1984 movies

Night Patrol (1984)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Blair, Linda | Paulsen, Pat | Morgan, Jaye P. | Riley, Jack | Barty, Billy | Langston, Murray | Morita, Pat | Lassick, Sydney | Perkins, Kent | Sutton, Lori | Cybelle, Roxanne | Battaglia, Joe | One, Mik | Folks, Alex
Directors: Kong, Jackie
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Melvin is a pathetic loser of a motorcycle cop who gets demoted to working the night shift as a punishment for his constant screw-ups. During his off-duty time, however, Melvin turns to his secret obsession: comedy. He puts a paper bag over his head and performs in front of audiences as “The Unknown Comic”. Unable to balance his two lives, he seeks psychiatric help to try and resolve who he really wants to be.

Unfaithfully Yours (1984)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Dudley | Kinski, Nastassja | Assante, Armand | Brooks, Albert | Yates, Cassie | Libertini, Richard | Shull, Richard B. | Triska, Jan | Hallaren, Jane | Behrens, Bernard | Mann, Leonard | Omens, Estelle | Peyser, Penny | Mele, Nicholas | Rayson, Benjamin
Directors: Zieff, Howard
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Claude Eastman, is a composer and conductor. He is married to Daniella, who is half his age. While away on a trip he told his Italian driver, Giuseppe, to tell his friend Norman to keep an eye on her, or take care of her. But his english is not too good, so Norman thought he was saying that Claude wanted him to hire a private eye to keep tabs on her. Which he did. Claude tells him that it’s ok but the man Norman hired gives him his report and it says something happened while he was away. Claude, of course, tells him to throw it away but after Norman leaves, Claude tries to retrieve it and tries to read it but Daniella’s there, when Giuseppe destoys it, he goes to the man Norman hired to get a copy. He tells Claude that a man went into his apartment while he was away and left at an unusual hour, and that he also has a video. Claude tells him to destroy it but shortly after leaving returns so that he can watch it. Now the video’s a little fuzzy but clearly he can see that the man wears a particular type of clothing. Claude goes around checking every man he knows to see if they wear that clothing. He discovers that Max, his protege and a ladies man wears it. After confronting Daniella, she is harboring a secret but not what Claude thinks it is, so when she tells Claude that it’s no big thing, Claude freaks out, and is planning to kill her and frame Max but an unforeseen circumstance disrupts the perfect plan he dreamed up.

Electric Dreams (1984)

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: von Dohlen, Lenny | Madsen, Virginia | Caulfield, Maxwell | Cort, Bud | Fellows, Don | Polonsky, Alan | Miller, Wendy | Rabinowitz, Harry | Margolyes, Miriam | De Jong, Holly | Maris, Stella | Doran, Mary | Choy, Diana | Steck, Jim | Pettinger, Gary
Directors: Barron, Steve
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This upbeat love story features an architect named Miles who decides to modernize his life by buying a computer. Not knowing a thing about them he purchases the biggest most power system he can get ahold of, and wastes no time in having all sorts of accidents - dropping it, spilling wine on it, cross wiring it. All of which ends up causing something amazing to happen, the computer gains self-awareness! Using it’s word processor, speakers and microphone the computer learns to communicate with Miles and they become friends as he teaches it about life. Then a pretty cello player moves in next door and the shy Miles and super-intelligent but inexperienced computer conspire to get her to love Miles in the best tradition of Cyrano. After the computer and the woman start to share music together through the heating ducts the computer falls for the woman too. Soon man and machine are battling for who has the right to date her. In the end the computer concludes that it doesn’t have a chance with the woman and wishes the couple a happy life together. It downloads itself into the electrical system and departs for destinations unknown, but not before invading a local radio station’s computers to request a musical tribute to the new couple.

The Element of Crime (1984)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark
Actors: Elphick, Michael | Knight, Esmond | Lai, Me Me | Wells, Jerold | El Shenawi, Ahmed | Henning-Jensen, Astrid | Herskó, János | Larsson, Stig | Harper, Harry | Moszkowicz, Roman | Casby, Frederik | Addabayo, Duke | Bang Carlsen, Jon | Magnusson, Leif
Directors: von Trier, Lars
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A European police detective living in Cairo undergoes hypnosis therapy to deal with headaches caused by his last case. He recounts spending two months in a dystopian Europe investigating the serial killings of young girls who sell lottery tickets. While the current police force there employ clumsy methods, he continues to use the controversial theoretical methods of his now disgraced former mentor. He becomes obsessed with a suspect from previous similar killings, and using an old surveillance report retraces the steps of that suspect. As the journey progresses, the differences between the cop and the serial killer become blurred.

Footloose (1984)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Singer, Lori | Lithgow, John | Wiest, Dianne | Penn, Chris | Parker, Sarah Jessica | Laughlin, John | Gorcey, Elizabeth | McCain, Frances Lee | Youngs, Jim | Dirkson, Douglas | Marta, Lynne | Rosenberg, Arthur | Scott, Timothy | Haufrect, Alan
Directors: Ross, Herbert
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Classic tale of teen rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he’s in for a real case of culture shock. Though he tries hard to fit in, the streetwise Ren can’t quite believe he’s living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. There is one small pleasure, however: Ariel, a troubled but lovely blonde with a jealous boyfriend. and a Bible-thumping minister, who is responsible for keeping the town dance-free. Ren and his classmates want to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom is around the corner, but only Ren has the courage to initiate a battle to abolish the outmoded ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed townspeople. Fast-paced drama is filled with such now-famous hit songs as the title track and “Let’s Hear It for the Boy.”

Missing in Action (1984)

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Genres: Action | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Norris, Chuck | Walsh, M. Emmet | Tress, David | Kasdorf, Lenore | Hong, James | Ortega, Ernie | Mascarino, Pierrino | Anderson, Erich | Carberry, Joseph | Kleinberger, Avi | Williams, Willie | Segreto, Ric | Flores, Bella | Arceo, Gil | Dantes, Roger
Directors: Zito, Joseph
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Braddock, a man who was a POW in Vietnam, who just recently came back, is asked by an American delegation to go to Vietnam to see if there are any POW’s there. When he arrives the General in charge makes some disparaging remarks to Braddock and they accuse him of crimes against them. Braddock later goes to the General and demands to know where the POW’s are and after telling Braddock he tries to kill him but Braddock kills him. Later he is asked to leave, he then goes to Thailand to see a friend and to try and get those men out. But he is being pursued by a man who tortured him when he was a prisoner.

Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers (1984)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Marin, Cheech | Dotrice, Roy | Chong, Shelby | Marin, Rikki | McClurg, Edie | Chong, Robbi | Chong, Rae Dawn | Dotrice, Kay | Kos, Jennie C. | Pepper, Martin | Chiffre, Yvan | Schwartz, Dan | Dreyfus, Jean-Claude
Directors: Chong, Tommy
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Two brothers who can feel each others’ pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.

Cloak & Dagger (1984)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Family | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Coleman, Dabney | Murphy, Michael | Nigra, Christina | McIntire, John | Nolan, Jeanette | Casados, Eloy | Rossovich, Tim | Forsythe, William | DoQui, Robert | Leverington, Shelby | Chiles, Linden | Curtin, Robert | Marquez, William
Directors: Franklin, Richard
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A young boy, with a penchant for spy thrillers and video games, finds himself in the middle of real espionage when he’s relentlessly pursued by spies after he comes into possession of a video game cartridge containing top-secret government info.

The Natural (1984)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Redford, Robert | Close, Glenn | Basinger, Kim | Brimley, Wilford | Hershey, Barbara | Prosky, Robert | Farnsworth, Richard | Baker, Joe Don | Finnegan, John | Fudge, Alan | Sullivan Jr., Paul | Hall, Rachel | Rich III, Robert | Madsen, Michael | Van Ness, Jon
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman.

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Patterson, Sarah | Lansbury, Angela | Warner, David | Silberg, Tusse | Bergese, Micha | Glover, Brian | Crowden, Graham | Pogson, Kathryn | Rea, Stephen | Slowe, Georgia | Porrett, Susan | Johnstone, Shane | Archibald, Dawn | Morant, Richard | Dax, Danielle
Directors: Jordan, Neil
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A bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotation. Granny tells her granddaughter Rosaleen strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smoldering look in their eyes; about sudden disappearances of spouses when the moon is round & the wolves are howling in the woods; about babies found inside stork eggs, in a stork nest high up a tree; etc., etc. Of course the story of Little Red Ridinghood is also present, with a very handsome he-wolf! (And of course this he-wolf consumes Grandmother, but ‘consumes’ Little Red Ridinghood). All the stories are somehow reducible to loss of innocence, and fear of/hunger for (a newly acquired sense of) sexuality; their Freudian character is mirrored in their dreamlike shapes. This movie is not really a horror movie; it’s more a multiple tale about growing up into adolescence.