Year 1983 movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1983 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, thought provoking, suspense and independent film films and TV shows about / with cigarette smoking, friendship, husband wife relationship, death, couples, female nudity, society, storytelling, father son relationship and love and romance plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1983: Mandy (2018), Call Me by Your Name (2017), The Teacher (2016), This Is England (2006), Adrift (2018), Hard to Kill (1990), Another Country (1984), Maze (2017), Stranger Things (2016), Deutschland 83 (2015).
Best films
New films
| Adrift (2018) | 6.6 | |
| Superman: Red Son (2020) | 6.4 | |
| Sputnik (2020) | 6.4 | |
| House of Gucci (2021) | 6.6 | |
| Beautiful Rebel (2024) | 6.2 |
List of year 1983 movies
98K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey ...
Style:
satanic, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
revenge, nightmare, surrealism, cult leader, biker gang, cosmic horror, drug trip, vengeance, lumberjack, rage, sadism, russian roulette ...
Time:
year 1983, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
xian, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style:
touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, summer, gay love, love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, homosexuality, first love, gay interest, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 2010s, 2000s, year 2017
Place:
italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Style:
touching, melancholic, tense, captivating, allegory ...
Plot:
teacher, communism, blackmail, communist, nepotism, class differences, abuse of power, blackmailer, female protagonist, boy, parent child relationship, cruelty ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe, europe, slovakia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Style:
political, depressing, cult classic, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
skinhead, racism, childhood, friendship, coming of age, neo nazi, adolescence, nationalism, boy, children, youth, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, northern england, united kingdom, europe ...
Is relevant?
66K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong, Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
Style:
sincere, sad, suspenseful, romantic drama, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, water, sailboat, sea adventure, power of love, death, storm, sea, yacht, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
tahiti, pacific ocean
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
hospital, revenge, vigilante, martial arts, vengeance, violence, hitman, one man army, coma, conspiracy, mixed martial arts, police corruption ...
Time:
year 1990, year 1983, 90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s, Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, Judd is a Marxist. It explores his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery ...
Style:
serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, boys' school, gays and lesbians, gender, gay lead character, youth, homosexuality, boarding school, homosexual, homosexual love, lgbtq ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, year 1983, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
england, moscow russia, ussr, russia, britain ...
Is relevant?
4K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, complex
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ira, terrorist, prison, assassination attempt, prison escape, male objectification, danger, murder, society, husband wife relationship, political prisoner, troubled marriage ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
northern ireland, ireland, belfast
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot:
supernatural, monster, small town, telekinesis, parallel universe, friendship, parallel world, super powers, supernatural power, government conspiracy, group of friends, fear ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, future, 20th century, year 1985 ...
Place:
indiana, chicago, usa, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
cold war, espionage, stasi, spy, secret police, german soldier, double agent, working undercover, state affairs, rivalry, undercover, military ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Style:
intense, exciting, entertaining, epic, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
superhero team, superhero, comic book, superpower, mutant, x men, revenge, apocalypse, technology, disguise, portal, immortality ...
Time:
future, year 2016, year 1983, 2010s, 80s
Place:
cairo egypt, poland, egypt, west berlin west germany, berlin germany ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that ...
Style:
retro, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, splatter ...
Plot:
house, poison, terror, obsession, animal attack, danger, mind game, killer animal, creature feature, creature, home invasion, alone ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, vermont
Is relevant?
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, can't find anything wrong with the circuitry. When he ...
Style:
cult classic, slasher, scary, suspense, experimental ...
Plot:
elevator, artificial intelligence, skyscraper, journalism, monster, suffocation, reporter, macabre, teenager, evil computer, gory, captivity ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
netherlands, europe, holland, amsterdam
Is relevant?
Genre: History, Musical
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (depending on the age).
Style:
anthology, art house, offbeat, realistic, experimental ...
Plot:
music, nazi occupation, dancing, world war two, dance, music band, photograph, redheaded woman, racism, musician, disco, liberation ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1983, 1930s, 60s ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Georgia, Russia, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
trial, hijacking, youth, airport, friendship, military, death, murder, drunk, suspicion, cold war era, caucasian ...
Time:
year 1983, year 1991
Place:
georgia, tbilisi, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, historical drama, costume drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
love triangle, colonialism, nobleman, post colonialism, flashback, prince, orgasm, scandal, british empire, jazz, interracial love relationship, indian woman ...
Time:
1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, asia, kashmir
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to ...
Style:
slow cinema, spiritual, cynical, neo noir, anthology ...
Plot:
betrayal, murder, forgery, prison, trial, nihilism, misanthropy, loss of daughter, solitary, nude girl, labor, modernism ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy ...
Style:
anamorphic, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, unrequited love, orphan, custody, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, parents and children, aunt nephew relationship, child custody, child's point of view, class differences ...
Time:
year 1983, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
australia, new south wales, sydney australia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, marriage of convenience, lesbianism, heartache, nazi occupation, swimming pool ...
Time:
year 1983, year 1942, 1950s, year 1952, 50s
Place:
paris france, lyon, france, europe, normandy ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Portugal, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Swiss sailor jumps ship in Lisbon, tired of the noisy engine room, the ship "a floating factory of crazy people." He rents a room and does little. He writes letters to his lover, describing the whiteness of the city, the solitude and the ...
Style:
road movie, contemplative, surreal, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, on the road, alienation, female nudity, nude girl, existentialism, poet, poetry, lonely, in love, self discovery, merchant marine ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
portugal, france, lisbon portugal, switzerland, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. ...
Style:
talky, psychological, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay lead character, unrequited love, lgbt, gay, backstage, world war two, friendship, manic, shakespeare, actor, effeminacy, gay interest ...
Time:
1940s, year 1983, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rita, a 26 year old Scouse hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to her childhood sweetheart, the feckless Denny. He wants a baby, she doesn't. She wants to discover herself, so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant Is a ...
Style:
talky, touching, witty, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
working class, troubled marriage, teacher student relationship, teacher, literature, teaching, mentor, professor, self discovery, university, infidelity, social differences ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, ireland, europe, dublin ireland ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
witty, sweet, humorous, touching, talky ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
small town, village life, husband wife relationship, fish out of water, culture clash, american abroad, melancholy, social commentary, oil, therapist, rabbit, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
scotland, houston texas, texas
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33K
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, cerebral, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
philosophy, art, church, existentialism, poetry, dream, obsession, storytelling, great ending, poet, memory, redemption ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 18th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, soviet union, russia, ussr ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emtying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday . Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and ...
Style:
erotic, witty, sensitive, anthology, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens
Plot:
womanizer, beach, coming of age, girl man relationship, naked woman, jealousy, cousin cousin relationship, vacation, teenager, love, teenage girl, love story ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, normandy, paris france
Is relevant?
24K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Style:
sad, touching, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
whistleblower, working class, conspiracy, nuclear power plant, fighting the system, workplace, labor union, radiation, women, environmental, radioactivity, environment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s, year 1974
Place:
oklahoma, usa, washington d.c., california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Style:
sentimental, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
date night, family outing
Plot:
character study, country music, music, self discovery, small town, comeback, drinking, starting over, musician's life, divorce, love and romance, mother son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, retro, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, infidelity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, looking for sex, extramarital affair, coming of age, promiscuous daughter, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, nudity, domestic abuse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, cerebral, melancholic, lyrical ...
Plot:
ship, world war one, tragedy, ocean, danger, celebrity culture, music, travel, war, boat, cruise, melancholy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 1910s, year 1914
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, biting, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
family relations, tutor, brothers, satire, bittersweet, human nature, youth, dedicated educator, lifestyle, society, college life, military life ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
japan, asia
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