Netflix’s massive cinematic gimmick for 2024 is what are calling “Milestone Motion pictures” — movies that have been launched in years which have massive anniversaries. They already did an entire assortment of 50-year-old titles from 1974; this month they’re importing a gaggle of greater than 20 titles that have been initially launched to theaters in 1984.

1984 being 40 years in the past … that’s going to take just a few weeks to recover from.

The movies Netflix is providing is … an eclectic bunch. Of the highest-grossing movies of 1984, they’re solely providing two: Beverly Hills Cop (which, coincidentally, Netflix has made a brand new sequel to, coming later this summer season) and Footloose. You’ll must stream the opposite high hits of the yr — together with Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, The Karate Child — elsewhere.

Netflix does a minimum of have the yr’s Greatest Image winner — Amadeus — and one other one of many Greatest Image nominees (A Passage to India.)

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The complete listing of 1984 titles now on Netflix is…

• 2010: The 12 months We Make Contact
• A Nightmare on Elm Road
• Towards All Odds
• Amadeus
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Birdy
• Physique Double
• Conan the Destroyer
• Falling in Love
• Firestarter
• Firstborn
• Footloose
• Iceman
• Pleasure of Intercourse
• Micki & Maude
• Moscow on the Hudson
• A Passage to India
• Locations within the Coronary heart
• Repo Man
• The River
• Sixteen Candles
• Starman
• High Secret!

All of those movies went up on Netflix on April 1. So they’re obtainable proper now. Let the ’80s bingerewatch start. Conan the Destroyer adopted by A Nightmare on Elm Road would make a fairly enjoyable double function, really. Or Repo Man and High Secret! I would do this one tonight, actually.