U.S. Release Date: 2023-09-22
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Musical
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz
The movie was the best concert film to date when it first came out, and nothing in the past forty years has toppled it from that position.
U.S. Release Date: 1984-03-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Science Fiction
Director: Alex Cox
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Jennifer Balgobin, Dick Rude
It’s short enough that it never overstays its welcome and is generally a fun, wild ride, even though it may at times be difficult to figure out where the journey began and where it ends.
U.S. Release Date: 1984-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Peter O’Toole, Brenda Vacarro, Peter Cook, Hart Bochner, Marc McClure, Mia Farrow, Helen Slater, Simon Ward
The across-the-board awfulness of "Supergirl" disabused those who optimistically believed the Salkinds’ stewardship of the Superman series couldn’t slip lower.
U.S. Release Date: 1987-11-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Fantasy
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Sumi Shimamoto, Goro Naya, Asbel, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Iemasa Kayumi, Ichiro Nagai, Hisako Kyoda
Although the narrative at times becomes jumbled, many of the individual scenes stand out as outstanding action/adventure pieces with innovative visuals and a breakneck pace.
U.S. Release Date: 1984-07-20
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Thomas Hill, Tami Stronach, Alan Oppenheimer
The passage of time hasn’t been kind to the attempts at worldbuilding through image-oriented spectacle.
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Occasional Profanity, Sexual Situations, Brief Female Toplessness, Brief Female Side Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall, Haviland Morris, Gedde Wantanabe, Paul Dooley, Blanche Baker
With a film like Sixteen Candles, I find myself ...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-10-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ACTION
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen
The Terminator, the film that catapulted Arnold ...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Simon Callow, Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Roy Dotrice, Elizabeth Berridge, Christine Ebersold, Jeffrey Jones
Most movies about artists (painters, composers, ...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-10-09
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, with Ednah Holt, Lynn Mabry, Steven Scales, Alex Weir, Bernie Worrell
Upon its release in 1984, Jonathan Demme's Stop ...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/SPORTS
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky
Sometimes, pure technical accuracy isn't enough. ...