Drama Movies of 1984
The Bounty
This fourth film dramatization of the 1789 mutiny ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Natural
The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
City Heat
This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Falling in Love
Falling in Love can be described as an urban American Brief Encounter. Reteamed for the first time since The Deer Hunter, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep star as a married ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Vegas Strip War
In this drama, a casino owner (Rock Hudson) fights against his ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Mrs. Soffel
Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Places in the Heart
Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Shooting Party
This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Stone Boy
In this tightly-wound, perceptive film, a young farm boy kills his older brother when a shotgun ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Under the Volcano
A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Footloose
In this lively adolescent-oriented musical, a city kid attempts to adapt to life in an ultra-conservative backwater Midwestern town. ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Swann in Love
This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann, a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Bostonians
Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Henry James, Merchant/Ivory's The Bostonians is set among the Back Bay uppercrust of the 19th century. Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), bored by his opulent lifestyle and ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Burning Rage
When a rash of coal mine fires breaks out underground in Tennessee, the government sends a geologist to assist the small-town residents in preventing tragedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
A Passage to India
A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Songwriter
A good ol' boy comedy-drama, Songwriter flashes ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields is a romanticized adaptation of an eyewitness magazine story by New ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Cotton Club
Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Flashpoint
Bob Logan (Kris Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Treat ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Razor's Edge
In this Bill Murray-driven remake of the 1946 Tyrone Power film, Murray plays the ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Dangerous Moves
Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet exile Pavius Fromm (Alexandre ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Racing with the Moon
Sean Penn graduated to full stardom with the 1984 drama Racing with ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Coproduced by Showtime and PBS, the 1984 TV version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is based on Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Price winning play, previously filmed in 1958 and 1979. Jessica ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The River
This socially conscious family farm drama from director Mark Rydell was his follow up to the Oscar-winning On Golden Pond (1981). Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek star as Tom and Mae Garvey, struggling ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
On the Line
Essentially a tale of romance mixed in with a dash of politics, this engrossing story involves Engracia (Victoria Abril), a young Mexican prostitute working just south of the border with the U.S., and two American ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Set on the streets of New York's Little Italy, this dramatic series of character studies ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Streets of Fire
More like a series of MTV sequences than a long-term narration, this super-thin story line focuses on a kidnapped singer ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Hit
In this offbeat crime film, Willie Parker (Terence ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Iceman
We first see Asian cave dweller John Lone as he wanders around ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
King Lear
Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in the title role and a stellar cast to support him, in the tale of a king torn apart by ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Secret Honor
After resigning in disgrace, Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall) sits at a desk in his study late at night, dictating his memoirs. ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Secrets of a Married Man
Previously titled Trick Eyes and Portrait of a John, this lurid made-for-TV movie is the story of Christopher Jordan ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
C.H.U.D.
People are disappearing all over the Big Apple. Nobody cares, though, because most of the missing are homeless. But when investigative reporter Murphy (J.C. Quinn) tips off principled photographer George Cooper (John Heard) to a ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Country
Released in the mid-1980s, this farm drama stars Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard as Jewell and Gil Ivy, who run a small farm in Iowa that has been in Jewell's family for several generations; her father Otis (Wilford Brimley) lives with ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Birdy
Director Alan Parker tackles this adapation of William Wharton's novel, which retains much of the source material's texture and complexity. Matthew Modine is Birdy, who comes back from Vietnam ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
L'Amour à Mort
Acclaimed French director Alain Resnais, winner of many international film awards for his ground-breaking creativity (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, L'Année ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
A Soldier's Story
Inspired by the Herman Melville novel Billy Budd, writer Charles Fuller created the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play, which he ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Champions
John Hurt plays the British jockey Bob Champion in this true story of how Champion overcame cancer and the rigors of chemotherapy ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Invitation to Hell
This minor made-for-TV effort from horror auteur Wes Craven is one of the oddest attempts at seriously ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
License to Kill
License to Kill is a serious TV movie dealing with the subject of drunken driving. The film begins when a popular high school girl is killed in a head-on ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Dallas: Season 08
As season eight of Dallas gets under way, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) painfully convalesces from the gunshot ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Give My Regards to Broad Street
Having written the music and screenplay for this film, Paul McCartney also plays himself in the leading role. When the sole copy of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Bolero
In a semi-erotic film almost universally lamented, Bo Derek, last wife of the late John Derek (who wrote, directed, and photographed Bolero), plays Ayre, a virginal young woman who, on graduating from an ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Alphabet City
This stylishly photographed drama is set in the Lower East Side area known as "Alphabet City." There ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Miami Vice: Season 01
Season one of Miami Vice finds New York-bred vice cop Ricardo Tubbs ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Karate Kid
Newly arrived in California from New Jersey, teenager Daniel (Ralph Macchio) almost immediately runs afoul of karate-trained high school bullies. ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Baron and the Kid
The "Baron", played by Johnny Cash, is a legendary pool shark. The "Cajun Kid", played by Greg Webb, is the Baron's long-lost son. Once they're reunited, the Baron and the Kid embark upon numerous adventures, ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Hong Kong 1941
This melodrama is one of many that have embraced the period setting of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation of World War II. Chow Yun-Fat, in an award-winning ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Walking the Edge
In this action-crime drama, Jason Walk, an L.A. cab driver, suffers a luckless life. He not only has ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Go Tell It on the Mountain
In this poignant adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about a few generations in the life of an ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Purple Rain
Purple Rain, the first starring film for Prince, is the story of an arrogant, young black singer, ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
A Sunday in the Country
French stage actor Louis Ducreux makes his film debut as a 76-year-old traditionalist painter, Monsieur Ladmiral, in this bittersweet portrait of a brooding artist. A widower, Ladmiral lives on an estate in the ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Les Tricheurs
Like a glossy wrapping around an empty box, this film about sophisticated gamblers with nothing deeper than their gambling addiction involves a ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Future of Emily
In this excellent drama centered around family relationships, especially that of parent and child, the problems of single motherhood are addressed from several ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Nadia
This made-for-television biopic tells the story of phenomenal Rumanian gymnast Nadia ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Seventeenth Bride
This WW II drama is set in a Czech village and centers on a strong 30-year-old Jewish woman who must marry a man she dislikes to avoid being sent to a work camp. Eventually the stress of the marriage, the ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
A Year of the Quiet Sun
The Polish Year of the Quiet Sun is set in the years following World War II. In a small Polish town, a United Nations war-crimes ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
They're Playing With Fire
In this deplorable Howard Avedis film masquerading as a horror flic, Dianne Stevens (Sybil ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
El Sinverguenza
When a man's passion for gambling becomes too extreme, he manages to lose all of his worldly possessions. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Boy Meets Girl
A depressed aspiring filmmaker falls in love with a suicidal young woman in this off-beat French drama, the second ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Breakdancing, hip-hop, rap, and a good time are the main stars of this standard teen movie about youths trying to raise ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Children in the Crossfire
Children in the Crossfire examines the plight of the youngest victims of Northern Ireland's never-ending religious strife. Amidst the speeding ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Come Along with Me
Actress Joanne Woodward made her (surprisingly unheralded) directorial debut with Come Along ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Far Pavilions
The lavishly produced three-part telemovie The Far ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Four Days in July
The setting of Mike Leigh's Four Days in July is Belfast in the mid-'80s, just before the annual July 12th march of The Orangemen to celebrate the 17th century victory of the Protestant William of ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Half Slave, Half Free is the reissue title for African-American director Gordon Parks' TV movie Solomon Northup's Odyssey. Based on the autobiography ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
I Believe in Santa Claus
In this standard children's story, Simon (Emeric Chapuis) wants Saint Nick to please find his parents, who are missing somewhere in Africa, and so he and a friend sneak off during a class ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
In Search of a Golden Sky
Three children, who fear being put into a foster home after the death of their parents, take flight into the wilderness with their uncle. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Jesse Owens Story
Dorian Harewood stars as the legendary black athlete in this made-for-TV biography that ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
La Isla Encantada
Join Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday who are chased by beasts and cannibals while fighting off pirates in this adventure drama. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Mary Stuart
The English National Opera presents this version of ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
New York Nights
New York Nights is a boring, poorly acted adaptation of the much more ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens' richly detailed story of a young ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Quilombo
Quilombo de Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Those Glory, Glory Days
This weak, self-conscious, made-for-TV comedy (one of producer David Puttnam's "First Love" series) is about four girlfriends who play soccer during their teen years and cheer on their favorite soccer players as ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Wo Die Grünen Ameisen Träumen
In a slightly padded but well-acted and relevant drama, an Australian mining company and a group of aboriginals go to court to settle a dispute over ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Öszi Almanach
Possibly inspired by the existential play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, this story about five ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
No End
The late, celebrated Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski) has created a downbeat but emotionally harrowing, magic realist tale in this film about a fictional couple whose lives ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
The Parade
A small Kansas town's preparations for its annual Fourth of July parade provide the backdrop of this drama that centers around the sudden turmoil experienced by three generations of women in a family when one of their husbands is ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
Vidas Errantes
Director Juan Antonio De La Riva's first film, Vidas Errantes is in some ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
A Woman of Substance
The made-for-television adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance stars Jenny Seagrove as Emma Harte, a character who grows from maid to internationally feared and respected businesswoman. ... [ Drama movie - 1984 ]
