28 Up

1984

English

8.1

♡ 6

Action

Biography

Documentary

Michael Apted Director

Lynn Johnson as Herself

Neil Hughes as Himself

Paul Kligerman as Himself

Michael Apted as Interviewer

Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted's documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wondering whether they've found their place in the world.

Scream for Help

1984

English

5.8

♡ 10

45%

Michael Winner Director

Tony Sibbald as Bob Dealey

Burnell Tucker as Mr. Ralston

Clare Burt as Patty Sea

Bruce Boa as Surgeon

A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.

Johnny Dangerously

1984

English

6.5

♡ 13

44%

Amy Heckerling Director

Chuck Hicks as Governor

Michael Keaton as Johnny Kelly / Johnny Dangerously

Rick Rosenthal as Judge

Shelley Pogoda as Woman

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Hardbodies

1984

English

4.9

♡ 18

33%

middle ages (476-1453)

older man younger woman relationship

politically incorrect

psychotronic

Mark Griffiths Director

Leslee Bremmer as Photo Session Hardbody

Courtney Gains as Rag

Joyce Jameson as Rounder's Mom

Grant Cramer as Scotty

Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.

Night Patrol

1984

English

4.7

♡ 8

Jackie Kong Director

Billy Barty as Captain Lewis

Jack Riley as Doctor Ziegler

Linda Blair as Officer Sue Perman

Andrew Dice Clay as Tony

Melvin White, a neurotic, accident-prone cop who gets demoted to the night shift, secretly moonlights as the Unknown Comic, an anonymous stand-up comedian who performs with a paper bag over his head. When someone using the same guise commits a string of bar robberies in town, some begin to suspect that White is the culprit.

The Runner

1984

Persian

♡ 20

100%

Amir Naderi Director

Abbas Nazeri as

Musa Torkizadeh as

Behrouz Maghsoudlou as

Madjid Niroumand as Amiro

A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and collecting deposit bottles. Although he sometimes finds himself at odds with both adults and competing older kids, he finds solace in dreams about departing cargo ships and airplanes—and by running.

White Fire

1984

English

4.7

♡ 6

Jean-Marie Pallardy Director

Benito Stefanelli as Barbossa

Robert Ginty as Boris 'Bo' Donnelly

Fred Williamson as Noah Barclay

Mirella Banti as Sophia

While working in a diamond mine located in the desert, Bo and Ingrid, two siblings who survived a massacre as children, make a surprising discovery.

Mutant

1984

English

5.1

♡ 11

Mark Rosman Director

Cary Guffey as Billy

Danny Nelson as Jack

Lee Montgomery as Mike Cameron

Wallace Wilkinson as Mr. Mitchell

When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him until Josh discovers that the whole town and most of it's people have been infected by a form of toxic waste, and they have all turned into toxic vampires whom prowl the streets at night for human blood!

Mermaid Legend

1984

Japanese

7.0

♡ 13

Toshiharu Ikeda Director

Takashi Kanda as Lawyer Hanaoka

Kentarô Shimizu as Miyamoto Shouhei

Seiji Miyaguchi as Tatsuo

Yoshirô Aoki as Terumasa Miyamoto

After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.

Antonio Gaudí

1984

Japanese

7.2

♡ 5

Hiroshi Teshigahara Director

Seiji Miyaguchi as Boada

Isidro Puig Boada as Self

Antoni Gaudí as Subject - Artist

Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject's organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film.

Runaway

1984

English

5.9

♡ 20

48%

Michael Crichton Director

G.W. Bailey as Chief

Tom Selleck as Jack Ramsay

Barbara Harris as Police Voice #1

Stephen E. Miller as Rudy

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

Law with Two Phases

1984

Cn

6.7

♡ 5

Action

Crime

Drama

Danny Lee Director

Chi-Wang Wong as (as Chi-Wing Wong)

Kwong-Chin Tsang as (as Stephen Chang Gwong Chin)

Parkman Wong as Blacky

Eddie Chan as Inspector Yip Che-Kit

Chief B (Danny Lee) is an unconventional CID member who relies more on instincts rather than by the book to resolve situations. He's a down-to-earth fellow who's a mamma's boy, not too well-educated, and an outstanding member of the CID. Police Officer Kit (Eddie Chan) has just been promoted from the rank-and-file to CID, and at the same time is studying for the test to become an Inspector. Chief B takes him under his wings to investigate numerous gang-related cases. Kit, previously a by-the-book type of police officer, learns a lot from Chief B.

Mrs. Soffel

1984

English

6.1

♡ 6

46%

Gillian Armstrong Director

Mel Gibson as Ed Biddle

Heather Graham as Factory Girl

Diane Keaton as Kate Soffel

David Fox as McNeil

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

Joy of Sex

1984

English

3.9

♡ 15

46%

Action

based on novel or book

Martha Coolidge Director

Cameron Dye as Alan Holt

Christopher Lloyd as Coach Hindenberg

Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Jock #2

Paul Tulley as Ted

Mistakenly believing that she has just weeks to live, teenager Leslie Hindenberg tries to lose her virginity before she dies.

Not for Publication

1984

English

5.0

♡ 2

40%

Paul Bartel Director

David Naughton as Barry Denver

Laurence Luckinbill as Mayor Franklyn

Cork Hubbert as Odo

John William Galt as Teddy, The Robber

A tabloid reporter and her new photographer, who've recently started working for the mayor of New York City, stumble upon evidence of conspiracy and political corruption that may involve their beloved mayor.

Perfect Strangers

1984

English

5.4

♡ 8

17%

Larry Cohen Director

Stephen Lack as Lieutenant Burns

Ann Magnuson as Malda

Larry Cohen as Man on street

Anne Carlisle as Sally

A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.

The Happy Ghost

1984

Cn

6.2

♡ 5

Clifton Ko Director

Bonnie Law as Bonnie Lam

Siu Gong Ng as Joe

Brenda Lo as Twiggy

Sandy Lamb as Venus Koo

From a camping trip, a college girl took home an ancient rope to use to keep her torn backpack in place, not knowing it was used by a disgraced scholar to hang himself with decades before. The scholar's ghost resurrects at her school and befriended her and her two friends, and teaches them the importance of academic success, love, family and friendship.

Against All Odds

1984

English

5.9

♡ 23

64%

Taylor Hackford Director

Allen Williams as Bob Soames

Bill McKinney as Head Coach

James Woods as Jake Wise

Jeff Bridges as Terry Brogan

Having been cut from his professional football team, down-and-out athlete Terry Brogan is in desperate need of money. Crooked nightclub owner and bookie Jake Wise offers Terry a hefty sum to go to Mexico and find his girlfriend, Jessie Wyler. Terry cannot turn the offer down. When Terry locates Jessie, the two fall in love. Terry reports that he failed to find her, but Jake sends someone else. Terry and Jessie's love must endure unexpected twists.

The Lost Empire

1984

English

4.7

♡ 27

28%

Jim Wynorski Director

Kenneth Tobey as Capt. Hendry

Jason Stuart as Gay Dude

Blackie Dammett as Prager

Jeff Burr as Servant Pouring Wine

A police officer and her two companions battle an evil genius with diabolical plans to destroy the world. Whoever can find the three sacred jewels can anticipate total power.