Shepherd's Delight

1984

English

6.7

♡ 2

Action

John Smith Director

Jenni Morley as Comfort user

Roger Ollerhead as Drinker

Nick Houghton as FBI agent

David Parsons as Hamlet

Many of my films involve humour, but unlike the earlier work Shepherd’s Delight attempts to confront the problem of humour head-on, referring directly (since a large part of the film is composed of jokes and their analysis) to the viewer’s perception of the film itself. The film is largely concerned with how context determines the reading of information. Since the film’s statements oscillate between the deadly serious (concentrating particularly on an examination of the more sinister aspects of humour) and the totally bogus, with no clearly defined points of changeover, the context is often ambiguous. Hopefully, this strategy undermines both the authority of the ‘serious’ statements and any predictable effect of the ‘jokes’. John Smith, 1984

La garce

1984

French

5.3

♡ 1

Christine Pascal Director

Isabelle Huppert as Aline Kaminker / Édith Weber

Vicky Messica as Contre-maître Nando

Jean-Pierre Moulin as Cordet

Mado Maurin as Madame Pasquet

After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangster and his former girlfriend…the same woman who sent the cop to prison years before.

Boy Meets Girl

1984

French

6.9

♡ 3

100%

Leos Carax Director

Denis Lavant as Alex

Dominique Reymond as La voisine

Hans Meyer as Le cosmonaute

Maïté Nahyr as Maite

In Paris at night, a young aspiring filmmaker grapples with heartbreak after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend. After a failed attempt to confront his friend, he wanders the streets and encounters a girl who has just been abandoned. Their paths cross at a party, bringing together two tormented souls.

A Passage to India

1984

English

7.3

♡ 47

77%

based on novel or book

David Lean Director

Art Malik as Ali

James Fox as Fielding

Clive Swift as Major Callendar

Nigel Havers as Ronny

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

Swann in Love

1984

French

6.5

♡ 4

56%

53%

19th century

based on novel or book

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Alain Delon as Baron de Charlus

Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann

Marie-Christine Barrault as Madame Verdurin

Ornella Muti as Odette de Crecy

In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes, in part, from Odette's complete disinterest in him. When he finally weds her, utterly compromising himself in high society, he finds to his horror that his love for her was a complete illusion. At the same time, the Baron de Charlus pursues his own ill-advised romance.

The Funeral

1984

Japanese

7.2

♡ 9

100%

Jûzô Itami Director

Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Assistant director

Kaoru Kobayashi as Inose

Masahiko Tsugawa as Kimura

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Wabisuke Inoue

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.

Lady Libertine

1984

English

4.6

♡ 2

Drama

Romance

Gérard Kikoïne Director

Alain Dumaurier as Comte Ricky von Harmstorf

Emmanuel Karsen as Jeffrey Brook

April Hyde as Leslie

Jacques Ferry as Watson

Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers.

The Lion of Flanders

5.5

Hugo Claus Director

Pol Goossen as

Hans De Munter as Adolf van Nieuwland

Maxim Hamel as De Valois

Hans Royaards as Filips van Lichtervelde

A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.

Combat Shock

1984

English

6.2

♡ 3

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Buddy Giovinazzo Director

Rick Giovinazzo as Frankie Dunlan

Ralph Cordero as Man Pushing Wheelchair

Buddy Giovinazzo as Social Worker

Eddie Pepitone as Terry - Strung-Out Junkie

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.

Delta Space Mission

1984

Romanian

6.3

♡ 5

alien dog

alien life-form

Animation

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

Sci-Fi

space travel

super computer

Calin Cazan Director

Marcel Iures as (voice)

Ion Chelaru as (voice)

Dan Condurache as (voice) (as Dan Conourache)

Mirela Gorea as (voice) (as Mirela Gorea-Chelaru)

An advanced spaceship called Delta is created to establish dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist boards the ship, she and the captain realize the AI that controls the ship can act on its own.

Crimes of Passion

1984

English

6.4

♡ 21

50%

Ken Russell Director

Annie Potts as Amy Grady

Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Ben

John Laughlin as Bobby Grady

Dan Gerrity as Group Member No.1

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

Sixteen Candles

1984

English

7.0

♡ 85

81%

John Hughes Director

John Cusack as Bryce

Joan Cusack as Geek Girl #1

Paul Dooley as Jim Baker

Molly Ringwald as Samantha Baker

With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.

An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty

1984

Cn

6.6

♡ 3

Eddie Ling-Ching Fong Director To Kong

To Kong as

Lai Wang as Master of Monastery

Ting-Sheng Lin as Prince Zhe

Alex Man as Tsui Po-Hau / swordsman

Rebellious Yu Yuan-gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by the society and focus on her studies and poetry. However, her trysts with both her maid and a ronin lead to trouble.

Vengeance Is Mine

1984

English

7.3

♡ 4

Drama

Michael Roemer Director

Trish Van Devere as Donna

Ari Meyers as Jackie

Brooke Adams as Jo

Jon DeVries as Tom

Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her miserable childhood, a troubled young woman finds her new friendship with a neighbor has her stuck in another family drama.

Where the Boys Are

1984

English

4.2

♡ 6

Hy Averback Director

Stephen Moore as Jeff

Russell Todd as Scott Nash

Dan Fitzgerald as Sgt. Porter

Christopher McDonald as Tony

Four college co-eds travel to Fort Lauderdale for their Easter week of Spring Break, and become involved in a series of adventures and misadventures

The Ice Pirates

1984

English

5.6

♡ 21

17%

Stewart Raffill Director

Alan Caillou as Count Paisley

Ian Abercrombie as Hymie

Mary Crosby as Princess Karina

Ron Perlman as Zeno

In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled by an evil emperor presiding over a trade oligarchy that controls all mining and sale of ice from asteroids and comets.

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter

1984

Swedish

7.3

♡ 8

88%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

Tage Danielsson Director

Philip Zandén as Adelsherre

Per Oscarsson as Borka

Lena Nyman as Lovis

Allan Edwall as Skalle-Per

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronia have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.

Angel

1984

English

5.8

♡ 15

Robert Vincent O'Neil Director

Dick Shawn as Mae

Elaine Giftos as Patricia Allen

Peter Jason as The John

Ross Hagen as Urban Cowboy

Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.

Next of Kin

1984

English

6.9

♡ 3

66%

Comedy

Drama

Atom Egoyan Director

Arsinée Khanjian as Azah Deryan

Atom Egoyan as Birthday Guest / Man Taking Suitcase at Airport

Paul Babiak as Deryan Counsellor

Sirvart Fazlian as Sonya Deryan

Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada. Peter decides to visit this family, and he pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. The Deryan family welcomes him with open arms, and Peter tries to patch up the poor relationship between George Deryan and his daughter Azah.

Finders Keepers

1984

English

5.3

♡ 4

25%

Richard Lester Director

Jim Carrey as Lane Biddlecoff

Frances Flanagan as Nadine Gardner

John Schuck as Police Chief Norris

Campbell Lane as Stanton-Gilmore

On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He gets more than he bargained for from the train and the coffin.

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La garce

Boy Meets Girl

A Passage to India

Swann in Love

The Funeral

Lady Libertine

The Lion of Flanders

Combat Shock

Delta Space Mission

Crimes of Passion

Sixteen Candles

An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty

Vengeance Is Mine

Where the Boys Are

The Ice Pirates

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter

Angel

Next of Kin

Finders Keepers