Movies of 1984
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- DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsSam WaterstonHaing S. NgorJohn MalkovichA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsJudy DavisVictor BanerjeePeggy AshcroftCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
- DirectorRobert BentonStarsSally FieldLindsay CrouseEd HarrisIn 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.
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsHoward E. Rollins Jr.Adolph CaesarArt EvansAn African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
- DirectorRichard DemboStarsMichel PiccoliAlexandre ArbattLiv UllmannDuring the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
- DirectorUri BarbashStarsArnon ZadokMohammad BakriHillel Ne'emanIn Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsSusú PecoraroImanol AriasHéctor AlterioIn 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple's identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila's family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.
- DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsAdolfo MarsillachJesús PuenteMaría CasanovaThe film tells the story of the friendship between two men who live their lives through movies. One is a director who is having trouble connecting with his children; the other is a screenwriter and playwright who is having trouble with his wife. They're working on a film together about growing old and connecting with the younger generation.
- DirectorRob EpsteinStarsHarvey FiersteinHarvey MilkAnne KronenbergA documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
- DirectorCharles GuggenheimStarsGordon PinsentFilmed on location at American high schools, this presents a realistic picture of daily high school activity, both in and outside the classroom.
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsMarlene DietrichMaximilian SchellAnnie AlbersRetrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.
- DirectorMartin BellStarsAnnieEddieAntoineGritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.
- DirectorMarjorie HuntPaul WagnerStarsVincent PalumboRoger MorigiA look at some of the last stone carvers working in the United States, those completing the sculptures adorning the Washington National Cathedral. They discuss their craft and the cultural forces which helped define it, as well as the fading use of stone ornamentation in architecture and the history of stone carving, and they tour the cathedral to point out the history behind some of the work.
- DirectorGary BushStarsPaul T.K. LinChina has 350 million children under the age of 15. Understanding their problems is essential to understanding China. This reveling documentary vividly conveys the experiences China's children are undergoing and shows how the Chinese are attempting to provide their children with the health, education and skills they will need in the modern world.
- DirectorJoan SawyerStarsTom TrimbleThe difficulties and challenges faced by nurses on hospitals and nursing homes while treating patients and trying to find the most ethical and human ways to preserve their health in delicate situations with little or almost nothing can be done.
- DirectorRoger ShermanThe Garden of Eden is a 1984 American short documentary film directed by Roger M. Sherman. The film posits that in the next 30 years, 20% of all forms of life will cease to exist. It argues that it can be for good business to save the environment: discoveries in the plant, animal, and microbiology worlds show that what you might think of as unimportant could be the cure to a major disease, save an entire species of plant, or ward off pests. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
- DirectorIrina KalininaSoviet documentary, historical and biographical film of 1983, directed by Irina Kalinina. In a 30-minute tape shows the selfless work of Anna Ivanovna Zelenova, the director of the Pavlovsky Palace Museum, who devoted her entire life to him, survived with him years of occupation and rebirth from the ashes.
- DirectorMike HooverTimothy HuntleyStarsErick McWayneEd CesarMan (Ed Casaer) sets his pet hawk free and goes on a fantastic hang gliding adventure in search of his old friend. On the way, he encounters a boy (Erick McWayne) on a hillside who he offers to take on a flight.
- DirectorBruce PittmanStarsLinda GoransonEric PetersonAugust SchellenbergA husband leaves his wife in the protection of a good friend after he leaves out into a cold winter's night on the prairie.
- DirectorJohn MinnisStarsJohn MinnisA talented, but doomed, gentleman tries to participate in a properly British game of charades.
- DirectorIshu PatelIn this short animation film, a magnificent bird performs for the Emperor inside a glittering palace. Its plumage is a blaze of colour. A blackbird, watching enviously, strives to acquire what he so desperately covets, only to discover that a golden cage can't compete with the open skies.
- DirectorMichael SpornStarsIan ThomsonA mouse dentist finds a way help a fox with a toothache without getting eaten.
- DirectorBørge RingStarsTonny HuurdemanAnnemieke RingPeter RingTwo sisters look back on their life together.