1984 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1984

Notable Films Released in 1984

U.S.A. unless stated

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• 1984, directed by Michael Radford, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton - (U.K.)
• 2010, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Dana Elcar, Helen Mirren

A

• Aaj Ki Awaaz (Today's Voice) - (India)
• Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan) - (Japan)
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, starring Peter Weller and Jeff Goldblum
• After the Rehearsal (Efter repetitionen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin - (Sweden)
• Against All Odds, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark, Jane Greer
• All of Me, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin
• Alley Cat
• Amadeus, directed by Milos Forman, starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• The Ambassador, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Robert Mitchum, Rock Hudson and Ellen Burstyn
• American Dreamer, starring JoBeth Williams
• Annie's Coming Out, starring Angela Punch McGregor - (Australia)
• Another Country, starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth - (U.K.)
• The Annunciation (Angyali üdvözlet) - (Hungary)
• Asesinato en el senado de la nación (Murder in the Senate) - (Argentina)

B

• Bachelor Party, starring Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen
• Bad Manners, aka Growing Pains, starring Martin Mull and Karen Black
• Balkan Spy (Balkanski spijun) - (Yugoslavia)
• Ballad of the Little Soldier (Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten), a documentary film about child soldiers directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• The Bay Boy, starring Liv Ullmann and Kiefer Sutherland - (Canada/France) - Genie Award for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
• Bayan Ko:This Is My Country (Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) - (Philippines)
• Beat Street, starring Rae Dawn Chong
• Before Stonewall, a documentary film
• Best Defense, starring Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw
• Beverly Hills Cop, directed by Martin Brest, starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox, John Ashton, Bronson Pinchot
• Beyond the Walls (Me'Ahorei Hasoragim) - (Israel)
• Bianca, directed by and starring Nanni Moretti - (Italy)
• Bicycles Are for the Summer (Las bicycletas son para el verano) - (Spain)
• Birdy, directed by Alan Parker, starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, music from Peter Gabriel
• Blind Date, starring Kirstie Alley
• Blood Simple, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (debut), starring John Getz, Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, M. Emmet Walsh
• Body Double, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Gregg Henry
• Bolero, starring Bo Derek
• The Bostonians, directed by James Ivory, starring Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• The Bounty, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson - (U.K.)
• Breakin
• Broadway Danny Rose - directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow
• The Brother from Another Planet, directed by John Sayles, starring Joe Morton
• The Buddy System, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Wil Wheaton, Nancy Allen

C

• C.H.U.D., starring John Heard and Daniel Stern
• Cal, starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
• Camila, directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg - (Argentina)
• Cannonball Run II, starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
• Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, a television film starring Warwick Davis
• Carmen, a cinematic opera directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Plácido Domingo - (France/Italy)
• The Chain, directed by Jack Gold - (U.K.)
• Chaos (Kaos) - (Italy)
• The Children (Les enfants), directed by Marguerite Duras - (France)
• Children of the Corn, starring Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton
• Choose Me, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Lesley Ann Warren and Keith Carradine
• Ciske de Rat (Ciske the Rat) - (Netherlands)
• City Heat, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn, Jane Alexander, Richard Roundtree, Rip Torn
• Cloak & Dagger, starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman
• Comfort and Joy, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Bill Paterson - (U.K.)
• The Company of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Stephen Rea, Angela Lansbury, Sarah Patterson - (U.K.)
• Conan the Destroyer, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wilt Chamberlain, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo
• The Coolangatta Gold - (Australia)
• Le Cop, starring Philippe Noiret - (France)
• The Cotton Club, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, James Remar, Bob Hoskins, Fred Gwynne, Nicolas Cage
• Country, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard
• Crackers, directed by Louis Malle, starring Donald Sutherland and Sean Penn
• Crimes of Passion, directed by Ken Russell, starring Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins

D

• The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• The Descendant of the Snow Leopard (Potomok belogo barsa) - (U.S.S.R.)
• La diagonale du fou (Dangerous Moves), starring Michel Piccoli - (France/Switzerland) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
• Diary for My Children (Napló gyermekeimnek) - (Hungary)
• Dreamscape, starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, Christopher Lee
• Dune, directed by David Lynch, starring Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Sean Young, Francesca Annis, Jürgen Prochnow, Kenneth McMillan, José Ferrer, Max von Sydow

E

• Electric Dreams, starring Virginia Madsen and Bud Cort
• The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element), directed by Lars von Trier - (Denmark)
• The Evil That Men Do, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson

F

• Falling in Love, directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep
• Farewell to the Ark (Saraba hakobune) - (Japan)
• Fear City, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Tom Berenger and Billy Dee Williams
• Finders Keepers, starring Michael O'Keefe, Beverly D'Angelo, Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Firestarter, directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Drew Barrymore, David Keith, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear
• Firstborn, starring Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Teri Garr
• The Flamingo Kid, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Matt Dillon and Héctor Elizondo
• Flashpoint, starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams
• Flowers of Reverie (Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk) - (Hungary)
• Footloose, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Dianne Wiest
• Formula of Love (Formula lyubvi) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, starring Kimberly Beck and Corey Feldman
• Full Moon in Paris (Les Nuits de la pleine lune), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• The Funeral aka Death Japanese Style - (Japan)

G

• Gallavants
• Garbo Talks, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks
• Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson
• Give My Regards to Broad Street - written by and starring Paul McCartney, with Ringo Starr - (U.K.)
• Grandview, U.S.A., starring Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
• Gremlins, directed by Joe Dante, starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates
• Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson in his final role - (U.K.)

H

• Hard to Hold, starring Rick Springfield
• Harry & Son, directed by and starring Paul Newman, with Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Judith Ivey, Ossie Davis, Joanne Woodward
• Heartbreakers, starring Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Kathryn Harrold, Max Gail, Carol Wayne
• Henry IV (Enrico IV), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale - Italy)
• The Hit, directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Hurt and Terence Stamp - (U.K.)
• The Holy Innocents (Los santos inocentes) - (Spain)
• The Hotel New Hampshire, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Nastassja Kinski, Beau Bridges, Matthew Modine

I

• Iceman, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Timothy Hutton, John Lone, Lindsay Crouse
• The Ice Pirates, starring Robert Urich and Mary Crosby
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw
• Irreconcilable Differences, starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore

J

• The Jesse Owens Story, starring Dorian Harewood
• John the Fearless (Jan zonder vrees) - (Belgium)
• Johnny Dangerously, starring Michael Keaton, Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo, Danny DeVito, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle
• Just the Way You Are, starring Kristy McNichol

K

• The Karate Kid, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita
• Kidco, starring Scott Schwartz
• The Killing Fields, directed by Roland Joffé, starring Sam Waterston, John Malkovich, Haing S. Ngor - (U.K.) - British Academy Award for Best Film

L

• Lassiter, starring Tom Selleck and Jane Seymour
• The Last Days of Pompeii, TV miniseries, starring Laurence Olivier, Olivia Hussey, Siobhan McKenna, Franco Nero, Ned Beatty, Nicholas Clay, Ernest Borgnine
• The Last Starfighter, starring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart
• The Little Drummer Girl, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Diane Keaton
• Loafing and Camouflage (Lufa ke Paralayi) - (Greece)
• The Lonely Guy, starring Steve Martin and Charles Grodin
• Love and Pigeons (Lyubov i golubi) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Love Letters, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
• Love Streams, directed by and starring John Cassavetes, with Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel - Golden Bear award winner

M

• MacArthur's Children (Setouchi Shōnen Yakyū-dan) - (Japan)
• Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Chōjikū Yōsai Makurosu: Ai Oboete Imasu ka) - (Japan)
• Making the Grade, starring Judd Nelson
• The Man from Majorca (Mannen från Mallorca), directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
• A Man of Principle (Cóndores no entierran todos los días) - (Colombia)
• Man Under Suspicion (Morgen in Alabama), starring Maximilian Schell - (West Germany)
• Maria's Lovers, starring Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum
• Mashaal, starring Dilip Kumar and Anil Kapoor - (India)
• Mass Appeal, starring Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek, Charles Durning
• Mermaid Legend (Ningyo Densetsu) - (Japan)
• Micki + Maude, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore, Ann Reinking, Amy Irving
• Mike's Murder, directed by James Bridges, starring Debra Winger
• The Miracle of Joe Petrel (Umitsubame Jyo no kiseki) - (Japan)
• Missing in Action, starring Chuck Norris
• Monster Dog (Leviatán), starring Alice Cooper - (Spain)
• Moscow on the Hudson, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Robin Williams
• Mrs. Soffel, directed by Gillian Armstrong, starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson
• The Muppets Take Manhattan, directed by Frank Oz
• My First Wife, starring John Hargreaves - (Australia)

N

• The Naked Face, starring Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer, Art Carney
• The Natural, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Barbara Hershey, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Richard Farnsworth
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika) - (Japan)
• The NeverEnding Story (Die Unendliche Geschichte) - directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Barret Oliver and Noah Hathaway - (West Germany)
• Night of the Comet, starring Penelope Ann Miller and Tim Daly
• A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven, starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
• The Ninja Mission (Misja ninja) - (Sweden)
• Nothing Lasts Forever, starring Zach Galligan, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd

O

• Old Enough, starring Rainbow Harvest and Danny Aiello, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• On the Top of the Cherry Tree (Gore na chereshata) - (Bulgaria)
• Once Upon a Time in America, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams - (Italy/U.S.A.)
• Opasen Char (Dangerous Charm) - (Bulgaria)
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge, starring Elliott Gould, Shelley Winters, Sid Caesar
• Oxford Blues, starring Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Gail Strickland

P-Q

• Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski - Palme d'Or winner
• A Passage to India, directed by David Lean, starring Judy Davis, Victor Bannerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox - (U.K.) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
• Pehlivan - (Turkey)
• The Philadelphia Experiment, starring Michael Paré and Nancy Allen
• Places in the Heart, directed by Robert Benton, starring Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Lindsay Crouse, Amy Madigan
• Police Academy, directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith
• The Pope of Greenwich Village, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Geraldine Page
• A Private Function, directed by Malcolm Mowbray, starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith - (U.K.)
• Protocol, starring Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Gail Strickland
• Purple Hearts, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd
• Purple Rain, starring Prince
• Quilombo - (Brazil)

R

• Raaj Tilak, starring Raaj Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Dharmendra - (India)
• The Razor's Edge, starring Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott
• Reckless, starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah
• Red Dawn, directed by John Milius, starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson
• Repentance (Pokayaniye) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Repo Man, directed by Alex Cox, starring Emilio Estevez, Dick Rude, Harry Dean Stanton
• The Return of Godzilla (also known as "Godzilla 1985") - (Japan)
• Revenge of the Nerds, starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Curtis Armstrong, Timothy Busfield
• Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton
• The River, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson
• The Road to Bresson (De weg naar Bresson), starring Robert Bresson, Louis Malle, Andrei Tarkovsky, Orson Welles - (Netherlands)
• Roadhouse 66, starring Willem Dafoe and Judge Reinhold
• Romancing the Stone, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (Ronja Rövardotter) - (Sweden)
• Runaway, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Tom Selleck

S

• Saaransh (The Gist), directed by Mahesh Bhatt - (India)
• Secret Honor, directed by Robert Altman, starring Philip Baker Hall
• Sharaabi (Drunkard), directed by Prakash Mehra, starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
• Sheena, starring Tanya Roberts
• Sixteen Candles, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe
• Slapstick of Another Kind, starring Jerry Lewis
• Slunce, seno, jahody - (Czechoslovakia)
• A Soldier's Story, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington
• The Snowdrop Festival (Slavnosti sněženek), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)
• Songwriter, starring Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Lesley Ann Warren
• Splash, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, directed by and starring Leonard Nimoy, with William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd, Judith Anderson
• Starman, directed by John Carpenter, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen
• Stop Making Sense, a concert film directed by Jonathan Demme featuring Talking Heads
• Stranger than Paradise, directed by Jim Jarmusch
• Strangler vs. Strangler (Davitelj protiv davitelja) - (Yugoslavia)
• Streets of Fire, directed by Walter Hill, starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe
• A Summer at Grandpa's (Dong–dong de jia qi) - (Taiwan)
• A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne), directed by Bertrand Tavernier - (France)
• Supergirl, starring Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole
• Swing Shift, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Ed Harris
• Szaffi - (Hungary)

T

• The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o tsare Saltanye) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Tank, starring James Garner and Shirley Jones
• Le Tartuffe, directed by and starring Gérard Depardieu - (France)
• Teachers, starring Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch
• The Element of Crime, directed by Lars von Trier
• The Terminator, directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
• Terror in the Aisles, starring Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen
• Thief of Hearts, starring Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, George Wendt
• This Is My Country (Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) - (Philippines)
• This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
• Tightrope, starring Clint Eastwood and Geneviève Bujold
• Top Secret!, starring Val Kilmer

U-V

• Ultraman Story (Urutoraman Sutōr) - (Japan)
• Ultraman Zoffy: Ultra Warriors vs. the Giant Monster Army - (Japan)
• Under the Volcano, directed by John Huston, starring Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset
• Unfaithfully Yours, starring Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante, Albert Brooks
• Until September, starring Karen Allen
• Up the Creek, starring Tim Matheson and Jennifer Runyon
• Veneno para las hadas (Poison for the Fairies) - (Mexico)
• Vigil - (New Zealand)
• Voyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kythira) - (Greece)

W

• W's Tragedy (W no higeki) - (Japan)
• What Have I Done to Deserve This? (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura - (Spain)
• Wheels on Meals (Fai Chan Tse), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• When the Raven Flies (Hrafninn flýgur) - (Iceland)
• Where the Boys Are '84, starring Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Wendy Schaal
• Where the Green Ants Dream (Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• Where The Toys Come From
• The Wild Life, starring Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson
• The Woman in Red, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Kelly LeBrock
• Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (Gao shan xia de hua huan) - (China)

Y

• A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - (Poland) - Golden Lion winner
• Yellow Earth (Huáng tǔdì), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)