Best 1984 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1984 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. Top Secret!
- Stacker score: 77.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 79,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- Actors: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp
- Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $20,458,340

#19. Beverly Hills Cop
- Stacker score: 77.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 226,000)
- Metascore: 66
- Director: Martin Brest
- Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $234,760,478

#18. Birdy
- Stacker score: 79.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 26,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Alan Parker
- Actors: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,455,045

#17. Gremlins
- Stacker score: 79.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 264,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Joe Dante
- Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $153,642,180

#16. Places in the Heart
- Stacker score: 79.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Robert Benton
- Actors: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $34,901,614

#15. The Hit
- Stacker score: 80.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Stephen Frears
- Actors: Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke
- Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $876,775

#14. Ghostbusters
- Stacker score: 82.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 475,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Ivan Reitman
- Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $243,640,120

#13. Repo Man
- Stacker score: 82.9
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 44,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Alex Cox
- Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $129,000

#12. A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Stacker score: 82.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 281,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Wes Craven
- Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
- Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $25,624,448

#11. A Passage to India
- Stacker score: 83.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 22,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: David Lean
- Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft
- Runtime: 2 hours 44 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $27,187,653

#10. The Killing Fields
- Stacker score: 85.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 62,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Roland Joffé
- Actors: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
- Runtime: 2 hours 21 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $34,700,291

#9. Broadway Danny Rose
- Stacker score: 86.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Woody Allen
- Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte
- Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $10,600,497

#8. Once Upon a Time in America
- Stacker score: 87.3
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 399,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Sergio Leone
- Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern
- Runtime: 3 hours 49 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $5,321,508

#7. Blood Simple
- Stacker score: 87.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 111,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Actors: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,851,855

#6. Stranger Than Paradise
- Stacker score: 88.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 42,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Actors: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
- Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $2,436,000

#5. Paris, Texas
- Stacker score: 89.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 134,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Wim Wenders
- Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell
- Runtime: 2 hours 25 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $2,422,082

#4. The Terminator
- Stacker score: 91.2
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 976,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: James Cameron
- Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $38,371,200

#3. This Is Spinal Tap
- Stacker score: 94.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 154,000)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Rob Reiner
- Actors: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
- Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $4,736,202

#2. Amadeus
- Stacker score: 94.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.4 (votes: 454,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Milos Forman
- Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
- Runtime: 2 hours 40 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $51,973,029

#1. Stop Making Sense
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.7 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 94
- Director: Jonathan Demme
- Actors: David Byrne, Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir
- Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $10,306,902