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.

61. Eddie and the Cruisers

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Davidson
Actors: Tom Berenger, Michael Paré, Joe Pantoliano, Matthew Laurance, David Wilson, Ellen Barkin
Plot: A reporter is on the case of a once-popular band whose music has seen a sudden revival. As she digs deeper she learns that there may be lost tapes hidden and that the band's leader, Eddie Wilson, who disappeared suddenly, may still be alive and well.

62. Twilight Zone: The Movie

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Landis
Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Vic Morrow, Kathleen Quinlan, Jeremy Licht, John Lithgow, Kevin McCarthy
Plot: 4 totally unrelated stories are told by 4 different directors that encompass the same feeling as the popular 60's television show.

63. Gorky Park

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Apted
Actors: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian McDiarmid, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula
Plot: A triple homicide in Moscow's Gorky Park leads a police investigator on a mission to solve the crime - only to uncover a coverup leading to the highest levels of the city government.

64. Possession

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering
Plot: A couple's impending divorce causes both to examine each other in a different life - but as the husband becomes obsessed with finding out why his wife wants to leave, she becomes more and more fearful of him. When he finds out she already has a lover, he begins a relationship with his young's son's teacher - a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his wife but with a complete opposite personality.

65. Octopussy

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Glen
Actors: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Kabir Bedi, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Steven Berkoff
Plot: When an agent dies with a faux Faberge egg, James Bond follows the smuggling ring to a circus ran by the alluring Octopussy. The plot leads to a mad Soviet general bent on starting World War III.

66. The House on Sorority Row

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Rosman
Actors: Kate McNeil, Eileen Davidson, Janis Ward, Robin Meloy, Harley Jane Kozak, Jodi Draigie
Plot: On the eve of graduation, a group of sorority sisters are witness to a prank gone wrong. Soon after, they finds themselves being stalked and killed by an intruder.

67. Under Fire

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Actors: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Alma Martínez, Holly Palance

68. Easy Money

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Signorelli
Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Candice Azzara
Plot: 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.

69. Lone Wolf McQuade

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steve Carver
Actors: Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Robert Beltran, William Sanderson
Plot: A Texas Ranger, known for working alone by his own rules, goes after a criminal who made things personal.

70. Nightmares

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen, Richard Masur, Veronica Cartwright, Cristina Raines, Joe Lambie

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