1983 - BEST MOVIES

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.

After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.

A woman reflects on her childhood relationship with her father, attempting to understand the depths of his despair and the truth of his myths.

"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.

The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.

Another monotonous day in the dull life of a medical professor, disillusioned by his university work, students, wife and family.

Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.

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.

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.

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.

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

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.

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.

A woman, whose troubled son has left home, informs two different men from her past that each of them is a real father. Too different men.

Acclaimed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and his screenwriter Tonino Guerra travel all over Italy to scout locations for the film Nostalghia.

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.