Netflix The big cinematic trick for 2024 is what we call “Milestone Movies” – films that were released in years that have big anniversaries. They’ve already made an entire collection of 1974 titles that are 50 years old; This month they are shipping a group of over 20 titles that were originally released theatrically in 1984.
1984 was 40 years ago…that’s going to take a few weeks to get over.
The films Netflix offers are… an eclectic bunch. Of the highest-grossing films of 1984, they only offer two: Beverly Hills Police Officer (which, coincidentally, Netflix has made a new sequel for, coming later this summer) and uncommitted. You’ll have to stream the year’s other biggest hits – including Ghostbuster, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, The Karate Kid – in another place.
Netflix at least has the winner for best film of the year – Amadeus – and another of the nominees for Best Film (A ticket to India.)
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The full list of 1984 titles now on Netflix is…
- 2010: The year we made contact
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Against all odds
- Amadeus
- Beverly Hills Police Officer
- birdie
- Double body
- Conan the Destroyer
- Passionate
- Firestarter
- First-born
- uncommitted
- Ice Man
- Joy of sex
- Micki and Maude
- Moscow on the Hudson
- A ticket to India
- Places in the heart
- Repository man
- The river
- Sixteen candles
- Starman
- Ultra-secret!
All of these films were released on Netflix on April 1st. So they are available now. Let the 80s bingewatching begin. Conan the Destroyer followed by A Nightmare on Elm Street it would make a really fun double feature, actually. Or Repository man It is Ultra-secret! I could do that tonight, actually.
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