Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.

Style Wars

1983

English

8.0

♡ 6

80%

Tony Silver Director Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Gene Anthony Ray as Self

Irene Cara as Self

Michael Kaves as Self

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Last Battle

1983

French

6.7

♡ 4

dystopia

Sci-Fi

Luc Besson Director

Fritz Wepper as Captain

Michel Doset as Captain's Man

Garry Jode as Captain's Man

Jean Reno as The Brute

The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.

L'indic

5.3

Serge Leroy Director

Eric Métayer as

Daniel Auteuil as Bertrand

Thierry Lhermitte as Dominique

Jean-Louis Airola as Le fuyard

The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform about her lover's associates.

Hanna K.

1983

French

6.6

♡ 6

69%

Action

Drama

Costa-Gavras Director

Gideon Amir as Court lawyer

William Berger as German journalist

Gabriel Byrne as Joshua Herzog

Ronald Guttman as Prison director

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.

Pappa e ciccia

1983

Italian

5.7

♡ 3

Action

Comedy

Neri Parenti Director

Pippo Santonastaso as Guido Colzi

Angelo Boscariol as Man at airport

Lino Banfi as Nicola Calore

Paolo Villaggio as Ringhio - the nurse

Italian comedy in two episodes starring a house painter who emigrated to Switzerland who pretends to be a millionaire and an employee on holiday in Kenya, the victim of catastrophic misadventures.

First Desires

1983

French

4.5

♡ 10

41%

David Hamilton Director

Emmanuelle Béart as Hélène

Patrick Bauchau as Jordan

Alfons Kihm as L'Allemand

Hélène Lefumat as La mère de Max

Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.

Silkwood

1983

English

7.1

♡ 28

77%

Mike Nichols Director

Diana Scarwid as Angela Cher

Cher as Dolly Pelliker

Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens

Will Patton as Joe

A plutonium processing plant worker is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing safety violations.

Uncommon Valor

1983

English

6.3

♡ 17

Action

based on a true story

Drama

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

Ted Kotcheff Director

Todd Allen as Frank Rhodes

Gail Strickland as Helen Rhodes

Harold Sylvester as Johnson

Tad Horino as Mr. Ky

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

The Boys from Fengkuei

1983

Chinese

7.3

♡ 5

83%

Drama

Hsiao-Hsien Hou Director

Chun-Fang Chang as

Grace Chen as

Bor Jeng Chen as

Li-Yin Yang as

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.

Sweet Sixteen

1983

English

5.1

♡ 15

20%

Jim Sotos Director

Don Stroud as Billy Franklin

Michael Pataki as George Martin

Susan Strasberg as Joanne Morgan

Dana Kimmell as Marci Burke

A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she's the last person who has seen her boyfriends alive.

Sans Soleil

1983

French

7.7

♡ 21

88%

Chris Marker Director

Alexandra Stewart as Narrator

Amilcar Cabral as Self

David Coverdale as Self / Deep Purple singer

James Stewart as Self / John 'Scottie' Ferguson

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Stryker

1983

English

4.3

♡ 14

11%

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Cirio H. Santiago Director

William Ostrander as Bandit

Joseph Zucchero as Bazil

Mike Lane as Kardis

Julie Gray as Laurenz

The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture. The hero (Stryker) unites with some of the remaining "good guys" and the Amazons and frees the woman. They go on to a "Road Warrior" type of concluding battle with the bad guys.

The Wolf

1983

Polish

5.9

♡ 7

Marek Piestrak Director

Andrzej Bielski as Butler

Leon Niemczyk as Count Wiktor Smorawinski

Ludmila Dabrowska as Julia's Mother

Krzysztof Jasinski as Kacper Wosinski

In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.

Angst

1983

German

7.2

♡ 15

100%

Gerald Kargl Director

Silvia Ryder as Daughter

Karin Springer as Daughter

Erwin Leder as K., the Psychopath

Robert Hunger-Bühler as Off-Text

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

She Cat

1983

Japanese

4.4

♡ 9

Shingo Yamashiro Director

Akira Takahashi as Keiji

Sachiko Itô as Kotoe Hiratsuka

Ai Saotome as Mineko Kagami

Kôichi Iwaki as Shirley

Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers. Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible secret that could bring down an entire Japanese company. Cat must take the law into her own hands and enact her own special kind of revenge!

P & B

1983

Swedish

6.1

♡ 4

Action

based on novel or book

Comedy

Drama

swindle

Hans Alfredson Director

Tage Danielsson as Drunkard

Gösta Ekman as Guest at Restaurant

Stellan Skarsgård as Karl-Johan 'Charlie' Pettersson

Björn Gustafson as Nilsson

Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.

Star 80

1983

English

6.8

♡ 6

81%

Bob Fosse Director

Roger Rees as Aram Nicholas

Cliff Robertson as Hugh Hefner

Eric Roberts as Paul

James Luisi as Roy

Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed out of the picture by more famous men.

The Power of Emotion

6.7

Alexander Kluge Director

Hannelore Hoger as Angeklagte G. / Frau Bärlamm

Wilfried Elste as Feuerlöschkommandant Schönecke

Ruth Wohlschlegel as Frau Gerti

Suzanne von Borsody as Knautsch-Betty - Prostituierte

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film observes young couples facing difficulties while trying to move their love experiences towards clear decision making. A film full of ideas, details and associations, fictional scenes, documentary footage, archival materials and opera music.