Stranger Than Paradise(1984)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along...



Supergirl(1984)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 21

After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.



Broadway Danny Rose(1984)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 18

In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.



Runaway(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 25

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.



Breakin'(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.



Night of the Comet(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.



Birdy(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.



Beat Street(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 39

An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.



Streets of Fire(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.



The Cotton Club(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.



Dreamscape(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.



A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



The Toxic Avenger(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.



Places in the Heart(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.



Kaze no tani no Naushika(1984)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.



The Bostonians(1984)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.



Dune(1984)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.



Silent Night, Deadly Night(1984)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

After his parents are murdered, a tormented teenager goes on a murderous rampage dressed as Santa, due to his stay at an orphanage where he was abused by the Mother Superior.



Nineteen Eighty-Four(1984)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.



The Woman in Red(1984)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 13

On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte - an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her - but what would his wife say?




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