Best Movies of 1983 – page 3
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, inspirational, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
american football, high school, football, college, cheerleader, small town, coming of age, high school football, student athlete, friendship, coach, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, future
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, north america, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
Style:
retro, period piece, independent film, indie film, political ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, punk rock, subculture, dysfunctional family, punk rocker, teenager, friendship, coming of age, skinhead, graffiti, runaway, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, detective, slasher, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
vigilante, killer, male nudity, serial rape, murder, murder of a nude woman, serial killer, revenge, sex maniac, caught having sex, red light district, arrogant woman ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 70s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, tense, reflective ...
Plot:
hotel, loneliness, scandal, small town, female protagonist, love, boarding house, moral dilemma, reputation, bittersweet, intimate, unrequited love ...
Time:
1950s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, espionage, cold war, murder, surveillance, voyeur, adulterer, undercover, paranoid, voyeurism, threat, rescue ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
california, los angeles, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug Mackenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront the suspicious Brewmeister Smith and two teams of ...
Style:
hilarious, psychotronic, parody, humorous, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
beer, conspiracy, brother brother relationship, farce, hockey, shakespeare, ghost, mind control, stupidity, satire, chase, lion ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance ...
Style:
witty, humorous, semi serious, weird
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
stop motion, anthropomorphic animal, fantasy world, escape, escapades, danger, rescue, friends, animal life, disorder, countryside, friendship ...
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, friendship, rural setting, backwoods, suburbs, art, deep south, poet, past, romantic relationship, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, new jersey, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has ...
Style:
slasher, gothic horror, classic horror, gothic, retro ...
Plot:
haunted, house, writers, mind game, murder, supernatural, cannon, old dark house, trapped, american abroad, writing a novel, bet ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 1982
Place:
wales
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, talky, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
marital infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, unfulfillment, dishonesty, illicit affair, adultery, danger, infidelity, autobiography, friends, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
england, europe, venice, london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living, gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
Style:
funny, talky, humorous, raunchy comedy, surprise ending ...
Plot:
gambling, insomnia, father daughter relationship, beer, wedding, farce, christmas, greed, drinking, wedding night, birthday party, faked death ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on the case of young New Yorker Etan Patz, who disappeared in the early 1980s, this film casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who make her ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
missing person, missing child, kidnapping, single parent, family life, parents and children, family problems, law enforcement, life is a bitch, death in the family, father son relationship, little boy ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, new york, connecticut
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
Style:
exciting, intense, suspense, serious, retro ...
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, conspiracy, judge, murder, political corruption, legal, vengeance, secret society, justice, lawyer, assassin ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
Style:
gothic, surreal, gothic horror, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, demon, ss, magic, supernatural, monster, surrealism, fortress, jewish man, vampire, devil ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 80s
Place:
germany, romania, transylvania, black sea, bucharest ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1966 New Jersey, Jill Rosen, a frustrated high schooler, is intrigued by an enigmatic new student known only as the Sheik. Sheik is an Italian whose primary interests are his car, Frank Sinatra, and Jill. At first she is taken aback by his ...
Style:
period piece, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
high school, coming of age, forbidden love, teenager, unrequited love, marijuana, dating, underage, slumber party, class differences, opposites attract, innocence lost ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place:
new jersey, florida, usa, miami
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
weed, drug, buddies, stoner, anti hero, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, drug abuse ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
europe, amsterdam, netherlands, holland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dysfunctional family, police detective, family relations, family problems, hopes, estrangement, couples, single parent, cons and scams, eccentric family, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
usa, venice beach california, las vegas, brazil, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel.
Style:
independent film, underground film, cult classic, political, indie film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
feminism, lesbian, sexual harassment, anarchism, socialist, police brutality, racism, feminist, radical, dystopia, anarchist, protest ...
Time:
distant future, future
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray. Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten whose last wish is to find loving families for her children.
Style:
depressing
Plot:
adoption, cancer, child care, foster child, disease, youth, little boy, death, sacrifice, self sacrifice, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
iowa
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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
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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
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In 1942, British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, realistic, bleak, art film ...
Plot:
world war two, pow, homoeroticism, japanese culture, war, japanese occupation, prison, war crime, anti war, christmas, imperial japan, samurai ...
Time:
1940s, year 1983, year 1936, year 1946, 20th century ...
Place:
southeast asia, asia, britain, japan, australia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style:
factual, tense, serious, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, military, uninhibited rivalry, clergy, politics, hopes, survival ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, germany, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, emotional, talky ...
Plot:
shakespeare, medieval, king, celtic, literary, dancing, betrayal, unfulfillment, aging, tragic hero, intrigue, rivalry ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Style:
surprise ending, slasher, retro, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, maniac, supernatural, stalking, casting couch, danger, down on your luck, canuxploitation, winter, killer ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the ...
Style:
cult classic, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
racism, conspiracy, military academy, abuse, loyalty, racial slur, cadet, military school, friendship, military, military training, torture ...
Time:
year 1983, 60s, 20th century
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
Style:
sexual, cult classic, independent film, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, sexual relations, sapphic, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, lgbt, friendship, lesbian mother, female nudity, divorce ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Two wannabe heroes and their friends must stop a madman from giving everyone nightmares.
Style:
surreal, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
superhero, rescue, imaginary, journey, imaginary kingdom, disorder, danger, heroes, escapades, prankster, nightmare, fairy godmother ...
Time:
year 1983
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When he finds out that his friend has betrayed him, Cho must prepare for ...
Style:
psychotronic, perverse, grindhouse, bloody, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, sword fight, ninjitsu, gang, cannon, assassin, attempted rape, fight, exploitation, mixed martial arts, superhero ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
japan, usa, asia, los angeles, tokyo ...
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Genre: Family, Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the well and various Looney Tunes characters have their dreams ...
Style:
anime, anthology, not serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
cartoon duck, cartoon mouse, duck, bugs bunny, porky pig, treasure hunt, danger, imaginary, chases and races, obsessive quest, escapades, chase ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
fictional island
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