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Movies: Popular Movies of 1984

Movies in chronological context: 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade. ()

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The Terminator(1984)

R
| 1h 48min | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 6,004 votes)

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

Directed by James Cameron - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Earl Boen, Lance Henriksen, ...
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984)

PG
| 1h 58min | Adventure, Action
3.6/5 (with 4,151 votes)

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, ...
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Ghostbusters(1984)

PG
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 4,110 votes)

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

Directed by Ivan Reitman - With Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, ...
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Gremlins(1984)

PG
| 1h 46min | Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 2,940 votes)

When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.

Directed by Joe Dante - With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates-Kline, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman, ...
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Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

R
| 3h 49min | Drama, Crime
4.2/5 (with 2,468 votes)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Directed by Sergio Leone - With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 2,352 votes)

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Directed by Wes Craven - With Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Charles Fleischer, Ronee Blakley, ...
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Amadeus(1984)

R
| 2h 40min | History, Music, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,824 votes)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

Directed by Miloš Forman - With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, ...
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The Karate Kid(1984)

PG
| 2h 6min | Action, Kids & Family, Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,780 votes)

Daniel, a fatherless teenager, arrives in Los Angeles and becomes the object of bullying by a gang of karate students when he strikes up a relationship with Ali, the gang leader’s ex-girlfriend, so Daniel asks Miyagi, a master of martial arts, to help him learn karate.

Directed by John G. Avildsen - With Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove, William Zabka, Bruce Malmuth, ...
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The NeverEnding Story(1984)

PG
| 1h 42min | Adventure, Fantasy, Kids & Family, Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,777 votes)

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen - With Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Moses Gunn, Thomas Hill, Patricia Hayes, ...
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Beverly Hills Cop(1984)

R
| 1h 45min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.6/5 (with 1,734 votes)

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

Directed by Martin Brest - With Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff, Jonathan Banks, ...
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind(1984)

PG
| 1h 57min | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 1,612 votes)

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Dune(1984)

PG-13
| 2h 17min | Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 1,217 votes)

In the year 10,191, the world is at war for control of the desert planet Arrakis—the only place where the space-travel substance Melange 'Spice' can be found. But when one leader gives up control, it's only so he can stage a coup with some unsavory characters.

Directed by David Lynch - With Max von Sydow, Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Sting, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif, ...
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Police Academy(1984)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Crime
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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Sixteen Candles(1984)

PG
| 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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Footloose(1984)

PG
| 1h 47min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 875 votes)

When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.

Directed by Herbert Ross - With Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker, ...
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Romancing the Stone(1984)

PG
| 1h 46min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Comedy, Action
3.4/5 (with 829 votes)

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda, Holland Taylor, ...
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Paris, Texas(1984)

R
| 2h 26min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 732 votes)

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Directed by Wim Wenders - With Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Bernhard Wicki, John Lurie, ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four(1984)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 641 votes)

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Directed by Michael Radford - With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, James Walker, ...
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Conan the Destroyer(1984)

PG
| 1h 43min | Adventure, Fantasy, Action
3.1/5 (with 638 votes)

Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagoth. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro, the warrior woman Zula, and the inept Malak. Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo, Mako, Sarah Douglas, Wilt Chamberlain, ...
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This Is Spinal Tap(1984)

R
| 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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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock(1984)

PG
| 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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Splash(1984)

PG
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 584 votes)

A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.

Directed by Ron Howard - With Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dody Goodman, Rance Howard, ...
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Blood Simple(1984)

R
| 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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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter(1984)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 553 votes)

After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.

Directed by Joseph Zito - With Kimberly Beck, Erich Anderson, Corey Feldman, Peter Barton, Crispin Glover, Ted White, ...
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Nothing Left to Do but Cry(1984)

NR
| 1h 53min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 505 votes)

A teacher (Saverio) and a schoolkeeper (Mario) get lost in the Italian countryside. They find themselves in the late 15th century, they met Leonardo da Vinci and try to teach him how to play cards, they try to stop Columbus, they sing beatles's song etc...

Directed by Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi - With Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi, Amanda Sandrelli, Iris Peynado, Carlo Monni, Lidia Venturini, ...

Top Secret!(1984)

PG
| 1h 30min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 492 votes)

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker - With Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Jeremy Kemp, ...
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Children of the Corn(1984)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 418 votes)

A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.

Directed by Fritz Kiersch - With Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R. G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains
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2010(1984)

PG
| 1h 56min | Thriller, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 395 votes)

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

Directed by Peter Hyams - With Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, ...
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Starman(1984)

PG
| 1h 55min | Science Fiction, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 358 votes)

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, David Wells, Dirk Blocker, ...
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Body Double(1984)

R
| 1h 54min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 349 votes)

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

Directed by Brian De Palma - With Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Dennis Franz, Al Israel, ...
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