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Top 20 Highest Grossing Movies of 1983. 1. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy. After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
- 10 ‘The Right Stuff’
- 9 ‘Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life’
- 8 ‘WarGames’
- 7 ‘The Dresser’
- 6 ‘The Day After’
- 5 ‘Nostalghia’
- 4 ‘Videodrome’
- 3 ‘Terms of Endearment’
- 2 ‘Scarface’
- 1 ‘Star Wars: Episode Vi - Return of The Jedi’
An ambitious historical epic, a riveting adventure, a special effects masterclass, and a social commentary and political satire as well, The Right Stuffhad plenty on its agenda. It was so jam-packed with ideas that it managed to make its whopping 193-minute runtimebreeze by without a single moment being wasted or feeling bloated. From American dire...
The famous comedy troupe were in their absolute prime through the late 70s and into the early 80s. With their previous films Life of Brian and Monty Python and the Holy Grail becoming sensations of the time, audiences keenly awaited Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. The comedy group certainly did not disappoint, resorting to their trademark imagi...
As a peculiar mix of tech-based 80s thriller and coming-of-age teenage drama, WarGames was a movie that was far better than it had any right in being. It follows a high school student as he unwittingly activates America’s nuclear arsenal when he plays a war strategy simulation game as the Soviet Union. A product of its time, it played with society’...
Directed by famed English filmmaker Peter Yates from Ronald Harwood’s adaptation of his own play, The Dresser presented a poignant character-driven drama as it earned four Oscar nominations. Set during WWII, it focuses on a dwindled lead actor reduced to leading a ragtag troupe of aged performers and army rejects, and his loyal assistant trying to ...
While there have been a great many advancements made in the film industry since the 1980s, one thing we have sadly lost over time has been the low-budget made-for-television film. A prime example of the TV movie, The Day After excelled as a harrowing societal horror film, a gripping war story, and an undeniable call of alarm to viewers all over Ame...
A poet with a camera, Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky is indisputably one of the most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, while difficult to comprehend in a linear, narrative sense, had a transfixing, dreamlike quality that was both opaque and unmistakably personal, with 1983’s Nostalghia no exception. The first of Tarkovsky’s ...
One of the early hits of body horror master David Cronenberg, Videodromepresented as an ambitious and striking announcement of the director’s arrival in Hollywood. It follows the president of a struggling television channel who broadcasts a show dedicated to torture only to find himself investigating its disturbing authenticity when his girl...
A perfect, poignant mixture of comedy and drama capable of taking audiences on a powerful emotional journey, Terms of Endearmentwas heralded by many at the time as the best film of the year. It follows a tough widow whose search for true love is interrupted when her daughter’s life is upended by a difficult divorce and a diagnosis of ...
An epic crime drama loaded with style, eccentricity, profanity, violence, and tension, Scarfacesaw famed filmmaker Brian de Palma at his wild and unbridled best. Following a Cuban immigrant’s meteoric rise up the ranks of the Miami drug trade, it used the era’s obsession with excessiveness to craft a drug-fueled crime odyssey as untamed as i...
Even 40 years on, the original Star Wars trilogy is still considered to be one of the greatest film achievements of all time. While it sometimes struggled to reach the absolute zenith of cinematic entertainment that its predecessors largely defined, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedistill presented a thrilling sci-fi adventure experience th...
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Apr 1, 2024 · More than 850 movie fans have come together to cast their votes for the best movies of 1983. From gripping dramas to classic comedies, this ranking of films from the year offers up a diverse mix of memorable titles that are sure to please all kinds of viewers.
The 33 Greatest Films of 1983. 1. Scarface (1983) R | 170 min | Crime, Drama. In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Votes: 915,620 | Gross: $45.60M.
March 20, 1983: High Road to China: $6,156,049: 12: March 27, 1983: Spring Break: $5,908,574: 13: April 3, 1983: $4,448,821: 14: April 10, 1983: Tootsie: $3,430,963: Tootsie reclaimed #1 in seventeenth weekend of release and became Columbia Pictures highest-grossing film in the US and Canada, surpassing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 15 ...
per page. 1 2 3 4 5 Next . Return of the Jedi. 1983, 134 min. Richard Marquand • Starring: Mark Hamill , Harrison Ford , Carrie Fisher. Action • Adventure • Cyborg / Android / Robot. find this movie on . Buy or Rent on iTunes. Find on Netflix. 2. Scarface. 1983, 170 min.
1. Scarface (1983) R | 170 min | Crime, Drama. 8.3. Rate. 65 Metascore. In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Votes: 863,792 | Gross: $45.60M. 2.
