Top Movies of 1984


The top movies of 1984 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

91. Suburbia

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Actors: Chris Pedersen, Bill Coyne, Jennifer Clay, Timothy O'Brien, Wade Walston, Flea

92. Beat Street

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stan Lathan
Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, Jon Chardiet, Leon W. Grant, Saundra Santiago, Robert Taylor

93. Bachelor Party

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neal Israel
Actors: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, Robert Prescott, Wendie Jo Sperber, Michael Dudikoff
Plot: A cheerful bus driver is about to married to a rich heiress and his friend plan to throw him the ultimate bachelor party. When disapproving parents and a vengeful ex-boyfriend get involved, nothing ends up quite as planned.

94. Love Streams

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Cassavetes
Actors: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, Margaret Abbott, Jakob Shaw
Plot: Author Robert lives a life of smoking, drinking and flings with women - and is in no shape to take care of his 12-year-old son. His sister is an emotional wreck following a divorce, and the decision by her daughter to stay with her father. They find each other after years apart, but may have trouble getting their broken lives back together.

95. Johnny Dangerously

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Amy Heckerling
Actors: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne
Plot: Johnny Kelly is forced into a life of crime to pay for his ailing mother's medical treatment. In an attempt to hide his new persona, Johnny takes the name Dangerously. But he becomes a little too successful in the underworld and while Johnny's turning into a powerful mobster, his district attorney brother is threatening to ruin the Dangerously name.

96. Electric Dreams

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steve Barron
Actors: Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort, Don Fellows, Miriam Margolyes
Plot: Miles Harding (Von Dohlen) manages to create The Computer (Edgar) through
household appliances. He becomes attracted to his neighbor Madeline
(Madsen). The Computer then develops a life on its own.

97. Eureka

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci, Ed Lauter

98. Ballad of Narayama, The ( Narayama-bushi kô - 1984 )

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shohei Imamura
Actors: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Aki Takejo, Tonpei Hidari, Seiji Kurasaki, Kaoru Shimamori
Plot: A small village requires that everyone who turns 70 must journey to a nearby mountaintop to face their deaths. Old Orin is 69 and preparing for her time - but before she makes the trip, she works to ensure her son, Tatsuhei, finds a wife.

99. Body Double

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Dennis Franz, Guy Boyd, Deborah Shelton
Plot: An actor in LA is fired from the Vampire flick he's working on because of
his severe claustrophobia. He returns home to find his girlfriend in bed
with another man, leaves, and ends up house sitting for a friend. This
friend shows him the lovely wife he can "peek" at every night for fun,
which he does with restraint, until he spies a stranger inside her home!
What does he do?

100. Tightrope

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Tuggle
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Marco St. John, Jenny Beck
Plot: Dirty Harry is trying to catch a killer but his time is running out when
the killer kidnaps one of his family members.

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