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Best Movies of 1984 Ranked

The definitive guide to the greatest movies released in 1984. Ranked by IMDb and TMDB community scores with detailed overviews.

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Scooby-Doo's A Nutcracker Scoob Poster

#1. Scooby-Doo's A Nutcracker Scoob (1984)

★ 9.0/10 68 votes

The evil is set to damper another Christmas season for the children's home. Can the Scooby gang warm his heart?

Twenty Years Later Poster

#2. Twenty Years Later (1984)

★ 8.4/10 77 votes

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

Once Upon a Time in America Poster

#3. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

★ 8.4/10 6,298 votes

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Stop Making Sense Poster

#4. Stop Making Sense (1984)

★ 8.4/10 403 votes

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.

¡Mamá, soy Paquito! Poster

#5. ¡Mamá, soy Paquito! (1984)

★ 8.1/10 31 votes

Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.

Paris, Texas Poster

#6. Paris, Texas (1984)

★ 8.1/10 2,362 votes

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Amadeus Poster

#7. Amadeus (1984)

★ 8.0/10 4,987 votes

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Bruce Lee, the Legend Poster

#8. Bruce Lee, the Legend (1984)

★ 7.9/10 114 votes

The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.

Thus Spoke Bellavista Poster

#9. Thus Spoke Bellavista (1984)

★ 7.9/10 157 votes

In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, however, the quiet life of the building of Bellavista will be disturbed by the arrival of a director of Milan. Between Naples and Milan there contrast, because the Neapolitans are accustomed to enjoy a quiet life, always based on the "philosophy of pleasure and delay", while the northern Italians are very strict and punctual.

Warriors of the Wind Poster

#10. Warriors of the Wind (1984)

★ 7.9/10 4,258 votes

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

The Honest One Poster

#11. The Honest One (1984)

★ 7.9/10 66 votes

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.

The Holy Innocents Poster

#12. The Holy Innocents (1984)

★ 7.8/10 134 votes

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper Poster

#13. Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper (1984)

★ 7.8/10 34 votes

Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.

The Three Veterans Poster

#14. The Three Veterans (1984)

★ 7.8/10 40 votes

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.

Nothing Left to Do But Cry Poster

#15. Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)

★ 7.7/10 1,202 votes

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

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