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The Best Movies of 1984
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Movie: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter ( 1984 )
After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake.
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Movie: Frankenweenie (Short 1984) ( 1984 )
When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.
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Movie: Footloose ( 1984 )
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
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Movie: Flashpoint ( 1984 )
Two U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car.
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Movie: Firstborn ( 1984 )
A teen must protect his family when his mother's sinister new boyfriend begins exerting his authority in their home.
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Movie: Firestarter ( 1984 )
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.
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Movie: Finders Keepers ( 1984 )
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. The train ride turns into far more than Michael bargains for.
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Movie: Fear City ( 1984 )
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.
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Movie: Falling in Love ( 1984 )
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
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Movie: Electric Dreams ( 1984 )
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
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Movie: Dune ( 1984 )
A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
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Movie: Dreamscape ( 1984 )
A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.
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Movie: Crimes of Passion ( 1984 )
30-year-old hardworking Bobby Grady is married with two children, and his marriage to frigid Amy is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work the night shift at a fashion-design studio whose owner believes that his talented, introspective designed Joanna Crane is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub. Following Joanna after-hours, he discovers her double life, working as $50-hooker China Blue in the red-light district, satisfying her clients' fantasies with kinky sex. Bobby becomes obsessed with China Blue, and when the true thieves are found, he has sex with her and thinks he's in love with her. Meanwhile, insane preacher Rev. Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) decides to save Joanna's soul and stalks her everywhere.
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Movie: Crackers ( 1984 )
Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.
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Movie: Conan the Destroyer ( 1984 )
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
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Movie: Cloak & Dagger ( 1984 )
A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget.
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Movie: City Limits ( 1985 )
Years after a mysterious plague has wiped out most of the adult population, the surviving children have grown up to form violent motorcycle gangs. Young Lee, tired of life on the farm, goes out in search of adventure and soon winds up in the middle of a war between a pair of rival gangs. Soon after Lee proves his worth and is accepted into one of the gangs, however, a new threat appears in the form of the evil Sunya Corporation, which wants to utilise the gangs for their own purposes. Can Lee lead his new-found friends to safety?
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Movie: City Heat ( 1984 )
Kansas City in the 1930s: Private Investigator Mike Murphy's (Burt Reynolds') partner is brutally murdered when he tries to blackmail a mobster with his secret accounting records. When a rival gang boss goes after the missing records, ex-policeman Murphy is forced to team up again with his ex-partner Lieutenant Speer (Clint Eastwood), even though they can't stand each other, to fight both gangs before Kansas City erupts in a mob war.
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Movie: C.H.U.D. ( 1984 )
A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.
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Movie: Children of the Corn ( 1984 )
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
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Movie: Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers ( 1984 )
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.
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Movie: Cannonball Run II ( 1984 )
The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
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Movie: Broadway Danny Rose ( 1984 )
In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.
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Movie: Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo ( 1984 )
A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.
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Movie: Breakin' ( 1984 )
A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.
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Movie: Bolero ( 1984 )
Follows the tale of a young woman's sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany her and help to arrange her couplings. Moderate nudity and soft-porn.
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Movie: Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues ( 1984 )
A professor and three of his students camp out in the wilderness to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
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Movie: Body Double ( 1984 )
A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.
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Movie: Blood Simple ( 1985 )
A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple.
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Movie: Blind Date ( 1984 )
A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid of a computer interface and brain electrodes. Meanwhile, a taxi driver is taking young women up to their apartments, giving them gas, and performing a little fatal amateur surgery on them. Their paths inevitably converge, and the blind man must try to stop the psychopath.
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Movie: Blame It on Rio ( 1984 )
Best friends and their daughters vacation in Rio de Janeiro only for one to fall for the other's daughter.
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Movie: Birdy ( 1984 )
After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.
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Movie: Beverly Hills Cop ( 1984 )
A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
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Movie: Best Defense ( 1984 )
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
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Movie: Beat Street ( 1984 )
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
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Movie: Bachelor Party ( 1984 )
A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party.
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Movie: A Soldier's Story ( 1984 )
An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
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Movie: A Passage to India ( 1985 )
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
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Movie: Another Country ( 1984 )
Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.
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Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 )
The monstrous spirit of a slain janitor seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.
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Movie: Amadeus ( 1984 )
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
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Movie: All of Me ( 1984 )
A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. However, something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.
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Movie: Airwolf ( 1984 )
A scientist who has created a super helicopter has defected to Libya and taken the machine with him. A secretive government agency hires an ex-Vietnam War pilot to go to Libya, steal the chopper and bring it back.
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Movie: Against All Odds ( 1984 )
Against All Odds is a 1984 American romantic neo-noir thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods alongside Jane Greer, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. A remake of Out of the Past (1947), the film's plot is about an aging American football star who is hired by a mobster to find his girlfriend.
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Movie: 2010: The Year We Make Contact ( 1984 )
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a joint American-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Amongst the mysteries the expedition must explain, are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L.; the Discovery's A.I. computer. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Movie: 1984 ( 1985 )
Longing for freedom, the lowly bureaucrat of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith, summons up the courage to write down his unspoken desires in his little secret diary. Serving silently at the pleasure of the grim, autocratic hyper-state of Oceania, Smith knows that the English Socialist Party's supreme leader, the omnipotent Big Brother, watches his every move, condemning the already terrified people into a life of slavery. Under those dire circumstances--as the totalitarian government's suffocating stranglehold tightens more and more--Julia, another equally seditious party member, crosses paths with Winston, and a dangerous clandestine affair begins. Now, there's no turning back, and, sooner or later, the illicit couple will have to pay for its hideous crimes against the dictatorial state. What makes a good citizen?