• 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

• Aaj Ki Awaaz (Today's Voice), directed by Ravi Chopra, starring Raj Babbar, Smita Patil, and Nana Patekar (India)

• Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan), directed by Masayuki Suo, starring Ren Osugi (Japan)

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, directed by W. D. Richter, 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, co-directed by Victor M. Ordonez, Eduardo Palmos, and Al Valletta, starring Karin Mani, and Robert Torti

• 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, directed by Rick Rosenthal, 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)
  

• 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'

• Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

• 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.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

• 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)

• Draw!, starring Kirk Douglas, James Coburn, Alexandra Bastedo, Graham Jarvis, Derek McGrath, Linda Sorenson

• 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

• 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

• 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, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Jean Smart, Tess Harper, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer

• 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)

• 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.)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• Meatballs Part II

• 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

• Misunderstood, starring Henry Thomas and Gene Hackman

• 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)

• 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

• Night Patrol, starring Linda Blair and The Unknown Comic

• The Ninja Mission (Misja ninja) - (Sweden)

• Nothing Lasts Forever, starring Zach Galligan, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd

• Nothing Left to Do But Cry

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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'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)
  

• A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca) - (Poland) - Golden Lion winner
  

• Yellow Earth (Huáng tǔdì), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)

Highest-grossing films of 1984

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	Touchstone Pictures	$69,821,334