Category:1984, Top Films

1980 -- 1981 -- 1982 -- 1983

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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

-- #1. Amadeus -- #2. Paris, Texas -- #3. <This Is Spinal Tap> -- #4. <Once Upon a Time in America> -- #5. <Stranger Than Paradise -- #6. <The Terminator> -- #7. <Blood Simple> -- #8. <Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind> -- #9. <Ghostbusters> -- #10. Gremlins

-- #11. <A Nightmare on Elm Street> -- #12. <Broadway Danny Rose> -- #13. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -- #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 -- #21. The Neverending Story -- #26. Beverly Hills Cop -- #27. <The Killing Fields>

-- #33. Bianca -- #35. A Summer at Grandpa's -- #36. The Karate Kid -- #39.Birdy -- #40. <A Passage to India>

Flickchart, Best Films

-- @1. <Ghostbusters> -- @2. <The Terminator> -- @3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -- @4. Paris, Texas -- @5. <Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind> -- @6. <This Is Spinal Tap> -- @7. Amadeus -- @8. Stop Making Sense -- @9. <Blood Simple> -- @10. <Once Upon a Time in America>

-- @11. Gremlins -- @12. The Karate Kid -- @13. The Natural -- @14. Beverly Hills Cop -- @15. Stranger Than Paradise -- @16. A Nightmare on Elm Street -- @17. <The Killing Fields> -- @18. Broadway Danny Rose -- @19. Sixteen Candles -- @20. Repo Man

CriticsTop10, Best Films

-- =1. Amadeus -- =2. Places in the Heart -- =3. A Soldier's Story -- =4. <The Killing Fields> -- =5. <A Passage to India> -- =6. A Sunday in the Country -- =7. Broadway Danny Rose -- =8. <This Is Spinal Tap> -- =9. The Cotton Club -- =10. Country

-- =11. Splash -- =12. Choose Me -- =13. Ghostbusters -- =14. El Norte -- =15. Stranger Than Paradise -- =16. The Natural -- =17. Paris, Texas -- =18. Stop Making Sense -- =19. Romancing the Stone -- =20. Careful, He Might Hear You

-- =21. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes -- =22. The Gods Must Be Crazy -- =23. Bizet's Carmen -- =24. Under the Volcano -- =25. All of Me -- =26. Entre Nous -- =27. Gremlins -- =28. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -- =29. Once Upon a Time in America -- =30. Moscow on the Hudson

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)