Drama Movies of 1983
The Right Stuff
Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts. Scott Glenn plays Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Silkwood
Based on a true story, Silkwood begins and ends with Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) driving along ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Wagner
Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken its long-winded cue from the lengthy operas of the famous 19th-century German ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Thorn Birds
This mammoth TV miniseries, based on the best-selling novel by ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Cross Creek
Director Martin Ritt's bucolic rural environments of Norma Rae, Conrack, and Sounder, are re-visited once again in Cross Creek, based on author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' memoirs of her ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Saigon: Year of The Cat
Saigon: Year of the Cat is a low-budget drama about the fall of Saigon. The film was made for the ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Osterman Weekend
A man discovers that his best friends are actually spies -- or are they? -- in this thriller based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Power, Passion and Murder
Set during the '30s, this made-for-television sudser tells the melodramatic tale of a beautiful Hollywood ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Day After
A peaceful Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike in this powerful and deeply disturbing testament to the folly of pro-military hawks who believed that ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Dresser
The complicated relationship of two men who have given their lives to the theater forms the basis for this acclaimed drama. During World War II, an aging but once famous Shakespearean ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Without a Trace
Young divorced mother Kate Nelligan refuses to go into a panic when her six-year-old son disappears. She manages to maintain an even emotional keel even when detective Judd Hirsch unearths several clues which point to sexual ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Kennedy
The 1,000-day presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Daniel
Sidney Lumet directed this film version of E.L. Doctorow's novel The Book of ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Outsiders
Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders tells the story of the ongoing conflict ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Star 80
Director Bob Fosse's fact-based tale of Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten's short life and gruesome death focuses less on Stratten (played by Mariel Hemingway) than on her husband/manager, sleazoid pornographer and ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Tender Mercies
Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall), a once-famous country western singer, wakes up broke, alone and hung over in a tiny Texas motel run by widowed Rosa Lee (Tess Harper). ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Big Score
A Chicago cop is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from the force. In order to clear his name, he goes after the real culprits -- without the extra baggage of ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Tough Enough
In this sports-oriented drama, Art Long (Dennis Quaid), a loser as a country singer, starts competing in local fist-fight matches in order to bring home a little extra cash -- and is caught up in his successes enough to ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
All the Right Moves
High school athlete Tom Cruise would do anything to escape the dull provincialism of his home town. ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
A Night in Heaven
Veering off in several thematic directions at once, A Night in Heaven starts with a torrid student-teacher romance which becomes somewhat ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Princess Daisy
This melodrama is the second of a two part story based on a novel by Judith Krantz. In this episode, Daisy, the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie star, must leave college and begin looking ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Dempsey
Dempsey is the TV biopic of boxer William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, a.k.a. Manassa Mauler. The film opens in Utah in 1911, where the teenage Dempsey works out in ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Happy
Roger Hanover (Dom DeLuise) once enjoyed TV stardom as "Happy the Clown." Now, however, Roger is a ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Dombey and Son
Julian Glover portrays Mr. Dombey in the drama Dombey and Son. Dombey is a proud man who wants most in his life to have a male heir he can pass his business on to. His wish eventually comes true, ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Rumble Fish
One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
I Am the Cheese
In this interesting drama based on a novel by Robert Cormier, flashbacks to two ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
A Time to Die
In this mystery, a vengeful husband goes looking for the six people who tortured him and ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Lords of Discipline
Adapted from a long novel by Pat Conroy, the story is shortened to focus on a harrowing account of institutional racism in the 1960s American South. ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Table for Five
Jon Voight stars in this David Seltzer-scripted sentimental tale about a divorced father who tries to achieve an emotional connection with his children. J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) is a confused and childish man ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Weather in the Streets
Clichéd, slow-paced, and with a well-worn storyline, this melodrama revolves around the sad tale of Olivia (Lisa Eichhorn), a woman who falls in love with Rollo (Michael York), a married man, and then suffers ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Love is Forever
When producer/star Michael Landon took on this project, it was geared for ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Fighting Chance
Initially titled Fighting Chance, the made-for-TV The Fighter stars Gregory Harrison in the title role. Unable to support himself or his wife Glynnis O'Connor when he's laid off from his job, Harrison decides to ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Heart Like a Wheel
Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
A Matter of Principle
This 60-minute Yuletide TV special stars Alan Arkin as a domineering patriarch. He sees no need for such frills as a Christmas tree, and when his wife ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Paris, Texas
Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Bad Boys
Following magnetic performances in Taps (1981) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), young actor Sean Penn sealed his reputation as one of his generation's most gifted performers with ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
A Married Man
Anthony Hopkins essayed the title role in the four-part British miniseries A Married Man. During his annual holiday, contentedly married barrister John Strickland (Hopkins) found himself ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Staying Alive
Director Sylvester Stallone proves you really can't go home ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
A Cruel Romance
Slow-paced and in some longer stretches, this period melodrama features the heroine Larisa (Larisa Guzeyeva) and her various, competing suitors. Sergei Paratov (Nikita ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Dallas: Season 07
The fire that trapped J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), his wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), their son, John Ross (now played by Omri Katz), and J.R.'s half-brother, Ray (Steve Kanaly), in the Southfork mansion at the end of Dallas' ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Breathless
A botched attempt to remake Jean-Luc Godard's classic nouvelle vague entry, Á Bout de souffle, Breathless follows Jesse (Richard Gere), a fugitive wanted for the murder of a ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Flashdance
Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Testament
Director Lynne Littman has created an effective, understated portrayal of the cost of a nuclear war in human terms, in a film as far removed from the fake hyperbole of action and disaster ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Running Brave
In the case of this dramatized story about a Native American who thrilled the world when ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is yet another cinematic dramatization of Charlotte Bronte's classic 19th century ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Ballad of Narayama
In this second, award-winning interpretation of a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, director Shohei Imamura has inserted some ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Careful, He Might Hear You
Set in Australia in the 1930s, this drama stars Nicholas Gledhill as P.S., a six-year-old boy who lives with his Aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and Uncle George (Peter Whitford). ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Golden Seal
The Golden Seal manages to be excellent family entertainment without ever resorting to gimmickry or phony sentimentality. The story focuses on a family living in the ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Variety
Christine (Sandy McLeod) is a ticket-taker at a Manhattan porn cinema. Her ability to separate reel life from real life is seriously impaired in this slow, often silent, and ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Heller Wahn
Hanna Schygulla and Angela Winkler are the stars of the German psychological drama Friends and ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Good Soldier
Jeremy Brett, Robin Ellis, and Susan Fleetwood star in ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Heartbreaker
In this surprisingly chaste and some would say bland movie, car clubs in East L.A. with their low-riding, decorated, custom vehicles ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Born in Flames
Independent filmmaker, artist, and critic Lizzie Borden made her feature-film debut with this bold fusion of science fiction ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Courtesans of Bombay
The Merchant-Ivory team adopts a semi-documentary stance in ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Handgun
British director Tony Garnett's American film debut is a tale of revenge that criticizes American gun culture. Karen Young plays Kathleen Sullivan, ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Five Mile Creek: Season 01
In the first of the 13 episodes comprising Five Mile Creek's ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Death Ride to Osaka
Based on true incidents, this movie follows the plight of a young American girl who travels to Japan to start work as a club singer, only to discover that she has been ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Lianna
After helping to kick-start the independent film movement in America with The Return of the Secaucus Seven, John Sayles wrote, directed, and edited his second feature, about a woman who ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Mansfield Park
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen, the British miniseries Mansfield Park starred Sylvestra La Touzel as Fanny Price, a "poor relation" deposited at the doorstep of the titular country estate ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Regina
Ava Gardner made her last theatrical film appearance in the German-Italian Regina. Gardner is cast as the Smothering Mom to end them all, determined to keep her middle-aged ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Signal 7
Signal 7 is cab-driver jargon; if you want to know what it means, please treat yourself to this breezy low-budget effort. Shot on location in San Francisco, the film concentrates on the exploits of ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Suburbia
Following up her critically acclaimed documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris made this gritty drama her first feature-film outing. Bill Coyne stars as Evan ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
To the Lighthouse
Like the Virginia Woolf novel which it interprets, this 1983 BBC ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Todos Eran Valientes
Having reconciled their differences to unite against a common enemy, at the end of the Mexican Revolution two families resume their personal feud. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Wild Style
This docudrama celebrates the colorful lives of teens who live in the South Bronx. There they are seen break dancing, creating graffiti art, and listening to raucous rap. The ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Winds of War
This World War II epic drama, based on the book by Herman Wouk, follows the life and trials of a career naval officer (Robert Mitchum) sent to Germany during Hitler's rise ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Sugar Cane Alley
The teenage life and adventures of young José who lives in a shanty-town on Martinique in the mid-'30s comprises the body of this well-wrought film on how to ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
No Big Deal
In this teen-oriented drama, an impoverished street kid ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Coqueta
After Rocio faints at her birthday party, the young girl who was once so vibrant and full of life is discovered ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Austeria
Also known as The Inn, Austeria is set in Poland around the time of WWI. During a pogrom, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Rembetiko
Based on a true story, this uneven but engaging musical drama sweeps through a turbulent 40 years in popular singer Marika Ninou's (Sotiria Leonardou) life -- and in the history of Greece -- starting ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Subterfuge
Directed by Alain Bergala, Faux Fuyants centers around forty-year-old Serge (Olivier Perrier), who, on his way back home from the Parisian cinema, accidentally runs over and ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
The Irish R.M.: Series 02
On Christmas Eve, the Yeates have a carriage accident, and unfortunately for them, one of the injured victims is none other than the aptly named Oweneen the Sprat, one of the nasty "mountainy" men living in the hills. On ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Adi Shankaracharya
This excellent film from noted Indian director G. V. Iyer is based on the true story of the life ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
For the Term of His Natural Life
For the Term of His Natural Life, Australian novelist Marcus Clarke's epic tale of the hardships and deprivations of his native country in the 1830s, served as the basis for one of the most famous Australian ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens' classic story of a young man trying to overcome poverty and a blighted family life returns to the screen in this animated adaptation designed ... [ Drama movie - 1983 ]
Saan Darating ang Umaga
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