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The Best Movies of 1984
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Movie: NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind ( 1987 )
An animated fantasy-adventure. Set one thousand years from now, the Earth is ravaged by pollution and war. In the Valley of the Wind lives NausicaƤ, Princess of her people. Their land borders on a toxic jungle, filled with dangerous over-sized insects. Meanwhile, two nearby nations are bitterly engaged in a war and the Valley of the Wind is stuck in the middle.
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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: 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: The Toxic Avenger ( 1985 )
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
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Movie: Trancers ( 1985 )
A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.
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Movie: The Company of Wolves ( 1985 )
Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) is a teenager, living in a country house in England with her family in the present days, and having a nightmare with wolves and werewolves in the Middle Ages. In her dream, her boring sister is dead, she lives with her father and her mother, but she spends lots of time with her lovely grandmother. Granny (Dame Angela Lansbury) tells her many stories of werewolf and gives her the following advice: "- Never stray from the path in the woods, never eat a windfall apple, and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet." One day, Rosaleen, while going to visit her grandmother, meets a handsome man and bets who would arrive first at her granny's house. Soon she finds who he is.
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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?
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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: 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: The River ( 1985 )
A farming family battles severe storms, a bank is threatening to repossess their farm, and there are other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
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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: 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: Johnny Dangerously ( 1984 )
Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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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: 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: Protocol ( 1984 )
A woman (Goldie Hawn) saves life of Emir of Ohtar (Richard Romanus) in Washington.
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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: Runaway ( 1984 )
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
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Movie: The Cotton Club ( 1984 )
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people who visited the club, those who ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.
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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: Starman ( 1984 )
An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.
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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: The Initiation ( 1984 )
An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.
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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: 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: The Ewok Adventure ( 1984 )
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
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Movie: The Killing Fields ( 1984 )
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
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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: Night of the Comet ( 1984 )
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
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Movie: Stop Making Sense ( 1984 )
Considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time, the live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs.
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Movie: Missing in Action ( 1984 )
Colonel Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held captive there.
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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: Silent Night, Deadly Night ( 1984 )
Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.
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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: No Small Affair ( 1984 )
The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar, but is about to be thrown out. Although rejected at first by the 23 years old, he wants to help her and starts an ad campaign behind her back... with unexpected results.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Terminator ( 1984 )
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
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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: The Razor's Edge ( 1984 )
He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
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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: 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: 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: 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 Mutilator ( 1984 )
A college student, who accidentally killed his mother as a child, decides to take his friends to his father's fishing cabin during fall break, not knowing that his crazed father is stalking the place.
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Movie: The Wild Life ( 1984 )
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
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Movie: Irreconcilable Differences ( 1984 )
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
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Movie: Threads ( 1984 )
The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Warrior and the Sorceress ( 1984 )
The mighty warrior, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands of the planet Ura, where two arch enemies, Zeg and the evil degenerate Balcaz, fight incessantly for control of the village's only well. Kain sees his opportunity and announces that his sword is for hire...but his eyes stay clearly on the beautiful captive sorceress Naja, and his newly awakened purpose.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Old Enough ( 1984 )
Twelve-year-old, well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite pastimes, like make-up, shop-lifting, skipping school and lying to her parents about it, but confessing to the priest later. But Karen also learns some honesty from Lonnie. A film about social differences and growing up.
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Movie: Oxford Blues ( 1984 )
A young American hustler pursues the girl of his dreams to Oxford, where he must enroll to obtain her.
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Movie: Paris, Texas ( 1984 )
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
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Movie: Tightrope ( 1984 )
New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer, but when he gets too close the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.
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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: Sheena ( 1984 )
Sheena grew up in the African wild, raised by a mystical witch woman. When her foster mother is framed for a murder Sheena is forced to flee, helped by her ability to talk to animals and her knowledge of the jungle.
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Movie: Wheels on Meals ( 1984 )
Two Chinese friends, who operate a food truck in Barcelona, Spain, use their martial arts expertise to help their private investigator friend protect the pickpocket Sylvia, who's been targeted by a ruthless gang.
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Movie: The Woman in Red ( 1984 )
On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte, an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her, but what would his wife say?
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Movie: Revenge of the Nerds ( 1984 )
At Adams College, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self-respect.
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Movie: Red Dawn ( 1984 )
It is the dawn of World War III. In the west mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
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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: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension ( 1984 )
Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
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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: The Philadelphia Experiment ( 1984 )
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.
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Movie: Joy of Sex ( 1984 )
Teenager Leslie Hindenberg, mistakenly believing she has just weeks to live, decides she will lose her virginity before she dies. Meanwhile, hormone-crazed Alan Holt pursues some sex for himself, with predictable results.
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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: 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: Purple Rain ( 1984 )
A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.
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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: 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: Supergirl ( 1984 )
After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
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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: The Last Starfighter ( 1984 )
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
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Movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan ( 1984 )
The Muppets graduate from college and decide to take their senior revue on the road. They hit the streets of Manhattan trying to sell their show to producers, finally finding one young and idealistic enough to take their show. After several mishaps and much confusion, things begin to come together for them.
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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: They're Playing with Fire ( 1984 )
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
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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: 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: Conan the Destroyer ( 1984 )
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
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Movie: The Pope of Greenwich Village ( 1984 )
Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.
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Movie: The Karate Kid ( 1984 )
A Japanese martial arts instructor agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.
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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: Gremlins ( 1984 )
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
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Movie: Ghostbusters ( 1984 )
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
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Movie: Top Secret! ( 1984 )
Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.
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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: Streets of Fire ( 1984 )
A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.