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Best Movies of 1984, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
77 films from 1984 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Amadeus ('1984), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Police Academy, 6.7 on IMDb against 41 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amadeus '1984 | Drama / Musical | 8.4 | 90% | 87 | 8.0 | Miloš Forman |
| 2 | Once Upon a Time in America '1984 | Drama / Crime | 8.3 | 86% | 75 | 8.4 | Sergio Leone |
| 3 | The Terminator '1984 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 90% | 84 | 7.7 | James Cameron |
| 4 | Paris, Texas '1984 | Drama | 8.1 | 95% | 81 | 8.1 | Wim Wenders |
| 5 | Warriors of the Wind '1984 | Animation / Fantasy | 8.0 | 87% | 86 | 7.9 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 6 | Ghostbusters '1984 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.8 | 95% | 71 | 7.5 | Ivan Reitman |
| 7 | This Is Spinal Tap '1984 | Comedy / Musical | 7.9 | 98% | 92 | 7.4 | Rob Reiner |
| 8 | Stop Making Sense '1984 | Documentary / Musical | 8.7 | 100% | 94 | 8.3 | Jonathan Demme |
| 9 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom '1984 | Action | 7.5 | 77% | 57 | 7.3 | Steven Spielberg |
| 10 | The Killing Fields '1984 | Drama / War | 7.8 | 91% | 76 | 7.5 | Roland Joffé |
| 11 | A Nightmare on Elm Street '1984 | Horror | 7.4 | 93% | 76 | 7.4 | Wes Craven |
| 12 | The Karate Kid '1984 | Action / Drama | 7.4 | 81% | 61 | 7.2 | John G. Avildsen |
| 13 | Beverly Hills Cop '1984 | Comedy / Crime / Action | 7.4 | 83% | 66 | 7.2 | Martin Brest |
| 14 | Threads '1984 | War / Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.9 | 100% | 92 | 7.6 | Mick Jackson |
| 15 | Gremlins '1984 | Fantasy / Horror / Comedy | 7.3 | 86% | 70 | 7.1 | Joe Dante |
| 16 | The NeverEnding Story '1984 | Fantasy | 7.3 | 84% | 49 | 7.2 | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 17 | A Christmas Carol '1984 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.5 | Clive Donner |
| 18 | The Natural '1984 | Drama | 7.4 | 83% | 61 | 6.9 | Barry Levinson |
| 19 | Stranger Than Paradise '1984 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 100% | 86 | 7.2 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 20 | Top Secret! '1984 | Comedy | 7.2 | 77% | 68 | 7.1 | Jim Abrahams |
| 21 | Broadway Danny Rose '1984 | Comedy | 7.4 | 100% | 82 | 7.1 | Woody Allen |
| 22 | Sexmission '1984 | Sci-Fi / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Juliusz Machulski |
| 23 | A Passage to India '1984 | Drama | 7.3 | 77% | 78 | 6.8 | David Lean |
| 24 | Birdy '1984 | Drama / War | 7.2 | 84% | 71 | 7.1 | Alan Parker |
| 25 | Sixteen Candles '1984 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 81% | 61 | 6.7 | John Hughes |
| 26 | The Bounty '1984 | Action / Drama | 7.1 | 74% | 62 | 6.8 | Roger Donaldson |
| 27 | Nineteen Eighty-Four '1984 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.0 | 76% | 67 | 6.8 | Michael Radford |
| 28 | Nothing Left to Do But Cry '1984 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.7 | Roberto Benigni |
| 29 | Starman '1984 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 83% | 70 | 6.9 | John Carpenter |
| 30 | Frankenweenie '1984 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Tim Burton |
| 31 | Romancing the Stone '1984 | Romance / Comedy | 6.9 | 86% | 63 | 6.8 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 32 | Double Trouble '1984 | Action / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Enzo Barboni |
| 33 | Wheels on Meals '1984 | Romance / Action / Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Sammo Hung |
| 34 | The Muppets Take Manhattan '1984 | Romance / Comedy | 6.9 | 85% | 64 | 6.6 | Frank Oz |
| 35 | Bianca '1984 | Drama / Comedy / Mystery | 7.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Nanni Moretti |
| 36 | Body Double '1984 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 79% | 69 | 6.7 | Brian De Palma |
| 37 | Repo Man '1984 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 93% | 82 | 6.6 | Alex Cox |
| 38 | L'allenatore nel pallone '1984 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Sergio Martino |
| 39 | The Return of Godzilla '1984 | Sci-Fi / Action / Horror | 6.8 | - | - | 7.2 | Koji Hashimoto |
| 40 | The Country Boy '1984 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.8 | Castellano |
| 41 | All of Me '1984 | Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 6.7 | 85% | 68 | 6.5 | Carl Reiner |
| 42 | Streets of Fire '1984 | Action | 6.7 | 69% | 59 | 6.9 | Walter Hill |
| 43 | The Last Starfighter '1984 | Sci-Fi / Action | 6.7 | 76% | 67 | 6.6 | Nick Castle |
| 44 | 2010 '1984 | Thriller / Sci-Fi | 6.7 | 68% | 53 | 6.7 | Peter Hyams |
| 45 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock '1984 | Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller | 6.7 | 78% | 58 | 6.6 | Leonard Nimoy |
| 46 | Police Academy '1984 | Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 58% | 41 | 6.7 | Hugh Wilson |
| 47 | The Company of Wolves '1984 | Horror / Fantasy | 6.6 | 85% | 69 | 6.3 | Neil Jordan |
| 48 | The Cotton Club '1984 | Crime / Drama | 6.6 | 76% | 68 | 6.5 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 49 | Falling in Love '1984 | Drama / Romance | 6.5 | 50% | 55 | 6.6 | Ulu Grosbard |
| 50 | Revenge of the Nerds '1984 | Comedy | 6.6 | 70% | 44 | 6.4 | Jeff Kanew |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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