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Comfort and Joy
Comfort and Joy (1984) on 10 october 1984
, 1h46
Directed by Bill Forsyth
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Clare Grogan, Patrick Malahide, Alex Norton, Rikki Fulton
Rating65% 3.297243.297243.297243.297243.29724
A few days before Christmas, Glasgow radio disc jockey Allan "Dicky" Bird is stunned when Maddy (Eleanor David), his kleptomaniac girlfriend of four years, suddenly announces that she is moving out. His doctor friend Colin (Patrick Malahide) tries to console him, but Bird is heartbroken.
Rocktober Blood
Rocktober Blood (1984) on 12 october 1984
, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Musical
Rating46% 2.3099652.3099652.3099652.3099652.309965
The film opens in a recording studio, where singer Billy "Eye" Harper (Tray Loren) is in a session working on a few tracks with his band and his girlfriend Lynn Starling (Donna Scoggins), also a back up singer. After he finishes the recording, Billy and the rest of the band leave. Despite trying to record her own vocal tracks, Lynn is left to go to the jacuzzi upstairs, after refusing Kevin (Kevin Eddy) the recording engineer's offer to join her.
Garbo Talks
Garbo Talks (1984) on 12 october 1984
, 1h43
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Betty Comden, Catherine Hicks, Steven Hill
Rating63% 3.1971153.1971153.1971153.1971153.197115
Estelle Rolfe's social activism and quick temper cause a lot of inconvenience for her grown son Gilbert, who often must go to a New York City jail precinct to pay her bail.
Sunstroke
Sunstroke (1984) on 10 october 1984
, 1h30
Directed by Yaky Yosha
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Anat Atzmon, Rivka Michaeli
Rating67% 3.355193.355193.355193.355193.35519
Summertime Blues is the last summer before the army, an early 1980s Tel-Aviv summer, during the War of Attrition with Egypt.
Without Witness
Without Witness (1983) on 12 october 1984
, 1h29
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Mikhaïl Oulianov, Irina Kouptchenko
Rating73% 3.678543.678543.678543.678543.67854
Un homme rend visite à son ex-femme et lors d'une banale conversation apprend que celle-ci s'apprête à se remarier avec un certain Valentin Chliakhov, une vieille connaissance. Il se rend compte que c'est ce même Chliakhov dont il a brisé la carrière avec une lettre anonyme il y a bien des années. Redoutant que cet homme l’apprenne par son ex femme et s'en prenne à lui, il s'attelle à la dissuader de le fréquenter, en mettant en place un odieux chantage.
Gallavants
Gallavants (1984) on 10 october 1984
, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about insects, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Vic Perrin, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Fred Travalena, Diane Pershing, Betty Jean Ward
Rating65% 3.275853.275853.275853.275853.27585
Gallavants are ants living in their own fairy-tale land, Ganteville. The little ones have to go to school in preparation of their adult life as working ants. However, one pupil thinks he doesn't need to take lessons and work hard, in order to find his destination in life. He has to learn the hard way...
Countdown to Looking Glass
Countdown to Looking Glass (1984) on 14 october 1984
, 1h26
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver, Patrick Watson, Michael Beattie
Rating68% 3.4351153.4351153.4351153.4351153.435115
The CVN news network's nightly program, starring Don Tobin (Watson), with reports from correspondents Michael Boyle (Glenn) and Dorian Waldorf (Shaver), discusses a terrorist bombing of the American embassy in Saudi Arabia that killed the American ambassador. The week before, a global banking crisis was caused by several South American countries defaulting on their loans, leading to turmoil in Southwest Asia. Before the unrest spread to Saudi Arabia, Soviet-backed militants led a coup in Oman when the Omani economy collapsed. Shortly after, a new report shows that the banking crisis may soon begin to ease.
Guest from the Future
Guest from the Future (1984) on 10 october 1984

Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Natalia Gousseva, Georgi Burkov, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Mikhaïl Kononov, Valentina Talyzina, Natalia Varley
Rating80% 4.038764.038764.038764.038764.03876
Two schoolboys, Kolya and Fima, follow a mysterious strange lady to an abandoned house. When they enter the house, they find no trace of the stranger, but in the empty basement Kolya discovers a secret door that leads to a room with a technical device in it. Curious Kolya starts pressing some buttons and activates the device that "transfers" him to another place. We learn that this place is the institute for temporal research. Employees return from time travels to different periods and deliver artifacts that are inventoried by Werther, an android who holds a secret crush on the stranger whose name is Polina. Kolya sneaks around in the corridors but is ultimatively caught by Werther who starts inventorying Kolya as well, assuming that he was brought in by Polina. On this occasion Kolya learns that he has actually travelled through time into the late 21st century. Werther ponders putting Kolya in the museum but then decides to send him back in time in order to cover up what he thinks to be Polina's mistake. Kolya convinces him to let him catch some sights of the future first. On his exploration, Kolya learns about teletransportation, humanoid aliens, antigravity and space flight. He also makes contact with a grandpa Pavel, a 130-year-old man who is intrigued by his 1980s school uniform.
The Burning Bed
The Burning Bed (1984) on 8 october 1984
, 1h35
Directed by Robert Greenwald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Crime, Politic
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about domestic violence, Political films, Disaster films
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie, Penelope Milford, James T. Callahan
Rating71% 3.596073.596073.596073.596073.59607
Après des années de coups et de terreur, Francine Hughes a mis le feu au lit de son agresseur pendant qu'il dormait. Ses aveux et le procès pour meurtre qui a suivi ont enthousiasmé la nation. Une histoire dramatique d'une femme poussée à bout.