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The Best Movies of 1984
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Movie: The Burning Bed ( 1984 )
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
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Movie: Oh, God! You Devil ( 1984 )
George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige. Oops! Seems the fellow was watched over by God as a baby, so now the Almighty and his nemesis have to duke it out over the soul.
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Movie: Hardbodies ( 1984 )
Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.
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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: Rhinestone ( 1984 )
A country music star must turn an obnoxious New York cabbie into a singer in order to win a bet.
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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: Harry & Son ( 1984 )
Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a bulldozer operator on a construction crew. Despite having a strong work ethic, that working life is cut short when health issues lead to him no longer being able to do the job. Harry has a strained relationship with his two grown children: Nina, who, with her insurance salesman husband, seems more concerned about what they can receive in material possessions through her relationship with Harry; and Howard, who still lives with Harry. Howard is an aspiring writer, but as a person who lives in the here and now would rather hang out having fun than find work in a steady job when he isn't writing. Despite Harry loving Howard and Howard loving Harry, the strain in their relationship is brought to the fore as Howard can work but won't while Harry wants to work but can't. Especially while they still live together, the two have to come to a new understanding as they move into the next phase of their respective lives, Howard's which includes his on-again, off-again relationship with girlfriend Katie Wilowski, that off again status due to Katie being pregnant with another man's child, and Harry's which includes Howard's want for him to start thinking about women again.
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Movie: Tank ( 1984 )
Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.
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Movie: Swing Shift ( 1984 )
A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.
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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: 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: Places in the Heart ( 1984 )
In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.
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Movie: The Hotel New Hampshire ( 1984 )
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
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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: The Evil That Men Do ( 1984 )
A professional killer comes out of retirement to investigate and avenge the brutal murder of an old friend.
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Movie: Hot Dog... The Movie ( 1984 )
Harkin Banks heads to skiing championships in California. A teen runaway tags along as he parties and competes with friends and foes.
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Movie: The Brother from Another Planet ( 1984 )
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
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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: 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: Invitation to Hell ( 1984 )
A scientist and his family move to a new town. He meets the local celebrity the beautiful who runs the local health club to which everyone is a member and makes him suspicious. Intrigued he investigates further and uncovers a terrifying plot.
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Movie: Ghoulies ( 1984 )
A young man and his girlfriend move into an old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a desire to control ancient demons.
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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: Love Streams ( 1984 )
Two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls reunite after years apart.
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Movie: Savage Streets ( 1984 )
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.
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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: The Naked Face ( 1984 )
A Chicago psychoanalyst's patient and secretary are murdered and he becomes the police's prime suspect despite his claims that someone is trying to frame him.
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Movie: The Flamingo Kid ( 1984 )
A recent high-school graduate unsure of his future gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club, and meets the charismatic Phil Brody.
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Movie: Teachers ( 1984 )
A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.
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Movie: Meatballs Part II ( 1984 )
The first in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake to expand Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer. Fresh Face Jeremy O. arrives to Camp Sasquash after his car broke down and he stumbles upon the mess hall. Jeremy O provides Flash and Meathead with encouragement and indepth analytics to counter all of Hershey's diabolical intent.
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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: Unfaithfully Yours ( 1984 )
A composer suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover.
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Movie: The Bostonians ( 1984 )
A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.
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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: Moscow on the Hudson ( 1984 )
When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.
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Movie: Racing with the Moon ( 1984 )
In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.
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Movie: The Hills Have Eyes Part II ( 1985 )
A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.
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Movie: Hell Riders ( 1984 )
A woman whose car breaks down in the desert and attacked by bikers finds her way to a small town, where the town residents are terrorized by the psycho bikers.
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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: Making the Grade ( 1984 )
A spoiled rich young man hires a young hustler, who lives in a broken car and owes money to a dicey loan shark, to take his place in his elite prep school and graduate for him.
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Movie: Roadhouse 66 ( 1984 )
An ex-rock and roll star teams up with a naive young man to set things right in a small town where the local thugs rule unchallenged.
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Movie: Mutant ( 1984 )
Two brothers discover that the residents of a small Southern town are being infected by a form of toxic waste, turning them into blood-ravenous zombies.
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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: 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: Grandview, U.S.A. ( 1984 )
With only a week left before graduation, a young dreamer itches to renounce an uninspiring scholarship, stand up to his despotic father and pursue a career in oceanography. But, has anyone ever spread his wings away from Grandview, U.S.A.?
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Movie: Micki + Maude ( 1984 )
A bigamist must keep his wives from meeting each other, which becomes tricky when they're both pregnant.
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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?