1984 movies

They’re Playing with Fire (1984)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sybil Danning | Eric Brown | Andrew Prine | Paul Clemens | K.T. Stevens | Gene Bicknell | Curt Ayers | Dominick Brascia | Bill Conklin | Therese Hanses | Greg Kaye | Suzanne Kennedy | Violet Manes | Alvy Moore | Joe Portaro
Directors: Howard Avedis
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During the opening sequences, a college student is seduced by his college professor. After that, it is disclosed that her husband has concocted a devilish scheme to steal millions from an inheritance fund run by his dotty grandmother and totally nasty mother. However, all of that is cast aside for the goings-on of a masked lunatic who is slaughtering the cast in best Jason style.

Secret Honor (1984)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Philip Baker Hall
Directors: Robert Altman
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In this speculative one-man drama, we see former President Richard Milhous Nixon alone in his study, dictating his thoughts into a tape recorder. His only company are a four-screen closed-circuit TV setup, the portraits on the walls, a bottle of Chivas Regal - and a loaded pistol. At times addressing an imaginary judge in a court of public opinion, at other times speaking to an aide named Roberto, and sometimes just talking to himself, the former chief executive reflects, in a series of meandering monologues, on his humble Quaker upbringing, his school days, his family and a political career that reached all the way to the White House. Nixon rails at his treatment by the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the “goddam Kennedys,” J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Kissinger, Jews, liberals, the media, “East Coast shits,” among others, as he leads up to the “true” reasons for the Watergate scandal that resulted in his resignation - an act he regards as one of “secret honor.”

Making the Grade (1984)

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Judd Nelson | Jonna Lee | Gordon Jump | Walter Olkewicz | Ronald Lacey | Dana Olsen | Carey Scott | Scott McGinnis | Andrew Dice Clay | John Dye | John Stevens | Lucile Doan Ewing | Patrice Watson | Robert Meltzer | Moses Peace
Directors: Dorian Walker
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Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Eddie falls in love with preppie gal Tracey, upsetting Biff, the Hoover Academy bully. When his bookie from the old neighborhood, Dice, comes to collect on Eddie’s gambling debts and Palmer returns early from Europe, the the scheme slowly starts to unravel. Soon, Eddie can’t even tell whose side he’s really on.

Night Patrol (1984)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Linda Blair | Pat Paulsen | Jaye P. Morgan | Jack Riley | Billy Barty | Murray Langston | Pat Morita | Sydney Lassick | Kent Perkins | Lori Sutton | Roxanne Cybelle | Joe Battaglia | Mik One | Alex Folks
Directors: Jackie Kong
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Melvin is a pathetic loser of a motorcycle cop who gets demoted to working the night shift as a punishment for his constant screw-ups. During his off-duty time, however, Melvin turns to his secret obsession: comedy. He puts a paper bag over his head and performs in front of audiences as “The Unknown Comic”. Unable to balance his two lives, he seeks psychiatric help to try and resolve who he really wants to be.

Unfaithfully Yours (1984)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Dudley Moore | Nastassja Kinski | Armand Assante | Albert Brooks | Cassie Yates | Richard Libertini | Richard B. Shull | Jan Triska | Jane Hallaren | Bernard Behrens | Leonard Mann | Estelle Omens | Penny Peyser | Nicholas Mele | Benjamin Rayson
Directors: Howard Zieff
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Claude Eastman, is a composer and conductor. He is married to Daniella, who is half his age. While away on a trip he told his Italian driver, Giuseppe, to tell his friend Norman to keep an eye on her, or take care of her. But his english is not too good, so Norman thought he was saying that Claude wanted him to hire a private eye to keep tabs on her. Which he did. Claude tells him that it’s ok but the man Norman hired gives him his report and it says something happened while he was away. Claude, of course, tells him to throw it away but after Norman leaves, Claude tries to retrieve it and tries to read it but Daniella’s there, when Giuseppe destoys it, he goes to the man Norman hired to get a copy. He tells Claude that a man went into his apartment while he was away and left at an unusual hour, and that he also has a video. Claude tells him to destroy it but shortly after leaving returns so that he can watch it. Now the video’s a little fuzzy but clearly he can see that the man wears a particular type of clothing. Claude goes around checking every man he knows to see if they wear that clothing. He discovers that Max, his protege and a ladies man wears it. After confronting Daniella, she is harboring a secret but not what Claude thinks it is, so when she tells Claude that it’s no big thing, Claude freaks out, and is planning to kill her and frame Max but an unforeseen circumstance disrupts the perfect plan he dreamed up.

Electric Dreams (1984)

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Lenny von Dohlen | Virginia Madsen | Maxwell Caulfield | Bud Cort | Don Fellows | Alan Polonsky | Wendy Miller | Harry Rabinowitz | Miriam Margolyes | Holly De Jong | Stella Maris | Mary Doran | Diana Choy | Jim Steck | Gary Pettinger
Directors: Steve Barron
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This upbeat love story features an architect named Miles who decides to modernize his life by buying a computer. Not knowing a thing about them he purchases the biggest most power system he can get ahold of, and wastes no time in having all sorts of accidents - dropping it, spilling wine on it, cross wiring it. All of which ends up causing something amazing to happen, the computer gains self-awareness! Using it’s word processor, speakers and microphone the computer learns to communicate with Miles and they become friends as he teaches it about life. Then a pretty cello player moves in next door and the shy Miles and super-intelligent but inexperienced computer conspire to get her to love Miles in the best tradition of Cyrano. After the computer and the woman start to share music together through the heating ducts the computer falls for the woman too. Soon man and machine are battling for who has the right to date her. In the end the computer concludes that it doesn’t have a chance with the woman and wishes the couple a happy life together. It downloads itself into the electrical system and departs for destinations unknown, but not before invading a local radio station’s computers to request a musical tribute to the new couple.

The Element of Crime (1984)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark
Actors: Michael Elphick | Esmond Knight | Me Me Lai | Jerold Wells | Ahmed El Shenawi | Astrid Henning-Jensen | János Herskó | Stig Larsson | Harry Harper | Roman Moszkowicz | Frederik Casby | Duke Addabayo | Jon Bang Carlsen | Leif Magnusson
Directors: Lars von Trier
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A European police detective living in Cairo undergoes hypnosis therapy to deal with headaches caused by his last case. He recounts spending two months in a dystopian Europe investigating the serial killings of young girls who sell lottery tickets. While the current police force there employ clumsy methods, he continues to use the controversial theoretical methods of his now disgraced former mentor. He becomes obsessed with a suspect from previous similar killings, and using an old surveillance report retraces the steps of that suspect. As the journey progresses, the differences between the cop and the serial killer become blurred.

Footloose (1984)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Lori Singer | John Lithgow | Dianne Wiest | Chris Penn | Sarah Jessica Parker | John Laughlin | Elizabeth Gorcey | Frances Lee McCain | Jim Youngs | Douglas Dirkson | Lynne Marta | Arthur Rosenberg | Timothy Scott | Alan Haufrect
Directors: Herbert Ross
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Classic tale of teen rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he’s in for a real case of culture shock. Though he tries hard to fit in, the streetwise Ren can’t quite believe he’s living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. There is one small pleasure, however: Ariel, a troubled but lovely blonde with a jealous boyfriend. and a Bible-thumping minister, who is responsible for keeping the town dance-free. Ren and his classmates want to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom is around the corner, but only Ren has the courage to initiate a battle to abolish the outmoded ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed townspeople. Fast-paced drama is filled with such now-famous hit songs as the title track and “Let’s Hear It for the Boy.”

Missing in Action (1984)

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Genres: Action | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Chuck Norris | M. Emmet Walsh | David Tress | Lenore Kasdorf | James Hong | Ernie Ortega | Pierrino Mascarino | Erich Anderson | Joseph Carberry | Avi Kleinberger | Willie Williams | Ric Segreto | Bella Flores | Gil Arceo | Roger Dantes
Directors: Joseph Zito
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Braddock, a man who was a POW in Vietnam, who just recently came back, is asked by an American delegation to go to Vietnam to see if there are any POW’s there. When he arrives the General in charge makes some disparaging remarks to Braddock and they accuse him of crimes against them. Braddock later goes to the General and demands to know where the POW’s are and after telling Braddock he tries to kill him but Braddock kills him. Later he is asked to leave, he then goes to Thailand to see a friend and to try and get those men out. But he is being pursued by a man who tortured him when he was a prisoner.

Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers (1984)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Cheech Marin | Roy Dotrice | Shelby Chong | Rikki Marin | Edie McClurg | Robbi Chong | Rae Dawn Chong | Kay Dotrice | Jennie C. Kos | Martin Pepper | Yvan Chiffre | Dan Schwartz | Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Directors: Tommy Chong
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Two brothers who can feel each others’ pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.