1984 movies

Purple Rain (1984)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Prince | Apollonia Kotero | Morris Day | Olga Karlatos | Clarence Williams III | Jerome Benton | Billy Sparks | Jill Jones | Charles Huntsberry | Dez Dickerson | Brenda Bennett | Susan Moonsie | Sandra Claire Gershman | Kim Upsher | Alan Leeds
Directors: Albert Magnoli
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A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn’t all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father’s self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.

Conan the Destroyer (1984)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Grace Jones | Wilt Chamberlain | Mako | Tracey Walter | Sarah Douglas | Olivia d'Abo | Pat Roach | Jeff Corey | Sven-Ole Thorsen | Bruce Fleischer | Ferdy Mayne | André the Giant | Matt Conner | Angel Ashley
Directors: Richard Fleischer
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Princess Jehnna has been captured by a sorcerer, so the evil queen Taramis (who wants to sacrifice Jehnna and take the throne for ever) asks from Conan to find her and bring her back to the castle. Conan accepts, because Taramis has magical powers and thus she is the only person who can bring his dead love back in life.

Top Secret! (1984)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Val Kilmer | Lucy Gutteridge | Peter Cushing | Jeremy Kemp | Christopher Villiers | Warren Clarke | Harry Ditson | Jim Carter | Eddie Tagoe | Omar Sharif | Tristram Jellinek | Billy J. Mitchell | Major Wiley | Gertan Klauber | Richard Mayes
Directors: Jim Abrahams | Jerry Zucker | David Zucker
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This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.

The Killing Fields (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Sam Waterston | Haing S. Ngor | John Malkovich | Julian Sands | Craig T. Nelson | Spalding Gray | Bill Paterson | Athol Fugard | Graham Kennedy | Katherine Krapum Chey | Oliver Pierpaoli | Edward Entero Chey | Tom Bird | Monirak Sisowath | Lambool Dtangpaibool
Directors: Roland Joffé
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he’s a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

Ghost Busters (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Dan Aykroyd | Sigourney Weaver | Harold Ramis | Rick Moranis | Annie Potts | William Atherton | Ernie Hudson | David Margulies | Steven Tash | Jennifer Runyon | Slavitza Jovan | Michael Ensign | Alice Drummond | Jordan Charney
Directors: Ivan Reitman
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Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are three scientists at Columbia University in New York City. When their grant expires, the guys are fired and they go into business as a ghost extermination company called “Ghostbusters”. Their first customer is orchestra cello player Dana Barrett, who was scared out of her apartment on the 22nd floor of a high rise apartment building on Central Park West. It seems that Dana’s neighbor, Louis Tully, is also being affected by the strange happenings in the apartment building. Armed with proton guns, the Ghostbusters become wildly popular, and they are joined by Winston Zeddmore, who is looking for a job with good pay. Overzealous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent Walter Peck thinks the Ghostbusters are frauds, and he has the Ghostbusters put in jail. Peck is forced to believe the Ghostbusters when New York City is put under siege by an ancient Sumerian God named Gozer the Gozerian, who is channeled through the apartment building that Dana and Louis live in, and the mayor has no choice but to let the Ghostbusters out of jail to face Gozer.

Dune (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Francesca Annis | Leonardo Cimino | Brad Dourif | José Ferrer | Linda Hunt | Freddie Jones | Richard Jordan | Kyle MacLachlan | Virginia Madsen | Silvana Mangano | Everett McGill | Kenneth McMillan | Jack Nance | Siân Phillips | Jürgen Prochnow
Directors: David Lynch
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In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world’s ecology as one of his weapons.

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Barret Oliver | Gerald McRaney | Drum Garrett | Darryl Cooksey | Nicholas Gilbert | Thomas Hill | Deep Roy | Tilo Prückner | Moses Gunn | Noah Hathaway | Alan Oppenheimer | Sydney Bromley | Patricia Hayes | Tami Stronach
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it “borrowing” it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible “Nothing” Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.

The Ewok Adventure (1984)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Burl Ives | Eric Walker | Warwick Davis | Fionnula Flanagan | Guy Boyd | Aubree Miller | Daniel Frishman | Debbie Lee Carrington | Tony Cox | Kevin Thompson | Margarita Fernández | Pam Grizz | Bobby Bell | Darryl Henriques | Sydney Walker
Directors: John Korty
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The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani’s are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing when they are captured. The next day, the Ewok Deej is looking for his two sons when they find Cindel all alone in the shuttle (Mace and Cindel were looking for the transmitter to send a distress call), when Mace appears with his emergency blaster. Eventually, the four-year old Cindel is able to convince the teenage Mace that the Ewoks are nice. Then, the Ewoks and the Towani’s go on an adventure to find the elder Towanis.

Children of the Corn (1984)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: R.G. Armstrong | Peter Horton | Linda Hamilton | Courtney Gains | Robby Kiger | Anne Marie McEvoy | Julie Maddalena | Jonas Marlowe | John Franklin | Dan Snook | David Cowen | Suzy Southam | D.G. Johnson | Patrick Boylan
Directors: Fritz Kiersch
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A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Kate Capshaw | Jonathan Ke Quan | Amrish Puri | Roshan Seth | Philip Stone | Roy Chiao | David Yip | Rick Young | Chua Kahjoo | Rex Ngui | Philip Tan | Dan Aykroyd | Dr. Akio Mitamura | Michael Yama
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Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is back in action in the 2nd Indy film. He teams up with a night club singer and a 12 year old named Short Round. They end up in an Indian village, where the people believe evil spirits have taken their children away after a sacred stone was stolen. Indiana agrees to try and retrieve the stone for the villagers.