Category:1984, Top Films

1980 -- 1981 -- 1982 -- 1983

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1985 -- 1986 -- 1987 -- 1988

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1. (1) Amadeus (1984 Forman), film <Best Picture & Director>
2. (2) Paris, Texas (1984 Wenders), film
3. (13) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984 Spielberg), film
4. (21) The NeverEnding Story (1984 Petersen), film
5. (33) Bianca (1984 Moretti), film
6. (36) The Karate Kid (1984 Avildsen), film
7. (--) Places in the Heart (1984 Benton), film
8. (--) Splash (1984 Howard), film
9. (--) A Soldier's Story (1984 Jewison), film
10. (--) Bianca (1984 Moretti), film
11. (--) {nl} Ciske de Rat (1984 Pieters), film
12. (TV) {de} The Wannsee Conference (1984 Schirk), film

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1. (3) [[This Is Spinal Tap> (1984 Reiner), film]]
2. (4) [[Once Upon a Time in America> (1984 Leone), film]]
3. (5) [[Stranger Than Paradise> (1984 Jarmusch), film]]
4. (6) [[The Terminator> (1984 Cameron), film]]
5. (7) [[Blood Simple> (1984 Coen), film]]
6. (8) [[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind> (1984 Miyazaki), film]]
7. (9) [[Ghostbusters> (1984 Reitman), film]]
8. (11) [[A Nightmare on Elm Street> (1984 Craven), film]]
9. (12) [[Broadway Danny Rose> (1984 Allen), film]]
10. (27) [[The Killing Fields> (1984 Joffe), film]]
11. (40) [[A Passage to India> (1984 Lean), film]]
12. (--) The Times of Harvey Milk'' (1984 Epstein), doc [Best Doc]

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Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

-- #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)

Best International Films

{Italy} -- Once Upon a Time in America -- Kaos

{Japan} -- <Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind>

{Russia} -- Repentance

{Switzerland} -- La Diagonale du fou / Dangerous Moves (Oscar)