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. 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.

62. 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.

63. 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.

64. 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.

65. 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.

66. 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

67. 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.

68. 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.

69. 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

70. Duel to the Death ( Xian si jue )

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
Actors: Norman Chu, Damian Lau, Flora Cheung, Eddy Ko, Casanova Wong, Paul Chang

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