Films set in 1983

2017 film by Luca Guadagnino

2016 film directed by Bryan Singer

1995 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2007 film by David Fincher

2006 Animated film directed by Gil Kenan

1983 film directed by Richard Lester

2024 film directed by Todd Phillips

1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

1983 film by Clint Eastwood

1973 film directed by Michael Crichton

Minari (; ) is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, its plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas during the 1980s.

2010 film directed by Matt Reeves

2016 film by David Lowery

1986 film by Clint Eastwood

2004 film directed by D. J. Caruso

2017 film directed by Doug Liman

1984 film directed by Fritz Kiersch

1985 film by Luis Puenzo

1990 film by Bruce Malmuth

2006 film directed by Shane Meadows

1993 film directed by Mark Jones

Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.

1991 film directed by Russell Mulcahy

1990 film by Dennis Dugan

2018 film directed by Baltasar Kormákur

1983 film directed by John Badham

2018 film by Panos Cosmatos

2016 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

1983 film by Ettore Scola

1993 film by Brian Gibson

2013 film directed by Scott Walker

1984 television film directed by Mick Jackson

1992 film by Kenneth Branagh

2018 film by Jeff Tomsic

2001 film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall

2024 film directed by Justin Kurzel

2007 film by Garth Jennings

2022 film directed by Kasi Lemmons

1992 film directed by David Price

1980 film by Kinji Fukasaku

I Swear is a 2025 British biographical comedy-drama film directed, written, and produced by Kirk Jones. It is based on the true life story of John Davidson, a Scottish man with severe Tourette syndrome who was the subject of the 1989 television documentary John's Not Mad. The film stars Robert Aramayo as Davidson, alongside Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson, and Peter Mullan in supporting roles. Scott Ellis Watson makes his acting debut as a young Davidson.

2019 film directed by Mehmet Ada Öztekin

1983 film by Robert Hiltzik

2003 film by Marco Tullio Giordana

2008 film directed by Spike Lee

2020 film directed by Egor Abramenko

2021 film directed by Ben Falcone

1983 film directed by Richard Fleischer

1995 television film directed by Chris Gerolmo

2015 film directed by Daniel Alfredson

2024 film directed by Sean McNamara

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a 2025 American musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon, based on the 1992 stage musical, itself based on Manuel Puig's 1976 novel. It stars Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, and Jennifer Lopez.

2009 film by Gregor Jordan

2018 film directed by Peter Strickland

2000 film by Hugh Hudson

2000 film by Keith Gordon

2001 film by Dario Argento

2019 film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar

1991 film by Herbert Ross

2022 film directed by Lee Jung-jae