Drama Movies
You Killed Me First (1985)
Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing…
Private Passions (1985)
When Mark goes to visit his cousin Toni in Austria for the summer, he develops a serious crush on Toni’s pretty stepsister Clair and at the same time tries to…
O Panama (1985)
Manufractur (1985)
The Annihilators (1985)
Upon his return from Vietnam, an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood has deteriorated badly, and is being terrorized by a vicious street gang. He calls some of his GI buddies, and…
Patmos (1985)
As an older man, the Apostle John was sentenced to forced labor on the Island of Patmos. God honored John with His visions, faithfully transcribed to become the Book of…
Mrs. Soffel (1984)
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with…
Much Ado About Nothing (1984)
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice’s friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick’s best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he’s on….
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of…
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
The dance crew from “Breakin’” bands together to save a community center from a greedy developer bent on building a shopping center in its place.
Winter Flight (1984)
As the Falklands War looms, an RAF recruit falls for a young barmaid, but their romance is quickly complicated with some surprising news.
The Runner (1984)
Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim (1984)
A laborer gets money for his wife’s pregnancy from his boss on the condition that he will not join the union.
The Island Closest to Heaven (1984)
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984)
Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But a sudden fatal heart…
Birdy (1984)
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds – but now believes he really is a bird, and has…
The Cotton Club (1984)
Harlem’s legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Ronia: The Robber’s Daughter (1984)
Ronia lives happily in her father’s castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes….
Runaway (1984)
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to…
A Passage to India (1984)
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela…
Frankenweenie (1984)
When young Victor’s pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor’s home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he…
Mass Appeal (1984)
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus’ North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the…
Starman (1984)
When an alien takes the form of a young widow’s husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.
Camille (1984)
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand’s father begs her not to ruin his hope of…
Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (1984)
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He’s a born free man who works as…
Pericles Prince of Tyre (1984)
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch’s riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and…
Children in the Crossfire (1984)
For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In “Children in the Crossfire” four children from both…
The River (1984)
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer…
Four Days in July (1984)
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
When the mastertape of McCartney’s latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr….
The Life and Death of King John (1984)
The reign of England’s King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John’s nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to…