31. 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
32. 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
33. 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.
34. 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
35. 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.
36. 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
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. Broadway Danny Rose
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Milton Berle, Sandy Baron, Craig Vandenburgh
Plot: A struggling talent agent must escort his client's mistress to an important show in New York that may finally turn their careers around.
39. 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.
40. The Last Starfighter
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nick Castle
Actors: Lance Guest, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Barbara Bosson, Norman Snow, Robert Preston
Plot: Alex Rogan lives in a trailer park and spends his days playing the Starfighter video game. But upon meeting an alien who convinces him to use his skills in real combat, Rogan heads to space to protect the galaxy from invasion. He gets to the Starfighter base station before deciding the trailer park wasn't so bad, but returns home to find he's being stalked by an alien beast.
