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.
While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| 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 |
$152,445,758 |
|
| 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 |
$80,008,940 |
|
| The Terminator |
English |
Action |
$6,400,000 |
$78,019,031 |
|
| Purple Rain |
English |
Drama |
|
$68,394,225 |
|
| Splash |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
$8,000,000 |
$62,599,495 |
|
| Amadeus |
English |
Drama |
$18,000,000 |
$51,973,029 |
|
| Tightrope |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$48,100,000 |
|
| The Natural |
English |
Drama |
|
$47,951,979 |
|
| Revenge of the Nerds |
English,
Japanese |
Comedy |
|
$40,874,452 |
|
| Bachelor Party |
English |
Comedy |
|
$38,435,947 |
|
| Breakin' |
English |
Musical |
|
$36,100,000 |
|
| All of Me |
English |
Comedy |
|
$35,243,581 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter |
English |
Horror |
$2,600,000 |
$32,981,717 |
|
| Dune |
English |
Action |
$45,000,000 |
$27,504,670 |
|
| The Cotton Club |
English |
Drama |
$48,000,000 |
$25,928,721 |
|
| A Nightmare on Elm Street |
English |
Horror |
$1,800,000 |
$25,542,906 |
|
| 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 |
|
| The Neverending Story |
English |
Adventure |
$27,000,000 |
$21,427,944 |
|
| Hot Dog… The Movie |
English |
Comedy |
|
$17,540,166 |
|
| Angel |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$17,488,564 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Supergirl |
English |
Adventure |
|
$14,296,438 |
|
| Irreconcilable Differences |
English |
Comedy |
|
$12,400,000 |
|
| Tank |
English |
Action |
|
$11,131,530 |
|
| Thief of Hearts |
English |
Drama |
|
$10,400,265 |
|
| The Wild Life |
English |
Comedy |
|
$9,500,000 |
|
| Hard To Hold |
English |
Drama |
|
$8,853,155 |
|
| The River |
English |
Drama |
|
$8,818,672 |
|
| Body Double |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$10,000,000 |
$8,801,940 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Hardbodies |
English |
Comedy |
|
$7,121,000 |
|
| Alphabet City |
English |
Drama |
|
$7,000,000 |
|
| Stop Making Sense |
English |
Concert/Performance |
|
$6,790,857 |
|
| Firstborn |
English |
Drama |
|
$6,200,000 |
|
| 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 |
|
| This is Spinal Tap |
English |
Comedy |
|
$4,736,270 |
|
| Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers |
English |
Comedy |
|
$3,772,785 |
|
| Impulse |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$2,766,716 |
|
| Silent Night, Deadly Night |
English |
Horror |
|
$2,491,460 |
|
| Repo Man |
English |
Comedy |
$1,500,000 |
$2,300,400 |
|
| Paris, Texas |
English |
Drama |
|
$2,230,376 |
|
| Finders Keepers |
English |
Comedy |
|
$1,500,000 |
|
| Birdy |
English |
Drama |
|
$1,400,051 |
|
| Songwriter |
English |
Drama |
|
$865,915 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
