1983 Top Ten List

  • Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
  • Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)
  • The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven)
  • The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
  • A Brutal Game (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
  • Zelig (Woody Allen)
  • El sur (Victor Erice)
  • Testament (Lynne Littman)
  • Seventeen (Joel DeMott & Jeff Kreines)
  • Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)

    • Additional 1983 Films By Rating

  • Local Hero (Bill Forysth)
  • Christine (John Carpenter)
  • Star 80 (Bob Fosse)
  • Trading Places (John Landis)
  • Variation (Michael Haneke)
  • El Norte (Gregory Nava)
  • The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
  • The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa)
  • Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
  • Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Sans soleil (Chris. Marker)
  • Danton (Andrzej Wajda)
  • A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
  • Burroughs: The Movie (Howard Brookner)
  • National Lampoon's Vacation (Harold Ramis)
  • Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge)
  • The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
  • Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik)
  • Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
  • WarGames (John Badham)
  • Scarface (Brian De Palma)
  • Nostalghia (Andrey Tarkovsky)
  • Angst (Gerald Kargl)
  • And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini)
  • The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
  • A Love in Germany (Andrzej Wajda)
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima)
  • Bad Boys (Rick Rosenthal)
  • Entre Nous (Diane Kurys)
  • Psycho II (Richard Franklin)
  • All the Right Moves (Michael Chapman)
  • Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)
  • À nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
  • Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
  • Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood)
  • Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull)
  • Mr. Mom (Stan Dragoti)
  • Frida (Paul Leduc Rosenzweig)
  • The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah)
  • Eureka (Nicolas Roeg)
  • The Keep (Michael Mann)