Best award winning movies with technical prowess from 1984

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with technical prowess from 1984! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with technical prowess 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 Places in the Heart (1984)

In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.

Info

1984-09-11 | Drama

Cast

Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse

Rating

rating icon 7.169
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    extraordinary
  2. Ranked #134 for
    confusing
  3. Ranked #138 for
    unfaithful partner

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4 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

Trailer

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5 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

Trailer

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6 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.

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1984-12-14 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Richard Gere, Gregory Hines

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #45 for
    like Scarface
  2. Ranked #47 for
    cross-cut editing
  3. Ranked #121 for
    break new ground

Trailer

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7 The Killing Fields (1984)

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.

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1984-11-23 | Drama / History

Cast

Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor

Rating

rating icon 7.488
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #17 for
    sad
  2. Ranked #39 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #104 for
    critically acclaimed

Trailer

The Killing Fields trailer
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8 Stop Making Sense (1984)

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.

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1984-11-16 | Documentary / Music

Cast

David Byrne, Chris Frantz

Rating

rating icon 8.335
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #19 for
    prosaic
  2. Ranked #40 for
    freak show
  3. Ranked #49 for
    low-key approach

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9 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.

Info

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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10 2010 (1984)

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

Info

1984-12-06 | Thriller / Science Fiction

Cast

Roy Scheider, John Lithgow

Rating

rating icon 6.655
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #66 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #90 for
    dated
  3. Ranked #131 for
    matte shot

Trailer

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