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.

21. Stop Making Sense

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, David Byrne, Steven Scales, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth

22. All of Me

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Carl Reiner
Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Richard Libertini, Dana Elcar
Plot: Unsuspecting attorney ends up sharing his body with the spirit of a client he hates.

23. The Times of Harvey Milk

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rob Epstein
Actors: Harvey Milk, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano, Jim Elliot
Plot: A documentary focusing on gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk, his struggle and triumph getting elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and his assassination, along with Mayor George Moscone by Supervisor Dan White and the reaction to this heinous act.

24. Romancing the Stone

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda
Plot: A romance writer receives a treasure map in the mail and is soon headed to Columbia to save her sister from kidnappers, dodge a corrupt cop and maybe fall in love with a rogue soldier-of-fortune.

25. A Soldier's Story

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Denzel Washington, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Robert Townsend, David Alan Grier, Patti LaBelle
Plot: When a black soldier is found murdered in the deep south, a no-nonsense army attorney, who is also black, is brought in to get to the bottom of the crime. Despite the tense racial situation, he learns the truth about the soldier, and closes in on his killer.

26. Sugar Cane Alley ( Rue cases nègres )

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Euzhan Palcy
Actors: Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé, Francisco Charles, Marie-Jo Descas

27. Footloose

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker
Plot: Rem. a street-wise teen from Chicago moves to a conservative, rural community where rock music and dancing is forbidden. It's up to him and his classmates to bet the ban revoked before the senior prom.

28. Places in the Heart

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Benton
Actors: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Danny Glover, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich
Plot: Edna Spalding is trying to keep things together during the Great Depression - but after her husband, the sheriff, is killed in an accident all seems lost. Yet with the help of a group of strangers, who soon become friends, she may keep her farm from going under.

29. The Muppets Take Manhattan

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Art Carney, Dabney Coleman
Plot: After graduating from college, the Muppets are ready to take their senior revue musical on the road with hopes of starring in their own Broadway show. Once in New York, they find success is not easy but through hopes, dreams and perseverance their show will go on.

30. The Gods Must Be Crazy

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jamie Uys
Actors: Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau, Louw Verwey, Michael Thys, Nic De Jager
Plot: When a Coke bottle is introduced to the Sho tribe in the Kalahari desert
it is used for many tasks, but when arguments begin over the strange
object Xixo, who found the object, takes it with him in hopes of giving
the gods back this disruptive object.

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