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• February 11 - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
   concert film Let's Spend the Night Together
  Let's Spend the Night Together (film)
  
  Let's Spend The Night Together by The Rolling Stones is a film directed by Hal Ashby and released in 1982, taken from concerts recorded during their North American Tour 1981....
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Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Terms of Endearment

Terms of Endearment

Terms of Endearment is a 1983 in film romance film comedy-drama film adapted by James L. Brooks from the novel by Larry McMurtry.Plot...

Best Director: James L. Brooks

James L. Brooks

James L. Brooks is an United States Film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for producing television programs such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons , Rhoda and Taxi ....
 - Terms of Endearment

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall

Robert Selden Duvall is an United States film actor and Film director who has won an Academy Award, two Emmys, and four Golden Globes. He has appeared in films such as To Kill a Mockingbird , The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Natural , Network , THX 1138, MASH , The Great Santini,...
 - Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies is a 1983 United States drama film starring Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas....

Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
 - Terms of Endearment

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an United States actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter, Movie star for his often dark-themed portrayals of Neurosis Fictional character....
 - Terms of Endearment

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt is an American film, stage and television actor. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Awards-winning role in 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously....
 - The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 Peter Weir film adapted from the The Year of Living Dangerously by its author Christopher Koch, Weir, and David Williamson....

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 in film Sweden film written and film director by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four part TV movie which spanned 312 minutes....
(Fanny och Alexander), directed by Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
, Sweden

Drama:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Terms of Endearment

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
 (tie): Tom Courtenay

Tom Courtenay

Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , Billy Liar and Doctor Zhivago ....
 - The Dresser

The Dresser

The Dresser is a 1983 in film film which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
 (tie): Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies is a 1983 United States drama film starring Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas....

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Yentl

Yentl

Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer.Based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," it centers on a young girl who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Michael Caine

Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
 - Educating Rita

Educating Rita (film)

Educating Rita is a 1983 film of Willy Russell's Educating Rita directed by Lewis Gilbert and stars Julie Walters, Michael Caine, and Maureen Lipman with a screenplay by Russell....

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Julie Walters

Julie Walters

Julie Walters, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-award winning England actor and novelist....
 - Educating Rita

Other

Best Director

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
 - Yentl

Best Foreign Language Film

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 in film Sweden film written and film director by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four part TV movie which spanned 312 minutes....
, Sweden

The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

is a Japanese drama film from 1958 in film by Keisuke Kinoshita. It is based on the book Men of Tohoku by Fukazawa Shichiro.The film takes place in a traditional Japanese village, with no particular reference to a time period ....
(????, Narayama bushiko), directed by Shohei Imamura

Shohei Imamura

was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards, and is regarded as one of the most important and idiosyncratic filmmakers in the history of cinema....
, Japan

Prénom Carmen

Prénom Carmen

First Name: Carmen is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen.The protagonist is Carmen X , a female member of a terrorist gang....
(First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris....
,

Ascendancy

Ascendancy (film)

Ascendancy is a 1982 in film British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Protestant Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I....
, directed by Edward Bennett

Edward Bennett (director)

Edward Bennett is a British film and TV director. He was educated at Eton College. His most notable film is Ascendancy , for which he won a Golden Bear at the 1983 Berlin International Film Festival....
, United Kingdom

The Beehive (La Colmena), directed by Mario Camus

Mario Camus

Mario Camus is a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He won the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival with La colmena ....
, Spain

• A Christmas Story
  A Christmas Story
  
  A Christmas Story is a 1983 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of Canada comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories....
  , starring Peter Billingsley
  Peter Billingsley
  
  Peter Billingsley , also known as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen, is an American actor, Film director, and Film producer known for his role as Ralphie in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story....
  
• A Night in Heaven
  A Night in Heaven
  
  A Night in Heaven is a 1983 in film romance film directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Christopher Atkins as a college student and Lesley Ann Warren as his professor....
  , starring Christopher Atkins
  Christopher Atkins
  
  Christopher Atkins is a Golden Globe-nominated United States actor, who became famous with his costarring debut role in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon ....
  
• A Nos Amours
  À nos amours
  
  ? nos amours is a 1983 France film directed by Maurice Pialat, written by Arlette Langmann and Maurice Pialat....
  
• All the Right Moves
  All the Right Moves
  
  All the Right Moves is a 1983 in film drama/romantic comedy film directed by Michael Chapman and starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn, and Gary Graham....
  , starring Tom Cruise
  Tom Cruise
  
  Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
  , Craig T. Nelson
  Craig T. Nelson
  
  Craig Theodore Nelson is an United States actor.Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington to a drummer father. Because another Craig Richard Nelson was registered with the Screen Actors Guild, he registered as Craig Theodore Nelson....
   and Lea Thompson
  Lea Thompson
  
  Lea Katherine Thompson is an American actress and Film director. She is best known for her lead character in the 1990s NBC series Caroline in the City and her part as Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future trilogy....
  
• Ardh Satya
  Ardh Satya
  
  Ardh Satya is a critically acclaimed 1982 film directed by Govind Nihalani, his second offering after another angst ridden movie Aakrosh . Both the movies had screenplay by Vijay Tendulkar, the noted Marathi playwright, this one was based on a short story 'Surya' by D.A....
  , directed by Govind Nihalani
  Govind Nihalani
  
  Govind Nihalani is one of Indian cinema's foremost directors, cinematographer, and also a screenwriter and film producer. He has been directing Hindi films since the late seventies, and worked in the television medium....
  , Silver Lotus Award
  National Film Awards
  
  The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India, and the country's oldest alongside the Filmfare Awards. Established in 1954, it has been run by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973....
   for best Indian Actor Om Puri
  Om Puri
  
  Om Puri OBE is an Indian actor who has appeared in both mainstream Indian Cinema films as well as art films. His credits also include appearances in United Kingdom and United States films....
  
• The Atlantis Interceptors
  The Atlantis Interceptors
  
  The Atlantis Interceptors is a 1983 in film Italian language science fiction film starring Christopher Connelly and directed by Ruggero Deodato....
  
• Bad Boys
  Bad Boys (1983 film)
  
  Bad Boys is a 1983 in film juvenile delinquent melodrama primarily set in a juvenile detention center, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, and Ally Sheedy, directed by Rick Rosenthal....
  
• The Ballad of Narayama
  The Ballad of Narayama
  
  is a Japanese drama film from 1958 in film by Keisuke Kinoshita. It is based on the book Men of Tohoku by Fukazawa Shichiro.The film takes place in a traditional Japanese village, with no particular reference to a time period ....
  (remake of the 1958 film) - Palme d'Or award
• La Bestia y la Espada Magica
  La Bestia y la Espada Magica
  
  La Bestia y la Espada Magica, also known as The Beast and the Magic Sword and The Werewolf and the Magic Sword, is a 1983 in film Spanish/Japanese horror film film that is the tenth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy....
  
• Betrayal
  Betrayal (1983 film)
  
  Betrayal is Harold Pinter's film adaptation of his semi-autobiographical 1978 play Betrayal . The 1983 film was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Jones ....
  
• The Big Chill
  The Big Chill (film)
  
  The Big Chill is a 1983 film about a group of baby boomer college friends who reunite after many years and explore the aftermath of the 1960s....
  , directed by Lawrence Kasdan
  Lawrence Kasdan
  
  Lawrence Kasdan is an American Film Film producer, film director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia, where he graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966, he went on to attend the University of Michigan as an education major....
  , starring Tom Berenger
  Tom Berenger
  
  Tom Berenger is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning United States actor known mainly for his roles in action films....
  , Glenn Close
  Glenn Close
  
  Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
  , Jeff Goldblum
  Jeff Goldblum
  
  Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor. He often portrays quirky, intense or eccentric characters. He is also known for his distinctive appearance and staccato delivery of lines....
  , William Hurt
  William Hurt
  
  William M. Hurt is an United States actor. He won both the Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman ....
  , Kevin Kline
  Kevin Kline
  
  Kevin Delaney Kline is an Academy Award winning American actor of theatre and film....
  , Mary Kay Place
  Mary Kay Place
  
  Mary Kay Place is an United States actress, singer, Television director and screen writer....
  , Meg Tilly
  Meg Tilly
  
  Meg Tilly is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress, Broadway theatre dancer and ballerina....
   and JoBeth Williams
  JoBeth Williams
  
  JoBeth Williams is an United States Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated television and film actor, and an Academy Awards-nominated Film director....
  
• Bloodbath at the House of Death
  Bloodbath at the House of Death
  
  Bloodbath at the House of Death is a comedy horror film produced in 1983, starring the United Kingdom comedian Kenny Everett and featuring Vincent Price....
  
• Blue Thunder
  Blue Thunder
  
  Blue Thunder is a 1983 in film feature film that features a high-tech helicopter of the same name. The movie was directed by John Badham and stars Roy Scheider....
  
• Born in Flames
  Born in Flames
  
  Born in Flames is a 1983 Documentary film-style feminist science fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternate history United States Democratic socialism....
  
• Brainstorm
  Brainstorm (1983 film)
  
  Brainstorm is a 1983 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull and starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood ....
  
• Breathless
  Breathless
  
  Breathless is a 1960 in film film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.Godard's first feature-length film is among the inaugural films of the French New Wave....
  
• Bullshot
  Bullshot (film)
  
  Bullshot is a film, based on the Play "Bullshot Crummond". The name comes from a parody of the 1929 film, on which it is loosely based, Bulldog Drummond....
  
• Chiefs
• Christine (film)
  Christine (film)
  
  Christine is a 1983 horror film about a supernaturally malevolent automobile and its effects on the teenager who owns it, adapted from a Christine written by Stephen King....
  directed by John Carpenter
  John Carpenter
  
  John Howard Carpenter is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, composer and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, his name is most commonly associated with horror film and science fiction film....
  , starring Keith Gordon
  Keith Gordon
  
  Keith Gordon is an United States actor and film director....
  , John Stockwell
  John Stockwell
  
  John R. Stockwell is a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who became a critic of United States federal government of the United States policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tour of duty....
  , Alexandra Paul
  Alexandra Paul
  
  Alexandra Elizabeth Paul is an United States actress. She is probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television series Baywatch from 1992–97....
  , Robert Prosky
  Robert Prosky
  
  Robert Prosky was an United States stage, film, and television actor....
  , Harry Dean Stanton
  Harry Dean Stanton
  
  Harry Dean Stanton is an United States actor of film and television....
   and Kelly Preston
  Kelly Preston
  
  Kelly Preston is an United States actor and former model married to John Travolta since 1991....
  
• Class
  Class (film)
  
  Class is a 1983 United States film that was directed by Lewis Carlino....
  , starring Rob Lowe
  Rob Lowe
  
  Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
  , Andrew McCarthy
  Andrew McCarthy
  
  Andrew McCarthy is an United States actor....
   and Jacqueline Bisset
  Jacqueline Bisset
  
  Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress....
  
• Cracking Up
  Cracking Up (film)
  
  Cracking Up was filmed in June 1982. It was released on April 13, 1983 in France by Warner Brothers....
  
• The Crimson Permanent Assurance
  The Crimson Permanent Assurance
  
  The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a short film that plays at the start of the feature-length motion picture Monty Python's The Meaning of Life....
  , a Monty Python's short film
• Cross Creek
  Cross Creek (film)
  
  Cross Creek is a 1983 in film film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It received four Academy Awards nominations, for its Costume Design, Music, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress ....
  , starring Mary Steenburgen
  Mary Steenburgen
  
  Mary Nell Steenburgen is an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
  , Peter Coyote
  Peter Coyote
  
  Peter Coyote is an United States actor, author, film director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics....
  , Rip Torn
  Rip Torn
  
  Rip Torn is an American Academy Award-nominated television and film actor, who is known for his role as Artie on the HBO comedy series The Larry Sanders Show....
   and Alfre Woodard
  Alfre Woodard
  
  Alfre Ette Woodard is an American actor. She has been nominated for an Academy Awards and has won four Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards and one Golden Globe Award....
  
• Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
  Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
  
  Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island is a 1983 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animation bridging sequences, hosted by Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales....
  
• Danton
  Danton (1983 film)
  
  Danton is a 1983 in film French language film adaptation of the play The Danton Case by Stanislawa Przybyszewska, depicting the last months of Georges Danton....
  
• D.C. Cab
  D.C. Cab
  
  D.C. Cab is a 1983 comedy film, starring Mr. T, Max Gail, Adam Baldwin, Gary Busey and a special appearance by singer Irene Cara. The film was co-written and directed by Joel Schumacher....
  
• The Dead Zone
  The Dead Zone (film)
  
  The Dead Zone is a 1983 science fiction-thriller film based on the Stephen King The Dead Zone . Directed by David Cronenberg, the film stars Christopher Walken, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen, Herbert Lom, Brooke Adams, Anthony Zerbe and Colleen Dewhurst....
  , starring Christopher Walken
  Christopher Walken
  
  'Christopher Walken' is an Academy Award winning United States actor of theater and film, on which he has spent more than 50 years. A prolific actor, he has appeared in over 100 movie and television roles, notably including A View to a Kill, At Close Range, The Deer Hunter, King of New York, Batman Returns and Pulp Fictio...
  
• Le Dernier Combat
  Le Dernier Combat
  
  Le Dernier Combat , released in 1983 Cinema of France is the first feature film made by Luc Besson. The film is a dark vision of Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction survival....
  (The Last Battle), directed by Luc Besson
  Luc Besson
  
  Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and film producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company....
  
• The Dresser
  The Dresser
  
  The Dresser is a 1983 in film film which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together....
  , starring Albert Finney
  Albert Finney
  
  Albert Finney, Jr. is a British people actor. Hailed as a "second Laurence Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s....
   and Tom Courtenay
  Tom Courtenay
  
  Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , Billy Liar and Doctor Zhivago ....
  
• Eddie and the Cruisers
  Eddie and the Cruisers
  
  Eddie and the Cruisers is a 1983 in film Cinema of the United States directed by Martin Davidson with the screenplay written by the director and Arlene Davidson, based on the novel by P....
  , starring Michael Pare
  Michael Paré
  
  Michael Kevin Par? is an United States actor....
   and Tom Berenger
  Tom Berenger
  
  Tom Berenger is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning United States actor known mainly for his roles in action films....
  
• Educating Rita
  Educating Rita (film)
  
  Educating Rita is a 1983 film of Willy Russell's Educating Rita directed by Lewis Gilbert and stars Julie Walters, Michael Caine, and Maureen Lipman with a screenplay by Russell....
  , starring Michael Caine
  Michael Caine
  
  Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
   and Julie Walters
  Julie Walters
  
  Julie Walters, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award- and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-award winning England actor and novelist....
  
• El Norte
  El Norte (film)
  
  El Norte is an United States and England film, directed by Gregory Nava. The screenplay was written by Nava and Anna Thomas. The movie was first presented at the Telluride Film Festival in 1983 in film, and its wide release was in January 1984 in film....
  
• Entre Nous
  Entre Nous
  
  Entre Nous is a 1983 in film France biographical drama film directed by Diane Kurys, who shares the writing credits with Olivier Cohen. Set in WW2 France of 1942, the film's stars are Isabelle Huppert, Miou Miou, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Christine Pascal....
  
• Eréndira
  Erendira
  
  Erendira may refer to:* Princess Erendira of P'urhepecha people who led their uprising against Spanish* The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Er?ndira and Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
  
• Flashdance
  Flashdance
  
  Flashdance is a musical film/romance film released in April 1983. The film was the first collaboration of film producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and its presentation of some sequences in the style of music videos was an influence on other 1980s films including Top Gun , Simpson and Bruckheimer's most famous production....
  , starring Jennifer Beals
  Jennifer Beals
  
  Jennifer Beals is an United States film Actor and former teen model . She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance and as Bette Porter on the lesbian-themed drama series The L Word....
   and Michael Nouri
  Michael Nouri
  
  Michael Nouri is an United States television and film actor. He may be best known for his role as Nick Hurley, in the 1983 in film movie Flashdance....
  
• The Fourth Man
  The Fourth Man
  
  The Fourth Man is a 1983 in film horror film by Paul Verhoeven, based on the novel De Vierde Man by Gerard Reve. The film stars Jeroen Krabb? and Ren?e Soutendijk....
  
• Get Crazy
  Get Crazy
  
  Get Crazy is a 1983 in film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern , and Ed Begley, Jr.....
  
• Hercules
  Hercules (1983 film)
  
  Hercules, written and directed by Luigi Cozzi, is a 1983 Italian adventure film featuring the exploits of the mythological hero Hercules.The film is an odd retelling of the story of Hercules battling the wizard Minos , who uses "science" in an attempt to take over the world....
  
• The Hunger
  The Hunger
  
  The Hunger is a 1983 English language horror film. It is the story of a bizarre love triangle between a doctor who specializes in sleep and aging research, and a stylish vampire couple ....
  , starring Catherine Deneuve
  Catherine Deneuve
  
  Catherine Deneuve is a two-time C?sar Award-winning, BAFTA Award-nominated and Academy Award-nominated French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of beautiful ice maidens for various directors, including Luis Bu?uel and Roman Polanski....
  , David Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
   and Susan Sarandon
  Susan Sarandon
  
  Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
  
• Jaws 3-D
  Jaws 3-D
  
  Jaws 3-D is a 1983 in film horror film–thriller film directed by Joe Alves and starring Dennis Quaid . It is the second sequel to Steven Spielberg's 48th Academy Awards winning classic Jaws ....
  
• Koyaanisqatsi
  Koyaanisqatsi
  
  Koyaanisqatsi , also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1983 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke....
  
• The Keep
  The Keep (film)
  
  The Keep is a 1983 horror film directed by Michael Mann and starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, J?rgen Prochnow and Ian McKellen. It was released by Paramount Pictures....
  
• The King of Comedy
  The King of Comedy (1983 film)
  
  The King of Comedy is a feature film made in 1981 starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, and directed by Martin Scorsese. It was released in Iceland on December 19, 1982 and subsequently, on February 18, 1983 in the United States by 20th Century Fox....
  , directed by Martin Scorsese
  Martin Scorsese
  
  Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
   and starring Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
   and Robert De Niro
  Robert De Niro
  
  Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
  
• Local Hero
  Local Hero
  
  Local Hero is a Scottish film starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi and Burt Lancaster. It was directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam....
  
• Lone Wolf McQuade
  Lone Wolf McQuade
  
  Lone Wolf McQuade is a 1983 action film, starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, and Barbara Carrera and Robert Beltran, directed by Steve Carver....
  
• Man of Flowers
  Man of Flowers
  
  Man of Flowers is a 1983 Australian film about an eccentric, reclusive, middle-aged man who enjoys the beauty of art, flowers, and watching pretty women undress....
  
• Mickey's Christmas Carol
  Mickey's Christmas Carol
  
  Mickey's Christmas Carol is a twenty-four minute animation short film produced by The Walt Disney Company and originally released in the United Kingdom on October 20, 1983 by Buena Vista Distribution....
  , a featurette which brings the character Mickey Mouse
  Mickey Mouse
  
  Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
   back to cinemas for the first time since 1953.
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Mr. Mom
  Mr. Mom
  
  Mr. Mom is a 1983 comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti and written by John Hughes about a stay-at-home dad. It stars Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Jeffrey Tambor, Ann Jillian, Christopher Lloyd, and Martin Mull....
  , starring Michael Keaton
  Michael Keaton
  
  'Michael John Douglas' , better known by the stage name 'Michael Keaton', is an American actor, known for his early comedic roles in films such as Night Shift , Beetlejuice, and his portrayal of Batman in the two Tim Burton-directed films of the series, as well as lead roles in the late 1990s and 2000s including Jackie Brown, ...
   and Teri Garr
  Teri Garr
  
  Terry Ann "Teri" Garr is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian....
  
• National Lampoon's Vacation
  National Lampoon's Vacation
  
  National Lampoon's Vacation is a 1983 in film comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall....
  , starring Chevy Chase
  Chevy Chase
  
  Cornelius Crane ?Chevy? Chase is an United States Emmy Award comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase quickly became a key cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live, where his Weekend Update skit quickly became a staple of the show....
   and Beverly D'Angelo
  Beverly D'Angelo
  
  Beverly D'Angelo is an United Statesn singer and actress....
  
• Never Say Never Again
  Never Say Never Again
  
  Never Say Never Again, released in 1983 in film by Orion Pictures and Warner Bros., is a non-EON Productions remake of the 1965 James Bond film, Thunderball ....
  
• Nightmares
  Nightmares (1983 film)
  
  Nightmares is a 1983 film with four tales of horror film, starring Emilio Estevez and Lance Henriksen. The film is directed by T.V. veteran Joseph Sargent and began as a television project of four horror stories....
  
• Nostalghia
  Nostalghia
  
  Nostalghia is a film, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson....
  
• Octopussy
  Octopussy
  
  Octopussy is the thirteenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  
• One Deadly Summer (L'été meurtrier)
• The Outsiders
  The Outsiders (film)
  
  The Outsiders is a 1983 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an film adaptation of the The Outsiders by S....
  , directed by Francis Ford Coppola
  Francis Ford Coppola
  
  Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
  , starring C. Thomas Howell
  C. Thomas Howell
  
  Christopher Thomas Howell is an American actor. He came to media attention for having a part in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and is best known for having starred in the films The Outsiders and The Hitcher , as well as Soul Man and Red Dawn....
  , Matt Dillon
  Matt Dillon
  
  Matthew Raymond Dillon is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe Award-, and BAFTA Award-nominated United States actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as a mature actor in the decades following, culminating in an Academy Awards nomination for his performance in th...
  , Ralph Macchio
  Ralph Macchio
  
  Ralph George Macchio is an United Statesactor of Italians ancestry. His most notable role was as List of The Karate Kid characters#Daniel LaRusso in the The Karate Kid series....
  , Rob Lowe
  Rob Lowe
  
  Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
  , Patrick Swayze
  Patrick Swayze
  
  Patrick Wayne Swayze is an United States actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter. He is best-known as a romantic leading man in films such as Dirty Dancing and Ghost , for which he received Golden Globe Award nominations, along with his performances in Red Dawn , Road House , and Point Break ....
  , Emilio Estevez
  Emilio Estevez
  
  'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
  , Tom Cruise
  Tom Cruise
  
  Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
   and Diane Lane
  Diane Lane
  
  Diane Lane is an American Cinema of the United States actress born and raised in New York City. Her parents are Colleen Farrington, a night club singer and Playboy centerfold , and Burton Eugene Lane, a Manhattan drama coach who ran an acting workshop with John Cassavetes....
  
• Phar Lap
  Phar Lap (film)
  
  Phar Lap is a 1983 in film film about the Australian racehorse Phar Lap. The film starred Tom Burlinson and was written by famous Australian playwright David Williamson....
  
• Porky's II: The Next Day
  Porky's II: The Next Day
  
  Porky's II: The Next Day is the 1983 in film sequel to the 1982 in film hit film Porky's. The film is written and directed by Bob Clark....
  
• Prénom Carmen
  Prénom Carmen
  
  First Name: Carmen is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen.The protagonist is Carmen X , a female member of a terrorist gang....
   (First Name: Carmen) - Golden Lion award
• Psycho II
  Psycho II
  
  Psycho II is the 1983 sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho . It stars Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia and Meg Tilly....
  
• Reuben, Reuben
  Reuben, Reuben
  
  Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 comedy film. It stars Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani.The film was adapted by Julius J....
  , starring Tom Conti
  Tom Conti
  
  Tom Conti is a Scotland Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning actor, theatre director, and novelist....
  
• The Right Stuff, directed by Philip Kaufman
  Philip Kaufman
  
  Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter. Although not noted for directing a large number of films, the films he has worked on have been done with recognizable intelligence and independence....
  , starring Scott Glenn
  Scott Glenn
  
  Theodore Scott Glenn is an United States actor. His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy , astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff , Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October , and Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs ....
   and Sam Shepard
  Sam Shepard
  
  Samuel Shepard Rogers III is an American playwright, and actor, director of stage and film. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child....
  
• Risky Business
  Risky Business
  
  Risky Business is a 1983 in film comedy film written by Paul Brickman in his directorial debut. It is best known for being the film that launched Tom Cruise to stardom....
  , starring Tom Cruise
  Tom Cruise
  
  Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
   and Rebecca De Mornay
  Rebecca De Mornay
  
  Rebecca De Mornay is an United States film and television Actors/Female. Her breakout film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business....
  
• Rock and Rule
• Rumble Fish
  Rumble Fish
  
  Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay....
  
• Running Brave
• Shaka Zulu
• Scarface
  Scarface (1983 film)
  
  Scarface is a 1983 in film epic film crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana....
  , directed by Brian De Palma
  Brian De Palma
  
  Brian De Palma is an US film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie , Dressed to Kill , Scarface , The Untouchables , and Mission: Impossible ....
  , starring Al Pacino
  Al Pacino
  
  Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an United States film and theatre actor and Film director, widely considered to be one of the most notable and influential actors of his time....
  
• The Scarlet and The Black
  The Scarlet and the Black
  
  The Scarlet and the Black is a 1983 made for TV movie starring Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer. This production should not be confused with the 1993 British television mini series The Scarlet and the Black , which starred Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz....
  
• Silkwood
  Silkwood
  
  Silkwood is a 1983, Academy Award-nominated film which dramatizes the story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a car accident under suspicious circumstances while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked....
  , directed by Mike Nichols
  Mike Nichols
  
  Mike Nichols is an United States television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of the few people to have won List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award....
  , starring Meryl Streep
  Meryl Streep
  
  Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
  , Kurt Russell
  Kurt Russell
  
  'Kurt Vogel Russell' is an United States actor and celebrity. He started acting as a child in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has continued appearing in a wide variety of films since, including The Thing , Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Silkwood, Stargate , Backdraft , Tombstone , Vanilla...
   and Cher
  Cher
  
  Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
  
• Skullduggery, directed by Ota Richter, starring David Calderisi, Wendy Crewson
  Wendy Crewson
  
  Wendy Jane Crewson is a Canada actor.Crewson was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the daughter of June Doreen and Robert Binnie Crewson. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she won the prestigious Lorne Greene Award for outstanding work in the theater....
   and Thom Haverstock
• Sleepaway Camp
  Sleepaway Camp
  
  ?Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 cult classic horror film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik?who also served as executive producer. The film is about teen campers getting killed at a summer camp....
  
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
  Something Wicked this Way Comes
  
  The phrase "something wicked this way comes" originates in Act IV scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The speaker is the second witch, whose full line is, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." The wicked thing is Macbeth himself, by this point in the play a traitor and murderer....
  
• Star 80
  Star 80
  
  Star 80 is a 1983 in film film about the true story of Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her estranged husband Paul Snider in 1980....
  
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
  Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
  
  Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is a 1983 in film space opera film directed by Richard Marquand and written by George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan....
  
• Staying Alive
  Staying Alive
  
  Staying Alive is the 1983 in film sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as the main character Tony Manero, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel, Kate Ann Wright, Kevyn Morrow and Nanette Tarpey....
  , starring John Travolta
  John Travolta
  
  John Joseph Travolta is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States actor, dancer and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction ....
  , Cynthia Rhodes
  Cynthia Rhodes
  
  Cynthia Rhodes is an United States actress, singer, and dancer....
   and Finola Hughes
  Finola Hughes
  
  Finola Hughes is an English actress and author of Irish people and Italian origin who is best known for her portrayal of Anna Devane on the soap operas General Hospital and All My Children, and her portrayal of Anna Devane's identical twin sister, Dr....
  
• Strange Invaders
  Strange Invaders
  
  Strange Invaders was a spoof science-fiction film made in 1983 in film, as a tribute to the 1950s films, but most notably The Invasion of the Body Snatchers....
  
• Superman III
  Superman III
  
  Superman III is a 1983 in film superhero film that is the third of five films in the Superman produced from 1978 to 2006 based upon the long-running DC Comics Superman....
  , starring Christopher Reeve
  Christopher Reeve
  
  Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He established himself early as a The Juilliard School-trained stage actor before portraying Superman in four films, from 1978 to 1987....
  , Richard Pryor
  Richard Pryor
  
  Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III was an United States comedian, actor and writer.Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful, vulgar and profane language and racial epithets....
   and Margot Kidder
  Margot Kidder
  
  Margot Kidder is a Canada-American actor, best known for playing Lois Lane in the Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve....
  
• Sudden Impact
  Sudden Impact
  
  Sudden Impact is a 1983 in film Crime film Thriller and the fourth film in the Dirty Harry , directed by and starring Clint Eastwood . The movie is probably best remembered for Harry's catch phrase "Go ahead, make my day.", often incorrectly attributed to Dirty Harry in the franchise; in 2005, it was voted in a poll by the American Film...
  , starring Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
  
• Tender Mercies
  Tender Mercies
  
  Tender Mercies is a 1983 United States drama film starring Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas....
  , starring Robert Duvall
  Robert Duvall
  
  Robert Selden Duvall is an United States film actor and Film director who has won an Academy Award, two Emmys, and four Golden Globes. He has appeared in films such as To Kill a Mockingbird , The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Natural , Network , THX 1138, MASH , The Great Santini,...
   and Tess Harper
  Tess Harper
  
  Tess Harper is an United States Actor....
  
• Terms of Endearment
  Terms of Endearment
  
  Terms of Endearment is a 1983 in film romance film comedy-drama film adapted by James L. Brooks from the novel by Larry McMurtry.Plot...
  , directed by James L. Brooks
  James L. Brooks
  
  James L. Brooks is an United States Film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for producing television programs such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons , Rhoda and Taxi ....
  , starring Shirley MacLaine
  Shirley MacLaine
  
  Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
  , Debra Winger
  Debra Winger
  
  Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
  , Jack Nicholson
  Jack Nicholson
  
  John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an United States actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter, Movie star for his often dark-themed portrayals of Neurosis Fictional character....
  , Danny DeVito
  Danny DeVito
  
  Daniel Michael "Danny-Fanny" DeVito, Jr. is an United States actor, film director and film producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the popular American Broadcasting Company and NBC television television program Taxi ....
  , Jeff Daniels
  Jeff Daniels
  
  Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an United States actor, musician and playwright....
   and John Lithgow
  John Lithgow
  
  John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dr. Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun....
   - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Testament
  Testament
  
  A testament is a document that the author has sworn to be true.Testament can refer to:* Full Testament,* Old Testament, also known as the Tanakh, the holy scriptures of Judaism and Christianity....
  , starring Jane Alexander
  Jane Alexander
  
  Jane Alexander is an award-winning American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of c...
   and William Devane
  William Devane
  
  William Devane is an United States film and television actor. He was born in Albany, New York, the son of Joseph Devane, who was President Franklin D....
  
• Trading Places
  Trading Places
  
  Trading Places is an Academy Award-nominated 1983 in film comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. It was directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod....
  , starring Dan Aykroyd
  Dan Aykroyd
  
  Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, Order of Canada is an Academy Awards-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist....
  , Eddie Murphy
  Eddie Murphy
  
  Bold text'Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy is an United States actor, film director, Film producer, comedian and "singer". Murphy ranks as the highest grossing film star in history, having a total of 37 films to date, his films grossing over $3.4 billion in the US alone, averaging $104 million per film....
   and Jamie Lee Curtis
  Jamie Lee Curtis
  
  Jamie Lee Curtis is an American film actress and author of children's literature. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career such as Halloween , The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genr...
  
• Twilight Zone: The Movie
  Twilight Zone: The Movie
  
  Twilight Zone: The Movie is a 1983 in film film produced by Steven Spielberg as a theatrical version of The Twilight Zone , a 1950s and 60s Television series created by Rod Serling....
  
• Twice Upon a Time
  Twice Upon a Time
  
  Twice Upon a Time is a 1983 in film animated movie directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson. This film had an unusual history in terms of release and editing, but it has been named one of the most important films in the history of stop-motion animation....
  
• Valley Girl
  Valley Girl (film)
  
  Valley Girl is a 1983 in film romantic comedy movie, starring Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, E.G. Daily, Cameron Dye and Joyce Hyser. The movie was the directorial debut of Martha Coolidge, and was the first film in which Nicolas Coppola was billed as Nicolas Cage....
  , starring Deborah Foreman
  Deborah Foreman
  
  Deborah Lynn Foreman is an United States actor. She is perhaps best known for her starring role in the 1983 movie Valley Girl ....
   and Nicolas Cage
  Nicolas Cage
  
  Nicolas Cage is an United States Academy Award-winning actor, film director, and Film producer, who currently manages his own production company, Saturn Films....
  
• Videodrome
  Videodrome
  
  Videodrome is a science fiction film Horror film Canadian film directed by David Cronenberg....
  , starring James Woods
  James Woods
  
  James Howard Woods is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning United States film, Theatre and television actor....
   and Deborah Harry
• WarGames
  WarGames
  
  WarGames is a 1983 in film drama film/thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film starred Matthew Broderick in his second major film role, and featured Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Wood , and Barry Corbin....
  , starring Matthew Broderick
  Matthew Broderick
  
  Matthew Broderick is an United States award-winning film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Nick in Godzilla and David Lightman in WarGames....
  , Dabney Coleman
  Dabney Coleman
  
  Dabney Wharton Coleman is an United States actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his always present mustache.Biography...
   and Ally Sheedy
  Ally Sheedy
  
  Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy is an United States Cinema of the United States and Theatre in the United States actor, as well as the author of two books....
  
• Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
  Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
  
  Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is a The Walt Disney Company Winnie-the-Pooh animated featurette, based on two chapters from the books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, released on March 11, 1983 with the re-issue of The Sword in the Stone ....
  
• Yentl
  Yentl (film)
  
  Yentl is a 1983 American film from United Artists, and directed, co-written, co-produced and starring Barbra Streisand based on Yentl by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, itself based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy"....
  , starring Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  
  Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  , Mandy Patinkin
  Mandy Patinkin
  
  Mandel Bruce ?Mandy? Patinkin is an American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. Patinkin is known for his roles in television series such as: Chicago Hope, Dead Like Me and the first two seasons of Criminal Minds....
   and Amy Irving
  Amy Irving
  
  Amy Davis Irving is an United States actress, known for her roles in the films Crossing Delancey, The Fury , Carrie and her The Oscars- and Golden Raspberry Awards nominated role in Yentl as well as acclaimed roles on Broadway theatre and off-Broadway....
   - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Yellowbeard
  Yellowbeard
  
  Yellowbeard is a 1983 comedy film by Graham Chapman, along with Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna and David Sherlock. It was directed by Mel Damski....
  
• Yor Hunter From The Future
• Zelig
  Zelig
  
  Zelig is a 1983 in film United States mockumentary written and directed by Woody Allen....
  

Births

• February 23 - Emily Blunt
  Emily Blunt
  
  Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is an English actress known for her work in the film My Summer of Love and her appearance in The Devil Wears Prada ....
  , actress

Deaths

• January 8 - Gale Page
  Gale Page
  
  Gale Page was an United States actor.Born Sally Perkins Rutter in Spokane, Washington, Page was a radio actress and singer before being signed to a Hollywood film contract by Warner Brothers in 1938....
  , actress
• January 27 - Louis de Funès
  Louis de Funès
  
  Louis Germain David de Fun?s de Galarza was a France actor who is considered by many to be one of the giants of French comedy. His acting style is remembered for its high energy performance, a wide range of facial expressions and an engaging, snappy impatience....
  , actor
• February 4 - Karen Carpenter
  Karen Carpenter
  
  Karen Anne Carpenter was a highly successful United States singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard Carpenter , formed the popular 1970s duo The Carpenters....
  , musician
• February 25 - Tennessee Williams
  Tennessee Williams
  
  Tennessee Williams was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth....
  , playwright
• March 14 - Maurice Ronet
  Maurice Ronet
  
  Maurice Ronet was a France film actor, film director and screenwriter.Maurice Ronet was born in Nice, Alpes Maritimes, the son of professional actors ?mile Robinet and Gilberte Dubreuil....
  , actor, director, writer
• April 4 - Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson
  
  Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
  , actress
• April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay
  Fifi D'Orsay
  
  Fifi D'Orsay was an actress....
  , actress
• April 23 - Buster Crabbe
  Buster Crabbe
  
  Buster Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular Serial in the 1930s and 1940s....
  , actor
• June 12 - Norma Shearer
  Norma Shearer
  
  Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  
  The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
   winning actress
• July 5 - Harry James
  Harry James
  
  Harry James was an United States musician and band leader, and a well-known trumpet virtuoso. James was one of the most outstanding instrumentalists of the swing era, employing a bravura playing style that made his trumpet work instantly identifiable....
  , bandleader who appeared in some films, and was once married to actress Betty Grable
  Betty Grable
  
  Betty Grable was an American dancer, singer, and actress.Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era....
  
• July 29 - Raymond Massey
  Raymond Massey
  
  Raymond Hart Massey was a Canada-born United States actor....
  , actor, father of actor Daniel Massey
  Daniel Massey (actor)
  
  Daniel Raymond Massey was a Golden Globe award-winning England actor and performer. He is possibly best known for his starring role in the United Kingdom TV drama Roads to Freedom, as Daniel, alongside Michael Bryant ....
   and actress Anna Massey
  Anna Massey
  
  Anna Raymond Massey, Order of the British Empire is an England actress....
  
• July 29 - David Niven
  David Niven
  
  James David Graham Niven was an English people Academy Award for Best Actor-winning actor probably best known for his roles as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton in The Pink Panther ....
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  
  The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
   winning actor
• August 3 - Carolyn Jones
  Carolyn Jones
  
  Carolyn Sue Jones was an United States actress.Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising actresses of 1959....
  , actress
• August 5 - Judy Canova
  Judy Canova
  
  Judy Canova was an United States comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality. She was sometimes introduced as the Ozark Nightingale....
  , entertainer
• August 29 - Simon Oakland
  Simon Oakland
  
  Simon Oakland was an American actor of theater, film, and television....
  , actor
• October 8 - Joan Hackett
  Joan Hackett
  
  Joan Hackett was an American actor who appeared on stage, in films, and on television....
  , actress
• October 10 - Ralph Richardson
  Ralph Richardson
  
  Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....
  , actor, one of the theatrical knights of the English stage
• October 15 - Pat O'Brien
  Pat O'Brien (actor)
  
  Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits....
  , actor
• November 15 - John Le Mesurier
  John Le Mesurier
  
  John Le Mesurier was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson on the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad's Army....
  , British actor
• November 28 - Johnnie Davis
  Johnnie Davis
  
  Johnnie Davis, also billed as Johnny Davis and Johnnie "Scat" Davis, was an American actor and singer.Born John Gustave Davis in Brazil, Indiana, into a family of musicians, Davis developed an interest in music during his childhood....
  , actor, singer
• November 28 - Christopher George
  Christopher George
  
  Christopher John George was an American television and film actor who was perhaps best known for his starring role in the 1966-1968 TV series The Rat Patrol....
  , leading film/television actor
• December 5 - Robert Aldrich
  Robert Aldrich
  
  Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and Film producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , The Flight of the Phoenix, Hush? Hush, Sweet Charlotte and The Dirty Dozen....
  , director
• December 8 - Slim Pickens
  Slim Pickens
  
  'Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.' , better known by the stage name 'Slim Pickens', was an American rodeo performer, and film and television actor, who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, but who is best remembered for his comic roles, notably in Dr....
  , actor
• December 28 - William Demarest
  William Demarest
  
  William Demarest was an United States character actor.Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was a prolific film and television actor, having worked on over 140 films....
  , actor