Circus Performers at the North Pole

1983

Romanian

6.4

Drama

Family

woman director

Elisabeta Bostan Director

Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan as

Mitica Popescu as

Constantin Dinescu as

Gina Patrichi as Paulette

In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.

Stroker Ace

1983

English

4.9

♡ 12

19%

Hal Needham Director

Bubba Smith as Arnold

Parker Stevenson as Aubrey James

Jim Nabors as Lugs

Burt Reynolds as Stroker Ace

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.

Carmen

1983

Spanish

7.4

♡ 7

83%

Carlos Saura Director

Laura del Sol as Carmen

Manuel Rodríguez as Guitarrista

Paco de Lucía as Paco

José Yepes as Pepe Girón

While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

Zelig

1983

English

7.6

♡ 36

97%

Woody Allen Director

Garrett M. Brown as Actor Zelig

Michael Jeter as Freshman #2

Charles Chaplin as Himself

Peter McRobbie as Workers Rally Speaker

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

WarGames

1983

English

7.1

♡ 87

93%

76%

Action

Adventure

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

John Badham Director

Michael Ensign as Beringer's Aide

John Spencer as Jerry

William H. Macy as NORAD Officer

Jesse D. Goins as Sergeant

High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

Cross Creek

1983

English

6.9

♡ 6

61%

77%

1930s

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Martin Ritt Director

Dana Hill as Ellie Turner

Mary Steenburgen as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Malcolm McDowell as Max Perkins

Joanna Miles as Mrs. Turner

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Videodrome

1983

English

7.2

♡ 98

83%

David Cronenberg Director

Leslie Carlson as Barry Convex

James Woods as Max Renn

Deborah Harry as Nicki Brand

David Bolt as Raphael

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

10 to Midnight

1983

English

6.3

♡ 14

40%

J. Lee Thompson Director

Wilford Brimley as Captain Malone

Carmen Filpi as Hotel Clerk

Charles Bronson as Leo Kessler

Robert F. Lyons as Nathan Zager

Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further evades the law with his strong alibis. Veteran detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy's guilt and begins using questionable methods to catch him.

The Devonsville Terror

1983

English

5.0

♡ 4

25%

Ulli Lommel Director

Donald Pleasence as Dr. Warley

Suzanna Love as Jenny Scanlon

Robert Walker Jr. as Matthew Pendleton

Paul Willson as Walter Gibbs

Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who proceeds to exact revenge on them.

El Sur

1983

Spanish

7.8

♡ 29

Víctor Erice Director

José Vivó as Camarero

José Luis Fernández 'Pirri' as Carioco

Chus Lampreave as Casilda

Germaine Montero as Doña Rosario

A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

Variety

1983

English

6.1

♡ 4

26%

Bette Gordon Director

Mark Boone Junior as Business Manager / Porn Customer

Luis Guzmán as Jose

Will Patton as Mark

Spalding Gray as Obscene Phone Caller

A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tickets.

The Jigsaw Man

1983

English

5.1

♡ 7

cold war

Thriller

Terence Young Director

John Franklyn-Robbins as English doctor

Vladek Sheybal as Gen. Zorin

Jennifer Jayne as Nurse

Michael Caine as Philip Kimberley / Sergei Kuzminsky

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

Piratene

1983

Norwegian

6.2

♡ 1

Morten Kolstad Director

Per Jansen as Hermansen

Lars Andreas Larssen as Ordfører

Odd Furøy as Politimesteren

Trond Peter Stamsø Munch as Ronnie

The film follows a gang of unemployed youth in the little town of Svolvær, Lofoten, starting up an illegal radio-channel called "Radio Feskslog".

The Gold Diggers

1983

English

6.0

♡ 2

57%

Sally Potter Director

Maedee Dupres as Dancer in Dream

Juliet Fisher as Dancer in Dream

Siobhan Davies as Dancer in Dream

Julie Christie as Ruby

An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew.

Project A

1983

Cn

7.2

♡ 62

81%

smuggling (contraband)

Jackie Chan Director

Biao Yuen as Captain Tzu Mars

Mars as Jaws

Danny Trejo as Lo Sam Pau

Jackie Chan as Sergeant Dragon Ma Yue Lung

In late 19th century Hong Kong, the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Coast Guard officer Dragon Ma is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.

Dagger Eyes

1983

Italian

5.5

♡ 6

Carlo Vanzina Director

Roberto Renna as

John Steiner as Ivanov

Carole Bouquet as Mystère

Stefania Possamai as Woman Running Away

Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination. A delightfully playful giallo starring the beautiful Carole Bouquet as Mystère, a high class call girl who becomes the target for a couple of assassins.

A Blade in the Dark

1983

Italian

5.9

♡ 16

39%

Lamberto Bava Director

Andrea Occhipinti as Bruno

Stanko Molnar as Giovanni

Valéria Cavalli as Katia

Giovanni Frezza as Little Blond Boy in Film

Bruno, an up and coming film composer, has been hired to write the score to a new horror movie. After moving into a secluded villa, life begins to imitate art as a vicious killer starts bumping off anyone and everyone who happens to pay him a visit.

Testament

1983

English

6.9

♡ 9

89%

Lynne Littman Director

Rebecca De Mornay as Cathy Pitkin

Kevin Costner as Phil Pitkin

Wayne Heffley as Police Chief

William Devane as Tom Wetherly

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.

Crime and Punishment

1983

Finnish

7.0

♡ 11

79%

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Hannu Lauri as Department Head Heinonen

Juuso Hirvikangas as Man at the Police Station

Matti Pellonpää as Nikander

Harri Marstio as Singer of the Restaurant Band

In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentally arrived at the crime scene wants to follow him, but guilt and the tightening net of the police throw a shadow over their desperate love affair.