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Released
1984 · FILM

Thief of Hearts

“In the night, secrets are stolen.”

Directed by
Douglas Day Stewart
Written by
Douglas Day Stewart
Runtime
100 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tom RolfShot by Andrew LaszloScored by Harold Faltermeyer

Box Office

1984 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.4M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$10.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.1M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.1M — 39% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,200 theaters

Also known as

  • Nachts werden Träume wahrde
  • Ladrón de pasioneses
  • Voleur de désirsfr
  • Ladro di donneit

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