Top Movies of 1983


The top movies of 1983 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

31. Bad Boys

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Actors: Sean Penn, Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy, Reni Santoni, Jim Moody, Clancy Brown

32. The Day After

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan
Plot: This film chronicles the effects of nuclear devastation on the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas.

33. Risky Business

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Brickman
Actors: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Curtis Armstrong, Bronson Pinchot, Richard Masur
Plot: With his parents, a Chicago teen lives every adolescent male's fantasy - but when it goes too far and his father's Porche ends up at the bottom of a lake, he'll have to get creative to raise enough money to fix the problem.

34. Nostalghia ( Nostalgiya )

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Patrizia Terreno, Domiziana Giordano, Laura De Marchi, Delia Boccardo
Plot: A Russian poet, along with his translator, Eugenia, it in Italy researcher the life of a Russian composer. But the longer he stays, the more he longs for his home - his wife and child. Stumbling across Domenico - man who imprisoned his own family for seven years to protect them from the "evils" of the world - he finds himself drawn to him, even as the longing to get home grows ever deeper.

35. The Year of Living Dangerously

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr, Noel Ferrier
Plot: The story revolves around a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno. It follows a group of foreign correspondents in Jakarta on the eve of an attempted coup by the so-called 30 September Movement on 30 September 1965 and during the beginning of the violent reprisals by military-led vigilante groups who killed hundreds of thousands.

36. traviata, La

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Actors: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Axelle Gall, Pina Cei

37. The Dresser

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough

38. Return of Martin Guerre, The ( retour de Martin Guerre, Le )

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Daniel Vigne
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Isabelle Sadoyan, Rose Thiéry

39. Eddie Murphy Delirious

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Gowers
Actors: Eddie Murphy, James Argiro

40. The Entity

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, Margaret Blye, David Labiosa, Allan Rich, George Coe
Plot: Supposedly based on actual events: a woman awakens on night to find herself the victim of assault and rape by an invisible force. With friends and family shunning her, and possibly thinking of committing her, she turns to parapsychologists who in turn find an evil presence that is drawn to her and must somehow figure out how to stop it.

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