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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy stars as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop, who heads to Beverly Hills, California to solve the death of his best friend....
Paramount $234,760,478
2.Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 in film comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychology-turned-ghost exterminators. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984....
Columbia $229,242,989
3.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 period piece adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise, and prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark ....
Paramount $179,870,271
4. Gremlins
Gremlins

Gremlins is an Cinema of the United States comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released in 1984 in film by Warner Bros. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters....
Warner Brothers $148,168,459
5. The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid is a 1984 in film film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen, starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue....
Columbia $90,815,558
6.Police Academy Warner Brothers $81,198,894
7. Footloose
Footloose

Footloose is a film that tells the story of Ren McCormack , a teenager who was raised in Chicago. McCormack moves to a small town where the town government has banned dance and rock music....
Paramount $80,035,402
8. Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-adventure film, and has many elements that might categorize it as a romantic comedy film....
20th Century Fox $76,572,238
9. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 in film motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
Paramount $76,471,046
10. Splash Touchstone $69,821,334
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1984&p=.htm

> Golden Globe Awards
42nd Golden Globe Awards

The 42nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1984, were held on January 27, 1985....
:


Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Amadeus
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: F.






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Events

  • The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company

    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
     founds Touchstone Pictures
    Touchstone Pictures

    Touchstone Pictures is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. Its releases typically feature more mature themes than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner....
     to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.
  • Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures

    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
    , HBO, and CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
    , releases its first film.
  • Michael Eisner
    Michael Eisner

    Michael Eisner was chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005....
     becomes head of The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company

    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy stars as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop, who heads to Beverly Hills, California to solve the death of his best friend....
Paramount $234,760,478
2.Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 in film comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychology-turned-ghost exterminators. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984....
Columbia $229,242,989
3.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 period piece adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise, and prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark ....
Paramount $179,870,271
4. Gremlins
Gremlins

Gremlins is an Cinema of the United States comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released in 1984 in film by Warner Bros. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters....
Warner Brothers $148,168,459
5. The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid is a 1984 in film film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen, starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue....
Columbia $90,815,558
6.Police Academy Warner Brothers $81,198,894
7. Footloose
Footloose

Footloose is a film that tells the story of Ren McCormack , a teenager who was raised in Chicago. McCormack moves to a small town where the town government has banned dance and rock music....
Paramount $80,035,402
8. Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-adventure film, and has many elements that might categorize it as a romantic comedy film....
20th Century Fox $76,572,238
9. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 in film motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
Paramount $76,471,046
10. Splash Touchstone $69,821,334
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1984&p=.htm

Awards


Academy Awards
57th Academy Awards

The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Jack Lemmon....
:


Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Amadeus
Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Milo? Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Based on Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the film is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the later half of the 18th century....
Best Director: Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman

Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
 - Amadeus
Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham

Fahrid Murray Abraham is an Academy Award-winning United States actor. He became known during the 1980s, after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Amadeus , and has since appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films, television, and mainly on stage....
 -
Amadeus
Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Sally Field
Sally Field

Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
 -
Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....
Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Haing S. Ngor
Haing S. Ngor

Dr. Haing S. Ngor was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie The Killing Fields , in which he portrayed journalist and refugee Dith Pran in 1970s Cambodia, under the rule of the Khmer Rouge....
 -
The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields (film)

The Killing Fields is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom feature film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.It is based on the experiences of three journalists: Dith Pran, a Cambodian, Sydney Schanberg, an American, and Jon Swain, a journalist from the UK....
Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft

Dame Peggy Ashcroft Order of the British Empire was an English actress....
 -
A Passage to India
Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: La diagonale du fou
La diagonale du fou

Dangerous Moves is a 1984 in film French language film about chess, directed by Richard Dembo and starring Michel Piccoli and Alexandre Arbatt....
(
Dangerous Moves), directed by Richard Dembo
Richard Dembo

Richard Dembo was a France film director and screenwriter.Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou....
, Switzerland
Golden Globe Awards
42nd Golden Globe Awards

The 42nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1984, were held on January 27, 1985....
:


Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Amadeus
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: F. Murray Abraham -
Amadeus
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Sally Field -
Places in the Heart


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-adventure film, and has many elements that might categorize it as a romantic comedy film....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, comedian and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the hugely popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook....
 -
Micki + Maude
Micki + Maude

Micki + Maude is a comedy film starring Dudley Moore as Rob Salinger, an overworked television reporter. It co-stars Tony-award winning actress, dancer, and singer Ann Reinking as Micki, a lawyer who eventually becomes promoted to a judge, and is Rob's first wife....
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner , better known as Kathleen Turner, is a Tony Award- and Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor....
 -
Romancing the Stone


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Miloš Forman -
Amadeus
Best Foreign English Language Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: A Passage to India
A Passage to India (film)

A Passage to India is a 1984 in film adventure film-drama film directed by David Lean, based on the A Passage to India by E. M. Forster....
, U.K. / U.S.A.


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas (film)

Paris, Texas is a 1984 film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder....
, directed by Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders

Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is a Germany film director, playwright, author, photographer and film producer....
, France / W. Germany


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival):
The Year of the Quiet Sun
The Year of the Quiet Sun

The Year of the Quiet Sun is a 1984 in film Poland film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a romance between a Polish refugee and an United States soldier....
(
Rok spokojnego slonca), directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Zanussi

Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Poland film producer and film director.He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop....
,


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Love Streams
Love Streams

Love Streams is an 1984 American film by John Cassavetes that tells the story of a middle-aged brother and sister who find themselves caring for one another after the other loves in their lives abandon them....
, directed by John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
, United States


Films released in 1984

  • 1984
  • 2010
  • Aaj Ki Awaaz
    Aaj Ki Awaaz

    Aaj Ki Awaaz is a 1984 Hindi film produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by Ravi Chopra. The film stars Raj Babbar, Smita Patil, Nana Patekar and Vijay Arora....
  • Amadeus
    Amadeus (film)

    Amadeus is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Milo? Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Based on Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the film is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the later half of the 18th century....
    - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! is an Cinema of the United States science fiction film that has reached cult film status....
  • All of Me
  • Annie's Coming Out
    Annie's Coming Out

    Annie's Coming Out is a 1984 Australian drama film directed by Gil Brealey. It is based on the non-fiction book Annie's Coming Out by disability activists Rosemary Crossley and Anne McDonald....
  • Bachelor Party
    Bachelor Party (film)

    Bachelor Party is a 1984 in film comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, Robert Prescott , and Deborah Harmon, directed by Neal Israel....
  • The Bay Boy
    The Bay Boy

    The Bay Boy is a critically acclaimed 1984 Canadian film. It is a semi-autobiographical film based on director Daniel Petrie's experiences of growing up in Glace Bay, a mining town on Cape Breton Island, during the Great Depression....
    - 1985 Genie Award
    Genie Award

    Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. The awards were originally named the Canadian Film Awards which ran from 1949 to 1979 but in 1980 were renamed The Genie Awards....
     for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
  • Before Stonewall
    Before Stonewall

    Before Stonewall is a 1984 in film historical documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots. It was narrated by author Rita Mae Brown and directed by Greta Schiller....
  • Beverly Hills Cop
    Beverly Hills Cop

    Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy stars as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop, who heads to Beverly Hills, California to solve the death of his best friend....
  • Birdy (film)
    Birdy (film)

    Birdy is a 1984 film directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. It is based on the Birdy by William Wharton . The story is about two friends, Birdy and Al , who become friends at school and serve in Vietnam War....
  • Blind Date
    Blind Date (1984 film)

    Blind Date, also known as Deadly Seduction, is a 1984 in film independent Thriller by B-film maker Nico Mastorakis. It stars Kirstie Alley and Joseph Bottoms....
  • Blood Simple
    Blood Simple

    Blood Simple is a 1985 in film neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Coen brothers, and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director....
  • Body Double
    Body double

    A body double is a general term for someone who substitutes for the credit ed actor of a character in any recorded visual medium, whether videotape or film....
  • Bolero
    Bolero (1984 film)

    Bolero is a 1984 in film film starring Bo Derek, and written and directed by her husband John Derek. The film centers on the protagonist's sexual awakening and her journey around the world to pursue an ideal first lover who will take her virginity....
  • The Bostonians
    The Bostonians (film)

    The Bostonians is 1984 in film's Merchant Ivory, based on Henry James' The Bostonians. The film starred Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter and Jessica Tandy....
  • Broadway Danny Rose
    Broadway Danny Rose

    Broadway Danny Rose is a black and white 1984 in film Academy Award-nominated film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen....
  • Cannibal Holocaust
    Cannibal Holocaust

    Cannibal Holocaust is a controversial exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest, the movie tells the story of four documentary film who journey deep into the jungle to film Indigenous peoples of the Americas tribes....
  • Cannonball Run II
    Cannonball Run II

    See also Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy DashCannonball Run II is a 1984 comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox....
  • Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
    Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

    The Ewok Adventure was an United States Television movie set in the Star Wars Star Wars galaxy. It was released theatrically in Europe as Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, and is known by that title today....
  • Children of the Corn (film)
    Children of the Corn (film)

    Children of the Corn is a 1984 horror film based upon Children of the Corn by Stephen King. Directed by Fritz Kiersch, the film stars Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton....
  • Choose Me
    Choose Me

    Choose Me is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated MPAA rating system by the Motion Picture Association of America....
  • City Heat
    City Heat

    City Heat is the title of a 1984 action-comedy starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds.City Heat was released in North America in December 1984....
  • Cloak & Dagger
    Cloak & Dagger

    Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 in film film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman. It is a remake of the 1949 in film film The Window....
  • The Company of Wolves
    The Company of Wolves

    The Company of Wolves is a 1984 in film gothic fantasy film-horror film directed by Neil Jordan, and starring Sarah Patterson and Angela Lansbury....
    , directed by Neil Jordan
    Neil Jordan

    Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
  • The Coolangatta Gold
    The Coolangatta Gold

    The NIB Coolangatta Gold is one of the premier events in the Australia sport of Ironman . The event is organised by Surf Life Saving Australia....
  • The Cotton Club (film)
    The Cotton Club (film)

    The Cotton Club is a 1984 in film crime film-drama film, centered on a popular real-life Harlem, Manhattan jazz club in the 1930s, the Cotton Club....
  • Country
    Country (film)

    Country is a 1984 film which follows the trials and tribulations of the Ivy family as they struggle to hold onto their farm in trying economic times....
  • La diagonale du fou
    La diagonale du fou

    Dangerous Moves is a 1984 in film French language film about chess, directed by Richard Dembo and starring Michel Piccoli and Alexandre Arbatt....
    , (Dangerous Moves) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
  • Dune
    Dune (film)

    Dune is a 1984 in film science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert Dune . The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known United States and European actors in supporting roles, including Sting , Jose Ferrer, Virginia Madsen, Linda Hunt, Patrick Stewart,...
  • Electric Dreams
  • Eureka
    Eureka (1984 film)

    Eureka , directed by Nicolas Roeg, is the story of Klondike prospector, Jack McCann who strikes it rich, yet ends up fearing that his daughter Tracy and his son-in-law are scheming to take his wealth and his soul; moreover, greedy investors are also hunting McCann's fortune....
    , directed by Nicolas Roeg
    Nicolas Roeg

    'Nicolas Jack Roeg', British Society of Cinematographers is an England film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death , and co-directing Performance , he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Walkabout , Don'...
  • Falling in Love (film)
    Falling in Love (film)

    Falling in Love is a 1984 in film United States romance film-drama film starring Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro and directed by Ulu Grosbard....
    , with Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro

    Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
     and Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
  • Finders Keepers
    Finders Keepers (1984 film)

    Finders Keepers is a 1984 film starring Michael O'Keefe and Beverly D'Angelo. It also starred Jim Carrey in his 6th film role....
  • Firestarter
    Firestarter (film)

    Firestarter is a 1984 in film science fiction Thriller based on the Firestarter by Stephen King. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the The Shop which seeks to control her....
  • The Flamingo Kid
    The Flamingo Kid

    The Flamingo Kid is a comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, written by Marshall, Neal Marshall and Bo Goldman. It stars Matt Dillon, Richard Crenna, Hector Elizondo and Janet Jones....
  • Footloose
    Footloose

    Footloose is a film that tells the story of Ren McCormack , a teenager who was raised in Chicago. McCormack moves to a small town where the town government has banned dance and rock music....
  • Frankenweenie
    Frankenweenie

    Frankenweenie is a Short subject directed by Tim Burton, and co-written by Burton with Leonard Ripps. It is a parody of, and homage to, the 1931 film Frankenstein based on Mary Shelley's book of the same name....
  • Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
    Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

    Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a slasher film. It is the fourth film in the Friday the 13th . Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter," there have been many further sequels in the franchise....
  • The Funeral
    The Funeral (1984 film)

    is a 1984 in film Japanese comedy film by film director Itami Juzo.The film shows the preparations for a traditional Japanese funeral. It mixes grief at the loss of a husband and father with wry observations of the various characters as they interact during the three days of preparation....
    aka Death Japanese Style
  • Ghostbusters
    Ghostbusters

    Ghostbusters is a 1984 in film comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychology-turned-ghost exterminators. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984....
  • Give My Regards To Broad Street
    Give My Regards to Broad Street

    Give My Regards to Broad Street is the name of a film and soundtrack album, masterminded by Paul McCartney. They were both were released in 1984, following the success of McCartney's previous albums Tug of War and Pipes of Peace ....
  • Gremlins
    Gremlins

    Gremlins is an Cinema of the United States comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released in 1984 in film by Warner Bros. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters....
  • Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
    Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

    Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 in film British film directed by Hugh Hudson and based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes....
  • The Hotel New Hampshire
    The Hotel New Hampshire (film)

    The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1984 in film film based on a 1981 The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. The film was film director by Tony Richardson and stars Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe and Beau Bridges....
  • Irreconcilable Differences
    Irreconcilable Differences (film)

    Irreconcilable Differences is a 1984 in film Comedy-drama starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and Drew Barrymore. The film was a minor box office success, making over $12 million....
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 period piece adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise, and prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark ....
  • The Jesse Owens Story
    The Jesse Owens Story

    The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more....
  • Just the Way You Are
    Just the Way You Are (film)

    Just the Way You Are is a 1984 comedy film/drama film that stars Kristy McNichol and Michael Ontkean. It was directed by Edouard Molinaro. It is rated PG for brief nudity and adult language....
  • The Karate Kid
    The Karate Kid

    The Karate Kid is a 1984 in film film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen, starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and Elisabeth Shue....
  • The Killing Fields
    The Killing Fields (film)

    The Killing Fields is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom feature film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.It is based on the experiences of three journalists: Dith Pran, a Cambodian, Sydney Schanberg, an American, and Jon Swain, a journalist from the UK....
    - British Academy Award for Best Film
  • The Last Starfighter
    The Last Starfighter

    The Last Starfighter is a 1984 in film science fiction adventure film directed by Nick Castle. There was a subsequent novelization of the movie by Alan Dean Foster, as well as Star Raiders 2 based on the production....
  • The Lonely Guy
    The Lonely Guy

    The Lonely Guy is a 1984 in film Steve Martin romantic comedy film, written by Neil Simon and directed by Arthur Hiller. Martin portrays Larry Hubbard, a greeting card writer who goes through a period of terrible luck with women....
  • Love Streams
    Love Streams

    Love Streams is an 1984 American film by John Cassavetes that tells the story of a middle-aged brother and sister who find themselves caring for one another after the other loves in their lives abandon them....
    - Golden Bear award winner
  • Making the Grade
    Making the Grade (film)

    Making the Grade is an United States film which was released in 1984 in film. It was directed by Dorian Walker and written by Charles Gale and Gene Quintano....
  • Micki + Maude
    Micki + Maude

    Micki + Maude is a comedy film starring Dudley Moore as Rob Salinger, an overworked television reporter. It co-stars Tony-award winning actress, dancer, and singer Ann Reinking as Micki, a lawyer who eventually becomes promoted to a judge, and is Rob's first wife....
  • Mike's Murder
    Mike's Murder

    Mike's Murder is the 1983 Film soundtrack album for the movie of the same name. The album features original music by Joe Jackson .Long unavailable on CD, Mike's Murder was released in 2006 on the Lilith label....
  • Monster Dog
    Monster Dog

    Monster Dog, also known as Leviat?n, The Bite and Los Perros de la Muerte, is a 1984 in film horror film written and directed by Claudio Fragasso....
  • Moscow on the Hudson
    Moscow on the Hudson

    Moscow on the Hudson is a 1984 in film American comedy film drama film starring Robin Williams, and directed by Paul Mazursky. Williams plays a Russian circus musician who defects from the Soviet Union while on a visit to the United States....
  • Mrs. Soffel
    Mrs. Soffel

    Mrs. Soffel is a 1984 in film American film drama based on the true Buck McGovern and the Biddle Boys case of 1901 Pittsburgh, starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson....
  • The Muppets Take Manhattan
    The Muppets Take Manhattan

    The Muppets Take Manhattan is the third of a series of live-action musical film feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets, and the final film before Henson's death....
  • The Natural
    The Natural (film)

    The Natural is a 1984 in film film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 baseball The Natural. The film was directed by Barry Levinson and stars Robert Redford....
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    is a 1984 in film Cinema of Japan anime film, written and film director by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind . The movie has environmentalism undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984....
    (March 11 - Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    )
  • The NeverEnding Story
    The NeverEnding Story (film)

    The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 fantasy film based on the German novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starred Barret Oliver as Bastian Balthazar Bux, Noah Hathaway as Characters of The Neverending Story#Atreyu, and Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress....
    (Die Unendliche Geschichte)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States horror film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street ....
  • Night of the Comet
    Night of the Comet

    Night of the Comet is a 1984 in film science fiction comedy horror zombie film directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, and Kelli Maroney....
  • Old Enough
    Old Enough

    This article is about the film. For the single by Nickelback, see Old Enough .For the single by The Raconteurs, see Old Enough Old Enough is a 1984 in film teen-oriented film....
    , Sundance Grand Jury Prize
  • Once Upon A Time In America
    Once Upon a Time in America

    Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 in film epic film crime film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The story chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organized crime....
  • Paris, Texas
    Paris, Texas (film)

    Paris, Texas is a 1984 film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder....
    - Palme d'Or winner
  • A Passage to India
    A Passage to India (film)

    A Passage to India is a 1984 in film adventure film-drama film directed by David Lean, based on the A Passage to India by E. M. Forster....
    - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
  • The Philadelphia Experiment
    The Philadelphia Experiment (film)

    The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 science fiction film. It was directed by Stewart Raffill and starred Michael Par?, Bobby Di Cicco, Nancy Allen , and Eric Christmas....
  • Places in the Heart
    Places in the Heart

    Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....
  • Police Academy
    Police Academy (film)

    Police Academy is a 1984 in film comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson , and starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey. It grossed approximately $146 million worldwide and spawned six Police Academy ....
  • The Pope of Greenwich Village
    The Pope of Greenwich Village

    The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 in film United States film starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young....
  • A Private Function
    A Private Function

    A Private Function is a 1984 in film United Kingdom comedy film starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith. The film was predominantly filmed in Ilkley and Ben Rhydding, West Yorkshire....
  • Purple Rain
    Purple Rain (film)

    Purple Rain is a 1984 in film feature film directed by Albert Magnoli and written by Magnoli and William Blinn. Prince stars in this movie, which was developed to showcase his particular talents....
  • Reckless
    Reckless (1984 film)

    Reckless is a 1984 in film love story shot in the Appalachian Mountains and Rust Belt of Steubenville, Ohio, Weirton, West Virginia and Mingo Junction, Ohio....
  • Red Dawn
    Red Dawn

    Red Dawn is a 1984 in film war film by John Milius about a fictional invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua and other Communist Central American armies, and the resulting guerrilla warfare of a group of American high school students in the town of Calumet, Colorado, Colorado....
  • Repo Man
    Repo Man

    Repo Man is a 1984 in film cult film directed by Alex Cox. It was produced by Jonathan Wacks and Peter McCarthy, with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton....
  • The Return of Godzilla
    The Return of Godzilla

    The Return of Godzilla, released as in Japan and edited into Godzilla 1985 in America, is a 1984 in film Kaiju film. The sixteenth film in Toho's Godzilla series, it was produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and directed by Koji Hashimoto with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano....
     (also known as "Godzilla 1985")
  • Revenge of the Nerds
    Revenge of the Nerds

    Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 in film United States comedy film starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, Brian Tochi, Larry B....
  • Rhinestone
    Rhinestone (film)

    Rhinestone is a 1984 in film 20th Century Fox comedy film film starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton. Other members of the cast include Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Stephen Apostle Pec, and Penny Santon....
  • The River
    The River (1984 film)

    The River is a 1984 in film film which tells the story of a struggling farm family in the Tennessee valley trying keep its farm going in the face of bank foreclosures, floods, and other hard times....
  • Roadhouse 66
    Roadhouse 66

    Roadhouse 66 is a 1984 Film starring Willem Dafoe and Judge Reinhold.The film is set entirely in Kingman, Arizona and Oatman, Arizona, two towns on historic U.S....
  • Romancing the Stone
    Romancing the Stone

    Romancing the Stone is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-adventure film, and has many elements that might categorize it as a romantic comedy film....
     - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
  • Sheena (film)
    Sheena (film)

    Sheena is a 1984 in film Columbia Pictures film based on the Sheena, Queen of the Jungle of the same name. An Cross-genre of action-adventure and soap opera-style drama, Sheena, shot on location in Kenya, told the tale of a female version of Tarzan who was raised in the fictional African country of Tigora by the equally fictional Za...
  • Sixteen Candles
    Sixteen Candles

    Sixteen Candles is a 1984 in film coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. The film was written and directed by John Hughes , and is often associated with the beginning of the Brat Pack ....
  • Slapstick of Another Kind
    Slapstick of Another Kind (film)

    Slapstick of Another Kind was filmed in 1982. It was released in March 1984 in film by both The S. Paul Company/Serendipity Entertainment Releasing Company and International Film Marketing....
    , starring Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis

    Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  • A Soldier's Story
    A Soldier's Story

    A Soldier's Story is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is a story about racism and segregation in a black army regiment with white officers deep in the Jim Crow laws....
  • Splash
    Splash (film)

    Splash is a 1984 in film fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay#1980s....
  • Starman
    Starman (film)

    John Carpenter's Starman is a 1984 in film Science fiction film-fantasy film directed by John Carpenter which tells the story of an extraterrestrial life who has come to earth in response to the invitation found on the Voyager Golden Record installed on one of the Voyager program space probes....
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 in film motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
  • Stranger Than Paradise
    Stranger Than Paradise

    Stranger Than Paradise is an absurdist comedy film written and directed by American film director Jim Jarmusch in 1984. It stars jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint....
  • Streets of Fire
    Streets of Fire

    Streets of Fire is a 1984 in film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. It was described in previews, trailers, and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable." It is an unusual mix of musical film, action film, drama film, and comedy film with elements both of retro-1950s and 1980s....
  • A Sunday in the Country
    A Sunday in the Country

    A Sunday in the Country is a 1984 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier....
  • Supergirl
    Supergirl (film)

    Supergirl is a 1984 superhero film. It stars Helen Slater in her first film role in the title role of the DC Comics superheroine Supergirl. Faye Dunaway played the primary villain, Selena....
  • Swing Shift
    Swing Shift

    Swing Shift may refer to:*Swing Shift , a 1997 Jazz album by Rik Emmett*Swing Shift , a 1984 film by Jonathan Demme*Swing Shift, a stop motion short film by Mike Jittlov...
  • The Terminator
    The Terminator

    The Terminator is a 1984 in film Science fiction film/action film directed and co-written by James Cameron. It features Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn....
  • Terror in the Aisles
    Terror in the Aisles

    'Terror in the Aisles' is a 1984 in film horror film documentary film featuring clips from Friday the 13th 1 and/or ? 2, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween I and II, Jaws 1 & 2, Alien , The Thing , The Shining , etc....
  • Thief of Hearts
    Thief of Hearts

    Thief of Hearts is a 1984 film produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It was written and directed by Douglas Day Stewart.A burglar; Scott , robs the home of a couple....
  • This Is Spinal Tap
    This Is Spinal Tap

    is a 1984 in film mockumentary rockumentary directed by Rob Reiner and starring members of the fictional heavy-metal/hard rock band Spinal Tap....
  • Under the Volcano
    Under the Volcano (film)

    Under the Volcano is a 1984 film directed in Mexico by John Huston with Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews and Katy Jurado heading the cast....
  • The Warrior and the Sorceress
    The Warrior And The Sorceress

    The Warrior and the Sorceress is an 81-minute motion picture directed by John Broderick and starring David Carradine, released in 1984 in film by New Horizons....
  • Where the Boys Are '84
    Where the Boys Are '84

    Where the Boys Are '84 is a 1984 remake of the 1960 Teen film Where the Boys Are, starring Lisa Hartman Black, Lorna Luft, Wendy Schaal and Lynn-Holly Johnson....
  • Where The Toys Come From
    Where The Toys Come From

    Where The Toys Come From is a Disney movie directed by Theodore Thomas created in 1984. It follows the journey of two toys, Zoom and Peepers , as they try to find out where they were made....
  • Winter Flight
  • The Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - Golden Lion winner


Births

  • January 3 - Maya Ababadjani, actress
  • February 12 - Alexandra Dahlstrom, actress
  • November 22 - Scarlett Johansson
    Scarlett Johansson

    Scarlett I. Johansson is an American actor and singer. Johansson rose to fame with her role in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in Ghost World , Lost in Translation , and Girl with a Pearl Earring , the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003....
    , actress
  • November 23 - Joseph Hooker
    Joseph Hooker

    Joseph Hooker was a career United States Army officer, fought in the Mexican-American War, and was a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
    , actor
  • November 28 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
    Mary Elizabeth Winstead

    Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress. She has been called a scream queen, ? la Jamie Lee Curtis, because of her roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Black Christmas and Death Proof, but she has also branched out into other genres, including comedy film , drama film and action film ....
    , actress

Deaths

  • January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller
    Johnny Weissmuller

    Johnny Weissmuller was an United States swimming and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic Games gold medals and one bronze medal....
    , actor
  • January 29 - Frances Goodrich
    Frances Goodrich

    Frances Goodrich was an American dramatist, screenwriter, and actor most noted for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett....
    , screenwriter
  • February 15 - Ethel Merman
    Ethel Merman

    Ethel Merman was an United States actress and singer known for musical theatre, well known for her powerful voice, and often hailed by critics as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage"....
    , singer, actress
  • March 1 - Jackie Coogan
    Jackie Coogan

    John Leslie Coogan was an United States actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent film....
    , actor
  • March 24 - Sam Jaffe
    Sam Jaffe (actor)

    Sam Jaffe was an United States actor, teacher and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle and appeared in other classic films such as Ben-Hur and The Day the Earth Stood Still ....
    , actor
  • May 16 - Andy Kaufman
    Andy Kaufman

    Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was an United States entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself one....
    , comedian
  • May 21 - Andrea Leeds
    Andrea Leeds

    Andrea Leeds was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actor.Born Antoinette Lees in Butte, Montana, she began her film career in 1934 playing bit parts and using her given name....
    , actress
  • May 21 - Ann Little
    Ann Little

    Ann Little was an United States film actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the early 1920s....
    , actress
  • June 18 - Luis Moglia Barth
    Luis Moglia Barth

    Luis Moglia Barth was an Argentina film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era....
    , director
  • July 27 - James Mason
    James Mason

    James Neville Mason was a three-time Academy Award-nominated British People actor who attained stardom in both United Kingdom and United States films....
    , British actor
  • August 4 - Mary Miles Minter
    Mary Miles Minter

    Mary Miles Minter was a popular United States silent film actor....
    , actress
  • August 5 - Richard Burton
    Richard Burton

    Richard Burton, Order of the British Empire was a multi award-winning Wales actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood....
    , actor
  • September 17 - Richard Basehart
    Richard Basehart

    John Richard Basehart was an United States actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson....
    , actor
  • September 25 - Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon

    Walter Davis Pidgeon was an American actor of Canada birth, who lived most of his life in the United States, and eventually became a U.S. citizen....
    , actor
  • October 21 - François Truffaut
    François Truffaut

    Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
    , French film director
  • October 23 - Oskar Werner
    Oskar Werner

    Oskar Werner was an Austrian actor. Born Oskar Josef Bschlie?mayer in Vienna, he started off his career as a stage actor for the famous Burgtheater until making his film debut in Der Engel mit der Posaune in 1948....
    , actor
  • October 25 - Pascale Ogier
    Pascale Ogier

    Pascale Ogier was a France actor.Born Pascale Marguerite Nicolas in Paris, she was the daughter of a musician father and French actress Bulle Ogier....
    , French actress
  • December 24 - Peter Lawford
    Peter Lawford

    Peter Sydney Lawford was an English-born actor, member of the "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting....
    , actor
  • December 28 - Sam Peckinpah
    Sam Peckinpah

    David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an United States film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch....
    , director