began with a 1986 fantasy movie starring Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor MacLeod, the Highlander.

In early 1986, Queen recorded the album A Kind of Magic, containing several reworkings of songs written for the fantasy action film Highlander.

Following Scarface, she accepted the roles of Isabeau d ' Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film Ladyhawke ( 1985 ) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis ' comedy Into the Night ( 1985 ) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty ( 1986 ) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress.

Labyrinth is a 1986 British-American fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas and based upon conceptual designs by Brian Froud.

However, in 1986, MGM was facing financial troubles, and major investment in a fantasy film was perceived as a risk.

In 1986 Stackpole wrote his first novel, the fantasy story Talion: Revenant.

In the 1970s, she wrote two children's fantasy novels, In Search of Unicorns ( 1973 ), revised ( 1984 ) which was excerpted in the film Images, and Lark's Castle ( 1976, revised 1986 ).

He started writing fantasy novels in 1984 and made his first sale ( A Rose Red City ) in 1986, at which point he switched to full-time writing, after 31 years as a geologist in the petroleum industry.

This version of the puzzle was further popularised by a scene in the 1986 fantasy film, Labyrinth, in which Sarah ( Jennifer Connelly ) finds herself faced with two doors each guarded by a two-headed knight.

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy ( 1986 ), another book blending fantasy and magical realism, recounts an epic baseball game a minor league team played against the 1908 World's Champion Chicago Cubs.

Kara-Tur is a fantasy world created by David Cook in the Oriental Adventures rulebook for the First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in 1986.

Howl's Moving Castle is a young adult fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986.

* Troll ( film ), a 1986 fantasy film

When Stone began talking about the project in 1986, he had Val Kilmer in mind to play Morrison after seeing him in the Ron Howard fantasy film Willow.

In 1986, she appeared in the fantasy film, Troll.

In 1986, he starred in the fantasy science fiction movie Troll, playing the role of Harry Potter Sr. ( unrelated to the 2001 Harry Potter series.

Misfits of Science is an American superhero fantasy television series that aired on NBC from October 1985 to February 1986.

After closure the school buildings were used as the set for the 1986 Halloween television movie, The Worst Witch based on the fantasy novel by Jill Murphy starring Fairuza Balk and Tim Curry.

Fenn began her career with a number of B-movies including The Wild Life ( 1984, opposite Chris Penn ), the 1986 skater film Thrashin ' ( opposite Josh Brolin and Pamela Gidley ), the 1986 teen fantasy movie The Wraith ( opposite Charlie Sheen and Nick Cassavetes ), the 1987 horror film Zombie High ( alongside Virginia Madsen ), and the Beauty and the Beast-inspired erotic movie Meridian.

Mordant's Need is a fantasy two-part book series by Stephen R. Donaldson, comprising the novels The Mirror of Her Dreams ( 1986 ) and A Man Rides Through ( 1987 ).

The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Interplay Productions in 1986.

* The Quest ( 1986 film ), an Australian fantasy film

Troll is a 1986 cult dark fantasy film directed by John Carl Buechler.

** Aliens ( film ), a 1986 sequel by James Cameron

Others, such as 1980 Hungarian film, Kojak Budapesten ( not to be confused with the 1986 comedy by the same name ) create their own scenarios involving Christie's criminal skill.

The 1986 film The Delta Force starred Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of special forces troops tasked with retaking a plane hijacked by Lebanese terrorists.

The film Parting Glances ( 1986 ) included Bronski Beat songs " Love and Money ", " Smalltown Boy " and " Why ?".

In 1986, the film was featured in the syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival and was later featured on the comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which also featured other Wood films.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

* 1906 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor ( d. 1986 )

Bowie was given a role in the 1986 film Absolute Beginners.

He also appeared as Jareth, the Goblin King, in the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth, for which he wrote five songs.

* A 1986 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai entitled Esther.

Filming took place in Michigan and North Carolina in 1986 and the film was released in the United States on March 13, 1987.

Coppola's eldest son, Gian-Carlo, was in the early stages of a film production career when he was killed on May 26, 1986 in a speedboat accident.

The historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) were among the highest grossing French films in history and brought Daniel Auteuil international recognition.

* Kin-dza-dza !, a 1986 dystopian comedy / science fiction film by Georgi Daneliya

Yoshishige Yoshida made A Promise ( 1986 ), his first film since 1973's Coup d ' État.

* 1903 – Vincente Minnelli, American film director ( d. 1986 )

Over time, Godzilla 1985, though not a hit, was partially profitable for New World only with the addition of home video and television syndication ( the film debuted on television on May 16, 1986 ).

James Francis Cagney, Jr. ( July 17, 1899March 30, 1986 ) was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact.

Voight followed up this and other performances with a role in the 1986 film, Desert Bloom, and reportedly experienced a " spiritual awakening " toward the end of the decade.

His other film roles have been in The Lightship ( 1986 ), Streets of Gold ( 1986 ), Burning Secret ( 1988 ), The Russia House ( 1990 ), White Fang ( 1991 ), Becoming Colette ( 1992 ), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge ( 1999 ), and Everyman's Feast ( 2002 ).