31. 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.
32. Another Country
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Marek Kanievska
Actors: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Rupert Wainwright, Cary Elwes
33. A Passage to India
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Lean
Actors: Judy Davis, Alec Guinness, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Nigel Havers
34. 1984 ( Nineteen Eighty-Four )
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Radford
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, James Walker
Plot: George Orwell's novel is adapted once again: A totalitarian future society
in which all news, information and even history is rewritten by those in
charge. One of the bureaucrats in charge of this process commits the crime
of falling in love and Big Brother isn't happy.
35. Falling in Love
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Actors: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin, Dianne Wiest
36. Starman
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen, Tony Edwards
Plot: An alien (Jeff Bridges) assumes the identity of widow Jenny Hayden's
(Karen Allen, Raiders of the Lost Arc) husband. Together they race
across the US to rendezvous with the mothership before Starman succumbs to
earth-sickness or the authorities capture him. While Starman learns about
human feelings, Jenny learns how to feel human again.
37. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig
Plot: Kirk heads back to the forbidden planet Genesis in order to save Spock's soul.
38. Family Game, The
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Actors: Yusaku Matsuda, Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirota Miyagawa, Junichi Tsujita, Yoneko Matsukane
39. The Mutilator
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Buddy Cooper
Actors: Matt Mitler, Ruth Martinez, Bill Hitchcock, Connie Rogers, Frances Raines, Morey Lampley
Plot: A teenager accidentally killed his mother as a kid and years later his
girlfriend, along with his other friends, are now being stalked by his
crazed father.
40. Top Secret!
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Actors: Val Kilmer, Christopher Villiers, Lucy Gutteridge, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke, Harry Ditson
Plot: A wildly popular teen pop idol tours East Germany where he falls in love
with a woman and becomes tangled up with a French resistance group.
