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The Best Movies of 1983
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Movie: The Sting II ( 1983 )
A team of cons is planning a new scam involving betting on a boxing match but one of its past victims aims to exact revenge by eliminating the whole group.
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Movie: The Man Who Loved Women ( 1983 )
A womanizing sculptor named David goes to seek help from a psychiatrist, Marianna, to cure him of his obsession with women.
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Movie: A Killer in the Family ( 1983 )
A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's murderous crime spree.
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Movie: Sweet Sixteen ( 1983 )
Teenager Melissa moves into a small town filled with racial prejudice and bullying, and each time she meets up with one of the boys in town, they end up murdered - but who is the killer?
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Movie: Curse of the Pink Panther ( 1983 )
Ensuing after the events of Clouseau's disappearance, his bosses at the Surete put a computer into service to elect a new shrewd detective, Sleigh, who turns up just as inept as Clouseau.
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Movie: The Deadly Spawn ( 1983 )
Alien creatures invade a small town and four teenagers, along with a young boy, attempt to escape from them.
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Movie: The Black Stallion Returns ( 1983 )
A teenager loses his horse in Morocco and gets him back after various daredevil adventures.
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Movie: Spring Break ( 1983 )
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.
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Movie: Cross Creek ( 1983 )
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
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Movie: Max Dugan Returns ( 1983 )
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
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Movie: Eureka ( 1983 )
In 1925, a lone and obsessed Arctic prospector Jack McCann finally strikes gold. Twenty years later, he begins spiraling out of control when his only daughter becomes engaged to a man he strongly dislikes.
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Movie: Stroker Ace ( 1983 )
Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.
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Movie: Deathstalker ( 1983 )
The warrior Deathstalker is tasked by an old witch to obtain and unite the three powers of creation - a chalice, an amulet, and a sword - lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for nefarious purposes. After obtaining the sword, Deathstalker joins with other travelers going to the Big Tournament to determine the strongest warrior. The false king holds the true princess in captivity, and plots to have Deathstalker killed, and Deathstalker must fight to free the princess.
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Movie: Eddie Macon's Run ( 1983 )
A young man, harshly sentenced for a few minor infractions, escapes from a prison in Huntsville Texas and flees to Laredo, Texas, where he hopes to cross into Mexico for a reunion with his wife and small son.
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Movie: Romantic Comedy ( 1983 )
A successful playwright employs a new female writing partner, and it's love on first sight, but it happens to be the day he gets married. They both suppress their feelings for each other in order to form a successful writing partnership.
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Movie: Curtains ( 1983 )
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
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Movie: Yentl ( 1984 )
A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
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Movie: To Be or Not to Be ( 1983 )
At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
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Movie: Winners & Sinners ( 1983 )
Fresh from prison, five friends try to stay crime free but inadvertently find themselves caught in a Triad war.
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Movie: The Man Who Wasn't There ( 1983 )
A State Department employee finds an egg-shaped device with a green fluid inside that makes the person who drinks it invisible. He finds himself being chased by foreign agents who want the substance.
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Movie: Hercules ( 1983 )
The story of the Greek mythological figure, updated in this 80's version.
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Movie: Wild Style ( 1983 )
South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
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Movie: The Being ( 1983 )
A mutated creature is wreaking havoc in a small town in Idaho. A police chief and a government scientist team up to save their rural town from its menace.
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Movie: High School U.S.A. ( 1983 )
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique.
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Movie: Eyes of Fire ( 1983 )
A preacher is accused of adultery, and he and his followers are chased out of town. They become stranded in an isolated forest, which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.
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Movie: Frightmare ( 1983 )
Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final bows yet.
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Movie: Space Raiders ( 1984 )
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
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Movie: Betrayal ( 1983 )
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend. The entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order.
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Movie: Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 ( 1983 )
Big and Little Enos are opening a sea food restaurant. They bet Sheriff Buford T. Justice that he cannot drive from Miami to the Enos ranch in Texas in a given amount of time. If Buford loses he has to give up his badge.
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Movie: The Final Terror ( 1983 )
A group of rangers go camping on unfamiliar forest grounds. All's well until the group members start getting killed by a cunning killer in the woods.
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Movie: Deal of the Century ( 1983 )
A small time arms dealer in South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries, winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.
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Movie: Baby It's You ( 1983 )
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
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Movie: Grizzly II: Revenge ( 2021 )
All hell breaks loose when a giant Grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of Grizzlies by poachers, attacks at a massive big-band rock concert in the National Park.
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Movie: Somewhere, Tomorrow ( 1983 )
Young Lori Anderson lost her father in a plane crash. While her mother appears to be picking up the pieces of her life, Lori isn't. She is resentful of every decision that her mother makes from selling the family horse farm to a relationship with the local sheriff. Lori doesn't know what to do and turns to her father's journals filled with psychology and metaphysics for answers. One day, a client coming to see about the boarding of his horse, crashes in a plane with his best friend. The friend manages to escape tragedy, but the client, Terry Stockton, dies in the accident. However, Lori can see and actually touch the supposedly dead Terry after she finds him in the woods. After some struggle, Lori comes to believe that she is meant to help Terry. With the aid of her father's journals and Terry's best friend, they try to find out why Terry's spirit hasn't crossed over. A complication then develops in the situation when Lori and Terry begin to fall for each other. Lori has a riding accident and tries to join Terry in the afterlife. It is then that the reason why Terry had trouble passing on, and the secrets of her father's journals are revealed...
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Movie: The Prey ( 1983 )
Six campers jaunt off to North Point, where they're promptly stalked and killed by a ghoulish man who ultimately is just looking for a little love.
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Movie: Lovesick ( 1983 )
A psychiatrist, who falls in love with a patient, is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.
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Movie: Still the Beaver ( 1983 )
This movie reunites most of the members of the Cleaver clan, Wally, June, and of course, the Beaver. Their father Ward has passed away. Wally's married to Mary Ellen and a successful lawyer and has everything to make his life complete except for a child. The Beaver is married but unfortunately is still the same which is why his wife threw him out. With nowhere else to go, he goes home. And he also decides that he wants to raise his children, in his hometown of Mayfield. His wife, who decides that she hasn't done anything in her life, decides to become a veterinarian, but she can only go to school out of the country, so she let's Beaver have the children. So he brings his sons there and they are not exactly impressed with Mayfield and feel that they were dumped there, and bond more with Wally than with their own father. They also have to deal with Eddie Haskell, who has gone from nasty to crooked. It's a good thing they still have their mom.
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Movie: Love Letters ( 1984 )
A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's romance by getting involved with a married man.
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Movie: Copper Mountain ( 1983 )
Two friends travel to a ski resort, with one looking to hit the slopes, while the other spends time trying to pick up women.
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Movie: A Night in Heaven ( 1983 )
A married college professor begins a torrid affair with her failing student, who secretly moonlights as a late-night strip-club dancer.
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Movie: Mortuary ( 1983 )
Convinced that her father's death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.