1984 Directorial Debut Movies

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Police Academy(1984)

3.3/5 (with 1,178 votes)

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

Directed by Hugh Wilson - With Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, David Graf, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, ...

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Another Country(1984)

| 1h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 56 votes)

In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.

Directed by Marek Kanievska - With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, Robert Addie, Rupert Wainwright, Anna Massey, ...

Sixteen Candles(1984)

| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 928 votes)

A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.

Directed by John Hughes - With Molly Ringwald, Paul Dooley, Justin Henry, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe, ...

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The Element of Crime(1984)

1h 44min | Crime, Drama, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 78 votes)

Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.

Directed by Lars von Trier - With Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai, Jerold Wells, Jon Bang Carlsen, Mogens Rukov, ...

Electric Dreams(1984)

| 1h 32min | Comedy, Science Fiction, Music

3.1/5 (with 68 votes)

Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbour.

Directed by Steve Barron - With Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort, Giorgio Moroder, Don Fellows, ...

Hardbodies(1984)

| 1h 28min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 24 votes)

Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.

Directed by Mark Griffiths - With Grant Cramer, Courtney Gains

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock(1984)

| 1h 45min | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 594 votes)

Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.

Directed by Leonard Nimoy - With Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, ...

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension(1984)

| 1h 43min | Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 161 votes)

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

Directed by W. D. Richter - With Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, ...

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The Killing Fields(1984)

| 2h 22min | Drama, History, War

3.8/5 (with 310 votes)

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.

Directed by Roland Joffé - With Sam Waterston, John Malkovich, Haing S. Ngor, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson, Spalding Gray, ...

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Repo Man(1984)

| 1h 32min | Comedy, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 245 votes)

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

Directed by Alex Cox - With Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Eddie Velez, Zander Schloss, Dick Rude, Tracey Walter, ...

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This Is Spinal Tap(1984)

| 1h 22min | Music, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 596 votes)

"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.

Directed by Rob Reiner - With Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Fran Drescher, Bruno Kirby, ...

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Tightrope(1984)

| 1h 55min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime

3.0/5 (with 143 votes)

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Directed by Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood - With Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Jenny Beck, Marco St. John, ...

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Blood Simple(1984)

| 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 578 votes)

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - With John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, Samm-Art Williams, M. Emmet Walsh, Holly Hunter, ...

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Purple Rain(1984)

| 1h 51min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 151 votes)

A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his truculent father, the Kid navigates the club scene and a rocky relationship with a captivating singer, Apollonia. But another musician, Morris, looks to steal the Kid's spotlight -- and his girl.

Directed by Albert Magnoli - With Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Clarence Williams III, Olga Karlatos, Jill Jones, ...

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Abnormal Family(1984)

1h 3min | Comedy, Drama

2.4/5 (with 10 votes)

The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.

Directed by Masayuki Suo - With Ren Ōsugi, Shirō Shimomoto

The Lost Empire(1984)

1h 23min | Adventure, Action, Fantasy

2.4/5 (with 24 votes)

A police officer and her two companions battle an evil genius with diabolical plans to destroy the world. Whoever can find the three sacred jewels can anticipate total power.

Directed by Jim Wynorski - With Raven De La Croix, Angus Scrimm, Kenneth Tobey, Bill Thornbury

The Mutilator(1985)

| 1h 26min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 43 votes)

As a child, Ed was cleaning his father’s hunting rifles (a surprise birthday treat for the old man) when one of them went off, hitting and killing his mother. On seeing the bloodshed, his father flew into a murderous rage—Ed just barely escaped with his life. Now in his teens, he returns home; he doesn’t expect to find his father, still there, waiting for a chance to settle the score ...

Directed by Buddy Cooper, John Douglass - With Matt Mitler, Frances Raines

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Oxford Blues(1984)

PG-13

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama

2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.

Directed by Robert Boris - With Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Anthony Calf, Aubrey Morris, Bruce Payne, ...

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Reckless(1984)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Rebellious footballer Johnny, falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family, he is poor and broken. Tracy already has a boyfriend but he acts like a jerk, so Johnny has to win Tracy's heart - something she seems reluctant to let him do.

Directed by James Foley - With Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Lois Smith, Adam Baldwin, Dan Hedaya, ...

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Sole Survivor(1984)

| 1h 25min | Horror, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 21 votes)

After inexplicably surving a plane crash, TV station worker Denise tries to get on with her life. After she learns that she was actually supposed to die in the crash, the unseen specter of death starts sending its minions, people that have recently died, to collect her.

Directed by Thom Eberhardt

The Funeral(1984)

2h 4min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.

Directed by Jūzō Itami - With Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai, Hideji Ōtaki

Yellow Earth(1984)

1h 26min | Drama, Music, History

3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

A Communist soldier is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under Communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.

Directed by Chen Kaige - With Wang Xueqi, Liu Quiang, Bai Xue, Tuo Tan

Zombie Island Massacre(1984)

1h 35min | Horror

1.9/5 (with 17 votes)

Americans on vacation in the Caribbean take a tour of a nearby island at night and watch a local voodoo ritual. Soon after, they find themselves stranded on the island and under attack by unseen foes. One by one they meet violent ends.

Directed by John Carter - With Princess Rita Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Princess of Piombino

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Lassiter(1984)

| 1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action

2.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Scotland Yard and the FBI force a thief and his girlfriend to steal Nazi diamonds from a German countess.

Directed by Roger Young - With Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Malcolm, Ed Lauter, ...

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Exterminator 2(1984)

| 1h 29min | Action, Crime, Thriller

2.0/5 (with 17 votes)

The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.

Directed by Mark Buntzman - With Robert Ginty, Frankie Faison, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Geffner

Flashpoint(1984)

| 1h 34min | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.

Directed by William Tannen - With Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, ...

Dangerous Moves(1984)

1h 50min | Drama, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.

Directed by Richard Dembo - With Michel Piccoli, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Alexandre Arbatt, Benoît Régent, ...

Irreconcilable Differences(1984)

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

2.8/5 (with 21 votes)

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

Directed by Charles Shyer - With Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Allen Garfield, David Graf, Sam Wanamaker, ...

My Dear Kuttichathan(1984)

1h 36min | Adventure, Fantasy

3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

The character 'Kuttichathan' is formed on the basis of the specialties of a deity popularly known as 'Chathan' who is being worshiped mainly in the south Indian state, Kerala. There are cruel magicians everywhere in the world.

Directed by Jijo Punnoose - With Dalip Tahil, Urmila Matondkar

Thief of Hearts(1984)

| 1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 17 votes)

A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.

Directed by Douglas Day Stewart - With Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, John Getz, David Caruso, Christine Ebersole, George Wendt, ...

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1984 Directorial Debut Movies

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Police Academy(1984)

Another Country(1984)

Sixteen Candles(1984)

The Element of Crime(1984)

Electric Dreams(1984)

Hardbodies(1984)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock(1984)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension(1984)

The Killing Fields(1984)

Repo Man(1984)

This Is Spinal Tap(1984)

Tightrope(1984)

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Blood Simple(1984)

Purple Rain(1984)

Abnormal Family(1984)

The Lost Empire(1984)

The Mutilator(1985)

Oxford Blues(1984)

Reckless(1984)

Sole Survivor(1984)

The Funeral(1984)

Yellow Earth(1984)

Zombie Island Massacre(1984)

Lassiter(1984)

Exterminator 2(1984)

Flashpoint(1984)

Dangerous Moves(1984)

Irreconcilable Differences(1984)

My Dear Kuttichathan(1984)

Thief of Hearts(1984)

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