1983 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1983

Notable Films Released in 1983

U.S.A. unless stated

• 10 to Midnight, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson

A

• A Nos Amours (To Our Love),directed by Maurice Pialat, starring Sandrine Bonnaire - (France)
• Adi Shankaracharya, starring Sarvadaman Banerjee, the first film to be made in Sanskrit - (India)
• All the Right Moves, starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn
• Americana, directed by and starring David Carradine
• Among Grey Stones (Sredi serykh kamney) - (U.S.S.R.)
• And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
• Another Time, Another Place, starring Phyllis Logan - (U.K.)
• Ardh Satya (Half Truth), directed by Govind Nihalani, starring Om Puri (Silver Lotus Award for best actor) - (India)
• L'Argent (Money), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• Ascendancy, starring Julie Covington and Ian Charleson, winner of Golden Bear award - (U.K.)
• Austeria a.k.a. The Inn - Poland
• Avtaar, directed by Mohan Kumar, starring Rajesh Khanna - (India)

B

• BMX Bandits, starring Nicole Kidman - (Australia)
• Baby It's You, directed by John Sayles, starring Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano
• Bad Boys, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy, Clancy Brown
• Le Bal (The Ball), directed by Ettore Scola - (Italy/France)
• Balkan Express - (Yugoslavia)
• The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama bushiko), directed by Shōhei Imamura (remake of the 1958 film) - (Japan) - Palme d'Or award
• Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no gen) - (Japan)
• Beauty and the Beast (Skønheden og udyret) - (Denmark)
• La Bestia y la Espada Magica (The Beast and the Magic Sword) - (Spain/Japan)
• Betaab (Impatient), starring Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh - (India)
• Betrayal, starring Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley - (U.K.)
• The Big Chill, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams
• Bill Cosby: Himself, a stand-up comedy performance
• The Black Cauldron, a Walt Disney animated film
• The Black Stallion Returns, starring Kelly Reno and Teri Garr
• Bloodbath at the House of Death, starring Kenny Everett - (U.K.)
• Blue Thunder, directed by John Badham, starring Roy Scheider, Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell
• Born in Flames, a documentary film by Lizzie Borden
• The Boys From Fengkuei (Feng gui lai de ren) - (Taiwan)
• Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson and, in her final film, Natalie Wood
• Breathless, directed by Jim McBride, starring Richard Gere
• Bush Christmas, debut of Nicole Kidman - (Australia)

C

• Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, starring Karen Black
• Careful, He Might Hear You - (Australia)
• Carmen, directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
• Champions, starring John Hurt - (U.K.)
• Christine, directed by John Carpenter, starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Kelly Preston
• A Christmas Story, directed by Bob Clark, starring Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon
• Circle of Power, starring Yvette Mimieux and Cindy Pickett
• City of Pirates (La Ville des pirates) - (France)
• Class, starring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Cliff Robertson
• Les Compères (Co-Dads), starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard - (France)
• Confidentially Yours (Vivement Dimanche), directed by François Truffaut, starring Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (France)
• Cracking Up, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
• The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a Monty Python's short film directed by Terry Gilliam - (U.K.)
• Cross Creek, starring Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard
• Curse of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards - (U.K.)
• Cujo, starring Dee Wallace and Danny Pintauro

D

• D.C. Cab, starring Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Gary Busey
• Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
• Daniel, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Ellen Barkin
• Danton, directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Gérard Depardieu - (France/Poland/West Germany)
• Dark Habits (Entre tinieblas), directed by Pedro Almodóvar - (Spain)
• The Day After (made for television), starring Jason Robards, Steve Guttenberg, JoBeth Williams, John Lithgow
• The Dead Zone, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Herbert Lom, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen
• Deadly Run (Mortelle randonnee), starring Michel Serrault and Isabelle Adjani - (France)
• Deal of the Century, directed by William Friedkin, starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, Sigourney Weaver
• The Death of Mario Ricci (La mort de Mario Ricci), starring Gian Maria Volonté - (Switzerland/France)
• Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle), directed by Luc Besson - (France)
• Doctor Detroit, starring Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon, Fran Drescher, Lynn Whitfield
• The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?) (Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel) - (Netherlands)
• The Dresser, directed by Peter Yates, starring Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay - (U.K.)
• Duvar - (Turkey)

E

• Easy Money, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Eddie and the Cruisers, starring Michael Paré and Tom Berenger
• Eddie Macon's Run, starring Kirk Douglas and John Schneider
• Educating Rita, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters - (U.K.)
• El Norte, directed by Gregory Nava - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• El Sur (The South) - (Spain)
• Entre Nous (Between Us), starring Miou-Miou and Isabelle Huppert - (France)
• Eréndira, starring Irene Papas - (Mexico)
• Eureka, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell, Mickey Rourke
• Exposed, directed by James Toback, starring Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel

F

• The Family Game (Kazoku Gēmu), directed by Yoshimitsu Morita - (Japan)
• Ferestadeh - (U.S.A./West Germany)
• Flashdance, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri
• Flesh of Your Flesh (Carne de tu carne) - (Colombia)
• Forbidden Relations (Visszaesök) - (Hungary)
• The Fourth Man (De Vierde Man), directed by Paul Verhoeven - (Netherlands)
• Funny Dirty Little War (No habrá más penas ni olvido) - (Argentina)

G

• Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, starring Sônia Braga and Marcello Mastroianni - (Brazil)
• Get Crazy, starring Malcolm McDowell
• Gorky Park, starring William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Joanna Pacula, Ian Bannen, Brian Dennehy
• Growing Up (Xiao Bi de gu shi) - (Taiwan)
• Gunman (Mue puen) - (Thailand)

H

• Heart Like a Wheel, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Bonnie Bedelia and Beau Bridges
• Heat and Dust, directed by James Ivory, starring Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor - (U.K.)
• High Road to China, starring Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong
• The Honorary Consul, starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere - (U.K.)
• The Hunger, directed by Tony Scott, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon - (U.K.)

I-J

• The Illusionist - (Netherlands)
• In the White City (Dans la ville blanche), directed by Alain Tanner, starring Bruno Ganz - (Switzerland)
• Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Dianne Wiest
• Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Just Let it Go, Friends), starring Naseeruddin Shah - (India)
• Jaws 3-D, starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Un jeu brutal (A Brutal Game) - (France)

K

• The Keep, directed by Michael Mann, starring Scott Glenn
• King for a Day (Gospodin za edin den) - (Bulgaria)
• The King of Comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis
• Krull, directed by Peter Yates, starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Francesca Annis, Liam Neeson - (U.K.)

L

• Last Year's Snow Was Falling (Padal proshlogodniy sneg) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Lianna, directed by John Sayles, starring Linda Griffiths
• Liquid Sky, starring Anne Carlisle
• Local Hero, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster - (U.K.)
• Lone Wolf McQuade, starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera
• The Lords of Discipline, starring David Keith and Mark Breland
• Losin' It, starring Tom Cruise and Shelley Long
• Lovesick, starring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness

M

• The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
• The Man in the Silk Hat (L'homme au chapeau de soie), a documentary about Max Linder - (France)
• Man of Flowers, starring Norman Kaye - (Australia)
• The Man Who Loved Women, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Marilu Henner, Kim Basinger
• The Man with Two Brains, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner
• Masoom (The Innocent), starring Naseeruddin Shah - (India)
• Max Dugan Returns, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick
• Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu), directed by Nagisa Oshima, starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto - (Japan/U.K.)
• Mickey's Christmas Carol, a featurette which brings Mickey Mouse back to cinemas for first time since 1953
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Jones - (U.K.)
• Mr. Mom, starring Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull

N

• Nankyoku Monogatari (South Pole Story) - (Japan)
• Narcissus - (Canada)
• Nate and Hayes, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Michael O'Keefe
• National Lampoon's Vacation, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo
• Nešto između - (Yugoslavia)
• Never Cry Wolf, starring Charles Martin Smith
• Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery (as James Bond) with Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer - (U.K.)
• A Night in Heaven, starring Christopher Atkins and Lesley Ann Warren
• Nightmares, starring Cristina Raines and Emilio Estevez
• Nostalghia, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R./Italy)

O

• Octopussy, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond) with Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan - (U.K.)
• Of Unknown Origin, starring Peter Weller - (U.S.A./Canada)
• One Deadly Summer (L'été meurtrier), starring Isabelle Adjani - (France)
• The Osterman Weekend, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver, Burt Lancaster
• The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise

P-Q

• Pauline at the Beach (Pauline à la plage), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• Phar Lap, starring Tom Burlinson - (Australia)
• The Pirates of Penzance, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, starring Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• The Ploughman's Lunch, starring Jonathan Pryce - (U.K.)
• Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France) - Golden Lion award
• Private School, starring Phoebe Cates, Matthew Modine, Betsy Russell, Ray Walston
• Project A (A Gai Wak), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• Psycho II, starring Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz, Vera Miles

R

• Rembetiko - (Greece)
• Reuben, Reuben, starring Tom Conti and Kelly McGillis
• The Right Stuff, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Hershey, Pamela Reed
• Risky Business, directed by Paul Brickman, starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay
• Rock and Rule, an animated rock musical - (Canada)
• Romantic Comedy, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen
• Rumble Fish, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Vincent Spano, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper
• Running Brave, starring Robby Benson

S

• Saagara Sangamam (The Confluence) - (India)
• Sadma (Trauma) - (India)
• Sahara, starring Brooke Shields and Horst Buchholz
• Sans Soleil (Sunless), directed by Chris Marker - (France)
• A Season in Hakkari (Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim) - (Turkey)
• Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
• The Scarlet and the Black, directed by Jerry London, starring Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud
• Sheer Madness (Heller Wahn), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Hanna Schygulla - (West Germany)
• Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
• Sleepaway Camp, starring Mike Kellin
• Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, starring Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed
• So Long, Stooge (Tchao Pantin), directed by Claude Berri - (France)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, directed by Lamont Johnson, starring Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald
• Star 80, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts
• The Star Chamber, starring Michael Douglas and Hal Holbrook
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, directed by Richard Marquand, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
• Staying Alive, directed by Sylvester Stallone, starring John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes
• The Sting II, starring Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed, Teri Garr
• Strange Brew, starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas - (Canada)
• Strange Invaders, starring Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid
• Stray Dogs (Deulgae) - (South Korea)
• Streamers, starring Matthew Modine and David Alan Grier
• Stroker Ace, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Jim Nabors, Ned Beatty
• Sudden Impact, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke
• Sugar Cane Alley (Rue Cases-Negres) - (France/Martinique)
• Superman III, directed by Richard Lester, starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Annette O'Toole, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn
• The Survivors, starring Walter Matthau and Robin Williams

T

• Table for Five, starring Jon Voight, Marie-Christine Barrault, Richard Crenna, Millie Perkins, Roxana Zal
• Tender Mercies, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Ellen Barkin
• Terms of Endearment, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow
• Testament, starring Jane Alexander, William Devane, Leon Ames, Roxana Zal
• The Thorn Birds, TV miniseries, starring Rachel Ward, Richard Chamberlain, Bryan Brown, Christopher Plummer, Barbara Stanwyck
• Three Crowns of the Sailor (Les Trois couronnes du matelot) - (France)
• Tight Quarters (Könnyű testi sértés) - (Hungary)
• To Be or Not to Be, starring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, José Ferrer
• Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (The Little Girl who Conquered Time) - (Japan)
• Tough Enough, starring Dennis Quaid, Warren Oates, Stan Shaw
• Trading Places, directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
• Trenchcoat, starring Margot Kidder and Robert Hays
• Twenty Years of African Cinema a.k.a. Caméra d'Afrique - (Tunisia)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie, segments directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller, starring Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan, John Lithgow
• Twice Upon a Time
• Two of a Kind, directed by John Herzfeld, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

U

• Uncommon Valor, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Robert Stack, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Patrick Swayze
• Under Fire, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy
• Utu - (New Zealand)

V

• Valley Girl, starring Deborah Foreman and Nicolas Cage
• The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Videodrome, starring James Woods and Deborah Harry - (Canada)
• Vigilante, starring Robert Forster
• Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (Love by Request) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Voyage in Time (Tempo di Viaggio), directed by Tonino Guerra and Andrei Tarkovsky - (Italy)

W

• Walking, Walking (Cammina, cammina), directed by Ermanno Olmi - (Italy)
• Walking the Edge, starring Robert Forster and Nancy Kwan
• WarGames, directed by John Badham, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Ally Sheedy
• Wartime Romance (Voenno-polevoy roman), directed by Pyotr Todorovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
• We Are from Jazz (My iz dzhaza) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Winds of War, TV mini-series, starring Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Polly Bergen, Peter Graves, John Houseman, Ralph Bellamy
• Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
• Without a Trace, starring Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch
• The Wounded Man (l'Homme blessé) - (France)

YZ

• Yellowbeard, starring Graham Chapman and Peter Boyle - (U.K.)
• Yentl, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Zappa, directed by Bille August - (Denmark)
• Zelig, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow
• Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Xin shu shan jian ke), starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)