1. The Terminator
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Winfield
Plot: A human and a cyborg are sent from the future, one to protect the mother
of a boy who will someday be needed to save the world, and one to kill
her.
2. Amadeus
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Milos Forman
Actors: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham ., Elizabeth Berridge, Jeffrey Jones, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole
Plot: Amadeus is an up and coming composer, but the powers that be never allow him to receive recognition, as told by Antonio Salieri, the man who claims he murdered Amadeus.
3. Ghostbusters
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson
Plot: A unlikely group of friends, and parapsychology professors, start a business catching ghosts and demons in New York City.
4. Once Upon a Time in America
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Robert De Niro, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams
Plot: Noodles, a Jewish gangster, returns to his stomping grounds where he tries to forget the past and the tragic events that occurred.
5. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ( Kaze no tani no Naushika )
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Alison Lohman, Mark Hamill, Mark Silverman, Patrick Stewart, Uma Thurman
Plot: Far in the future the Earth has been devastated by the "Seven Days of Fire." Now only pockets of humanity survive and in one are, Princess Nausica? works to understand the toxic jungle while preventing war.
6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone
Plot: After escaping from Hong Kong, Indiana Jones, a night-club singer and his 12-year old companion land in India where whey must help a village regain it's mysterous stones, along with their children, from a dangerous cult.
7. This is Spinal Tap
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Reiner
Actors: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Ed Begley Jr., Rob Reiner, Fran Drescher
Plot: A mock rockumentary following the trials and tribulations of Spinal Tap, a British rock band trying to make their American comeback.
8. Threads
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mick Jackson
Actors: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May, Nicholas Lane, Jane Hazlegrove
Plot: A docu-drama about the effects of nuclear war and the subsequent fallout that takes place in the working-class town of Sheffield, England. Explores the build-up, immediate and long-term aftermath of the catastrophic event.
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, Amanda Wyss, Ronee Blakley
Plot: Freddy Krueger begins to appear in the nightmares of a group of teens -
bladed glove and melted flesh - and if you die in your sleep, you die in
real life. Nancy Thompson learns their parents are hiding a terrible
secret and must uncover the truth before Freddy comes for them all.
10. Beverly Hills Cop
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Brest
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff
Plot: A Detroit cop (Eddie Murphy) takes a leave of absence to look into the murder of a troubled old friend. The trail leads to Beverly Hills, where the irreverent Murphy investigates his friend's former employer (Steven Berkoff). Improvising his way through Beverly Hills, Murphy's "bad cop" approach rubs the local "good cops" (John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox) the wrong way... until his investigation actually turns up some real evidence.
