Although Broadway Danny Rose might be considered one of Woody Allen’s more minor movies, it is a thoroughly charming and often extremely amusing Runyonesque moral fable. Allen…
Browsing: Movies 1984
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This made-for-television movie from NBC was based on the true story of timid housewife Francine Hughes of Danville, Michigan, who was accused of murdering her ex-husband…
The main characters include an evil federal bureaucrat (George Martin), a police chief (Christopher Curry), a wild-eyed dope-smoking ex-con hippie soup kitchen proprietor (Daniel Stern)…
Cal opens like a slasher horror film, using a tracking shot of a killer’s point of view as a car drives to the house of…
So successful was The Cannonball Run (1981) with its all-star cast, that a sequel was a foregone conclusion. But how do you cast the sequel to…
This made-for-television film premiered as The Ewok Adventure on ABC on 25 November 1984. The film was then given a theatrical release in the UK…
This charming British comedy presents the interweaving stories of seven London households caught up in a property chain on their moving day, each one dependent…
In the small Nebraska town of Gatlin, children have slaughtered the adults and set up a sinister religious cult. A young physician named Burt (Peter…
Comedy thriller, set in the latter days of the Prohibition period, about a private eye (Burt Reynolds) and a police lieutenant (Clint Eastwood) who team…
Alan “Dickie” Bird (Bill Paterson) is an early-morning radio DJ on Metrosound 261 in Glasgow. It’s nearly Christmas and his kleptomaniac sweetheart of many years,…
A bold fantasy horror tale with sexual overtones from director Neil Jordan that crosses Legend of the Werewolf with Red Riding Hood. An inconsistent pace is sometimes…
Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to the role that provided his breakthrough as the muscle-bound mythical hero in Conan The Barbarian (1982) . . . but the kitsch…
Forget Dracula and Frankenstein, Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion is a real horror film, about horrors of the human mind that drive people to the depths of…
In a bid for independence, red-haired country girl Meg (Heather Bolton) moves from the New Zealand countryside to the city of Wellington, where she is…
In a scene of no values . . . Where climbing to the top means climbing into bed . . . Where drugs and cheap…
Scotland Yard’s finest, Chief Inspector Harris (Edmund Purdom, who also directed) and Detective Sergeant Powell (Mark Jones), investigate a series of killings of Santa Claus’s…
A film about how government assassin Alex Stanley (Sandy Kenyon) killed Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison from conspiracy buff Larry Buchanan. A lot…
Frank Herbert’s mammoth cult novel, about the competition in the year 10,991 between two warring families for control of Dune – a barren planet renowned…
This made-for-television movie presented John Mortimer’s dramatisation of a novel by John Fowles. Brash young art critic David Williams (Roger Rees) goes to interview Henry…
This rapidly-released sequel to Breakdance (1984) finds the same lead characters using their dance talents once more to save their run-down community centre. Finding professional work…