1983 English-language films

1983 film directed by Richard Marquand

1983 film directed by Brian De Palma

Octopussy is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the MI6 agent James Bond and the second to be directed by John Glen. The screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson.

1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

1983 film by Irvin Kershner

1983 film directed by Richard Lester

1983 film directed by John Landis

1983 film by Philip Kaufman

1983 film directed by John Carpenter

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.

1983 film by Clint Eastwood

1983 film directed by Terry Jones

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 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

1983 film by David Cronenberg

1983 film directed by Joe Alves

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.

1983 film by Paul Brickman

Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff films. Layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he attempts to uncover the signal's source, complicated by increasingly intense hallucinations that cause him to lose his grip on reality.

1983 film by Lewis Teague

1983 film directed by Harold Ramis

1983 film directed by Nicholas Meyer

1983 film by Nagisa Ōshima

1983 film by Lawrence Kasdan

1983 film directed by Bruce Beresford

1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

1983 film by Richard Franklin

1983 film by Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante

1983 film by Roger Spottiswoode

1983 film by Bill Forsyth

1983 film by Peter Yates

1983 film directed by John Badham

1983 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

1983 film by Peter Yates

1983 film directed by Barbra Streisand

1983 Mickey Mouse short directed by Burny Mattinson

1983 film directed by Michael Chapman

1983 film by Lewis Gilbert

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.

1984 film by Hal Needham

1983 film by Blake Edwards

1983 film by Tony Scott

1983 film by Sam Peckinpah

1983 film by Steve Carver

1983 film by Brian Trenchard-Smith

1983 music video for the song of the same name by Michael Jackson directed by John Landis

1983 film by Carl Reiner

1983 animated film by Ralph Bakshi

1983 US film directed by Alan Johnson

1983 film by Michael Mann

1983 film by Enzo Barboni

1983 film by Peter Hyams

1983 film directed by Tinto Brass

1983 film by Martin Ritt

1983 film by Douglas Trumbull

1983 film by Robert Hiltzik

1983 film by Gregory Nava

1983 film directed by Stan Dragoti

1983 film directed by Michael Apted