1984

2010: The Year We Make Contact: our relationship with technology and humanity, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A Nightmare on Elm Street: family and the safety of home, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A Passage to India: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Against All Odds: family and greed, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

All of Me: authority and friendship, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A tale of genius through the jealous eyes of a faithful man — and a confession that never lets you look away.

Bachelor Party: friendship and love, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A fast-talking cop, a culture clash and a synth hook.

Birdy: family and the safety of home, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A small-town crime with very big, very stupid consequences — and Ray is at the centre of the mess.

A film about watching — and about what watching does to the watcher.

Breakin': friendship, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

C.H.U.D.: fear and authority, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Children of the Corn: parents protecting their children and family, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Cloak & Dagger: family and freedom, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Conan the Destroyer: courage and love, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Dreamscape: authority and freedom, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A sandstorm of prophecy, politics and prodigy — and Paul Atreides stands square in the middle of it.

Electric Dreams: love and our relationship with technology, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Firestarter: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Teen rebellion, a ban on dancing and one determined outsider — Footloose still kicks up dust.

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter: family and the safety of home, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A ragged band of scientists, a sardonic frontman and a city that refuses to behave — Ghostbusters still sells the joke.

A cuddly Christmas present, three simple rules — and a small town that learns what consequences look like.

A globetrotting pulp rush that’s equal parts kid-rescue thriller and teeth-grinding ritual horror.

Johnny Dangerously: loss and mortality, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Moscow on the Hudson: family and love, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Sisters, malls and a comet — Night of the Comet is a B-movie that learned how to be fun and oddly wise about survival.

A long, sad fable about boys who grow up — and can’t entirely remember who they were.

A man walks out of the desert and asks to be let back into his family — simple, ruthless and utterly centred on one figure.

Places in the Heart: family and heroism, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Misfits, pratfalls and one bloke who’d rather dodge jail than grow up.

Protocol: authority and the safety of home, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

One musician, First Avenue and a mess of ambition — Purple Rain still hums.

Red Dawn: family and freedom, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Revenge of the Nerds: the safety of home and our relationship with technology, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A romance novelist, a smuggler, an emerald and a jungle: the adventure that taught Joan Wilder to stop waiting and start kicking.

Runaway: our relationship with technology and family, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Silent Night, Deadly Night: family and the safety of home, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Teenage longing, family oblivion and one very awkward bet — with Samantha Sam Baker keeping the whole thing human.

A mermaid arrives in New York, a sensible man gets sensible about love — and the rest is splashy business.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock: our relationship with technology and family, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A road movie in which an alien borrows a dead husband's face and, with a borrowed curiosity, teaches a widow how to keep living.

Streets of Fire: courage and authority, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Supergirl: love and power, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: freedom and courage, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

The Company of Wolves: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

The Initiation: family and mortality, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A teenager, a handyman, and the long, strange apprenticeship that taught a generation how to stand up for themselves.

A reporter’s conscience, a translator’s survival — and a film that forces you to keep looking.

A trailer-park teenager, an arcade cabinet and a very old-school call to adventure.

The Muppets Take Manhattan: family and friendship, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

The Natural: family and the safety of home, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A boy, a book and a disappearing world — imagination as the only weapon left.

The Philadelphia Experiment: loss and authority, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

The Pope of Greenwich Village: greed and consumerism, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

The River: family and heroism, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A relentless machine, a desperate human, and a future that won't wait.

The Woman in Red: friendship and freedom, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

Tightrope: family and the safety of home, and why this 1984 movie still matters.

A rock star, a resistance, and a barrage of nonsense — Top Secret! still loves to make sense of nothing.