1984 in film
Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
Columns: Rank | Title | Studio | Director | Gross
1 | Ghostbusters | Columbia | Ivan Reitman | $238,632,124 | 2 | Beverly Hills Cop | Paramount | Martin Brest | $234,760,478 | 3 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount / Lucasfilm | Steven Spielberg | $179,870,271 | 4 | Gremlins | Warner Bros. | Joe Dante | $153,168,459 | 5 | The Karate Kid | Columbia | John G. Avildsen | $90,815,558 | 6 | Police Academy | Ladd / Warner Bros. | Hugh Wilson | $81,198,894 | 7 | Footloose | Paramount | Herbert Ross | $80,035,402 | 8 | Romancing the Stone | 20th Century Fox | Robert Zemeckis | $78,371,200 | 9 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Paramount | Leonard Nimoy | $76,572,238 | 10 | Splash | Touchstone | Ron Howard | $69,821,334 | 11 | Purple Rain | Warner Bros. | Albert Magnoli | $68,392,977 | 12 | Amadeus | Orion | Miloš Forman | $51,564,280 | 13 | Tightrope | Warner Bros. | Richard Tuggle | $48,143,579 | 14 | The Natural | Tri-Star | Barry Levinson | $47,951,979 | 15 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Warner Bros. | Hugh Hudson | $45,858,563 | 16 | Revenge of the Nerds | 20th Century Fox | Jeff Kanew | $40,874,452 | 17 | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | MGM/UA | Peter Hyams | $40,400,657 | 18 | Breakin' | MGM/UA | Joel Silberg | $38,682,707 | 19 | Bachelor Party | 20th Century Fox | Neal Israel | $38,435,947 | 20 | Red Dawn | United Artists | John Milius | $38,376,497