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1983 Chronicle of The Cinema

by wijayaandik • Created 9 years ago • Modified 2 months ago
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  • Sandrine Bonnaire in To Our Loves (1983)

    1. To Our Loves

    19831h 39mR
    7.1 (7.6K)
    An erratic young woman's family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways.
    DirectorMaurice PialatStarsSandrine BonnaireMaurice PialatChristophe Odent
    Criterion / Nova / Film 104
  • The Big Chill (1983)

    2. The Big Chill

    19831h 45mR61Metascore
    7.1 (44K)
    A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
    DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsTom BerengerGlenn CloseJeff Goldblum
    Nova / Film 103
  • Di Balik Kelambu (1983)

    3. Di Balik Kelambu

    19831h 34m
    7.1 (213)
    A story about Hasan and Nurlela who has conflicts in their marriage which causes a misunderstanding between them.
    DirectorTeguh KaryaStarsHendro DjarotChristine HakimSandy Suwardi Hasan
  • El Norte (1983)

    4. El Norte

    19832h 21mR75Metascore
    7.7 (5.9K)
    After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
    DirectorGregory NavaStarsZaide Silvia GutiérrezDavid VillalpandoErnesto Gómez Cruz
  • L'Argent (1983)

    5. L'Argent

    19831h 25mNot Rated95Metascore
    7.4 (13K)
    A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
    DirectorRobert BressonStarsChristian PateySylvie Van den ElsenMichel Briguet
    Nova / Film 104
  • Al Pacino in Scarface (1983)

    6. Scarface

    19832h 50mR65Metascore
    8.3 (978K)
    In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoMichelle PfeifferSteven Bauer
  • Cher, Kurt Russell, and Meryl Streep in Silkwood (1983)

    7. Silkwood

    19832h 11mR65Metascore
    7.1 (24K)
    A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
    DirectorMike NicholsStarsMeryl StreepKurt RussellCher
  • Mariel Hemingway in Star 80 (1983)

    8. Star 80

    19831h 43mR63Metascore
    6.8 (8.6K)
    A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous.
    DirectorBob FosseStarsMariel HemingwayEric RobertsCliff Robertson
    Los Movies / Film 104
  • Matthew Modine, George Dzundza, David Alan Grier, Guy Boyd, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and Michael Wright in Streamers (1983)

    9. Streamers

    19831h 58mR
    6.5 (2.2K)
    Four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Viet Nam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when one soldier reveals he's gay.
    DirectorRobert AltmanStarsMatthew ModineMichael WrightMitchell Lichtenstein
    OKRU / Film 104
  • Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger in Terms of Endearment (1983)

    10. Terms of Endearment

    19832h 12mPG79Metascore
    7.4 (69K)
    Widow Aurora Greenway juggles her own struggles with a new romantic interest while trying to sort out the emotional problems of her daughter who's married to a philandering husband.
    DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsShirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack Nicholson
    Nova / Film 103
  • James Woods and Debbie Harry in Videodrome (1983)

    11. Videodrome

    19831h 27mR58Metascore
    7.2 (110K)
    A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
    DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja Smits
  • Yentl (1983)

    12. Yentl

    19832h 13mPG68Metascore
    6.6 (17K)
    A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
    DirectorBarbra StreisandStarsBarbra StreisandAmy IrvingMandy Patinkin
  • Thom Hoffman, Jeroen Krabbé, and Renée Soutendijk in The 4th Man (1983)

    13. The 4th Man

    19831h 42mUnrated
    7.1 (9K)
    A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.
    DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsJeroen KrabbéRenée SoutendijkThom Hoffman
  • The Dead Zone (1983)

    14. The Dead Zone

    19831h 43mR69Metascore
    7.2 (82K)
    A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
    DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsChristopher WalkenBrooke AdamsTom Skerritt
  • Jennifer Beals in Flashdance (1983)

    15. Flashdance

    19831h 35mR39Metascore
    6.2 (62K)
    An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
    DirectorAdrian LyneStarsJennifer BealsMichael NouriLilia Skala
    Los Movies
  • Jean-Hugues Anglade in The Wounded Man (1983)

    16. The Wounded Man

    19831h 49mUnrated
    6.6 (1.4K)
    A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative hustler / petty criminal that he meets at a train station.
    DirectorPatrice ChéreauStarsJean-Hugues AngladeVittorio MezzogiornoRoland Bertin
    Nova / Film 104
  • Kim Basinger, Sean Connery, and Barbara Carrera in Never Say Never Again (1983)

    17. Never Say Never Again

    19832h 14mPG68Metascore
    6.1 (76K)
    James Bond is called upon to try to recover nuclear bombs stolen by Spectre, but he will have to get rid of a professional assassin, hired especially to eliminate him.
    DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsSean ConneryKim BasingerKlaus Maria Brandauer
    Los Movies
  • Oleg Yankovskiy in Nostalghia (1983)

    18. Nostalghia

    19832h 5mNot Rated74Metascore
    7.9 (32K)
    A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
    DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsOleg YankovskiyErland JosephsonDomiziana Giordano
    OKRU / Film 104
  • Meg Foster in The Osterman Weekend (1983)

    19. The Osterman Weekend

    19831h 43mR
    5.8 (9.9K)
    During the Cold War, a controversial television journalist is asked by the C.I.A. to persuade certain acquaintances, who are Soviet Agents of the Omega network, to defect.
    DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsRutger HauerJohn HurtCraig T. Nelson
    Nova / Film 103
  • Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph Macchio in The Outsiders (1983)

    20. The Outsiders

    19831h 31mPG45Metascore
    7.0 (106K)
    In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.
    DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsC. Thomas HowellMatt DillonRalph Macchio
  • Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business (1983)

    21. Risky Business

    19831h 39mR75Metascore
    6.8 (105K)
    A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
    DirectorPaul BrickmanStarsTom CruiseRebecca De MornayJoe Pantoliano
    Los Movies
  • Diane Lane, Matt Dillon, and Mickey Rourke in Rumble Fish (1983)

    22. Rumble Fish

    19831h 34mR63Metascore
    7.1 (40K)
    Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
    DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMatt DillonMickey RourkeDiane Lane
  • Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact (1983)

    23. Sudden Impact

    19831h 57mR52Metascore
    6.6 (51K)
    When a woman exacts deadly revenge on the aggressors who raped her and her sister ten years earlier, Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to the case.
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodSondra LockePat Hingle
  • Testament (1983)

    24. Testament

    19831h 30mPG71Metascore
    6.9 (7.6K)
    The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
    DirectorLynne LittmanStarsJane AlexanderWilliam DevaneRossie Harris
  • Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy in WarGames (1983)

    25. WarGames

    19831h 54mPG77Metascore
    7.1 (118K)
    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.
    DirectorJohn BadhamStarsMatthew BroderickAlly SheedyJohn Wood

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