Top Favorite Films of 1984

Directed by R.J. Kizer and Koji Hashimoto

Starring Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Kenju Kobayashi, Shin Takuuma, Eitaro Ozawa, Taketoshi Naito, Kei Sato, Warner J. Kemmerling, James Hess, and Justin Gocke

Directed by Richard Franklin

Starring Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Christina Nigra, Michael Murphy, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan, Eloy Casados, Tim Rossovich, William Forsythe, Robert DoQui, Nicholas Guest, and Louie Anderson

Directed by Joe Dante

Starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee Cain, Keye Luke, Dick Miller, Corey Feldman, Judge Reinhold, Scott Brady, Glynn Turman, Belinda Balaski, Harry Carey, Jr., Polly Holliday, Jonathan Banks, Jackie Joseph, Nicky Katt and voices of Howie Mandel, Michael Winslow, Frank Welker, Fred Newman, Mark Dodson, Peter Cullen, Bob Holt, and Michael Shenhan

Directed by Jeff Kanew

Starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Timothy Busfield, Larry B. Scott, Curtis Armstrong, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Bernie Casey, Andrew Cassese, Brian Tochi, Julia Montgomery, Michelle Meyrink, Ted McGinley, Matt Salinger, Donald Gibb, David Wohl, and Lloyd Sherr

Directed by W.D. Richter

Starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Clancy Brown, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Robert Ito, Ronald Lacey, Pepe Serna, Matt Clark, William Traynor, Carl Lumbly, Billy Vera, Jonathan Banks, Vincent Schiavelli, Dan Hedaya, Mariclare Costello, Damon Hine, John Ashton, Laura Harrington, and Yakov Smirnoff

Directed by Herbert Ross

Starring Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Elizabeth Gorcey, John Laughlin, Frances Lee McCain, Jim Youngs, Douglas Dirkson, Lynne Marta, Arthur Rosenberg, Timothy Scott and Alan Haufrect

Directed by Ivan Reitman

Starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, William Atherton, Annie Potts, David Margulies, Slavitza Jovan, Michael Ensign, Jennifer Runyon, Jordan Charney, Timothy Carhart, Larry King, Joe Franklin, Reginald VelJohnson, Ron Jeremy, and Deborah Gibson

Directed by John Milius

Starring Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, C. Thomas Howell, Harry Dean Stanton, Darren Dalton, Brad Savage, Doug Toby, Ben Johnson, Ron O'Neal, Powers Boothe, Vladek Sheybal, Frank McRae, William Smith, Pepe Serna, Ray Jenson, and Lane Smith

Directed by Paul Mazursky

Starring Robin Williams, Paul Mazursky, Robert MacBeth, Eyde Byrde, Maria Conchita Alonso, Elya Baskin, Alejandro Ray, Kramarov, Oleg Rudnick, Lyman Ward, Clevant Derricks, Yakov Shrimoff, Lyudmila Kramarevskaya, Ivo Vrzal Wiegand, and Aleksandr Benyaminov

Directed by Robert Benton

Starring Sally Field, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Lindsay Crouse, Amy Madigan, Danny Glover, Yankton Hatten, Gennie James, Lane Smith, Jay Patterson, Terry O'Quinn, Bert Ramsen, Ray Baker, Lou Hancock, De'voreaux White, Jerry Haynes, Ned Dowd, Bill Thurman, and featuring voices of J.C. Quinn, Trey Wilson, and Bascom Newman

Directed by Peter Webb

Starring Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Ringo Starr, Ralph Richardson, Bryan Brown, Barbara Bach, Tracey Ullman, John Burgess, Kan Hastings, Phillip Jackson, Desmond Askew, Donald Douglas, George Martin, John Bennett, Anthony Brown, Graham Dene, Jeremy Child, and Richard Kane

Directed by Rob Reiner

Starring Michael McKeon, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal, R.J. Parnell, David Kaff, Dana Carvey, Tony Hendra, Fran Drescher, Bruno Kirby, Ed Begley, Jr., Patrick Macnee, Zane Buzby, Blackie Lawless, Julie Payne, Jane Chadwick, Joyce Hyser, Gloria Gifford, Archie Hahn, Paul Shaffer, Anjelica Huston, Fred Willard, Howard Hesseman, and Sean Frye

Directed by Thom Eberhardt

Starring Catherine Mary Stuart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell, Mary Woronov, Geoffrey Lewis, Peter Fox, John Achorn, Michael Bowen, Chance Boyer, Marc Poppel, Ivan E. Roth, Dick Rude, Devon Ericson, and Janice Kawaye

Directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill

Starring Donna Wilkes, John Riehl, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun, Elaine Giftos, Donna McDaniel, Steven M. Porter, Ross Hagan, Karyn Parker, Greg Lewis, and Peter Jason

Directed by John G. Avildsen

Starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Martin Kove, William Zabka, Elizabeth Shue, Randee Heller, Ron Thomas, Rob Garrison, Chad McQueen, Larry B. Scott, Peter Jason, Bruce Malmuth, Larry Drake, Pat Fridley, and Pat E. Johnson

Directed by Wes Craven

Starring Robert Englund, Heather Lagenkamp, Johnny Depp, John Saxton, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Charles Fleischer, Ronee Blakely, Joseph Whipp, Lin Shaye and Joe Unger

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen

Starring Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Gerald McRaney, Tami Stronach, Thomas Hill, Deep Roy, Moses Gunn, Sydeny Bromley, Patricia Hayes, Tilo Pruckner, Drum Garrett, Nicholas Gilbert, Darryl Cooksey, and voices of Alan Oppenheimer and Frank Lenart

Directed by Peter Hyams

Starring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Herta Ware, Mary Jo Deschanel, James McEachlin, Elya Baskin, Jan Kriska, and voices of Douglas Rain and Candace Bergen

Directed by Charles E. Sellier

Starring Robert Brian Wilson, Linnea Quigley, Will Hare, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Tara Buckman, Britt Leach, Nancy Borgenicht, Charles Dierkop, and H.E.D. Redford

Directed by Joseph Ruben

Starring Dennis Quaid, David Patrick Kelly, Max Von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Kate Capshaw, Eddie Albert, Corey "Bumper" Yothers, George Wendt, Redmond Gleeson, Peter Jason, Virgina Kiser, Chris Mulkey, Madison Mason, Brian Libby, George Caldwell and Larry Cedar

Directed by Martin Brest

Starring Eddie Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Steven Berkoff, Jonathan Banks, Damon Wayans, Bronson Pinchot, Paul Reiser, Micheal Champion, and Tom Everett

Directed by Walter Hill

Starring Michael Pare, Rick Moranis, Diane Lane, Amy Madigan, Williem Dafoe, Grand L. Bush, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Lee Ving, Rick Rossovich, Bill Paxton, Stoney Jackson, Lynne Thigpen, Richard Lawson, Robert Townsend, Mykelti Washington, Elizabeth Daily, Dave Alvin, Marine Jahan, Peter Jason, Ed Bagley, Jr., Kathy Griffin, Philip Alvin, Lee Allen, Eugene Taylor, Steve Berlin, William Bateman, Olivia Brown and John Bazz

Directed by James Cameron

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Paul Winfield, Bill Paxton, Franco Columbo, David Hyde Pierce, Brian Thompson, Bess Mota, Rick Rossovich, Ed Boen, Shawn Schepps, and Dick Miller

Directed by John Hughes

Starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, John Cusack, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling, Haviland Morris, Gedde Watanabe, Paul Dooley, Joan Cusack, Carlin Glynn, Blanche Baker, Edward Andrews, Billie Bird, Laine Curtis, Max Showalter, Debbie Pollock, Jami Gertz, Zelda Rubinstein, and John Kapelos

Directed by Douglas Check

Starring John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Griest, Michael O'Hare, Vic Polizos, Eddie Jones, Patricia Richardson, Sam McMurray, John Goodman, Jay Thomas, Peter Michael Goeltz, George Martin, Joe Polito, Frankie Faison, and Kelly Nichols

Directed by John Carpenter

Starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phelan, Ted White, Dirk Blocker, George "Buck" Flower, M.C. Gainey, David Wells and Mickey Jones

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Starring Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Dan Aykroyd, Amrish Puri, Philip Stone, Roshan Seth, Roy Chiao, David Yep, Philip Tan, Chua Kah Joo, D.R. Nanayakkra, Raj Singh, Pat Roach and Nizwar Karanj

Directed by Jerry Zucker and David Zucker

Starring Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Michael Gough, Billy J. Mitchell, Warren Clarke, Christopher Villers, Harry Ditson, Eddie Tagoe, Richard Bonehill, Gertan Klauber, Ian McNeice, Marcus Powell, and Richard Mayes

Directed by Alex Cox

Starring Emillo Estevez, Tracey Walter, Harry Dean Stanton, Dick Rude, Olivia Barrish, Sy Richardson, Susan Barnes, Fox Harris, Tom Finnegan, Zander Schloss, Del Zamora, Biff Yeager, and Miguel Sandoval

Directed by Leonard Nimoy

Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Lloyd, Robin Curtis, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koeing, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Merritt Buttrick, Miguel Ferrer, Phil Morris, John Larroquette, Scott McGinnis, Robert Hicks, Cathie Shirriff, Stephen Liska, Mark Lenard, and James Sikking

Directed by Roger Donaldson

Starring Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day Lewis, Bernard Hill, Philip Davis, Neil Morrisey, Philip Martin Brown, Simon Chandler, Simon Adams, Dexter Fletcher, John Sessions, Richard Graham, Andrew Wilde, and John May

Directed by Michael Radford

Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, Andrew Wilde, David Cann, Roger Lloyd Pack, Christine Hargreaves, Eddie Stacey, Bob Flag, and Annie Lennox

Directed by Mark L. Lester

Starring Drew Barrymore, David Keith, Martin Sheen, George C. Scott, Heather Locklear, Antonio Fargas, Art Carney, Louise Fletcher, Moses Gunn, Leon Rippy, George P. Wilbur, Freddie Jones and George P. Wilbur

Directed by Amy Heckerling

Starring Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marliu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Danny DeVito, Griffin Dunne, Glyniss O'Connor, Dom DeLuise, Ron Carey, Ray Walston, Dick Butkus, Joe Flaherty, Vincent Schiavelli, Taylor Negron, Jack Nance, Lawerence Termo, Alan Hale, Jr., Peter Boyle, and Richard Dimitri

Directed by Sam Firstenberg

Starring Lucinda Dickey, Sho Kusogi, Jordan Bennet, James Hong, David Chung, Pamela Ness, Bob Craig, Roy Padilla, and Dale Ishimato

Directed by Joseph Zito

Starring Ted White, Corey Feldman, Bruce Mahler, Crispin Glover, Erich Anderson, Kimberly Beck, Lawrence Monoson, Clyde Hayes, Barbara Howard, Joan Freeman, Judie Aronson, Camilla More, Carey More, and Wayne Grace

Directed by David Lynch

Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Kenneth McMillan, Alicia Witt, Francesca Annis, Patrick Stewart, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif, Paul L. Smith, Jose Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Max Von Sydow, Freddie Jones, Virgina Madsen, Richard Jordan, Everett McGill, Silvana Mangano, Jack Nance, Sean Young, Sian Phillips, Leonardo Cimino, and Jurgen Prochnow

Directed by Jeannot Swarzc

Starring Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Faye Dunaway, Brenda Vaccoro, Mia Farrow, Peter Cook, Simon Ward, Hart Bochner, Simon Ward, Matt Frewer, Marc McClure, Maureen Teffy, David Healy, Robyn Mandell, and Jenifer Landor

Directed by Milos Forman

Starring Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Jeffrey Jones, Roy Dotrice, Elizabeth Berridge, Christine Ebersole, Simon Callow, Charles Kay, Kenneth McMillan, Kenny Baker, Lisabeth Barlett, Barbara Bryne, Martin Cavina, Cynthia Nixon, Vincent Schiavelli, and Douglas Seale

Directed by Stewart Raffill

Starring Robert Ulrich, Ron Perlman, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts, John Matuszak, Anjelica Huston, John Carradine, Natalie Core, Bruce Vilanch, Max Von Sydow, Ian Abercrombie, and voice of Ron Taylor

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda, Holland Taylor, Mary Ellen Trainor, Ted White, Micheal Cassidy, and Ron Silver

Directed by Ron Howard

Starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dody Goodman, Schecky Greene, Richard B. Schull, Bobby Di Ciccio, Howard Morris, Rance Howard, Clint Howard, Christopher Thomas, and Bill Smitrovich

Directed by Frank Oz

Starring Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goeltz, Richard Hunt, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Juliana Donald, Lonny Price, Louis Zorich, Joan Rivers, Dabney Coleman, Brian Henson, Fran Brill, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, John Landis, Gates McFadden, Art Carney, Gregory Hines, Frances Bergen, James Coco, Linda Lavin, Elliott Gould, Ed Koch, Liza Minnelli, and Brooke Shields

Directed by Steve Barron

Starring Lenny von Dohlen, Virgina Madsen, Don Fellows, Alan Polonsky, Miriam Margoyles, Mary Doran, Maxwell Caufield, and voice of Bud Cort

Directed by Brian DePalma

Starring Craig Wesson, Rebecca Stanley, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd, Dennis Franz, David Haskell, B.J. Jones, Barbara Crampton, Lane Davies, Holly Johnson, Rob Paulsen, and Steven Bauer

Directed by Nick Castle

Starring Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Dan Mason, Dan O'Herlihy, Barbara Bosson, Norman Snow, Kay E. Kuter, Chris Hebert, Peter Nelson, Peggy Pope, Vernon Washington, Ellen Blake, Meg Wyllie, Wil Wheaton, Britt Leach, Bunny Summers, Owen Bush, Marc Alamino, Geoffrey Blake, and Cameron Dye

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Starring Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Richard Libertini, Dana Elcar, Jason Bernard, Selma Diamond, Gailard Sartain, Eric Christmas, Neva Peterson, Basil Hoffman and Michael Ensign

Directed by Joel Silberg

Starring Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers, Ben Lokey, Ice T, Christopher McDonald, Phineas Newborn III, Bruno Falcon, and Timothy Solomon

Directed by Sam Firstenberg

Starring Lucinda Dickey, Alfonso Quinones, Michael Chambers, Susie Coelho, Ice T, Harry Caeser, Jo Dee Winter, John Christy Ewing, Steve Notario, Sabrina Garcia, Kimbery McCollough, Amelia Kinkade, and Lelia Rochon

 

Directed by Russell Mulcahy

Starring Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whitley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue, Judy Morris, John Howard and John Ewart