31. The Draughtsman's Contract
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Neil Cunningham, Dave Hill
32. 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
33. 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.
34. 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.
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. 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.
39. 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
40. 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
