Films of the 1980s: 1984 (2025 Edition)

[BleuPanda]

You can post a list of anywhere between 5 and 20 films (or more, but only 20 will be counted) from the period we're covering. The deciding factor in terms of release dates is the IMDb list and the top 15 of each year will go on to the final top 150 (plus a few bonus films). New rounds will be posted on the 16th and first day of each month. The deadline for this poll is January 31st.

The points scheme is as follows:
1. 50
2. 45
3. 40
4. 36
5. 32
6. 28
7. 25
8. 22
9. 19
10. 16
11. 14
12. 13
13. 12
14. 11
15. 10
16. 9
17. 8
18. 7
19. 6
20. 5

However, these are the maximum amounts of points. If you want to put certain films on your list but don't want to give them too many points, you can choose to give these less points than in this scheme (but never more) to decrease the impact on the overall results. If you don't specifically state that you want to give (some of) your films fewer points, I will assume the standard scheme.

Previous 1984 results:
1. (5.) Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone/USA-Italy/Crime), 275 points, 9 votes , 2 #1 votes
2. (1.) Paris, Texas – Wim Wenders (UK / France / West Germany), 267 points, 10 votes , 1 #1 vote
3. (7.) The Terminator (James Cameron/USA/SciFi Action), 247 points, 9 votes , 2 #1 votes
4. (6.) Amadeus (Milos Forman), 239 points, 9 votes , 1 #1 vote
5. (4.) Stop Making Sense – Jonathan Demme (USA), 219 points, 7 votes , 2 #1 votes
6. (2.) This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner USA), 185 points, 9 votes , 1 #1 vote
7. (3.) Blood Simple (Joel and Ethan Coen/USA/Crime), 182 points, 8 votes , 0 #1 votes
8. (8.) Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch USA), 152 points, 7 votes , 0 #1 votes
9. (13.) Forbrydelsens element (The Element of Crime) | Lars von Trier | Denmark, 114 points, 3 votes , 2 #1 votes
10. (23.) Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (Edgar Reitz FRG), 109 points, 4 votes , 1 #1 vote
11. (12.) 風の谷のナウシカ [Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind] | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan, 105 points, 6 votes , 0 #1 votes
12. (9.) Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman/USA/SciFi Comedy), 102 points, 8 votes , 0 #1 votes
13. (19.) Another Country – Marek Kanievska (UK), 94 points, 4 votes , 0 #1 votes
14. (--) ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! (What Have I Done To Deserve This?) (Pedro Almodovar ESP), 89 points, 3 votes , 1 #1 vote
15. (21.) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Steven Spielberg (USA), 78 points, 5 votes , 0 #1 votes

Personal favorite recommendations:
BleuPanda: Streetwise (Martin Bell)
acroamor: Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
The Humphreys: Klassenverhältnisse/Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
Michel: Birdy (Alan Parker)
Greg: The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles)
bonnielaurel: Body Double (Brian De Palma)
Petri: A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)

[BleuPanda]

5 stars (top 250):
1. Stop Making Sense

4.5 stars (top 1000):
2. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
3. Paris, Texas
4. Once Upon a Time in America
5. The Terminator
6. Streetwise
7. This Is Spinal Tap
8. Amadeus
9. Love Streams
10. Stranger Than Paradise

4 stars (great):
11. Repo Man
12. My Friend Ivan Lapshin
13. Blood Simple
14. Ghostbusters
15. Broadway Danny Rose
16. A Nightmare on Elm Street
17. Twenty Years Later
18. Threads
19. Heimat
20. Top Secret!

3.5 stars (good):
21. Yellow Earth
22. Gremlins
23. The Karate Kid

3 stars (above average):
24. Dune
25. The NeverEnding Story
26. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
27. The Element of Crime
28. The Toxic Avenger

[acroamor]

1. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
2. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Streetwise (Martin Bell)
4. 28 Up (Michael Apted)
5. Vengeance Is Mine (Michael Roemer)
6. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
7. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
8. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
9. Secret Honor (Robert Altman)
10. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
11. The Terminator (James Cameron)
12. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)
13. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
14. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
15. Threads (Mick Jackson)
16. The Killing Floor (Bill Duke)
17. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
18. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
19. Twenty Years Later/A Man Marked for Death (Eduardo Coutinho)
20. The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein)

(typed this too quickly the first time and invented a new movie called "A Nightmare on Blood Simple")

[bonnielaurel]

1. What Have I Done to Deserve This? [¿Qué he hecho YO para merecer esto!!]
2. Ciske de Rat
3. Another Country
4. Body Double
5. Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany [Heimat - Eine Chronik in elf Teilen]
6. The Hotel New Hampshire
7. Amadeus
8. Ronia, the Robber's Daughter [Ronja Rövardotter]
9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
10. Ghostbusters
11. The Woman in Red
12. Footloose
13. Paris, Texas
14. Once Upon a Time in America
15. Splash
16. Sixteen Candles
17. The Company of Wolves
18. Full Moon in Paris [Les nuits de la pleine lune]
19. Broadway Danny Rose
20. Romancing the Stone

[Michel]

1. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
2. Amadeus (Miloš Forman)
3. Forbrydelsens element [The Element of Crime] (Lars von Trier)
4. Another Country (Marek Kanievska)
5. Birdy (Alan Parker)
6. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
7. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein)
9. Bianca (Nanni Moretti)
10. The Hit (Stephen Frears)
11. The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé)
12. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
13. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
14. L' amour à mort [Love Unto Death] (Alain Resnais)
15. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
16. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
17. Un dimanche à la campagne [A Sunday in the Country] (Bertrand Tavernier)
18. Maria's Lovers (Andrei Konchalovsky)
19. Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
20. The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola)

[Humphrey17]

All the 1984 films we've seen. Count the top 19:

Awesome

1. Stranger than Paradise - Jim Jarmusch
2. 風の谷のナウシカ [Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind] - Hayao Miyazaki
3. Blood Simple - Joel & Ethan Coen
4. Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders

Very good

5. This Is Spinal Tap - Rob Reiner
6. Love Streams - John Cassavetes
7. Klassenverhältnisse [Class Relations] - Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
8. Amadeus - Miloš Forman
9. A Passage to India - David Lean
10. Once upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone

Good

11. Cabra marcado para morrer [Twenty Years Later] - Eduardo Coutinho
12. Repo Man - Alex Cox
13. Flußfahrt mit Huhn - Arend Agthe
14. Frankenweenie - Tim Burton
15. Ghostbusters - Ivan Reitman
16. Beverly Hills Cop - Martin Brest

OK

17. The Terminator - James Cameron
18. The Cotton Club - Francis Ford Coppola
19. Romancing the Stone - Robert Zemeckis

Meh

20. A Nightmare on Elm Street - Wes Craven

Bad

21. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Hugh Hudson

[The_Claw]

1. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
3. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
4. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
5. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
6. The Terminator (James Cameron)
7. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
9. Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen)
10. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
11. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
12. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
13. The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein)
14. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
15. ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? [What Have I Done to Deserve This?] (Pedro Almodóvar)
16. 風の谷のナウシカ [Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind] (Hayao Miyazaki)
17. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)
18. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
19. The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé)
20. Gremlins (Joe Dante)

[whuntva]

1) Amadeus
2) Stop Making Sense
3) Once Upon a Time in America
4) This is Spinal Tap
5) The Terminator
6) 28 Up
7) A Year of Quiet Sun
8) Gremlins
9) Paris, Texas
10) The Neverending Story
11) Ghostbusters
12) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
13) Repo Man
14) A Sunday in the Country
15) Charade

[Petri]

1. Paris, Texas
2. Blood Simple
3. The Terminator
4. Stop Making Sense
5. Once Upon a Time in America
6. Stranger Than Paradise
7. Forbrydelsens element [The Element of Crime]
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street
9. 黄土地 [Yellow Earth]
10. Amadeus
11. 風の谷のナウシカ [Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]
12. This Is Spinal Tap
13. Beverly Hills Cop
14. Repo Man
15. Police Academy
16. The NeverEnding Story
17. ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! [What Have I Done to Deserve This?]
18. Hrafninn flýgur [When the Raven Flies]
19. Klaani: Tarina Sammakoitten suvusta [The Clan: Tale of the Frogs]
20. Nineteen Eighty-Four