Netflix’s big cinematic gimmick for 2024 is what are calling “Milestone Movies” — films that were released in years that have big anniversaries. They already did a whole collection of 50-year-old titles from 1974; this month they are uploading a group of more than 20 titles that were originally released to theaters in 1984.
1984 being 40 years ago … that’s going to take a few weeks to get over.
The films Netflix is offering is … an eclectic bunch. Of the highest-grossing films of 1984, they’re only offering two: Beverly Hills Cop (which, coincidentally, Netflix has made a new sequel to, coming later this summer) and Footloose. You’ll have to stream the other top hits of the year — including Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, The Karate Kid — elsewhere.
Netflix does at least have the year’s Best Picture winner — Amadeus — and another one of the Best Picture nominees (A Passage to India.)
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The full list of 1984 titles now on Netflix is…
2010: The Year We Make ContactA Nightmare on Elm StreetAgainst All OddsAmadeusBeverly Hills CopBirdyBody DoubleConan the DestroyerFalling in LoveFirestarterFirstbornFootlooseIcemanJoy of SexMicki & MaudeMoscow on the HudsonA Passage to IndiaPlaces in the HeartRepo ManThe RiverSixteen CandlesStarmanTop Secret!
All of these films went up on Netflix on April 1. So they are available right now. Let the ’80s bingerewatch begin. Conan the Destroyer followed by A Nightmare on Elm Street would make a pretty fun double feature, actually. Or Repo Man and Top Secret! I might do that one tonight, in fact.
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