Best Drama movies of 1984

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Robby Benson, Wilford Brimley, Paul Newman,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.

Actors : John Karlen, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.

Actors : Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker, Ryan O'Neal,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and ...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

A farming family battles severe storms, a bank is threatening to repossess their farm, and there are other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.

Actors : A.J. Clarke, Terence Stamp, Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Ten years later, after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.

Actors : Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth,
Directors : Marek Kanievska,

Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

Actors : Bud Cort, Virginia Madsen, Lenny von Dohlen, Maxwell Caulfield,
Directors : Steve Barron,

An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.

Actors : Mark Herrier, C. Thomas Howell, Shirley Jones, James Garner,
Directors : Marvin J. Chomsky,

Sergeant Major Zak Carey is serving what is his final tour of duty at an Army base in Clemens, Georgia. Zak doesn't like the way the Army keeps the base and the bar is not what he's ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The son of a woman dying of a brain tumour tries to fulfil his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Roger Young,

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Emabassy to steal millions in gems.

Actors : Jack Scalia, Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Ana Obregón, George Kennedy, Bo Derek,
Directors : John Derek,

A 1920s English heiress seeks ecstasy with a sheik in Morocco and a bullfighter in Spain.

Actors : Corey Haim, Teri Garr, Christopher Collet, Peter Weller,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A teen must protect his family, when his mother's sinister new boyfriend begins exerting his authority in their house.

Actors : Josef Sommer, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A prehistoric Neanderthal man found frozen in ice is revived by an arctic exploration team, who then attempt to use him for their own scientific means.

Actors : Bill Murray, Denholm Elliott, Catherine Hicks, Theresa Russell,
Directors : John Byrum,

He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

Actors : Rip Torn, Kris Kristofferson, Kevin Conway, Treat Williams,
Directors : William Tannen,

Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Adile Nasit, Erdal Özyagcilar,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Barbara Bach, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney,
Directors : Peter Webb,

Paul McCartney's recording of his new album is complicated by the fact that the master tapes of his recordings are missing.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Savage, Keith Carradine, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ...