Best movies of 1983

Titles indexed: 76

Scarface

Rating: 8.2

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami...

Nightmares

Rating: 5.6

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters so...

Testament

Rating: 6.3

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warhea...

Bad Boys

Rating: 7.0

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local...

Spasms

Rating: 4.4

A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation....

Eureka

Rating: 5.3

After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoh...

Streamers

Rating: 5.6

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay....

Phar Lap

Rating: 7.2

Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble begin...

The Key

Rating: 6.0

Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, ...

Octopussy

Rating: 6.4

James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and ...

Mundadugu

Rating: 0.0

Misunderstandings arise between two brothers because of their different ideologies. So their sons turns out to be enemies. They need to over...

Diner

Rating: 7.0

This pilot for a TV version of the critically acclaimed feature Diner (1982) focused on the complaints of the wives, Elyse and Beth, that th...

Natural History

Rating: 0.0

"From there to here...from then to now. The soundtrack feature 33 frogs, 22 birds, lion growls, bomb whistles, a heartbeat and the chromatic...

The Outsiders

Rating: 7.2

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter...

Carnival Magic

Rating: 2.7

A magician in a carnival--who actually can read minds and levitate people and objects--works with a superintelligent chimp named Alex, who c...

Brainstorm

Rating: 6.2

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating ...

Rumble Fish

Rating: 7.0

Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfa...

Videodrome

Rating: 7.3

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a ...

The Survivors

Rating: 5.6

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a gr...

Star 80

Rating: 6.4

Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working ...

Losin' It

Rating: 4.9

In 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Me...

G

Rating: 5.3

Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16...

Ironmaster

Rating: 4.9

A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and u...

The 4th Man

Rating: 6.7

Morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve–bisexual, alcoholic, and experiencing frequent visions of death–is invited to give a lecture at the Vliss...

Human Animals

Rating: 3.9

After several nuclear explosions, two men and one woman wake up in the middle of a desert and begin a journey of survival and self-discovery...

Two of a Kind

Rating: 5.9

God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor an...

The Jigsaw Man

Rating: 4.9

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by ...

Endgame

Rating: 4.8

A telepathic mutant recruits a post World War III TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety....

Spaceship

Rating: 3.7

A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien. Alternate titles include "The Creature Wasn't Nice" and "Naked Space" (199...

Nate and Hayes

Rating: 6.0

Nathaniel Williamsen is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie. Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes, w...

The Lift

Rating: 5.8

A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the el...

Sagara Sangamam

Rating: 7.4

When a passionate classical dancer, Balakrishna, falls in love with Madhavi, a woman who admires his talent, fate separates them. Years late...

Stryker

Rating: 4.3

The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs be...

Brady's Bargain

Rating: 7.0

Brady has spent his life trying to outsmart the leprechauns and his big chance comes when he manages to capture one. Keeping the little man ...

Reuben, Reuben

Rating: 6.2

A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful...

Island of Swans

Rating: 6.8

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn,...

Zrelá mladosť

Rating: 0.0

Biographical film about the work of the young Klement Gottwald. The story depicts his stay in Banská Bystrica, where he edited the Slovak co...

The Way Out

Rating: 0.0

Such a soul torments young composer Georg von Wergenthin, around whom the author creates a precise picture of the fin de siècle, its neurose...

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