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The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.
The year's highest-grossing film was Beverly Hills Cop. Ghostbusters overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed the third placed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and executive produced the fourth placed Gremlins.[1]
U.S. boxoffice grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it was the first year that two films had returned over $100 million to their distributors with both Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom achieving this.[1]Beverly Hills Cop made it three for films released in 1984 after its performance during 1985 took it to rentals of $108 million.[2] Other popular films included The NeverEnding Story, which was the most expensive film produced in West Germany, The Karate Kid and Romancing the Stone. A high number of sci-fi/fantasy films were released in 1984.
Contents
1 Highest-grossing films
1.1 United States and Canada
1.2 International
2 Events
3 Awards
4 1984 Wide-release films in the U.S.
4.1 January–March
4.2 April–June
4.3 July–September
4.4 October–December
5 Notable films released in 1984
6 Births
7 Notable deaths
8 Film debuts
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
12 External links
Highest-grossing films
United States and Canada
The top ten 1984 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross |
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1. | Beverly Hills Cop | Paramount | $234,760,478 |
2. | Ghostbusters | Columbia | $229,242,989 |
3. | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount | $179,870,271 |
4. | Gremlins | Warner Bros. | $153,083,102 |
5. | The Karate Kid | Columbia | $90,815,558 |
6. | Police Academy | Warner Bros. | $81,198,894 |
7. | Footloose | Paramount | $80,035,402 |
8. | Romancing the Stone | 20th Century Fox | $76,572,238 |
9. | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Paramount | $76,471,076 |
10. | Splash | Touchstone | $69,821,334 |
International
International market | Title | Director | Production country | Revenue | Admissions | Source(s) |
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France | Marche à l'ombre | Michel Blanc | France | N/A | 6,168,425 | [4] |
Germany | Police Academy | Hugh Wilson | United States | N/A | 5,187,443 | [5] |
India | Tohfa | K. Raghavendra Rao | India | ₹90,000,000 | N/A | [6] |
Italy | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Steven Spielberg | United States | N/A | 838,309 | [7] |
Japan | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Steven Spielberg | United States | ¥3,200,000,000 | N/A | [8] |
South Korea | Project A | Jackie Chan | Hong Kong | ₩1,189,308,000 | 396,436 | [9][10][11] |
Soviet Union | Disco Dancer | Babbar Subhash | India | $75,900,000 | 60,900,000 | [n 3][15] |
Spain | Gremlins | Joe Dante | United States | N/A | 3,202,047 | [16] |
United States and Canada | Beverly Hills Cop | Martin Brest | United States | $234,760,478 | 67,150,000 | [17] |
Events
- February 15 - The Walt Disney Studios establishes Touchstone Pictures to release films with more mature subject matter than the traditional Walt Disney Pictures banner.
- March 30 - Romancing the Stone is released and propelled stars Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito and director Robert Zemeckis to super-stardom. The film also gave Zemeckis his first box office hit, which gave Universal Pictures confidence to allow him to direct his next film, Back to the Future.
- April 6 - Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film, Where the Boys Are '84.
- May 4 - The first of the year's breakdancing musicals is released, Breakin'. It is soon followed by Beat Street and its sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
- July 1 - The Motion Picture Association of America institutes the PG-13 rating, as a response to violent horror films such as Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- July 27 - Prince's first film Purple Rain is released.
- August 25 - Ghostbusters becomes the biggest grossing comedy film of all-time in the United States exceeding Tootsie's $177.2 million[18] going on to gross $229.2 million in its initial run.[19] It is overtaken by Beverly Hills Cop in summer 1985[20] but regains the record after its re-release in August 1985.[21] It also became the biggest grossing film released by Columbia Pictures.
- September 22 - Michael Eisner becomes head of Walt Disney Productions, while Frank Wells became chief operating officer and Jeffrey Katzenberg was named chairman.
- December 5 - Beverly Hills Cop is released. It will go on to become the 6th highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S. at the time, the highest grossing comedy of all time at the time, as well as the highest grossing R-Rated film of all time, a record it would hold for 19 years.
Annie's Coming Out wins 3 Australian Film Institute Awards including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film.
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Category/Organization | 42nd Golden Globe Awards January 27, 1985 | 38th BAFTA Awards March 5, 1985 | 57th Academy Awards March 25, 1985 | |
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Best Film | Amadeus | Romancing the Stone | The Killing Fields | Amadeus |
Best Director | Miloš Forman Amadeus | Wim Wenders Paris, Texas | Miloš Forman Amadeus | |
Best Actor | F. Murray Abraham Amadeus | Dudley Moore Micki & Maude | Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields | F. Murray Abraham Amadeus |
Best Actress | Sally Field Places in the Heart | Kathleen Turner Romancing the Stone | Maggie Smith A Private Function | Sally Field Places in the Heart |
Best Supporting Actor | Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields | Denholm Elliott A Private Function | Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields | |
Best Supporting Actress | Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India | Liz Smith A Private Function | Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India | |
Best Screenplay, Adapted | Amadeus Peter Shaffer | The Killing Fields Bruce Robinson | Amadeus Peter Shaffer | |
Best Screenplay, Original | Broadway Danny Rose Woody Allen | Places in the Heart Robert Benton | ||
Best Foreign Language Film | A Passage to India United Kingdom | Carmen France | La diagonale du fou (Dangerous Moves) Switzerland |
Golden Raspberry Awards:
Worst Picture: Bolero
Worst Director: John Derek - Bolero
Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone - Rhinestone
Worst Actress: Bo Derek - Bolero
Worst Supporting Actor: Brooke Shields (with a moustache) - Sahara
Worst Supporting Actress: Lynn-Holly Johnson - Where the Boys Are '84
Worst Screenplay: John Derek - Bolero
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, France / West Germany
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca), directed by Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Love Streams, directed by John Cassavetes, United States
1984 Wide-release films in the U.S.
January–March
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
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J A N U A R Y | 13 | Angel | New World Pictures | Robert Vincent O'Neill (director/screenplay); Joseph Michael Cala (screenplay); Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun, Donna Wilkes | Action, Thriller | Live action |
Hot Dog…The Movie | MGM/UA | Peter Markle (director); Mike Marvin (screenplay); David Naughton, Patrick Houser, Tracy N. Smith, John Patrick Neger, Frank Koppola, Shannon Tweed | Sex comedy, Ski | Live action | ||
20 | The Buddy System | 20th Century Fox | Glenn A. Jordan (director); Mary Agnes Donoghue (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen, Jean Stapleton | Romantic comedy | Live action | |
27 | Broadway Danny Rose | Orion Pictures Corporation | Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Sandy Baron, Corbett Monica, Jackie Gayle, Morty Gunty, Will Jordan | Comedy | Live action | |
The Lonely Guy | Aspen Film Society / Universal Pictures | Arthur Hiller (director); Ed. Weinberger, Stan Daniels, Neil Simon (screenplay); Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence, Robyn Douglass | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
El Norte | American Playhouse / Channel Four Films / Independent Productions / Island Alive / Cinecom International / PBS | Gregory Nava (director/screenplay); Anna Thomas (screenplay); Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago, Lupe Ontiveros, Trinidad Silva, Enrique Castillo, Tony Plana | Drama | Live action | ||
F E B R U A R Y | 3 | Reckless | MGM/UA | James Foley (director); Chris Columbus (screenplay); Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Cliff De Young, Lois Smith, Adam Baldwin | Romance, Drama | Live action |
10 | Unfaithfully Yours | 20th Century Fox | Howard Zieff (director); Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson, Robert Klane (screenplay); Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante, Cassie Yates, Richard Libertini, Albert Brooks | Romantic comedy | Live action | |
17 | Blame It on Rio | 20th Century Fox | Stanley Donen (director); Charlie Peters, Larry Gelbart (screenplay); Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore, José Lewgoy | Romantic comedy | Live action | |
Crackers | Universal Pictures | Louis Malle (director); Jeffrey Fiskin (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Larry Riley, Trinidad Silva, Christine Baranski | Comedy, Crime | Live action | ||
Footloose | Paramount Pictures / Phoenix Pictures / IndieProd Company Productions | Herbert Ross (director); Dean Pitchford (screenplay); Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Laughlin | Musical, Dance, Drama | Live action | ||
Lassiter | Warner Bros. | Roger Young (director); David Taylor (screenplay); Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins, Joe Regalbuto, Ed Lauter, Warren Clarke | Spy, Action, Adventure | Live action | ||
M A R C H | 2 | Against All Odds | Columbia Pictures | Taylor Hackford (director); Eric Hughes (screenplay); Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark, Dorian Harewood, Swoosie Kurtz, Saul Rubinek | Romance, Neo-noir, Thriller | Live action |
Harry & Son | Orion Pictures | Paul Newman (director/screenplay); Ronald L. Buck (screenplay); Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Wilford Brimley, Judith Ivey, Ossie Davis, Morgan Freeman, Katherine Borowitz, Maury Chaykin, Joanne Woodward | Drama | Live action | ||
Repo Man | Edge City / Universal Pictures | Alex Cox (director/screenplay); Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Susan Barnes, Fox Harris | Science fiction, Comedy | Live action | ||
This is Spinal Tap | Embassy Pictures | Rob Reiner (director/screenplay); Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer (screenplay); Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, June Chadwick, Tony Hendra, Bruno Kirby | Mockumentary | Live action | ||
9 | Children of the Corn | Angeles Entertainment Group / Cinema Group / Hal Roach Studios / Inverness / Planet Productions / New World Pictures | Fritz Kiersch (director); George Goldsmith (screenplay); Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains, Robby Kiger, Anne Marie McEvoy, Julie Maddalena, John Philbin | Horror | Live action | |
The Hotel New Hampshire | Filmline Productions / The Producers' Circle / Woodfall Film Productions / Yellowbill Productions Ltd. / Orion Pictures | Tony Richardson (director/screenplay); Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Wilford Brimley, Paul McCrane, Wallace Shawn, Lisa Banes, Jennifer Dundas, Seth Green | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
Mike's Murder | The Ladd Company / Warner Bros. | James Bridges (director/screenplay); Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Paul Winfield, Darrell Larson, Brooke Alderson, Robert Crosson, Daniel Shor, William Ostrander | Mystery, Thriller | Live action | ||
Pete's Dragon (re-release) | Walt Disney Pictures | Don Chaffey (director); Malcolm Marmorstein (screenplay); Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Jeff Conaway, Shelley Winters, Jane Kean, Jim Backus, Sean Marshall, Charlie Callas | Musical, Fantasy, Comedy | Live action, Animation | ||
Splash | Touchstone Pictures | Ron Howard (director); Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Jeff Doucette, David Knell, Royce D. Applegate, Dody Goodman | Romantic comedy, Fantasy | Live action | ||
16 | Tank | Lorimar Productions / Universal Pictures | Marvin J. Chomsky (director); Dan Gordon (screenplay); James Garner, G.D. Spradlin, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Jenilee Harrison, James Cromwell, Dorian Harewood, Mark Herrier, Sandy Ward, John Hancock | Action, Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
23 | Police Academy | The Ladd Company / Warner Bros. | Hugh Wilson (director/screenplay); Neal Israel, Pat Proft (screenplay); Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, Donovan Scott, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Andrew Rubin, G.W. Bailey, George Gaynes | Comedy | Live action | |
Racing with the Moon | Paramount Pictures | Richard Benjamin (director); Steven Kloves (screenplay); Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen, Rutanya Alda, Max Showalter, Bob Maroff, Crispin Glover, Barbara Howard, John Brandon | Drama | Live action | ||
30 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Warner Bros. | Hugh Hudson (director); P.H. Vazak, Michael Austin (screenplay); Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell | Adventure | Live action | |
Misunderstood | MGM/UA | Jerry Schatzberg (director); Barra Grant (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Henry Thomas, Rip Torn, Huckleberry Fox, Maureen Kerwin, Susan Anspach | Drama | Live action | ||
Purple Hearts | The Ladd Company / Warner Bros. | Sidney J. Furie (director/screenplay); Rick Natkin (screenplay); Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Lee, Annie McEnroe, Paul McCrane, Cyril O'Reilly | War, Drama | Live action | ||
Romancing the Stone | 20th Century Fox | Robert Zemeckis (director); Diane Thomas (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda | Romantic comedy, Adventure | Live action |
April–June
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
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A P R I L | 6 | Moscow on the Hudson | Columbia Pictures | Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); Leon Capetanos (screenplay); Robin Williams, María Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey, Savely Kramarov, Oleg Rudnik, Elya Baskin, Yakov Smirnoff | Romantic comedy, Drama | Live action |
The Stone Boy | 20th Century Fox | Christopher Cain (director); Gina Berriault (screenplay); Robert Duvall, Jason Presson, Glenn Close, Susan Rinell, Dean Cain, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Fisher, Gail Youngs, Wilford Brimley | Drama | Live action | ||
Up the Creek | Samuel Z. Arkoff & Louis S. Arkoff Production / Orion Pictures | Robert Butler (director); Jim Kouf (screenplay); Tim Matheson, Dan Monahan, Stephen Furst, Jeff East, Sandy Helberg, Blaine Novak, James B. Sikking, Jennifer Runyon, John Hillerman | Comedy | Live action | ||
Where the Boys Are '84 | ITC Productions / Tri-Star Pictures | Hy Averback (director); Stu Krieger, Jeff Burkhart (screenplay); Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Wendy Schaal, Howard McGillin, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Alana Stewart, Christopher McDonald, Daniel McDonald | Sex comedy | Live action | ||
13 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | Paramount Pictures | Joseph Zito (director); Barney Cohen (screenplay); Kimberly Beck, Peter Barton, Corey Feldman, E. Erich Anderson, Joan Freeman, Crispin Glover, Alan Hayes, Barbara Howard | Slasher | Live action | |
Iceman | Universal Studios | Fred Schepisi (director); John Drimmer, Chip Proser (screenplay); Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn, Philip Akin, Danny Glover, Amelia Hall, Richard Monette, James Tolkan | Science fiction | Live action | ||
Kidco | 20th Century Fox | Ronald F. Maxwell (director); Bennett Tramer (screenplay); Scott Schwartz, Clifton James, Charles Hallahan, Maggie Blye, Cinnamon Idles, Tristine Skyler, Elizabeth Gorcey, Ron Rifkin | Comedy | Live action | ||
Phar Lap | 20th Century Fox | Simon Wincer (director); David Williamson (screenplay); Tom Burlinson, Towering Inferno, Richard Morgan, Robert Grubb, Martin Vaughan, Celia De Burgh, Ron Leibman, Henry Duvall, Pat Thomson, Georgia Carr | Biography, Drama | Live action | ||
Swing Shift | Warner Bros. | Jonathan Demme (director); Nancy Dowd, Bo Goldman, Ron Nyswaner (screenplay); Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Belita Moreno, Holly Hunter | War, Romance, Drama | Live action | ||
27 | Love Letters | New World Pictures | Amy Holden Jones (director/screenplay); Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Bonnie Bartlett, Matt Clark, Amy Madigan, Brian Wood, Phil Coccioletti, Larry Cedar, Rance Howard, Jeff Doucette, Sally Kirkland | Romance, Drama | Live action | |
M A Y | 4 | Alphabet City | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | Amos Poe (director/screenplay); Gregory K. Heller, Robert Seidman (screenplay); Vincent Spano, Michael Winslow, Jami Gertz, Zohra Lampert, Kenny Marino, Kate Vernon | Crime, Drama | Live action |
The Bounty | Orion Pictures Corporation / Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment | Roger Donaldson (director); Robert Bolt (screenplay); Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Philip Davis, Liam Neeson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tevaite Vernette | History, Drama | Live action | ||
Breakin' | Cannon Films / Golan-Globus / MGM/UA | Joel Silberg (director); Charles Parker, Allen DeBevoise (screenplay); Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo 'Shabba Doo' Quiñones, Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers, Ice-T, Scratcher, Ben Lokey, Phineas Newborn III, Christopher McDonald | Dance, Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
Sixteen Candles | Universal Pictures / Channel Productions | John Hughes (director/screenplay); Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Paul Dooley, Justin Henry, Anthony Michael Hall, Carlin Glynn, Haviland Morris, Blanche Baker, Gedde Watanabe | Coming-of-Age, Comedy | Live action | ||
11 | Firestarter | Dino de Laurentiis Company / Universal Pictures | Mark L. Lester (director); Stanley Mann (screenplay); David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Freddie Jones, Heather Locklear, Martin Sheen, George C. Scott, Art Carney, Louise Fletcher | Science fiction, Horror | Live action | |
The Natural | Tri-Star Pictures | Barry Levinson (director); Roger Towne, Phil Dusenberry (screenplay); Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth, Joe Don Baker, Darren McGavin, Michael Madsen | Sports, Drama | Live action | ||
18 | Making the Grade | Cannon Film Distributors / MGM/UA | Dorian Walker (director); Charles Gayle, Gene Quintano (screenplay); Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump, Walter Olkewicz, Ronald Lacey, Dana Olsen | Teen, Comedy | Live action | |
23 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Lucasfilm Ltd. / Paramount Pictures | Steven Spielberg (director); Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Jonathan Ke Quan, Roy Chiao, David Yip | Action, Adventure | Live action | |
J U N E | 1 | Once Upon a Time in America | The Ladd Company / Embassy International Pictures / PSO Enterprises / Rafran Cinematografica / Warner Bros. | Sergio Leone (director/screenplay); Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini (screenplay); Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Danny Aiello, William Forsythe | Epic, Crime, Drama | Live action |
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Paramount Pictures | Leonard Nimoy (director); Harve Bennett (screenplay); William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Merritt Butrick, Robin Curtis, Christopher Lloyd, Mark Lenard, Carl Steven, Vadia Potenza, Stephen Manley, Joe W. Davis | Science fiction | Live action | ||
Streets of Fire | Universal Pictures / RKO Pictures / A Hill-Gordon-Silver Production | Walter Hill (director/screenplay); Larry Gross (screenplay); Michael Paré, Diane Lane, E.G. Daily, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Richard Lawson, Rick Rossovich, Bill Paxton | Musical, Action, Neo-noir, Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
6 | Beat Street | Orion Pictures | Stan Lathan (director); Andrew Davis, David Gilbert, Paul Golding, Steven Hager (screenplay); Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, Jon Chardiet, Leon W. Grant, Saundra Santiago, Robert Taylor, Lee Chamberlin, Mary Alice, Shawn Elliot, Jim Borrelli, Dean Elliott, Franc. Reyes | Dance, Drama | Live action | |
8 | Ghostbusters | Delphi Films / Black Rhino Productions / Columbia Pictures | Ivan Reitman (director); Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis (screenplay); Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, William Atherton, David Margulies | Supernatural, Comedy | Live action | |
Gremlins | Warner Bros. / Amblin Entertainment | Joe Dante (director); Chris Columbus (screenplay); Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman, Keye Luke, Dick Miller | Comedy horror | Live action | ||
Top Secret! | Paramount Pictures | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker (directors/screenplay); Martyn Burke (screenplay); Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers, Billy J. Mitchell, Jeremy Kemp, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Warren Clarke | Action, Comedy | Live action | ||
15 | Under the Volcano | Universal Pictures | John Huston (director); Guy Gallo (screenplay); Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Ignacio López Tarso, Katy Jurado | Biography, Drama | Live action | |
22 | The Karate Kid | Delphi II Productions / Jerry Weintraub Productions / Columbia Pictures | John G. Avildsen (director); Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay); Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove, William Zabka, Randee Heller | Martial arts, Drama | Live action | |
Rhinestone | 20th Century Fox | Bob Clark (director); Phil Alden Robinson, Sylvester Stallone (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson | Musical, Comedy | Live action | ||
29 | Bachelor Party | 20th Century Fox | Neal Israel (director/screenplay); Pat Proft (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart, Robert Prescott, William Tepper, Wendie Jo Sperber | Comedy | Live action | |
Cannonball Run II | Golden Harvest / Warner Bros. | Hal Needham (director/screenplay); Harvey Miller (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jamie Farr, Marilu Henner, Telly Savalas, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Anton, Catherine Bach, Jackie Chan, Richard Kiel, Frank Sinatra | Comedy | Live action | ||
Conan the Destroyer | Dino de Laurentiis Company / Universal Pictures | Richard Fleischer (director); Stanley Mann (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Mako, Tracey Walter, Olivia d'Abo, Sarah Douglas | Sword and sorcery, Adventure | Live action |
July–September
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
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J U L Y | 13 | The Last Starfighter | Lorimar Productions / Universal Pictures | Nick Castle (director); Jonathan R. Betuel (screenplay); Lance Guest, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Norman Snow, Barbara Bosson, Chris Hebert, Dan Mason, Vernon Washington | Science fiction, Space opera | Live action |
The Muppets Take Manhattan | Henson Associates / Tri-Star Pictures | Frank Oz (director/screenplay); Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses (screenplay); Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Bruce Edward Hall, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Brian Muehl | Musical, Comedy | Live action | ||
20 | Best Defense | Cinema Group Ventures / Eddie Murphy Productions / Paramount Pictures | Willard Huyck (director/screenplay); Gloria Katz (screenplay); Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza, Helen Shaver, Mark Arnott, Peter Michael Goetz, Tom Noonan, David Rasche, Paul Comi, John Hostetter | Comedy | Live action | |
Electric Dreams | MGM/UA / Virgin Films | Steve Barron (director); Rusty Lemorande (screenplay); Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort, Don Fellows, Miriam Margolyes, Giorgio Moroder, Koo Stark | Romantic comedy, Science fiction | Live action | ||
The NeverEnding Story | Producers Sales Organization / Warner Bros. | Wolfgang Petersen (director/screenplay); Herman Weigel (screenplay); Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn, Alan Oppenheimer, Thomas Hill, Deep Roy, Tilo Prückner | Epic, Fantasy | Live action | ||
Revenge of the Nerds | Interscope Communications / 20th Century Fox | Jeff Kanew (director); Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai (screenplay); Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Timothy Busfield, Andrew Cassese, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Brian Tochi, Julie Montgomery, Michelle Meyrink, Ted McGinley, Matt Salinger, Donald Gibb, John Goodman, Bernie Casey | Comedy | Live action | ||
25 | Moon Madness | MGM/UA | Mike Marshall (director); Jimmy Shuman, Mike Marshall | Comedy | Animation | |
27 | The Jungle Book (re-release) | Walt Disney Productions | Wolfgang Reitherman (director); Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson, Vance Gerry, Floyd Norman, Bill Peet (screenplay); Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley, Verna Felton, Clint Howard | Musical, Comedy, Adventure | Animation | |
Meatballs Part II | Tri-Star Pictures | Ken Wiederhorn (director); Bruce Franklin Singer (screenplay); Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp, John Mengatti, Kim Richards, Archie Hahn, Misty Rowe, John Larroquette, Paul Reubens, Joe Nipote, Jason Hervey, Elayne Boosler, Nancy Glass, Felix Silla, Donald Gibb | Comedy | Live action | ||
Purple Rain | Purple Films / Warner Bros. | Albert Magnoli (director/screenplay); William Blinn (screenplay); Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III, Jerome Benton, Billy Sparks, Jill Jones, Dez Dickerson, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, The Revolution, The Time, Apollonia 6 | Rock musical, Drama | Live action | ||
A U G U S T | 2 | The Bostonians | Almi Pictures | James Ivory (director); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Potter, Nancy Marchand, Wesley Addy, Barbara Bryne, Linda Hunt, Charles McCaughan, Nancy New, John Van Ness Philip, Wallace Shawn | Romance, Drama | Live action |
3 | Grandview, U.S.A. | CBS Theatrical Films / Warner Bros. | Randal Kleiser (director); Ken Hixon (screenplay); Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Carole Cook, John Philbin, Ramon Bieri, Elizabeth Gorcey, M. Emmet Walsh, Troy Donahue, William Windom, Michael Winslow, John Cusack, Joan Cusack | Comedy | Live action | |
Joy of Sex | Paramount Pictures | Martha Coolidge (director); Kathleen Rowell, J.J. Salter (screenplay); Cameron Dye, Michelle Meyrink, Colleen Camp, Ernie Hudson, Lisa Langlois, Darren Dalton, Christopher Lloyd | Comedy | Live action | ||
The Philadelphia Experiment | Cienma Group / New World Pictures | Stewart Raffill (director); Wallace C. Bennett (screenplay); Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby Di Cicco, Louise Latham, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ralph Manza, Kene Holliday | Science fiction | Live action | ||
10 | Cloak & Dagger | Universal Pictures | Richard Franklin (director); Tom Holland (screenplay); Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, William Forsythe, Tim Rossovich, Eloy Casados, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan | Spy, Adventure | Live action | |
Red Dawn | MGM/UA | John Milius (director/screenplay); Kevin Reynolds (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Jennifer Grey, Brad Savage, Doug Toby, Powers Boothe, Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton | War, Drama | Live action | ||
15 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Sherwood Productions / 20th Century Fox | W. D. Richter (director); Earl Mac Rauch (screenplay); Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Clancy Brown, Pepe Serna, Lewis Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Billy Vera, Christopher Lloyd, Rosalind Cash, Carl Lumbly | Science fiction, Romance, Adventure, Comedy | Live action | |
The Woman in Red | Orion Pictures | Gene Wilder (director/screenplay); Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, Michael Zorek | Romantic comedy | Live action | ||
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Sheena | Columbia Pictures | John Guillermin (director); Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Leslie Stevens (screenplay); Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott, Princess Elizabeth, France Zobda, Trevor Thomas, Clifton Jones, John Forgeham, Errol John | Action, Adventure, Drama | Live action | ||
Tightrope | The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros. | Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood (directors); Richard Tuggle (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Jenny Beck, Rod Masterson, Marco St. John | Suspense, Thriller | Live action | ||
24 | Oxford Blues | MGM/UA / 20th Century Fox | Robert Boris (director/screenplay); Rob Lowe, Amanda Pays, Julian Sands, Ally Sheedy, Julian Firth, Alan Howard, Gail Strickland, Michael Gough, Aubrey Morris, Anthony Calf, Cary Elwes | Sports, Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
29 | Choose Me | Island Alive | Alan Rudolph (director/screenplay); Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Rae Dawn Chong, John Larroquette, Edward Ruscha, Gailard Sartain | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
31 | Bolero | City Films / Cannon Film Distributors | John Derek (director/screenplay); Bo Derek, George Kennedy, Andrea Occhipinti, Ana Obregon, Olivia d'Abo, Greg Bensen, Ian Cochrane, Mirta Miller | Romance, Drama | Live action | |
C.H.U.D. | New World Pictures | Douglas Cheek (director); Parnell Hall (screenplay); John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist, J.C. Quinn, Michael O'Hare, Peter Michael Goetz, Sam McMurray, Frankie R. Faison | Science fiction, Horror | Live action | ||
Flashpoint | HBO Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / Tri-Star Pictures | William Tannen (director); Dennis Shryack, Michael Butler (screenplay); Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Jean Smart, Tess Harper, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Guy Boyd | Action, Crime, Drama | Live action | ||
S E P T E M B E R | 7 | The Brother from Another Planet | Cinecom Pictures | John Sayles (director/screenplay); Joe Morton, Sidney "Piankhy" Sheriff Jr., Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez, Yves Rene, Peter Richardson, Ginny Yang, Daryl Edwards, Steve James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs | Science fiction | Live action |
14 | A Soldier's Story | Columbia Pictures | Norman Jewison (director); Charles Fuller (screenplay); Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier, David Harris, Dennis Lipscomb, Larry Riley, Robert Townsend, Denzel Washington, William Allen Young, John Hancock, Patti LaBelle, Trey Wilson, Wings Hauser | Drama | Live action | |
19 | Amadeus | The Saul Zaentz Company / Orion Pictures | Miloš Forman (director); Peter Shaffer (screenplay); F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay | Historical, Drama | Live action | |
21 | All of Me | Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment / Kings Road Entertainment / Universal Pictures | Carl Reiner (director); Phil Alden Robinson, Henry Olek (screenplay); Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith, Richard Libertini, Dana Elcar, Jason Bernard, Selma Diamond, Eric Christmas, Gailard Sartain, Neva Patterson, Michael Ensign, Peggy Feury | Fantasy, Comedy | Live action | |
Places in the Heart | Tri-Star Pictures | Robert Benton (director/screenplay); Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Ray Baker, Amy Madigan, Yankton Hatten, Gennie James, Lane Smith, Terry O'Quinn | Drama | Live action | ||
Windy City | CBS Theatrical Films / Warner Bros. | Armyan Bernstein (director/screenplay); John Shea, Kate Capshaw, Josh Mostel, Jim Borrelli, Jeffrey DeMunn, Eric Pierpoint, Lewis J. Stadlen | Drama | Live action | ||
28 | Country | Touchstone Films / Far West Productions / Pangaea Corporation | Richard Pearce (director); William D. Wittliff (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark, Therese Graham, Levi L. Knebel, Jim Haynie, Sandra Seacat, Alex Harvey, Stephanie Stacie-Poyner | Drama | Live action | |
Irreconcilable Differences | Warner Bros. | Charles Shyer (director/screenplay); Nancy Meyers (screenplay); Albert Finney, Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker, Allen Garfield, Sharon Stone, Beverlee Reed, Hortensia Colorado, David Graf, Jessica Christensen | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
The River Rat | Paramount Pictures | Thomas Rickman (director/screenplay); Martha Plimpton, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Shawn Smith | Family, Drama | Live action | ||
The Wild Life | Universal Pictures | Art Linson (director); Cameron Crowe (screenplay); Christopher Penn, Eric Stoltz, Jenny Wright, Lea Thompson, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Brin Berliner, Rick Moranis, Hart Bochner, Randy Quaid | Comedy, Drama | Live action |
October–December
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
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O C T O B E R | 5 | Teachers | Aaron Russo Productions / MGM/UA | Arthur Hiller (director); W. R. McKinney (screenplay); Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio, Allen Garfield, Lee Grant, Richard Mulligan, Laura Dern, Crispin Glover, Morgan Freeman | Satire, Comedy, Drama | Live action |
12 | Garbo Talks | MGM/UA | Sidney Lumet (director); Larry Grusin (screenplay); Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks, Steven Hill, Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Loudon, Harvey Fierstein, Hermione Gingold | Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
Songwriter | Tri-Star Pictures | Alan Rudolph (director); Bud Shrake (screenplay); Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Lesley Ann Warren, Rip Torn, Melinda Dillon | Satire, Comedy | Live action | ||
19 | Crimes of Passion | New World Pictures | Ken Russell (director); Barry Sandler (screenplay); Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison, Yvonne McCord, Stephen Lee, Louise Sorel | Erotic thriller | Live action | |
The Razor's Edge | Columbia Pictures | John Byrum (director/screenplay); Bill Murray (screenplay); Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach, Peter Vaughan, Brian Doyle-Murray, Faith Brook, Saeed Jaffrey, Richard Oldfield | Drama | Live action | ||
Stop Making Sense | Arnold Stiefel Company / Cinecom Pictures / Palm Pictures | Jonathan Demme (director/screenplay); Talking Heads (screenplay); Talking Heads | Concert | Live action | ||
Thief of Hearts | Simpson/Bruckheimer / Paramount Pictures | Douglas Day Stewart (director/screenplay); Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, John Getz, David Caruso, Christine Ebersole, George Wendt | Crime, Thriller, Drama | Live action | ||
26 | American Dreamer | CBS Theatrical Films / Warner Bros. | Rick Rosenthal (director); David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf (screenplay); JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini, Coral Browne, Léon Zitrone | Romantic comedy, Thriller | Live action | |
Body Double | Delphi II Productions / Columbia Pictures | Brian De Palma (director/screenplay); Robert J. Avrech (screenplay); Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd, Dennis Franz, David Haskell, Al Israel, Douglas Warhit | Erotic thriller | Live action | ||
Give My Regards to Broad Street | MPL Communications / 20th Century Fox | Peter Webb (director); Paul McCartney (screenplay); Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown, Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Linda McCartney, Tracey Ullman, Ralph Richardson, John Paul Jones, John Bennett, John Burgess | Musical, Drama | Live action | ||
Paris, Texas | Road Movies / Filmproduktion GmbH / Argos Films S.A. / 20th Century Fox | Wim Wenders (director); L. M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard (screenplay); Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Berry, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Claresie Mobley, Hunter Carson | Road, Drama | Live action | ||
The Terminator | Hemdale / Pacific Western Productions / Cinema '84 / Orion Pictures | James Cameron (director/screenplay); Gale Anne Hurd (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Earl Boen, Bess Motta, Rick Rossovich | Science fiction, Action | Live action | ||
Terror in the Aisles | Kaleidoscope Films / Universal Pictures | Andrew J. Kuehn (director); Margery Doppelt (screenplay); Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen | Documentary | Live action | ||
N O V E M B E R | 2 | The Killing Fields | Goldcrest Films / International Film Investors / Enigma Productions / Warner Bros. | Roland Joffé (director); Bruce Robinson (screenplay); Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Spalding Gray, Bill Patterson, Athol Fugard | Biography, Drama | Live action |
9 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | New Line Cinema / Media Home Entertainment / Smart Egg Pictures | Wes Craven (director/screenplay); Robert Englund, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Joe Unger, Charles Fleischer | Slasher | Live action | |
No Small Affair | Columbia Pictures | Jerry Schatzberg (director); Craig Bolotin (screenplay); Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt, Peter Frechette, E.G. Daily, Ann Wedgeworth, Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Robbins, Hamilton Camp, Scott Getlin, Judith Baldwin, Jennifer Tilly, Kene Holliday, Tate Donovan | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
Oh, God! You Devil | Warner Bros. | Paul Bogart (director); Andrew Bergman (screenplay); George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver, Roxanne Hart, Eugene Roche | Comedy | Live action | ||
Samson & Sally | Dansk Tegnefilm | Jannik Hastrup (director/screenplay); Bent Haller, Li Vilstrup (screenplay); Jesper Klein, Helle Hertz, Per Pallesen, Bodil Udsen, Poul Thomsen, Kristen Peuliche, Berthe Qvistgaard, Claus Ryskjær, Preben Neergaard, Ole Ernst | Romance, Family | Animation | ||
Silent Night, Deadly Night | Slayride Productions Inc. / Tri-Star Pictures | Charles E. Sellier Jr. (director); Michael Hickey (screenplay); Robert Brian Wilson, Alex Burton, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero | Slasher | Live action | ||
16 | Just the Way You Are | MGM/UA | Édouard Molinaro (director); Allan Burns (screenplay); Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean, Kaki Hunter, Catherine Salviat, Robert Carradine, Alexandra Paul, Lance Guest, Tim Daly | Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
B.C. Rock | Almi Pictures | Tony Hendra (screenplay); Jim Vallely, Jonathan Schmock, Joseph Plewa | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | Animation | ||
Missing in Action | The Cannon Group, Inc. | Joseph Zito (director); James Bruner (screenplay); Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, David Tress, Lenore Kasdorf, Ernie Ortega, James Hong, Erich Anderson | Action, Drama | Live action | ||
Night of the Comet | Thomas Coleman and Michael Rosenblatt Productions / Film Development Fund / Atlantic Releasing Corporation | Thom Eberhardt (director/screenplay); Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell, Mary Woronov, Geoffrey Lewis, Peter Fox, John Achorn, Michael Bowen | Science fiction, Horror, Comedy | Live action | ||
Night Patrol | RSL Company / Vis Arts Consultants Inc. / New World Pictures | Jackie Kong (director/screenplay); Murray Langston, William A. Levey, Bill Osco (screenplay); Linda Blair, Pat Paulsen, Billy Barty, Murray Langston, Pat Morita, Andrew Dice Clay, Jaye P. Morgan, Vic Dunlop | Comedy | Live action | ||
21 | A Christmas Story (re-release) | MGM/UA | Bob Clark (director/screenplay); Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown (screenplay); Peter Billingsley, Jean Shepherd, Ian Petrella, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz, R. D. Robb, Zack Ward | Comedy | Live action | |
Falling in Love | Paramount Pictures | Ulu Grosbard (director); Michael Cristofer (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, David Clennon, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin, Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo | Romance, Drama | Live action | ||
Supergirl | Artistry / Investors In Industry / Robert Fleming Leasing / St. Michael Finance / Tri-Star Pictures | Jeannot Szwarc (director); David Odell (screenplay); Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Hart Bochner, Peter Cook, Mia Farrow, Marc McClure, Brenda Vaccaro, Peter O'Toole | Superhero | Live action | ||
28 | Gallavants | Marvel Productions | Art Vitello (director); Jack Mendelsohn (screenplay); Robert Lydiard, Vic Perrin, Peter Cullen, Joyce Gittlin | Family | Animation | |
D E C E M B E R | 5 | Beverly Hills Cop | Simpson/Bruckheimer / Eddie Murphy Productions / Paramount Pictures | Martin Brest (director); Daniel Petrie Jr. (screenplay); Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff, James Russo, Stephen Elliott, Paul Reiser, Jonathan Banks, Gilbert R. Hill, Bronson Pinchot | Action, Comedy | Live action |
7 | 2010 | MGM/UA | Peter Hyams (director/screenplay); Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, Madolyn Smith, Saveliy Kramarov, Taliesin Jaffe, James McEachin, Mary Jo Deschanel | Science fiction | Live action | |
City Heat | The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros. | Richard Benjamin (director); Blake Edwards ("Sam O. Brown"), Joseph C. Stinson (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco, William Sanderson | Action, Crime, Comedy | Live action | ||
14 | The Cotton Club | Totally Independent Productions / American Zoetrope / Producers Sales Organization / Orion Pictures | Francis Ford Coppola (director/screenplay); William Kennedy (screenplay); Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Fred Gwynne | Crime, Drama | Live action | |
Dune | Dino De Laurentiis Corporation / Universal Pictures | David Lynch (director/screenplay); Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Silvana Mangano, Everett McGill, Kenneth McMillan, Jack Nance, Siân Phillips, Jürgen Prochnow, Paul Smith, Patrick Stewart, Sting, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow, Alicia Roanne Witt, Sean Young | Epic, Science fiction | Live action | ||
Katy Caterpillar | Walt Disney Pictures / Atlantic Releasing Corporation / MGM/UA | Ardwight Chamberlain (director); Jack Mendelsohn (screenplay); Barbara Goodson | Adventure Family | Animation | ||
1984 | Virgin Films / Umbrella-Rosenblum Films / 20th Century Fox | Michael Radford (director/screenplay); John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, James Walker, Andrew Wilde, Corina Seddon | Dystopian, Science fiction | Live action | ||
A Passage to India | Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment / HBO Films / Columbia Pictures | David Lean (director/screenplay); Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Michael Culver, Clive Swift, Art Malik, Saeed Jaffrey, Ann Firbank, Roshan Seth, Richard Wilson | Epic, History, Drama | Live action | ||
Runaway | Tri-Star Pictures | Michael Crichton (director/screenplay); Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, Stan Shaw, G.W. Bailey, Joey Cramer, Chris Mulkey, Anne-Marie Martin, Michael Paul Chan, Marilyn Schreffler | Science fiction, Action | Live action | ||
Starman | Columbia Pictures | John Carpenter (director); Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon, Dean Riesner (screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen, Tony Edwards, John Walter Davis | Science fiction, Romance | Live action | ||
19 | The River | Universal Pictures | Mark Rydell (director); Robert Dillon, Julian Barry (screenplay); Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Scott Glenn, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch, Don Hood, Billy "Green" Bush, James Tolkan | Drama | Live action | |
21 | Birdy | A&M Films / Tri-Star Pictures | Alan Parker (director); Sandy Kroopf, Jack Behr (screenplay); Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Bruno Kirby | Drama | Live action | |
The Flamingo Kid | ABC Motion Pictures / 20th Century Fox | Alan Parker (director); Sandy Kroopf, Jack Behr (screenplay); Matt Dillon, Hector Elizondo, Richard Crenna, Janet Jones, Jessica Walter, Fisher Stevens, Bronson Pinchot, Marisa Tomei, Steven Weber, Martha Gehman, Leon Robinson | Comedy | Live action | ||
Johnny Dangerously | 20th Century Fox | Amy Heckerling (director); Harry Colomby, Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff, Norman Steinberg (screenplay); Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Glynnis O'Connor, Dom DeLuise, Richard Dimitri, Danny DeVito | Parody, Comedy | Live action | ||
Micki & Maude | 20th Century Fox | Blake Edwards (director); Jonathan Reynolds (screenplay); Ann Reinking, Amy Irving, Dudley Moore, Richard Mulligan, George Gaynes, Wallace Shawn, Hard Boiled Haggerty, John Pleshette, Andre Rousimmoff | Comedy | Live action | ||
Pinocchio (re-release) | Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures | Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson; Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee (directors); Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, William Cottrell, Joseph Sabo, Erdman Penner, Aurelius Battaglia (screenplay); Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc, Walter Catlett, Charles Judels, Evelyn Venable, Frankie Darro | Musical, Fantasy | Animation | ||
26 | Mrs. Soffel | MGM/UA | Gillian Armstrong (director); Ron Nyswaner (screenplay); Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado, Jennifer Dundas, Danny Corkill, Harley Cross, Terry O'Quinn | Drama | Live action |
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), directed by Ravi Chopra, starring Raj Babbar, Smita Patil, and Nana Patekar (India)
Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan), directed by Masayuki Suo, starring Ren Osugi (Japan)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, directed by W. D. Richter, 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, co-directed by Victor M. Ordonez, Eduardo Palmos, and Al Valletta, starring Karin Mani, and Robert Torti
Amadeus, directed by Miloš 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, directed by Rick Rosenthal, 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
Blame It on Rio, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Demi Moore, Michelle Johnson
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'
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Broadway Danny Rose - directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
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 María 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, Geneviève Bujold, 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)
Draw!, starring Kirk Douglas, James Coburn, Alexandra Bastedo, Graham Jarvis, Derek McGrath, Linda Sorenson
Dreamscape, starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer
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, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Jean Smart, Tess Harper, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer
Flowers of Reverie (Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk) - (Hungary)
Flügel und Fesseln, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms - (West Germany)
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.)
Frankenweenie, directed by Tim Burton
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, directed by Joseph Zito, 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
Klassenverhältnisse, directed by Straub-Huillet - (France/West Germany)
L
Lassiter, starring Tom Selleck and Jane Seymour
The Last Days of Pompeii, TV miniseries, starring Laurence Olivier, Olivia Hussey, Siobhán 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
- Little House: The Last Farewell
- Little House: Bless All the Dear Children
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, Željko Ivanek, Charles Durning
- Meatballs Part II
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
Misunderstood, starring Henry Thomas and Gene Hackman
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 Catherine Mary Stewart and Robert Beltran
A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven, starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
Night Patrol, starring Linda Blair and The Unknown Comic
The Ninja Mission (Misja ninja) - (Sweden)
Nothing Lasts Forever, starring Zach Galligan, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd
- Nothing Left to Do But Cry
O
Oh, God! You Devil, starring George Burns
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 Banerjee, 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
- Silent Night, Deadly Night
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, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman
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)- Solomon Northup's Odyssey
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, Fred Ward
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 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!, directed by Jim Abrahams and 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 Le Brock
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)
Births
- January 6 - Priit Loog, Estonian actor
- January 25 - Kaiji Tang, voice actor
- January 30 - Michael Aloni, Israeli actor
- January 30 - Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi (Kid Cudi) American recording artist
- February 12 - Alexandra Dahlström, Swedish actress
- February 13 - Brina Palencia, voice actress
- February 24 - Nicholas Saputra, Indonesian actor
- March 2 - Ian Sinclair, voice actor
- March 7 - Brandon T. Jackson, American stand-up comedian, rapper, actor, and writer
- March 10 - Olivia Wilde, American actress
- March 20 - Christy Carlson Romano, American stage and film actress and singer
- March 25 - Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress
- April 2 - Ashley Peldon, American actress
- April 8
Taran Noah Smith, American actor
Kirsten Storms, American actress
- April 10
Cara DeLizia, American actress
Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
- April 18 - America Ferrera, American actress
- April 21- Praveenprem, South Indian actor
- June 13 - Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
- June 19 - Paul Dano, American actor
- June 24 - Lucien Dodge, voice actor
- June 30 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer and actress
- July 7 - Ross Malinger, American actor
- July 11 - Serinda Swan, Canadian actress
- July 14 - Britta Soll, Estonian actress
- July 19 - Andrea Libman, Canadian actress, voice actress, pianist, and singer
- July 27
Taylor Schilling, American actress
Kenny Wormald, American actor
- September 3 - Garrett Hedlund, American actor
- September 18 - Nina Arianda, American actress
- September 19 - Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor and model
- September 22 - Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
- September 22 - Jordan Vogt-Roberts, American film director
- September 23 - Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress and singer
- September 27 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
- October 3 - Ashlee Simpson, American actress and singer
- October 25 - Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
- October 27 - Kelly Osbourne, English actress and singer
- November 16 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
- November 17 - Lauren Maltby, American actress
- November 21
Lindsey Haun, American actress and singer
Jena Malone, American actress
- November 22 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
- November 23 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
- November 28 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
- December 5 - Lauren London, American actress
Notable deaths
Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
January | 11 | Jack La Rue | 70 | USA | Actor |
|
20 | Johnny Weissmuller | 79 | Mexico | Actor |
| |
29 | Frances Goodrich | 93 | USA | Writer |
| |
February | 11 | Arlette Marchal | 82 | France | Actress |
|
15 | Ethel Merman | 76 | USA | Singer, Actress |
| |
17 | Lucille Benson | 69 | USA | Actress |
| |
March | 1 | Jackie Coogan | 69 | USA | Actor |
|
1 | Ronald Culver | 83 | UK | Actor |
| |
5 | William Powell | 91 | USA | Actor |
| |
6 | Henry Wilcoxon | 78 | USA | Actor |
| |
12 | Arnold Ridley | 88 | UK | Actor, Writer |
| |
24 | Sam Jaffe | 93 | USA | Actor |
| |
27 | Jack Donohue | 75 | USA | Director |
| |
27 | Derek Francis | 60 | UK | Actor |
| |
April | 1 | George Glass | 73 | USA | Producer, Production Manager |
|
10 | Ray Middleton | 77 | USA | Actor |
| |
13 | Richard Hurndall | 73 | UK | Actor |
| |
16 | Byron Haskin | 84 | USA | Director |
| |
18 | Francis de Wolff | 71 | UK | Actor |
| |
18 | John Lee Mahin | 81 | USA | Screenwriter |
| |
25 | Richard Benedict | 64 | USA | Actor |
| |
26 | May McAvoy | 84 | USA | Actress |
| |
May | 4 | Diana Dors | 52 | UK | Actress |
|
10 | Robert Moore | 57 | USA | Director |
| |
16 | Andy Kaufman | 35 | USA | Actor |
| |
16 | Irwin Shaw | 71 | USA | Screenwriter, Author |
| |
20 | Peter Bull | 72 | UK | Actor |
| |
21 | Andrea Leeds | 72 | UK | Actress |
| |
21 | Ann Little | 93 | USA | Actress |
| |
22 | John Marley | 76 | USA | Actor |
| |
28 | D'Urville Martin | 45 | USA | Actor, Director |
| |
June | 1 | Ruthelma Stevens | 80 | USA | Actress |
|
4 | Lillian Hellman | 79 | USA | Screenwriter, Playwright |
| |
15 | Ned Glass | 78 | USA | Actor |
| |
18 | Luis Moglia Barth | 81 | Argentine | Director, Writer, Producer | ¡Tango! | |
20 | Estelle Winwood | 101 | UK | Actress |
| |
22 | Joseph Losey | 75 | USA | Director |
| |
24 | William Keighley | 94 | USA | Director |
| |
July | 2 | Lenore Coffee | 87 | USA | Screenwriter |
|
7 | Flora Robson | 82 | UK | Actress |
| |
11 | Hugh Morton | 81 | UK | Actor |
| |
14 | Ernest Tidyman | 56 | UK | Writer |
| |
23 | Carl Foreman | 69 | USA | Writer, Producer |
| |
23 | Lloyd Gough | 76 | USA | Actor |
| |
25 | Akihiko Hirata | 56 | Japan | Actor |
| |
27 | James Mason | 75 | Switzerland | Actor, Producer |
| |
29 | Woodrow Parfrey | 61 | USA | Actor |
| |
29 | Fred Waring | 84 | USA | Conductor |
| |
August | 4 | Howard Culver | 66 | Hong Kong | Actor |
|
4 | Mary Miles Minter | 82 | USA | Actress |
| |
5 | Richard Burton | 58 | Switzerland | Actor, Producer, Director |
| |
5 | Roland Kibbee | 70 | USA | Screenwriter |
| |
8 | Richard Deacon | 63 | USA | Actor |
| |
25 | Truman Capote | 59 | USA | Writer, Actor |
| |
29 | Pina Menichelli | 94 | Italy | Actress |
| |
September | 14 | Janet Gaynor | 77 | USA | Actress |
|
17 | Richard Basehart | 70 | USA | Actor, Director |
| |
19 | June Preisser | 64 | USA | Actress |
| |
25 | Walter Pidgeon | 87 | USA | Actor |
| |
October | 9 | Joan Young | 84 | UK | Actress |
|
10 | Leonard Rossiter | 57 | UK | Actor |
| |
11 | H. Bruce Humberstone | 82 | USA | Director |
| |
16 | Peggy Ann Garner | 52 | USA | Actress |
| |
21 | François Truffaut | 52 | France | Director, Producer, Actor |
| |
23 | Oskar Werner | 61 | Germany | Actor |
| |
25 | Pascale Ogier | 25 | France | Actress |
| |
26 | Noel Howlett | 81 | UK | Actor |
| |
30 | June Duprez | 66 | UK | Actress |
| |
31 | Eduardo De Filippo | 84 | Italy | Actor, Screenwriter |
| |
November | 1 | Norman Krasna | 74 | USA | Screenwriter, Director |
|
13 | Dorothy Arnold | 66 | USA | Actress |
| |
20 | Peter Welch | 62 | UK | Actor |
| |
December | 2 | Patty Elder | 48 | USA | Stuntman, Actor |
|
3 | Charles R. Davis | 47 | USA | Art Director | Bustin' Loose | |
7 | Jeanne Cagney | 65 | USA | Actress |
| |
8 | Luther Adler | 81 | USA | Actor |
| |
11 | Robert E. Kent | 73 | USA | Screenwriter |
| |
11 | George Waggner | 81 | USA | Director |
| |
13 | Margaret Livingston | 89 | USA | Actress |
| |
24 | Ian Hendry | 53 | UK | Actor |
| |
24 | Peter Lawford | 61 | USA | Actor |
| |
24 | Harry Waxman | 72 | UK | Cinematographer |
| |
28 | Sam Peckinpah | 59 | USA | Director, Producer |
|
Film debuts
Jesse Bradford - Falling in Love
Jennifer Connelly - Once Upon a Time in America
Jon Cryer - No Small Affair
Johnny Depp - A Nightmare on Elm Street
Tate Donovan - No Small Affair
Rupert Everett - Another Country
Colin Firth - Another Country
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Bobcat Goldthwait - Massive Retaliation
Heather Graham - Mrs. Soffel
Seth Green - Billions for Boris
Jennifer Grey - Reckless
Corey Haim - Firstborn
Val Kilmer - Top Secret!
Andie MacDowell - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Kyle MacLachlan - Dune
Mary McDonnell - Garbo Talks
Frances McDormand - Blood Simple
Connie Nielsen - Par où t'es rentré ? On t'a pas vu sortir
Chazz Palminteri - Home Free All
Lou Diamond Phillips - Interface
Martha Plimpton - The River Rat
Prince - Purple Rain
Aidan Quinn - Reckless
Tim Robbins - No Small Affair
Tim Roth - The Hit
Ernie Sabella - City Heat
Charlie Sheen - Red Dawn
Elisabeth Shue - The Karate Kid
Helen Slater - Supergirl
Ice-T - Breakin'
Jennifer Tilly - No Small Affair
Marisa Tomei - The Flamingo Kid
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Breakin'
Ken Watanabe - MacArthur's Children
Damon Wayans - Beverly Hills Cop
Michelle Yeoh - The Owl vs Bombo
See also
- List of American films of 1984
- List of British films of 1984
- List of French films of 1984
- List of German films of the 1980s
- List of Bollywood films of 1984
- List of Italian films of 1984
- List of Japanese films of 1984
- List of Swedish films of the 1980s
Notes
^ Disco Dancer: 60 million Soviet rubles in 1984,[12] 0.791 rubles per US dollar in 1984[13]
^ 12.43 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1984[14]
^ Disco Dancer in Soviet Union: US$75.9 million[n 1] (₹94.34 crore)[n 2] in 1984
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External links
"Was 1984 the greatest year in movies ever?" by Chris Nashawaty - Entertainment Weekly online
1984 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
Top 1984 Movies at the Domestic Box Office at The Numbers
Top 1984 Movies at the International Box Office at The Numbers
Top 1984 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office at The Numbers
Top-US-Grossing Titles Released 1984-01-01 to 1984-12-31 at IMDb
Most Popular Feature Films Released 1984-01-01 to 1984-12-31 at IMDb
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