1983 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1983, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Tenebre
Directed by: Dario Argento
Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo, Mirella D'Angelo
Country: Italy
Outline: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Zeder
Directed by: Pupi Avati
Starring: Gabriele Lavia, Cesare Barbetti, Anne Canovas, Andrea Montuschi, Adolfo Belletti, Bob Tonelli, Marcello Tusco
Country: Italy
Bingo Bongo
Directed by: Pasquale Festa Campanile
Starring: Adriano Celentano, Carole Bouquet, Felice Andreasi, Enzo Robutti
Country: Italy
Outline: A monkey like man found in the jungles of Congo is brought to Milan, Italy and is called Bingo Bongo. Only Laura, an anthropologist, believes in his human qualities.
Hercules
Directed by: Luigi Cozzi
Starring: Gianni Garko, Gabriella Giorgelli, Delia Boccardo, Rossana Podestà, Sybil Danning, Lou Ferrigno, Claudio Cassinelli, Brad Harris, William Berger, Mirella D'Angelo, Raf Baldassarre, Stelio Candelli
Country: Italy
Trading Places
Directed by: John Landis
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Country: United States of America
Outline: A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Terms of Endearment
Directed by: James L. Brooks
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Country: United States of America
Outline: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.
WarGames
Directed by: John Badham
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
Risky Business
Directed by: Paul Brickman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Masur
Country: United States of America
Outline: A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
Octopussy
Directed by: John Glen
Starring: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn
Country: United States of America
Outline: A fake Fabergé egg, and a fellow Agent's death, lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.
Sudden Impact
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman
Country: United States of America
Outline: A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. "Dirty" Harry Callahan, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.
Mr. Mom
Directed by: Stan Dragoti
Starring: Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Frederick Koehler, Taliesin Jaffe
Country: United States of America
Outline: After he's laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife. She returns to the workforce, and he becomes a stay-at-home dad, a job he has no clue how to do.
Flashdance
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson
Country: United States of America
Outline: A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.
Staying Alive
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood
Country: United States of America
Outline: It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Directed by: Kundan Shah
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Bhakti Barve, Satish Shah
Outline: Two friends, attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings, corruption and murder, and must fight to bring the guilty to light.
Scarface
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Starring: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Country: United States of America
Outline: In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Ardh Satya
Directed by: Govind Nihalani
Starring: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Shafi Inamdar
Outline: A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.
Barefoot Gen
Directed by: Mori Masaki
Starring: Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone, Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris
Country: United States of America
Outline: A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
The Right Stuff
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid
Country: United States of America
Outline: The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
The Ballad of Narayama
Directed by: Shôhei Imamura
Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejô
Outline: In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.
Zelig
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Patrick Horgan, John Buckwalter
Country: United States of America
Outline: "Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
The Dresser
Directed by: Peter Yates
Starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Outline: An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.
The Meaning of Life
Directed by: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
Starring: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Country: United States of America
Outline: The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Never Cry Wolf
Directed by: Carroll Ballard
Starring: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah
Country: United States of America
Outline: A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Local Hero
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson
Country: United States of America
Outline: An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Pauline at the Beach
Directed by: Éric Rohmer
Starring: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine
Outline: Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...
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