Category:1984, Top Films

1980 -- 1981 -- 1982 -- 1983

-- -- 1984, Top Films -- --

1985 -- 1986 -- 1987 -- 1988

Ranking

My Picks

-- #1. Amadeus <Best Picture & Director> -- #2. Paris, Texas -- #13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -- #21. The Neverending Story -- #33. Bianca -- #36. The Karate Kid

Limbo

-- #9. Ghostbusters -- #40. <A Passage to India> (Lean) -- #50+. The Times of Harvey Milk (Epstein) [Best Doc]

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

50 Top Films of 1983

-- #1. Amadeus -- #2. Paris, Texas -- #13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -- #21. The Neverending Story -- #33. Bianca -- #36. The Karate Kid

-- #3. This Is Spinal Tap -- #4. Once Upon a Time in America -- #5. Stranger Than Paradise -- #6. The Terminator -- #7. Blod Simple -- #8. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind -- #9. Ghostbusters -- #10. Gremlins

-- #11. A Nightmare on Elm Street -- #12. Broadway Danny Rose -- #14. Love Streams -- #15. Repo Man -- #16. Dune -- #17. Stop Making Sense -- #18. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- #19. The Element of Crime -- #20. Boy Meets Girl

-- #26. Beverly Hills Cop -- #27. The Killing Fields -- #35. A Summer at Grandpa's -- #39.Birdy -- #40. <A Passage to India>

Oscar, Best Films

-- Amadeus -- The Killing Fields -- A Passage to India -- Places in the Heart -- A Soldier's Story -- Broadway Danny Rose

Golden Globe, Best Films

-- Amadeus -- Romancing the Stone -- A Passage to India (UK) -- The Killing Fields

National Board of Review

-- A Passage to India -- Paris, Texas -- The Killing Fields -- Places in the Heart -- Mass Appeal -- Country -- A Soldier's Story -- Birdy -- Careful, He Might Hear You -- Under the Volcano

Top Grossing Films

-- Beverly Hills Cop -- Ghostbusters -- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -- Gremlins -- The Karate Kid -- Police Academy -- Footloose -- Romancing the Stone -- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock -- Splash

National Film Registry

-- Amadeus -- Bless Their Little Hearts -- Ghostbusters -- A Nightmare on Elm Street -- Purple Rain -- Stranger Than Paradise -- The Terminator -- This Is Spinal Tap -- Before Stonewall <doc> -- Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People <short> -- Itam Hakim, Hopiit <doc> -- Stop Making Sense <doc> -- The Times of Harvey Milk± <doc>

NYT, Best Films

-- Repo Man -- This Is Spinal Tap -- Stop Making Sense -- Stranger Than Paradise -- Secret Honor -- Amadeus -- Places in the Heart -- Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany -- A Nightmare on Elm Street -- The Killing Fields -- Beverly Hills Cop -- Starman -- A Passage to India -- Birdy -- The Flamingo Kid -- The Shooting Party

TSPDT, Best Films

-- Amadeus -- Paris, Texas -- Once Upon a Time in America -- This is Spinal Tap -- Stranger Than Paradise -- The Terminator -- Ghostbusters -- Blood Simple -- Love Streams -- Yellow Earth -- Twenty Years Later

Top10ner, Best Films

-- Amadeus -- Paris, Texas -- Once Upon a Time in America -- This is Spinal Tap -- Stranger Than Paradise -- The Terminator -- Ghostbusters -- Blood Simple -- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind -- The Killing Fields -- A Nightmare on Elm Street

Film101, Best Films

-- Amadeus -- Paris, Texas

-- The Killing Fields -- This Is Spinal Tap -- The Terminator -- Once Upon a Time in America -- Stranger Than Paradise -- A Sunday in the Country -- A Passage to India -- Heimat -- A Nightmare on Elm Street -- Ghostbusters -- Stop Making Sense

ChildActors, Best Films

-- Ciske de Rat (Netherlands) -- Cuore (Italy) -- Places in the Heart

-- ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? / What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Spain) -- Akademia pana Kleksa / Mr. Blot's Academy (Poland) -- Åke och hans värld / Ake and His World (Sweden) -- American Dreamer -- Angyali üdvözlet / The Annunciation (Hungary) -- Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia -- Billions for Boris -- Blame it on the Night -- The Buddy System -- Busters verden / Buster's World (Denmark) -- Children in the Crossfire (Ireland) -- A Christmas Carol -- Chto u Senki bylo / What Senka Said (URSS) -- Cloak & Dagger -- Danny's Egg (Australia) -- Dark Enemy (UK) -- The Devil's Gift -- The Dream Chasers -- Dream One / Nemo (France/UK) -- Dzien kolibra (Poland) -- Das Eismeer ruft (East Germany) -- Ferdinande, vrat se! (Czechoslovakia) -- The Fire in the Stone (Australia) -- Firstborn / Moving In -- Flußfahrt mit Huhn (West Germany) -- Frankenweenie -- Gore na chereshata / Up in the Cherry Tree (Bulgaria) -- Gregorio (Peru) -- Gremlins -- La Guerre des tuques / The Dog Who Stopped the War (Canada) -- Haunters of the Deep (UK) -- The Hoboken Chicken Emergency -- Hockey Night (Canada) -- In Search of a Golden Sky -- Invitation to Hell -- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear -- J'ai rencontré le Père Noël / Here Comes Santa Claus (France) -- Kanikuly Petrova i Vasechkina, obyknovennye i neveroyatnye (URSS) -- Kid Colter -- Kidco -- Kraj rata (Yugoslavia) -- Lars i Porten / On the Threshold (Norway) -- The Last Day of Summer (UK) -- Mario (Canada) -- Min farmors hus (Denmark) -- Misunderstood -- Mrs. Soffel -- Nachhilfe für Vati (East Germany) -- The NeverEnding Story / Die Unendliche Geschichte (USA/West Germany) -- The Next One / The Time Traveller -- The Night They Saved Christmas -- Oddballs / Odd Balls (Canada) -- Once Upon a Time in America (Italy) -- The River -- Ronja Rövardotter (Sweden) -- Ryzhiy chestnyy vlyublyonnyy (URSS) -- Schatjes! / Army Brats (Netherlands) -- The Stone Boy -- Streetwise -- A Summer at Grandpa's / Dongdong de jiaqi (Taiwan) -- Tail of a Tiger (Australia) -- Tajna starog tavana / The Secret of an Old Attic (Czechoslovakia/Yugoslavia) -- Threads (UK) -- Tu solo / On Your Own (Spain) -- Výbuch bude v pet (Czechoslovakia) -- Vyhrávat potichu (Czechoslovakia) -- Was soll bloß aus dir werden / What Shall Become of You? (East Gemany)