A Soldier's Story (1984)

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Summary: A family weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of everything, in a film noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.

Release Date: March 09, 1984

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Tony Richardson

Writers: John Irving

, Tony Richardson

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Filmline Productions, Producers Circle, Woodfall Film Productions, Yellowbill Productions Limited

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO), Kino Lorber, MGM Domestic Television Distribution, MGM Home Entertainment, Orion Home Video, TGG Direct, Vestron Video, Video Treasures

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,500,000

Domestic: $ 5,142,858

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)

Summary: A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.

Release Date: December 21, 1984

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Director: Sam Firstenberg

Writers: Charles Parker

, Allen DeBevoise

, Jan Ventura

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: TriStar Pictures, The Cannon Group

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Viacom

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 15,101,131

Purple Rain (1984)

Summary: A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.

Release Date: July 27, 1984

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Albert Magnoli

Writers: Albert Magnoli

, William Blinn

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Purple Films, Water

Distributor: HBO Max, Home Box Office (HBO), TV Land, VH1 Television, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 70,261,052

International: $ 2,103

Supergirl (1984)

Summary: After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.

Release Date: November 21, 1984

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: David Odell

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Artistry Limited, Cantharus Productions, Investors In Industry PLC, Robert Fleming Leasing Limited, St. Michael Finance Limited, Warner Bros.

Distributor: USA Home Video (II), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Viacom, Avid Home Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, International Video Entertainment (IVE), Warner Archive Collection

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,296,438

Breakin' (1984)

Summary: A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.

Release Date: May 04, 1984

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Joel Silberg

Writers: Charles Parker

, Allen DeBevoise

, Gerald Scaife

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Golan-Globus Productions, Golan-Globus Productions

Distributor: The Cannon Group, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, MGM Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Viacom

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 38,682,707

Places in the Heart (1984)

Summary: In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

Release Date: October 05, 1984

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Benton

Writer: Robert Benton

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Delphi II Productions, TriStar Pictures

Distributor: CBS/Fox, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Twilight Time, Disney Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 34,901,614

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Summary: In 1935, Indiana Jones is tasked by Indian villagers with reclaiming a rock stolen from them by a secret cult beneath the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Release Date: May 23, 1984

Genres: Action, Adventure

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Willard Huyck

, Gloria Katz

, George Lucas

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Lucasfilm

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Indiana Jones

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 179,870,271

International: $ 153,237,000

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Summary: A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

Release Date: December 05, 1984

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Martin Brest

Writers: Daniel Petrie Jr.

, Danilo Bach

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Eddie Murphy Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Showtime/The Movie Channel, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Paramount Network, HBO Max, CMT

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 234,760,478

International: $ 81,600,000

Perfect Strangers (1984)

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

Release Date: November 16, 1984

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Larry Cohen

Writer: Larry Cohen

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinema '84, Hemdale

Distributor: Vinegar Syndrome

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,100,000

Best Defense (1984)

Summary: A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.

Release Date: July 20, 1984

Genres: Comedy, War

Director: Willard Huyck

Writers: Robert Grossbach

, Gloria Katz

, Willard Huyck

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinema Group Ventures, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,265,302

Swing Shift (1984)

Summary: A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Release Date: April 13, 1984

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Jonathan Demme

Writers: Nancy Dowd

, Bo Goldman

, Ron Nyswaner

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros., Lantana, Hawn / Sylbert Movie Company

Distributor: CBS

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,650,206

Exterminator 2 (1984)

Summary: The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York City of a drug lord and his gang.

Release Date: September 14, 1984

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Mark Buntzman

Writers: Mark Buntzman

, William Sachs

, James Glickenhaus

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Cannon Group

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), MGM Home Entertainment, Paramount Domestic Television, Shout! Factory, Tubi TV, Viacom

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,739,406

The Bostonians (1984)

Summary: A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.

Release Date: October 05, 1984

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: James Ivory

Writers: Henry James

, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Merchant Ivory Productions, WGBH, Rediffusion

Distributor: Rhino Home Video, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), The Criterion Collection, Cohen Media Group

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,009,700