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Scarface
1983 film directed by Brian De Palma

Never Say Never Again
1983 film by Irvin Kershner

Terms of Endearment
1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

Superman III
1983 film directed by Richard Lester

Trading Places
1983 film directed by John Landis

The Right Stuff
1983 film by Philip Kaufman

Christine
1983 film directed by John Carpenter

Sudden Impact
1983 film by Clint Eastwood

WarGames
WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III. Martin Brest was originally the film's director, but was fired early into production.

Zelig
Zelig is a 1983 American satirical mockumentary comedy film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma, who, apparently out of his desire to fit in and be liked, unwittingly takes on the characteristics of strong personalities around him. The film, presented as a documentary, recounts his period of intense celebrity during the 1920s, including analyses by contemporary intellectuals.

Silkwood
Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower and a labor union activist who investigated alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her death in a car crash gave rise to a 1979 lawsuit, Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, led by attorney Gerry Spence. The jury rendered

Jaws 3-D
1983 film directed by Joe Alves

The Dead Zone
1983 film by David Cronenberg

Risky Business
1983 film by Paul Brickman

Flashdance
Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer, Alex Owens, who aspires to become a professional ballerina, alongside Michael Nouri, who plays her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh.

The Day After
1983 film directed by Nicholas Meyer

Cujo
1983 film by Lewis Teague

National Lampoon's Vacation
1983 film directed by Harold Ramis

The Big Chill
1983 film by Lawrence Kasdan

Tender Mercies
1983 film directed by Bruce Beresford

The Outsiders
1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Psycho II
1983 film by Richard Franklin

Rumble Fish
1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 film by Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante

Blue Thunder
1983 film directed by John Badham

Under Fire
1983 film by Roger Spottiswoode

Staying Alive
1983 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

All the Right Moves
1983 film directed by Michael Chapman

Yentl
1983 film directed by Barbra Streisand

A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley, and follows a young boy and his family's misadventures during Christmastime in 1940. It is the first installment in the Parker Family Saga.

Cannonball Run II
1984 film by Hal Needham

The Osterman Weekend
1983 film by Sam Peckinpah

Lone Wolf McQuade
1983 film by Steve Carver

The Hunger
1983 film by Tony Scott

Curse of the Pink Panther
1983 film by Blake Edwards
Michael Jackson's Thriller
1983 music video for the song of the same name by Michael Jackson directed by John Landis

The Man with Two Brains
1983 film by Carl Reiner

The Keep
1983 film by Michael Mann

To Be or Not to Be
1983 US film directed by Alan Johnson

The Star Chamber
1983 film by Peter Hyams

Cross Creek
1983 film by Martin Ritt

Mr. Mom
1983 film directed by Stan Dragoti

Sleepaway Camp
1983 film by Robert Hiltzik

Eureka
1983 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg

Brainstorm
1983 film by Douglas Trumbull

Never Cry Wolf
1983 film directed by Carroll Ballard

El Norte
1983 film by Gregory Nava

Two of a Kind
1983 film by John Herzfeld

Uncommon Valor
1983 film by Ted Kotcheff

Bad Boys
1983 film directed by Rick Rosenthal

Valley Girl
1983 film by Martha Coolidge

10 to Midnight
1983 film by J. Lee Thompson

Amityville 3-D
1983 film directed by Richard Fleischer

Sahara
1983 film directed by Andrew McLaglen

Breathless
1983 film directed by Jim McBride
The Scarlet and the Black
1983 film directed by Jerry London

Porky's II: The Next Day
1983 film by Bob Clark

Class
1983 film by Lewis John Carlino

Testament
1983 film by Lynne Littman

Deal of the Century
1983 film by William Friedkin