Richard Pryor... Here and Now

1983

English

7.2

♡ 9

Richard Pryor Director

Paul Mooney as Announcer

Richard Pryor as Himself

One of comedian Richard Pryor's later stand-up performances. As foul-mouthed as ever, Pryor touches on most of the same topics as in his previous live shows.

Mission Thunderbolt

1983

English

4.9

♡ 3

Godfrey Ho Director

Godfrey Ho as Brown's HK Contract

John Ladalski as Carter Black from London

Steve Daw as Interpol Agent Scott

Phillip Ko as White Tycoon

Explosive early Hong Kong actioner about a mysterious criminal known as the White Tycoon, who hires three top assassins to help him eliminate his rivals in two local mobs, the Scorpions and the Serpents.

The Sting II

1983

English

4.9

♡ 6

10%

28%

Action

boxer

brooklyn, new york city

Jeremy Kagan Director

Karl Malden as Gus Macalinski

Bert Remsen as Kid Colors

Carl Gottlieb as Maitre D'

Val Avery as O'Malley

Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.

Lone Wolf McQuade

1983

English

6.3

♡ 25

57%

parent child relationship

Steve Carver Director

Don Pike as First Gunman

Dana Kimmell as Sally McQuade

William Sanderson as Snow

R.G. Armstrong as T. Tyler

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates in a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they both love.

The Beast and the Magic Sword

1983

Spanish

5.8

♡ 10

Paul Naschy Director

Violeta Cela as Esther

Shigeru Amachi as Kian

Conrado San Martín as Salom Yehuda

Junko Asahina as Satomi

His bloodline damned by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky heads to Japan to seek a cure for his werewolf curse.

Fearless Hyena 2

1983

Cn

5.0

♡ 13

Action

Drama

Chuan Chen Director

Kang Chu as

Austin Wai as Ah Tung

Jackie Chan as Chan Lung

Eun-ju Im as Hsia Ling

A pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood.

Margaret Tait: Film Maker

1983

English

6.5

♡ 2

Action

Documentary

Margaret Williams Director

Margaret Tait as Self

Tamara Krikorian as Self

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

Manji

1983

Japanese

5.9

♡ 4

Hiroto Yokoyama Director

Kanako Higuchi as Mitsuko Shido

Haruna Takase as Sonoko

Yoshio Harada as Takeshi Kakeuchi

Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko’s husband gets involved.

Under Fire

1983

English

7.0

♡ 19

90%

husband wife relationship

Roger Spottiswoode Director

Alma Martinez as Isela

Ed Harris as Oates

Eloy Casados as Pedro

Nick Nolte as Russell Price

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

Fanny Hill

1983

English

5.2

♡ 7

29%

Action

based on novel or book

Gerry O'Hara Director

Janet Henfrey as Lady in intellegence office

Alfred Marks as Lecher

Oliver Reed as Mr. Edward Widdlecome

Liz Smith as Mrs. Jones

Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. This is the story, with many erotic asides, of her struggle to regain her pride in herself and find happiness in life once again.

Winners & Sinners

1983

Cn

6.6

♡ 29

66%

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung Director

Barry Wong as Announcer Mars

Mars as Chai's Robber

Jackie Chan as CID 07

Biao Yuen as CID Agent

Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.

Space Raiders

1983

English

4.5

♡ 5

21%

Howard R. Cohen Director

Thom Christopher as Flightplan

David Mendenhall as Peter

William Boyett as Taggert

Claude Johnson as Technician

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.

To Be or Not to Be

1983

English

6.9

♡ 18

55%

Alan Johnson Director

Curt Lowens as Airport Officer

Christopher Lloyd as Capt. Schultz

Ivor Barry as General Hobbs

Tim Matheson as Lt. Andre Sobinski

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.

Arpan

1983

Hindi

5.6

♡ 6

J. Om Prakash Director

Dina Pathak as Mrs. Verma

Reena Roy as Shobha

Sulochana Latkar as Shobha's mom

Parveen Babi as Sona

The Verma family consists of Mrs. Verma, the mother; Anil, the son; and a daughter named Vinnie. Anil loves Shobha, and hopes to marry her someday. While Vinnie loves Rakesh and also hopes to marry him someday too. Shobha and Rakesh both work for JK, a multi-millionaire industrialist. Anil has to goes overseas for a year to better his prospects. He promises to stay in touch with Shobha. However, after a year when Anil returns he finds that Vinnie and Rakesh have married, and is heart-broken to find that Shobha had married JK. Dejected but not beaten, he marries another girl by the name of Sona, but is unable to get Shobha out of his mind. Sona resents this, and one day follows him, and finds him in bed with none other than Shobha.

Table for Five

1983

English

6.1

♡ 4

67%

Robert Lieberman Director

Jon Voight as J. P. Tannen

Millie Perkins as Kathleen

Kevin Costner as Newlywed Husband

Robby Kiger as Truman-Paul

J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, begins to doubt his abilities until a tragedy back home forces him to become the father he always hoped to be.

Lianna

1983

English

6.9

♡ 8

80%

John Sayles Director

Stephen Mendillo as Bob

Jon DeVries as Dick

John Sayles as Jerry

Chris Elliott as Lighting Assistant

Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Lianna takes a college extension child-psychology course taught by Ruth. When Lianna catches Dick having an affair with a young coed, she finds comfort and eventually true love in the arms of Ruth. However, this comes with a price as everything in her life is turned upside down.

All the Wrong Spies

1983

Cn

6.5

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Teddy Robin Kwan Director

Brigitte Lin as Bridget

Eric Tsang as Japanese soldier

Sandra Lang as Miss Sandra

Karl Maka as Patriot

In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin join a resistance group during the Japanese occupation. They aim to steal back the formula to the atomic bomb from a war traitor and transfer it to an American before the formula ends up in the Japanese emperor's hands.

Doctor Detroit

1983

English

5.3

♡ 18

29%

Michael Pressman Director

Blackie Dammett as Eddie Four Eyes

Robert Swan as Seedy Biker

Oliver Clark as Shaky Alcoholic Lawyer

Howard Hesseman as Smooth Walker

A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.

Edith and Marcel

1983

French

5.9

♡ 4

29%

Claude Lelouch Director

Carlo Nell as

Carl Studer as

Patrick Dewaere as Marcel Cerdan / Tirs d'essai

Beata Tyszkiewicz as Margot's Mother

This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.

Nana

1983

English

4.5

♡ 5

33%

Action

Comedy

Drama

Dan Wolman Director

Massimo Serato as Faucherie / Journalist

Katya Berger as Nana

Annie Belle as Rennee

Yehuda Efroni as Steiner / banker

In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims.

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Richard Pryor... Here and Now

Mission Thunderbolt

The Sting II

Lone Wolf McQuade

The Beast and the Magic Sword

Fearless Hyena 2

Margaret Tait: Film Maker

Manji

Under Fire

Fanny Hill

Winners & Sinners

Space Raiders

To Be or Not to Be

Arpan

Table for Five

Lianna

All the Wrong Spies

Doctor Detroit

Edith and Marcel

Nana