Best Drama Films of 1983
Cross Creek
Director Martin Ritt's bucolic ... settles into life on the bayou and her friendship with Norton and Geechee, she is inspired to begin writing. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Saigon: Year of The Cat
Saigon: Year of the ... her, and because there's little she can do to help her South Vietnamese friends get out of the country. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Osterman Weekend
A man discovers that ... directed by Sam Peckinpah; it proved to be his last film, as he died a year after its release. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Power, Passion and Murder
Set during the '30s, ... tale of a beautiful Hollywood starlet who throws away her promising career for the love of a married man. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Day After
A peaceful Midwestern city ... of the broadcast, many stations offered teams of counselors staffing 800 telephone numbers to help distraught viewers calm down. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Dresser
The complicated relationship of ... as Oxenby, an unhappy member of Sir's company; Sir was said to be based on real-life actor Donald Wolfit. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Without a Trace
Young divorced mother Kate ... deserves to take its place among such superior missing-children dramas as the made-for-TV Adam and Just Another Missing Kid. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Kennedy
The 1,000-day presidency of ... after another, Kennedy makes a trip to Dallas on November 22, 1963, and the world would be forever changed. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Daniel
Sidney Lumet directed this ... point of view, the only emotion derived from the almost continuous sounds of Paul Robeson's singing on the soundtrack. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Outsiders
Teen rivalry in a ... Pack celebs fill out the cast. Dillon later appeared in another Coppola adaption of a Hinton book, Rumble Fish. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Star 80
Director Bob Fosse's fact-based ... confronts her. The same murder-suicide inspired the made-for-television Death of a Centerfold. This was choreographer/filmmaker Bob Fosse's final film. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Tender Mercies
Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall), ... appearing is Betty Buckley as Duvall's ex-wife, a Dolly Parton-type country star, and Wilford Brimley as Duvall's former manager. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Big Score
A Chicago cop is ... still active in the department. This script was originally intended for a Dirty Harry vehicle, but was never realized. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Tough Enough
In this sports-oriented drama, ... (Fran Ryan), his friends, his fight promoter (Warren Oates) and just about everyone except his opponents in the ring. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
All the Right Moves
High school athlete Tom ... All the Right Moves was photographed by Jan DeBont, who'd later direct such box-office bonanzas as Speed and Twister. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
A Night in Heaven
Veering off in several ... the teacher's husband (who worked for NASA) and Rick that is even less believable than the student-teacher sexual liaison. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Princess Daisy
This melodrama is the ... and begin looking for a job in New York so that she can pay her sister's enormous medical bills. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Dempsey
Dempsey is the TV ... worked with Stallone on the earliest Rocky epics. Scripted by Edward di Lorenzo, Dempsey premiered on September 28, 1983. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Happy
Roger Hanover (Dom DeLuise) ... Carol Arthur, and his other two sons, Michael and Peter. Made for television, the film debuted October 26, 1983. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Dombey and Son
Julian Glover portrays Mr. ... Dombey must reconcile with all those who were once close to him or face a bleak future of solitude. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Rumble Fish
One of two S.E. ... his girlfriend (Diane Lane) and friends (Nicolas Cage, Christopher Penn, Vincent Spano), and seeming on the path to destruction. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
I Am the Cheese
In this interesting drama ... his psychiatrist and the institution's staff are, in fact, his father's enemies and orchestrated the assassination of his parents. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
A Time to Die
In this mystery, a ... official. The plot is based on a Mario Puzo story. The film is also titled Seven Graves for Rogan. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Lords of Discipline
Adapted from a long ... the matter uncovers an elusive group of sadistic students who will go to any length to control their school. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Table for Five
Jon Voight stars in ... Trung (Son Hoang Bui). But then J.P. receives some tragic news that he tries to conceal from the children. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Weather in the Streets
Clichéd, slow-paced, and with ... Predictable from the very beginning, this mediocre film is raised up several notches by Lisa Eichhorn's interpretation of Olivia. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Love is Forever
When producer/star Michael Landon ... 127 minutes for its first telecast on April 3, 1983, then was further snipped to 100 minutes for syndication. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Fighting Chance
Initially titled Fighting Chance, ... Notaro Jr., a real-life pugilist who served as Gregory Harrison's trainer. The film first aired on February 19, 1983. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Heart Like a Wheel
Heart Like a Wheel ... comes to a head at the 1966 National Hot Rod Association World Championship, which Shirley eventually wins three times. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
A Matter of Principle
This 60-minute Yuletide TV ... Mr. and Mrs. Alan Arkin, Matter of Principle costars the Arkin's real-life son Tony as one of the kids. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Bad Boys
Following magnetic performances in ... arrested and unwisely sent to the same jail holding Mick, a showdown between the two old rivals is inevitable. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
A Married Man
Anthony Hopkins essayed the ... didn't possess that knowledge. Co-produced by Channel 4 and London Weekend Television, A Married Man first aired in 1983. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Staying Alive
Director Sylvester Stallone proves ... and screenwriting abilities, he proves he is better off to remain an underdog prize-fighter/ commie-killer/mercenary cop/ double-fisted union leader/etc... [ best drama films - 1983 ]
A Cruel Romance
Slow-paced and in some ... on the classical play Bespridannitsa ("Without Dowry") by Alexander Ostrovsky that was previously filmed by Yakov Protazanov in 1937. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Dallas: Season 07
The fire that trapped ... in the office of J.R. Ewing -- but this time it is Bobby who falls wounded to the ground! [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Breathless
A botched attempt to ... relies on shirtlessness to carry him through much of the film), but Kaprisky, though beautiful, demonstrates limited acting range. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Flashdance
Jennifer Beals stars as ... featuring the Oscar-winning Best Song, Flashdance...What a Feeling, (music by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara). [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Testament
Director Lynne Littman has ... of overt horrors, the focus remains on the individuals and the way in which they adjust to the inevitable. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Running Brave
In the case of ... a watered-down version of a life that must have been a considerable challenge when the running shoes were off. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is yet ... adaptation of Jane Eyre stars Zelah Clarke in the title role and future James Bond Timothy Dalton as Rochester. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Ballad of Narayama
In this second, award-winning ... inhumanity and survival in a small, everyman's village. Narayama Bushi Ko won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1983. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Careful, He Might Hear You
Set in Australia in ... Hear You won eight Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Hughes), and Best Supporting Actor (Hargreaves). [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Golden Seal
The Golden Seal manages ... Seal is a fairly faithful adaptation of A River Ran Out of Eden, a novel by James Vance Marshall. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Variety
Christine (Sandy McLeod) is ... point, it is difficult for both Christine and the viewers to distinguish reality from fantasy, leaving everyone in limbo. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Heller Wahn
Hanna Schygulla and Angela ... Trotta also weaves a political subtext into the proceedings: it isn't immediately obvious, but it's there all the same. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Good Soldier
Jeremy Brett, Robin Ellis, ... veneer of normalcy is stripped away to reveal that nothing is what it appears to be on the surface. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Heartbreaker
In this surprisingly chaste ... between Beto (Fernando Allende in his first English-speaking role) and the blonde newcomer to the neighborhood, Kim (Dawn Dunlap). [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Born in Flames
Independent filmmaker, artist, and ... screen debut in Born in Flames; he has a minor supporting role as a technician at a television studio. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Courtesans of Bombay
The Merchant-Ivory team adopts ... Bombay was made for British television, and original telecast in those late hours ostensibly off limits to younger viewers. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Handgun
British director Tony Garnett's ... learns how to handle a gun, becomes a crack shot, and goes forth to seek revenge for her rape. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Five Mile Creek: Season 01
In the first of ... season, Maggie becomes a widow, thereby opening up the possibility of a romance between herself and the headstrong Jack. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Death Ride to Osaka
Based on true incidents, ... a club singer, only to discover that she has been tricked into working as a prostitute for the Yakuza. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Lianna
After helping to kick-start ... Elliott makes his screen debut in Lianna in a small role as a lighting technician for a dance troupe. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Mansfield Park
Adapted from the novel ... hour-long installments by the BBC in 1986, Mansfield Park was remade 13 years later as a theatrical feature film. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Regina
Ava Gardner made her ... surfaced in an unrated (but very gamey) videocassette version. Need we add: this one is not for all tastes. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Signal 7
Signal 7 is cab-driver ... went along, we shouldn't be too taken aback that Signal 7 was dedicated to pioneer improv filmmaker John Cassavetes. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Suburbia
Following up her critically ... Side and Rebel Streets, and should not be confused with the 1996 Richard Linklater film of the same name. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
To the Lighthouse
Like the Virginia Woolf ... family row out to the towering beacon. On the shore, meanwhile, Lily Briscoe finishes a painting of Mrs. Ramsey. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Todos Eran Valientes
Having reconciled their differences ... unite against a common enemy, at the end of the Mexican Revolution two families resume their personal feud. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Wild Style
This docudrama celebrates the ... subway cars. He gets a break when he is hired to decorate a platform for an upcoming rap concert. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Winds of War
This World War II ... officer (Robert Mitchum) sent to Germany during Hitler's rise to power, who witnesses the gradual escalation of the war. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Sugar Cane Alley
The teenage life and ... in this film, and Rue Case Negres won the 1983 Cesar for "Best First Film" for director Euzhan Palcy. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
No Big Deal
In this teen-oriented drama, ... impoverished street kid puts on a tough act to hide his loneliness. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Coqueta
After Rocio faints at ... her final days. Lucerito and Pedrito Fernandez star in a musical drama about living life to its absolute fullest. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Austeria
Also known as The ... director Jerzy Kawalerowicz, whose previous projects have included the award-winning Joan of the Angels and Death of a President. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Rembetiko
Based on a true ... for "Best Picture," and won three other awards as well (two "Best Supporting Actor" prizes, and one for music). [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Subterfuge
Directed by Alain Bergala, ... the man he ran down. The film also features Serge DeClosets, Nicolas Raynaud, Genevieve Brunel, and Claude Gaignaire. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
The Irish R.M.: Series 02
On Christmas Eve, the ... wife and staff have been terrified by the appearance of a sprat nailed to the door of their home. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Adi Shankaracharya
This excellent film from ... most of the Indian countryside -- it won the Indian equivalent of an Oscar for Best Film of 1983. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
For the Term of His Natural Life
For the Term of ... for the hero and heroine. For the Term of His Natural Life aired over Australia's Nine Network in 1983. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens' classic story ... himself as a writer while dealing with the pangs of first love when he falls for the unattainable Dora. [ best drama films - 1983 ]
Saan Darating ang Umaga
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Nativity: The Life of Jesus Christ
Nativity: The Life of ... Christ tells the tale of the birth of the man central to each and every Christian religion. [ best drama films - 1983 ]Supplemental Navigation
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