Best award winning movies with intricate directing from 1984

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with intricate directing from 1984! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with intricate directing from 1984, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Amadeus (1984)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

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1984-09-19 | History / Music

Cast

F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce

Rating

rating icon 8.037
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #8 for
    immensely talented
  2. Ranked #14 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #17 for
    bawdy

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2 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 Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

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1984-12-14 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #91 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  2. Ranked #91 for
    prissy
  3. Ranked #124 for
    globetrotting

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3 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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1984-05-23 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Robert De Niro, James Woods

Rating

rating icon 8.422
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    like Scarface
  2. Ranked #249 for
    elegiac
  3. Ranked #340 for
    deservedly won Oscars

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4 Paris, Texas (1984)

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

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1984-07-16 | Drama

Cast

Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski

Rating

rating icon 8.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #82 for
    ambling
  3. Ranked #150 for
    foster father

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5 A Soldier's Story (1984)

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.

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1984-09-14 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Howard Rollins, Adolph Caesar

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #61 for
    like Knives Out
  2. Ranked #108 for
    random killing
  3. Ranked #183 for
    bludgeoned to death

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6 The Company of Wolves (1984)

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?

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1984-09-21 | Horror / Fantasy

Cast

Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury

Rating

rating icon 6.292
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #48 for
    oneiric
  2. Ranked #61 for
    cautionary tale
  3. Ranked #91 for
    impressionistic

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7 The Terminator (1984)

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

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1984-10-26 | Action / Thriller

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn

Rating

rating icon 7.662
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    implacable
  2. Ranked #49 for
    cyborg
  3. Ranked #89 for
    cat-and-mouse

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8 The Element of Crime (1984)

Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.

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1984-05-14 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10 for
    sepia tone
  2. Ranked #54 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #59 for
    orwellian

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9 Dune (1984)

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

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1984-12-14 | Action / Science Fiction

Cast

Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #96 for
    Space Opera
  2. Ranked #246 for
    eschatological
  3. Ranked #253 for
    antiquated

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10 The NeverEnding Story (1984)

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

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1984-04-06 | Adventure / Fantasy

Cast

Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver

Rating

rating icon 7.199
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #112 for
    like Harry Potter
  2. Ranked #112 for
    most imaginative
  3. Ranked #116 for
    punching bag

Trailer

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