1984 in film
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The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The year's highest-grossing film was Beverly Hills Cop. Ghostbusters overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. Other popular films included The NeverEnding Story, which was the most expensive film produced in West Germany, The Karate Kid and Romancing the Stone. A high number of sci-fi/fantasy films were released in 1984.
Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1984 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Beverly Hills Cop | Paramount | $234,760,478 |
| 2. | Ghostbusters | Columbia | $229,242,989 |
| 3. | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount | $179,870,271 |
| 4. | Gremlins | Warner Bros. | $153,083,102 |
| 5. | The Karate Kid | Columbia | $90,815,558 |
| 6. | Police Academy | Warner Bros. | $81,198,894 |
| 7. | Footloose | Paramount | $80,035,402 |
| 8. | Romancing the Stone | 20th Century Fox | $76,572,238 |
| 9. | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Paramount | $76,471,076 |
| 10. | Splash | Disney | $69,821,334 |
Events
- The Walt Disney Studios establishes Touchstone Pictures to release films with more mature subject matter than the traditional Walt Disney Pictures banner.
- Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film.
- Michael Eisner becomes head of Walt Disney Productions, while Frank Wells became chief operating officer and Jeffrey Katzenberg was named chairman.
- Prince's first film Purple Rain is released.
- Annie's Coming Out wins AFI Award (Australia)
- The Motion Picture Association of America institutes the PG-13 rating, as a response to violent movies such as Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- Romancing the Stone is released and propelled stars Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito and director Robert Zemeckis to super-stardom. The film also gave Zemeckis his first box office hit, which gave Universal Pictures confidence to allow him to direct his next film, Back to the Future.
Awards
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- Best Picture: Amadeus
- Best Director: Miloš Forman - Amadeus
- Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
- Best Actress: Sally Field - Places in the Heart
- Best Supporting Actor: Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
- Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
- Best Foreign Language Film: La diagonale du fou (Dangerous Moves), directed by Richard Dembo, Switzerland
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Amadeus
- Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
- Best Actress: Sally Field - Places in the Heart
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Romancing the Stone
- Best Actor: Dudley Moore - Micki & Maude
- Best Actress: Kathleen Turner - Romancing the Stone
- Other
- Best Director: Miloš Forman - Amadeus
- Best Foreign English Language Film: A Passage to India, U.K. / U.S.A.
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, France / W. Germany
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca), directed by Krzysztof Zanussi,
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Love Streams, directed by John Cassavetes, United States
Notable films released in 1984
U.S.A. unless stated
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- 1984, directed by Michael Radford, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton - (U.K.)
- 2010, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Dana Elcar, Helen Mirren
A
- Aaj Ki Awaaz (Today's Voice) - (India)
- Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan) - (Japan)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, starring Peter Weller and Jeff Goldblum
- After the Rehearsal (Efter repetitionen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin - (Sweden)
- Against All Odds, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark, Jane Greer
- All of Me, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin
- Alley Cat
- Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman, starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- The Ambassador, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Robert Mitchum, Rock Hudson and Ellen Burstyn
- American Dreamer, starring JoBeth Williams
- Annie's Coming Out, starring Angela Punch McGregor - (Australia)
- Another Country, starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth - (U.K.)
- The Annunciation (Angyali üdvözlet) - (Hungary)
- Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación (Murder in the Senate) - (Argentina)
B
- Bachelor Party, starring Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen
- Bad Manners, aka Growing Pains, starring Martin Mull and Karen Black
- Balkan Spy (Balkanski spijun) - (Yugoslavia)
- Ballad of the Little Soldier (Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten), a documentary film about child soldiers directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
- The Bay Boy, starring Liv Ullmann and Kiefer Sutherland - (Canada/France) - Genie Award for Best Canadian Motion Picture.
- Bayan Ko:This Is My Country (Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) - (Philippines)
- Beat Street, starring Rae Dawn Chong
- Before Stonewall, a documentary film
- Best Defense, starring Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw
- Beverly Hills Cop, directed by Martin Brest, starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox, John Ashton, Bronson Pinchot
- Beyond the Walls (Me'Ahorei Hasoragim) - (Israel)
- Bianca, directed by and starring Nanni Moretti - (Italy)
- Bicycles Are for the Summer (Las bicycletas son para el verano) - (Spain)
- Birdy, directed by Alan Parker, starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, music from Peter Gabriel
- Blame It on Rio, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Demi Moore, Michelle Johnson
- Blind Date, starring Kirstie Alley
- Blood Simple, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (debut), starring John Getz, Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, M. Emmet Walsh
- Body Double, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Gregg Henry
- Bolero, starring Bo Derek
- The Bostonians, directed by James Ivory, starring Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy - (U.S.A./U.K.)
- The Bounty, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson - (U.K.)
- Breakin'
- Broadway Danny Rose - directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
- The Brother from Another Planet, directed by John Sayles, starring Joe Morton
- The Buddy System, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Wil Wheaton, Nancy Allen
C
- C.H.U.D., starring John Heard and Daniel Stern
- Cal, starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
- Camila, directed by María Luisa Bemberg - (Argentina)
- Cannonball Run II, starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
- Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, a television film starring Warwick Davis
- Carmen, a cinematic opera directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Plácido Domingo - (France/Italy)
- The Chain, directed by Jack Gold - (U.K.)
- Chaos (Kaos) - (Italy)
- The Children (Les enfants), directed by Marguerite Duras - (France)
- Children of the Corn, starring Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton
- Choose Me, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Lesley Ann Warren, Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine
- Ciske de Rat (Ciske the Rat) - (Netherlands)
- City Heat, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn, Jane Alexander, Richard Roundtree, Rip Torn
- Cloak & Dagger, starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman
- Comfort and Joy, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Bill Paterson - (U.K.)
- The Company of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Stephen Rea, Angela Lansbury, Sarah Patterson - (U.K.)
- Conan the Destroyer, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wilt Chamberlain, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo
- The Coolangatta Gold - (Australia)
- Le Cop, starring Philippe Noiret - (France)
- The Cotton Club, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, James Remar, Bob Hoskins, Fred Gwynne, Nicolas Cage
- Country, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard
- Crackers, directed by Louis Malle, starring Donald Sutherland and Sean Penn
- Crimes of Passion, directed by Ken Russell, starring Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins
D
- The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
- The Descendant of the Snow Leopard (Potomok belogo barsa) - (U.S.S.R.)
- La diagonale du fou (Dangerous Moves), starring Michel Piccoli - (France/Switzerland) - Academy Award for Foreign Language Film
- Diary for My Children (Napló gyermekeimnek) - (Hungary)
- Dreamscape, starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer
- Dune, directed by David Lynch, starring Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Sean Young, Francesca Annis, Jürgen Prochnow, Kenneth McMillan, José Ferrer, Max von Sydow
E
- Electric Dreams, starring Virginia Madsen and Bud Cort
- The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element), directed by Lars von Trier - (Denmark)
- The Evil That Men Do, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson
F
- Falling in Love, directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep
- Farewell to the Ark (Saraba hakobune) - (Japan)
- Fear City, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Tom Berenger and Billy Dee Williams
- Finders Keepers, starring Michael O'Keefe, Beverly D'Angelo, Louis Gossett, Jr.
- Firestarter, directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Drew Barrymore, David Keith, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear
- Firstborn, starring Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Teri Garr
- The Flamingo Kid, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Matt Dillon and Héctor Elizondo
- Flashpoint, starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams
- Flowers of Reverie (Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk) - (Hungary)
- Flügel und Fesseln, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms - (West Germany)
- Footloose, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Dianne Wiest
- Formula of Love (Formula lyubvi) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Frankenweenie, directed by Tim Burton
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, directed by Joseph Zito, starring Kimberly Beck and Corey Feldman
- Full Moon in Paris (Les Nuits de la pleine lune), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
- The Funeral aka Death Japanese Style - (Japan)
G
- Gallavants
- Garbo Talks, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks
- Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson
- Give My Regards to Broad Street - written by and starring Paul McCartney, with Ringo Starr - (U.K.)
- Grandview, U.S.A., starring Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
- Gremlins, directed by Joe Dante, starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson in his final role - (U.K.)
H
- Hard to Hold, starring Rick Springfield
- Harry & Son, directed by and starring Paul Newman, with Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Judith Ivey, Ossie Davis, Joanne Woodward
- Heartbreakers, starring Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Kathryn Harrold, Max Gail, Carol Wayne
- Henry IV (Enrico IV), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale - Italy
- The Hit, directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Hurt and Terence Stamp - (U.K.)
- The Holy Innocents (Los santos inocentes) - (Spain)
- The Hotel New Hampshire, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Nastassja Kinski, Beau Bridges, Matthew Modine
I
- Iceman, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Timothy Hutton, John Lone, Lindsay Crouse
- The Ice Pirates, starring Robert Urich and Mary Crosby
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw
- Irreconcilable Differences, starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore
J
- The Jesse Owens Story, starring Dorian Harewood
- John the Fearless (Jan zonder vrees) - (Belgium)
- Johnny Dangerously, starring Michael Keaton, Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo, Danny DeVito, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle
- Just the Way You Are, starring Kristy McNichol
K
- The Karate Kid, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita
- Kidco, starring Scott Schwartz
- The Killing Fields, directed by Roland Joffé, starring Sam Waterston, John Malkovich, Haing S. Ngor - (U.K.) - British Academy Award for Best Film
- Klassenverhältnisse, directed by Straub-Huillet - (France/West Germany)
L
- Lassiter, starring Tom Selleck and Jane Seymour
- The Last Days of Pompeii, TV miniseries, starring Laurence Olivier, Olivia Hussey, Siobhán McKenna, Franco Nero, Ned Beatty, Nicholas Clay, Ernest Borgnine
- The Last Starfighter, starring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart
- The Little Drummer Girl, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Diane Keaton
- Little House: The Last Farewell
- Little House: Bless All the Dear Children
- Loafing and Camouflage (Lufa ke Paralayi) - (Greece)
- The Lonely Guy, starring Steve Martin and Charles Grodin
- Love and Pigeons (Lyubov i golubi) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Love Letters, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
- Love Streams, directed by and starring John Cassavetes, with Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel - Golden Bear award winner
M
- MacArthur's Children (Setouchi Shōnen Yakyū-dan) - (Japan)
- Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Chōjikū Yōsai Makurosu: Ai Oboete Imasu ka) - (Japan)
- Making the Grade, starring Judd Nelson
- The Man from Majorca (Mannen från Mallorca), directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
- A Man of Principle (Cóndores no entierran todos los días) - (Colombia)
- Man Under Suspicion (Morgen in Alabama), starring Maximilian Schell - (West Germany)
- Maria's Lovers, starring Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum
- Mashaal, starring Dilip Kumar and Anil Kapoor - (India)
- Mass Appeal, starring Jack Lemmon, Željko Ivanek, Charles Durning
- Mermaid Legend (Ningyo Densetsu) - (Japan)
- Micki & Maude, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore, Ann Reinking, Amy Irving
- Mike's Murder, directed by James Bridges, starring Debra Winger
- The Miracle of Joe Petrel (Umitsubame Jyo no kiseki) - (Japan)
- Missing in Action, starring Chuck Norris
- Monster Dog (Leviatán), starring Alice Cooper - (Spain)
- Moscow on the Hudson, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Robin Williams
- Mrs. Soffel, directed by Gillian Armstrong, starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson
- The Muppets Take Manhattan, directed by Frank Oz
- My First Wife, starring John Hargreaves - (Australia)
N
- The Naked Face, starring Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer, Art Carney
- The Natural, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Barbara Hershey, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Richard Farnsworth
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika) - (Japan)
- The NeverEnding Story (Die Unendliche Geschichte) - directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Barret Oliver and Noah Hathaway - (West Germany)
- Night of the Comet, starring Catherine Mary Stewart and Robert Beltran
- A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven, starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
- The Ninja Mission (Misja ninja) - (Sweden)
- Nothing Lasts Forever, starring Zach Galligan, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd
- Nothing Left to Do But Cry
O
- Oh, God! You Devil, starring George Burns
- Old Enough, starring Rainbow Harvest and Danny Aiello, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
- On the Top of the Cherry Tree (Gore na chereshata) - (Bulgaria)
- Once Upon a Time in America, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams - (Italy/U.S.A.)
- Opasen char (Dangerous Charm) - (Bulgaria)
- Over the Brooklyn Bridge, starring Elliott Gould, Shelley Winters, Sid Caesar
- Oxford Blues, starring Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Gail Strickland
P-Q
- Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski - Palme d'Or winner
- A Passage to India, directed by David Lean, starring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox - (U.K.) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
- Pehlivan - (Turkey)
- The Philadelphia Experiment, starring Michael Paré and Nancy Allen
- Places in the Heart, directed by Robert Benton, starring Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Lindsay Crouse, Amy Madigan
- Police Academy, directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith
- The Pope of Greenwich Village, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Geraldine Page
- A Private Function, directed by Malcolm Mowbray, starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith - (U.K.)
- Protocol, starring Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Gail Strickland
- Purple Hearts, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd
- Purple Rain, starring Prince
- Quilombo - (Brazil)
R
- Raaj Tilak, starring Raaj Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Dharmendra - (India)
- The Razor's Edge, starring Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott
- Reckless, starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah
- Red Dawn, directed by John Milius, starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson
- Repentance (Pokayaniye) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Repo Man, directed by Alex Cox, starring Emilio Estevez, Dick Rude, Harry Dean Stanton
- The Return of Godzilla (also known as "Godzilla 1985") - (Japan)
- Revenge of the Nerds, starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Curtis Armstrong, Timothy Busfield
- Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton
- The River, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson
- The Road to Bresson (De weg naar Bresson), starring Robert Bresson, Louis Malle, Andrei Tarkovsky, Orson Welles - (Netherlands)
- Roadhouse 66, starring Willem Dafoe and Judge Reinhold
- Romancing the Stone, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (Ronja Rövardotter) - (Sweden)
- Runaway, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Tom Selleck
S
- Saaransh (The Gist), directed by Mahesh Bhatt - (India)
- Secret Honor, directed by Robert Altman, starring Philip Baker Hall
- Sharaabi (Drunkard), directed by Prakash Mehra, starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
- Sheena, starring Tanya Roberts
- Silent Night, Deadly Night
- Sixteen Candles, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe
- Slapstick of Another Kind, starring Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman
- Slunce, seno, jahody - (Czechoslovakia)
- A Soldier's Story, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington
- The Snowdrop Festival (Slavnosti sněženek), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)
- Solomon Northup's Odyssey
- Songwriter, starring Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Lesley Ann Warren
- Splash, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, directed by and starring Leonard Nimoy, with William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd, Judith Anderson
- Starman, directed by John Carpenter, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen
- Stop Making Sense, a concert film directed by Jonathan Demme featuring Talking Heads
- Stranger Than Paradise, directed by Jim Jarmusch
- Strangler vs. Strangler (Davitelj protiv davitelja) - (Yugoslavia)
- Streets of Fire, directed by Walter Hill, starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe
- A Summer at Grandpa's (Dong–dong de jia qi) - (Taiwan)
- A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne), directed by Bertrand Tavernier - (France)
- Supergirl, starring Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole
- Swing Shift, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Ed Harris, Fred Ward
- Szaffi - (Hungary)
T
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o tsare Saltanye) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Tank, starring James Garner and Shirley Jones
- Le Tartuffe, directed by and starring Gérard Depardieu - (France)
- Teachers, starring Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch
- The Terminator, directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
- Terror in the Aisles, starring Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen
- Thief of Hearts, starring Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, George Wendt
- This Is My Country (Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) - (Philippines)
- This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
- Tightrope, starring Clint Eastwood and Geneviève Bujold
- Top Secret!, directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Val Kilmer
U-V
- Ultraman Story (Urutoraman Sutōr) - (Japan)
- Ultraman Zoffy: Ultra Warriors vs. the Giant Monster Army - (Japan)
- Under the Volcano, directed by John Huston, starring Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset
- Unfaithfully Yours, starring Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante, Albert Brooks
- Until September, starring Karen Allen
- Up the Creek, starring Tim Matheson and Jennifer Runyon
- Veneno para las hadas (Poison for the Fairies) - (Mexico)
- Vigil - (New Zealand)
- Voyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kythira) - (Greece)
W
- W's Tragedy (W no higeki) - (Japan)
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura - (Spain)
- Wheels on Meals (Fai Chan Tse), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
- When the Raven Flies (Hrafninn flýgur) - (Iceland)
- Where the Boys Are '84, starring Lisa Hartman, Lorna Luft, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Wendy Schaal
- Where the Green Ants Dream (Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
- Where the Toys Come From
- The Wild Life, starring Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson
- The Woman in Red, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Kelly Le Brock
- Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (Gao shan xia de hua huan) - (China)
Y
- A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - (Poland) - Golden Lion winner
- Yellow Earth (Huáng tǔdì), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
1984 film releases
U.S.A. unless stated
January–March
- January 1984
- January 13
- January 27
- February 1984
- February 3 - Reckless
- February 10 - Unfaithfully Yours
- February 17
- February 24 -
- March 1984
- March 2
- March 9
- Children of the Corn
- The Hotel New Hampshire
- Pete's Dragon (re-release)
- Splash
- March 16 - Tank
- March 23
- March 30
April–June
- April 1984
- May 1984
- May 4
- May 11
- May 23 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- June 1984
- June 1
- June 6 - Beat Street
- June 8
- June 15 - Under the Volcano
- June 22
- June 29
July–September
- July 1984
- July 13
- July 20
- July 27
- Purple Rain
- The Jungle Book (re-release)
- August 1984
- August 2 - The Bostonians
- August 3
- August 10 - Red Dawn
- August 15 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- August 17
- August 24 - Oxford Blues
- August 31
- September 1984
- September 7 - The Brother from Another Planet
- September 14 - A Soldier's Story
- September 19 - Amadeus
- September 21
- September 28
October–December
- October 1984
- October 5
- October 10
- October 19
- October 26
- November 1984
- November 2 - The Killing Fields
- November 9
- November 16 - Just the Way You Are
- November 21 - Supergirl
- November 25 - The Ewok Adventure
- December 1984
- December 5
- December 7
- December 14
- December 15
- December 21
- Birdy
- The Flamingo Kid
- Johnny Dangerously
- Micki & Maude
- Pinocchio (re-release)
- December 26 - Mrs. Soffel
Births
- January 25 - Kaiji Tang, voice actor
- January 30 - Michael Aloni, Israeli actor
- January 30 - Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi (Kid Cudi) American recording artist
- February 12 - Alexandra Dahlström, Swedish actress
- February 13 - Brina Palencia, voice actress
- February 24 - Nicholas Saputra, Indonesian actor
- March 2 - Ian Sinclair, voice actor
- March 7 - Brandon T. Jackson, American stand-up comedian, rapper, actor, and writer
- March 10 - Olivia Wilde, American actress
- March 20 - Christy Carlson Romano, American stage and film actress and singer
- March 25 - Katharine McPhee, American singer and actress
- April 2 - Ashley Peldon, American actress
- April 8
- Kirsten Storms, American actress
- Taran Noah Smith, American actor
- April 10
- Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
- Cara DeLizia, American actress
- April 18 - America Ferrera, American actress
- April 21- Praveenprem, South Indian actor
- June 19 - Paul Dano, American actor
- June 24 - Lucien Dodge, voice actor
- June 30 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer and actress
- July 11 - Serinda Swan, Canadian actress
- July 19 - Andrea Libman, Canadian actress, voice actress, pianist, and singer
- July 27
- Kenny Wormald, American actor
- Taylor Schilling, American actress
- September 3 - Garrett Hedlund, American actor
- September 18 - NIna Arianda, American actress
- September 22 - Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
- September 23 - Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress and singer
- September 27 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
- October 3 - Ashlee Simpson, American actress and singer
- October 25 - Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
- October 27 - Kelly Osbourne, English actress and singer
- November 16 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
- November 17 - Lauren Maltby, American actress
- November 21
- Jena Malone, American actress
- Lindsey Haun, American actress and singer
- November 22 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
- November 23 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
- November 28 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
- December 5 - Lauren London, American actress
Notable deaths
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 20 | Johnny Weissmuller | 79 | Mexico | Actor | |
| 29 | Frances Goodrich | 93 | USA | Writer | ||
| February | 15 | Ethel Merman | 76 | USA | Singer, Actress | |
| March | 1 | Jackie Coogan | 69 | USA | Actor, Director | |
| 5 | William Powell | 91 | USA | Actor | ||
| 12 | Arnold Ridley | 88 | UK | Actor, Writer, Director | ||
| 24 | Sam Jaffe | 93 | USA | Actor | ||
| 27 | Jack Donohue | 75 | USA | Director | ||
| 27 | Derek Francis | 60 | UK | Actor | ||
| April | 1 | George Glass | 73 | USA | Producer, production manager | |
| 13 | Richard Hurndall | 73 | UK | Actor | I, Monster | |
| 16 | Byron Haskin | 84 | USA | Director | ||
| 18 | Francis de Wolff | 71 | UK | Actor | ||
| May | 4 | Diana Dors | 52 | UK | Actress | |
| 16 | Andy Kaufman | 35 | USA | Actor | ||
| 16 | Irwin Shaw | 71 | USA | Screenwriter, Author | ||
| 20 | Peter Bull | 72 | UK | Actor | ||
| 21 | Andrea Leeds | 72 | UK | Actress | ||
| 21 | Ann Little | 93 | USA | Actress | ||
| 22 | John Marley | 76 | USA | Actor | ||
| June | 15 | Ned Glass | 78 | USA | Actor | |
| 18 | Luis Moglia Barth | 81 | Argentine | Director, Writer, Producer | ¡Tango! | |
| 20 | Estelle Winwood | 101 | UK | Actress | ||
| 22 | Joseph Losey | 75 | USA | Director | ||
| July | 11 | Hugh Morton | 81 | UK | Actor | |
| 14 | Ernest Tidyman | 56 | UK | Writer | ||
| 23 | Carl Foreman | 69 | USA | Writer, Producer | ||
| 25 | Akihiko Hirata | 56 | Japan | Actor | ||
| 27 | James Mason | 75 | Switzerland | Actor, Producer | ||
| August | 4 | Mary Miles Minter | 82 | USA | Actress | |
| 4 | Howard Culver | 66 | Hong Kong | Actor | ||
| 5 | Richard Burton | 58 | Switzerland | Actor, Producer, Director | ||
| 8 | Richard Deacon | 63 | USA | Actor | ||
| 25 | Truman Capote | 59 | USA | Writer, Actor | ||
| 29 | Pina Menichelli | 94 | Italy | Actress | ||
| September | 14 | Janet Gaynor | 77 | USA | Actress | |
| 17 | Richard Basehart | 70 | USA | Actor, Director | ||
| 25 | Walter Pidgeon | 87 | USA | Actor | ||
| October | 9 | Joan Young | 84 | UK | Actress | |
| 10 | Leonard Rossiter | 57 | UK | Actor | ||
| 11 | H. Bruce Humberstone | 82 | USA | Director | ||
| 21 | François Truffaut | 52 | France | Director, Producer, Actor | ||
| 23 | Oskar Werner | 61 | Germany | Actor, writer | ||
| 25 | Pascale Ogier | 25 | France | Actress, production manager | Full Moon in Paris | |
| 26 | Noel Howlett | 81 | UK | Actor | ||
| November | 1 | Norman Krasna | 74 | USA | Screenwriter, Director | |
| 20 | Peter Welch | 62 | UK | Actor | ||
| December | 2 | Patty Elder | 48 | USA | Stuntman, Actor | |
| 3 | Charles R. Davis | 47 | USA | Art Director, Production Designer | Bustin' Loose | |
| 8 | Luther Adler | 81 | USA | Actor | ||
| 11 | George Waggner | 81 | USA | Director | ||
| 24 | Ian Hendry | 53 | UK | Actor | ||
| 24 | Peter Lawford | 61 | USA | Actor, Producer | ||
| 24 | Harry Waxman | 72 | UK | Cinematographer | ||
| 28 | Sam Peckinpah | 59 | USA | Director, Producer |
Film debuts
- Jesse Bradford - Falling in Love
- Jennifer Connelly - Once Upon a Time in America
- Jon Cryer - No Small Affair
- Johnny Depp - A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Tate Donovan - No Small Affair
- Colin Firth - Another Country
- Rupert Everett - Another Country
- Sarah Michelle Gellar - Over the Brooklyn Bridge
- Heather Graham - Mrs. Soffel
- Seth Green - Billions for Boris
- Jennifer Grey - Reckless
- Val Kilmer - Top Secret!
- Andie MacDowell - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- Kyle MacLachlan - Dune
- John Malkovich - Places in the Heart
- Frances McDormand - Blood Simple
- Connie Nielsen - Par où t'es rentré ? On t'a pas vu sortir
- Aidan Quinn - Reckless
- Lou Diamond Phillips - Interface
- Tim Roth - The Hit
- Charlie Sheen - Red Dawn
- Elisabeth Shue - The Karate Kid
- Helen Slater - Supergirl
- Jennifer Tilly - No Small Affair
- Marisa Tomei - The Flamingo Kid
- Jean-Claude Van Damme - Breakin'
- Lars von Trier (director)
- Ken Watanabe - MacArthur's Children
- Damon Wayans - Beverly Hills Cop
- Michelle Yeoh - The Owl vs Bombo
- Daphne Zuniga - The Initiation
See also
- List of American films of 1984
- List of British films of 1984
- List of French films of 1984
- List of German films of the 1980s
- List of Bollywood films of 1984
- List of Italian films of 1984
- List of Japanese films of 1984
- List of Swedish films of the 1980s
References
- ↑ "1984 Domestic Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
External links
- "Was 1984 the greatest year in movies ever?" by Chris Nashawaty - Entertainment Weekly online
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