Movies Using the English Language and Released in 1984
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The list below includes all films using the English language, including movies using other languages as well.
Note: Since we are still actively researching languages, we consider this chart to be in beta mode.
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| Movie | Language(s) | Genre | Production
Budget | Worldwide
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
English,
Hindi,
Mandarin,
Sinhala |
Adventure |
$28,000,000 |
$333,080,271 |
|
| Beverly Hills Cop |
English |
Comedy |
$15,000,000 |
$316,300,000 |
|
| Ghostbusters |
English |
Comedy |
$30,000,000 |
$295,582,480 |
Play |
| Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets |
English |
Documentary |
|
$239,000,000 |
|
| Gremlins |
English |
Comedy |
$11,000,000 |
$164,029,770 |
|
| Romancing the Stone |
English |
Adventure |
|
$115,078,260 |
|
| The Karate Kid |
English |
Action |
$8,000,000 |
$90,858,381 |
|
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock |
English |
Adventure |
$18,000,000 |
$87,000,000 |
|
| Police Academy |
English |
Comedy |
$4,500,000 |
$81,198,894 |
|
| Footloose |
English |
Drama |
$8,200,000 |
$80,009,427 |
|
| The Terminator |
English |
Action |
$6,400,000 |
$78,019,031 |
|
| Purple Rain |
English |
Drama |
|
$70,538,629 |
|
| Splash |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
$8,000,000 |
$62,599,495 |
|
| Amadeus |
English |
Drama |
$18,000,000 |
$52,204,002 |
|
| Tightrope |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$48,100,000 |
|
| The Natural |
English |
Drama |
|
$47,951,979 |
|
| Revenge of the Nerds |
English,
Japanese |
Comedy |
|
$40,874,452 |
|
| Red Dawn |
English |
Action |
|
$38,900,000 |
|
| Bachelor Party |
English |
Comedy |
|
$38,435,947 |
|
| City Heat |
English |
Action |
|
$38,348,988 |
|
| Breakin' |
English |
Musical |
|
$36,100,000 |
|
| All of Me |
English |
Comedy |
|
$35,243,581 |
|
| Places in the Heart |
English |
Drama |
|
$34,900,814 |
|
| The Killing Fields |
English,
French,
Khmer,
Russian |
Drama |
$16,000,000 |
$34,609,720 |
|
| The Gods Must Be Crazy |
Afrikaans,
English |
Comedy |
|
$34,331,783 |
|
| A Passage to India |
English |
Drama |
$27,500,000 |
$32,998,925 |
|
| Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter |
English |
Horror |
$2,600,000 |
$32,981,717 |
|
| Starman |
English |
Adventure |
|
$28,700,000 |
|
| Cannonball Run II |
English |
Comedy |
|
$28,100,000 |
|
| Dune |
English |
Action |
$45,000,000 |
$28,018,540 |
|
| A Nightmare on Elm Street |
English |
Horror |
$1,800,000 |
$27,944,525 |
|
| Teachers |
English |
Drama |
|
$27,700,000 |
|
| Conan the Destroyer |
English |
Action |
$18,000,000 |
$26,400,000 |
|
| Protocol |
English |
Comedy |
|
$26,300,000 |
|
| Micki + Maude |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$26,200,000 |
|
| The Cotton Club |
English |
Drama |
$48,000,000 |
$25,928,721 |
|
| The Muppets Take Manhattan |
English |
Comedy |
|
$25,534,703 |
|
| The Woman in Red |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$25,308,147 |
|
| Moscow on the Hudson |
English |
Comedy |
|
$25,100,000 |
|
| Against All Odds |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$25,100,000 |
|
| The Flamingo Kid |
English |
Comedy |
|
$23,859,382 |
|
| Sixteen Candles |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$23,686,027 |
|
| Missing in Action |
English |
Action |
|
$22,812,411 |
|
| The Last Starfighter |
English |
Action |
|
$22,200,789 |
|
| A Soldier's Story |
English |
Drama |
|
$22,100,000 |
|
| Oh God, You Devil! |
English |
Comedy |
|
$21,538,850 |
|
| The Neverending Story |
English |
Adventure |
$27,000,000 |
$21,454,405 |
|
| Rhinestone |
English |
Comedy |
|
$21,400,000 |
|
| Top Secret! |
English |
Comedy |
|
$21,100,000 |
|
| Unfaithfully Yours |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$19,928,200 |
|
| Best Defense |
English |
Comedy |
|
$19,265,302 |
|
| Blame it on Rio |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$18,600,000 |
|
| Hot Dog… The Movie |
English |
Comedy |
|
$17,540,166 |
|
| Lassiter |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$17,513,452 |
|
| Angel |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$17,488,564 |
|
| Johnny Dangerously |
English |
Comedy |
|
$17,124,395 |
|
| Beat Street |
English |
Drama |
|
$16,595,791 |
|
| Firestarter |
English |
Horror |
$15,000,000 |
$15,136,870 |
|
| Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo |
English |
Musical |
|
$15,000,000 |
|
| Children of the Corn |
English |
Horror |
|
$14,600,000 |
|
| Night of the Comet |
English |
Horror |
|
$14,600,000 |
|
| Supergirl |
English |
Adventure |
|
$14,296,438 |
|
| The Evil That Men Do |
English |
Action |
|
$13,106,767 |
|
| The Ice Pirates |
English |
Comedy |
$9,000,000 |
$13,075,390 |
|
| Irreconcilable Differences |
English |
Comedy |
|
$12,400,000 |
|
| Dreamscape |
English |
Adventure |
|
$12,116,365 |
|
| Up the Creek |
English |
Comedy |
|
$11,708,269 |
|
| Tank |
English |
Action |
|
$11,131,530 |
|
| Falling in Love |
English |
Drama |
|
$10,603,205 |
|
| Broadway Danny Rose |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,600,497 |
|
| Where the Boys Are '84 |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,531,133 |
|
| Thief of Hearts |
English |
Drama |
|
$10,400,265 |
|
| Cloak & Dagger |
English |
Action |
|
$9,719,952 |
|
| The Wild Life |
English |
Comedy |
|
$9,500,000 |
|
| Bolero |
English |
Drama |
|
$9,000,000 |
|
| Hard To Hold |
English |
Drama |
|
$8,853,155 |
|
| The River |
English |
Drama |
|
$8,818,672 |
|
| Body Double |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$10,000,000 |
$8,802,428 |
|
| Oxford Blues |
English |
Comedy |
|
$8,793,000 |
|
| The Bounty |
English |
Drama |
|
$8,613,462 |
|
| Country |
English |
Drama |
|
$8,400,000 |
|
| Nineteen Eighty-Four |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$8,368,371 |
|
| Terror in the Aisles |
English |
Multiple Genres |
|
$8,316,206 |
|
| The Little Drummer Girl |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,828,841 |
|
| Ninja III: The Domination |
English |
Action |
|
$7,610,785 |
|
| Just the Way You Are |
English |
Comedy |
|
$7,517,699 |
|
| Iceman |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,343,032 |
|
| Stop Making Sense |
English |
Concert/Performance |
|
$7,285,755 |
|
| Hardbodies |
English |
Comedy |
|
$7,121,000 |
|
| Alphabet City |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,000,000 |
|
| Firstborn |
English |
Drama |
|
$6,200,000 |
|
| This is Spinal Tap |
English |
Comedy |
|
$5,828,805 |
|
| Sheena |
English |
Adventure |
$25,000,000 |
$5,778,353 |
|
| Streets of Fire |
English |
Action |
|
$5,600,382 |
|
| Once Upon a Time in America |
English,
Italian |
Drama |
$30,000,000 |
$5,577,556 |
|
| Love Letters |
English |
Drama |
$550,000 |
$5,269,990 |
|
| American Dreamer |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$5,021,751 |
|
| Grandview, U.S.A. |
English |
Drama |
|
$4,743,119 |
|
| Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers |
English |
Comedy |
|
$3,772,785 |
|
| Paris, Texas |
English |
Drama |
|
$2,969,651 |
|
| Impulse |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$2,766,716 |
|
| Silent Night, Deadly Night |
English |
Horror |
|
$2,491,460 |
|
| Choose Me |
English |
Comedy |
|
$2,490,233 |
|
| Repo Man |
English |
Comedy |
$1,500,000 |
$2,301,017 |
|
| Finders Keepers |
English |
Comedy |
|
$1,500,000 |
|
| Birdy |
English |
Drama |
|
$1,400,051 |
|
| Songwriter |
English |
Drama |
|
$865,915 |
|
| Scandalous |
English |
Comedy |
|
$526,805 |
|
| The Bostonians |
English |
Drama |
|
$312,566 |
|
| Razorback |
English |
Horror |
|
$138,643 |
|
| Crackers |
English |
Action |
|
$58,689 |
|
| Stranger Than Paradise |
English |
Comedy |
|
$23,552 |
|
| The Times of Harvey Milk |
English |
Documentary |
|
$13,561 |
|
| Streetwise |
English |
Documentary |
|
$9,904 |
|
| Cal |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,353 |
|
| Identificazione di una donna |
English,
French,
Italian |
Drama |
|
$2,752 |
|
| Phar Lap |
English |
Drama |
|
$129 |
|
| Eureka |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Young Lust |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| The Perils of Gwendoline |
English,
French |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Chattanooga Choo Choo |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Burroughs: The Movie |
English |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
| The Initiation |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| They’re Playing with Fire |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Naked Face |
English |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Best Revenge |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Violated |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| A Breed Apart |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Scream for Help |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Charlie Steel |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Suburbia |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Ordeal by Innocence |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| The Loveless |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| El Norte |
English,
Maya,
Spanish |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Covergirl |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| The Return of Captain Invincible |
English |
Musical |
|
$0 |
|
| Night Patrol |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Bad Manners |
English,
Spanish |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Raw Courage |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Not For Publication |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Savage Streets |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Blastfighter |
English,
French,
Italian |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Marlene |
English,
French,
German |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
| Surf II |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Kaddish |
English |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
| Boy Meets Girl |
English,
French |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Love Streams |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Nadia |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
