10 to Midnight, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson

À Nos Amours (To Our Love), directed by Maurice Pialat, starring Sandrine Bonnaire - (France)

Adi Shankaracharya, starring Sarvadaman Banerjee, the first film to be made in Sanskrit - (India)

All the Right Moves, starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn

Americana, directed by and starring David Carradine

Among Grey Stones (Sredi serykh kamney) - (U.S.S.R.)

And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)

Another Time, Another Place, starring Phyllis Logan - (U.K.)

Ardh Satya (Half Truth), directed by Govind Nihalani, starring Om Puri (Silver Lotus Award for best actor) - (India)

L'Argent (Money), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)

Ascendancy, starring Julie Covington and Ian Charleson, winner of Golden Bear award - (U.K.)

Austeria a.k.a. The Inn - Poland

Avtaar, directed by Mohan Kumar, starring Rajesh Khanna - (India)

BMX Bandits, starring Nicole Kidman - (Australia)

Baby It's You, directed by John Sayles, starring Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano

Bad Boys, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy, Clancy Brown

Le Bal (The Ball), directed by Ettore Scola - (Italy/France)

Balkan Express - (Yugoslavia)

The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama bushiko), directed by Shohei Imamura (remake of the 1958 film) - (Japan) - Palme d'Or award

Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no gen) - (Japan)

Beauty and the Beast (Skønheden og udyret) - (Denmark)

La Bestia y la Espada Magica (The Beast and the Magic Sword) - (Spain/Japan)

Betaab (Impatient), starring Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh - (India)

Betrayal, starring Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley - (U.K.)

Better Late Than Never, starring David Niven and Art Carney

The Big Chill, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams

Bill Cosby: Himself, a stand-up comedy performance

The Black Stallion Returns, starring Kelly Reno and Teri Garr

Bloodbath at the House of Death, starring Kenny Everett - (U.K.)

Blue Thunder, directed by John Badham, starring Roy Scheider, Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell

Born in Flames, a documentary film by Lizzie Borden

The Boys from Fengkuei (Feng gui lai de ren) - (Taiwan)

Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson and, in her final film, Natalie Wood

Breathless, directed by Jim McBride, starring Richard Gere

Bush Christmas, debut of Nicole Kidman - (Australia)

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, starring Karen Black

Careful, He Might Hear You - (Australia)

Carmen, directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)

Champions, starring John Hurt - (U.K.)

Christine, directed by John Carpenter, starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Kelly Preston

A Christmas Story, directed by Bob Clark, starring Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon

Circle of Power, starring Yvette Mimieux and Cindy Pickett

City of Pirates (La Ville des pirates) - (France)

Class, starring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Cliff Robertson

Les Compères (Co-Dads), starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard - (France)

Confidentially Yours (Vivement Dimanche), directed by François Truffaut, starring Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (France)

Cracking Up, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis

The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a Monty Python's short film directed by Terry Gilliam - (U.K.)

Cross Creek, starring Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard

Curse of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards - (U.K.)

Cujo, starring Dee Wallace and Danny Pintauro

D.C. Cab, starring Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Gary Busey

Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island

Daniel, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Ellen Barkin

Danton, directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Gérard Depardieu - (France/Poland/West Germany)

Dark Habits (Entre tinieblas), directed by Pedro Almodóvar - (Spain)

The Day After (made for television), starring Jason Robards, Steve Guttenberg, JoBeth Williams, John Lithgow

The Dead Zone, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Herbert Lom, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen

Deadly Run (Mortelle randonnee), starring Michel Serrault and Isabelle Adjani - (France)

Deal of the Century, directed by William Friedkin, starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, Sigourney Weaver

The Death of Mario Ricci (La mort de Mario Ricci), starring Gian Maria Volontè - (Switzerland/France)

Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle), directed by Luc Besson - (France)

Doctor Detroit, starring Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon, Fran Drescher, Lynn Whitfield

The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?) (Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel) - (Netherlands)

The Dresser, directed by Peter Yates, starring Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay - (U.K.)

Duvar - (Turkey)

Easy Money, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Eddie and the Cruisers, starring Michael Paré and Tom Berenger

Eddie Macon's Run, starring Kirk Douglas and John Schneider

Educating Rita, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters - (U.K.)

El Norte, directed by Gregory Nava - (U.K./U.S.A.)

El Sur (The South) - (Spain)

Entre Nous (Between Us), starring Miou-Miou and Isabelle Huppert - (France)

Eréndira, starring Irene Papas - (Mexico)

Eureka, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell, Mickey Rourke

Exposed, directed by James Toback, starring Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel

The Family Game (Kazoku Gēmu), directed by Yoshimitsu Morita - (Japan)

Ferestadeh - (U.S.A./West Germany)

Flashdance, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri

Flesh of Your Flesh (Carne de tu carne) - (Colombia)

Forbidden Relations (Visszaesök) - (Hungary)

The Fourth Man (De Vierde Man), directed by Paul Verhoeven - (Netherlands)

Funny Dirty Little War (No habrá más penas ni olvido) - (Argentina)

Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, starring Sônia Braga and Marcello Mastroianni - (Brazil)

Get Crazy, starring Malcolm McDowell

Gorky Park, starring William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Joanna Pacuła, Ian Bannen, Brian Dennehy

Growing Up (Xiao Bi de gu shi) - (Taiwan)

Gunman (Mue puen) - (Thailand)

Heart Like a Wheel, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Bonnie Bedelia and Beau Bridges

Heat and Dust, directed by James Ivory, starring Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor - (U.K.)

High Road to China, starring Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong

The Honorary Consul, starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere - (U.K.)

The Hunger, directed by Tony Scott, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon - (U.K.)

The Illusionist - (Netherlands)

In the White City (Dans la ville blanche), directed by Alain Tanner, starring Bruno Ganz - (Switzerland)

Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Dianne Wiest

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Just Let it Go, Friends), starring Naseeruddin Shah - (India)

Jaws 3-D, starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett Jr.

Un jeu brutal (A Brutal Game) - (France)

The Keep, directed by Michael Mann, starring Scott Glenn

King for a Day (Gospodin za edin den) - (Bulgaria)

The King of Comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis

Krull, directed by Peter Yates, starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Francesca Annis, Liam Neeson - (U.K.)

Last Year's Snow Was Falling (Padal proshlogodniy sneg) - (U.S.S.R.)

Lianna, directed by John Sayles, starring Linda Griffiths

Liquid Sky, starring Anne Carlisle

Little House on the Prairie: A Look Back to Yesterday

Local Hero, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster - (U.K.)

Lone Wolf McQuade, starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera

The Lords of Discipline, starring David Keith and Mark Breland

Losin' It, starring Tom Cruise and Shelley Long

Lovesick, starring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness

The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)

The Man in the Silk Hat (L'homme au chapeau de soie), a documentary about Max Linder - (France)

Man of Flowers, starring Norman Kaye - (Australia)

The Man Who Loved Women, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Marilu Henner, Kim Basinger

The Man with Two Brains, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner

Mandi, directed by Shyam Benegal - (India)

Moon in the Gutter, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, starring Gérard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski

Masoom (The Innocent), starring Naseeruddin Shah - (India)

Max Dugan Returns, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu), directed by Nagisa Oshima, starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto - (Japan/U.K.)

Mickey's Christmas Carol, a featurette which brings Mickey Mouse back to cinemas for first time since 1953

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Jones - (U.K.)

Mr. Mom, starring Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull

My Brother's Wedding, directed by Charles Burnett

Nankyoku Monogatari (South Pole Story) - (Japan)

Narcissus - (Canada)

Nate and Hayes, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Michael O'Keefe

National Lampoon's Vacation, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo

Nešto između - (Yugoslavia)

Never Cry Wolf, starring Charles Martin Smith

Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery (as James Bond) with Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer - (U.K.)

A Night in Heaven, starring Christopher Atkins and Lesley Ann Warren

Nightmares, starring Cristina Raines and Emilio Estevez

Nostalghia, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R./Italy)

Octopussy, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond) with Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan - (U.K.)

Of Unknown Origin, starring Peter Weller - (U.S.A./Canada)

One Deadly Summer (L'été meurtrier), starring Isabelle Adjani - (France)

The Osterman Weekend, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver, Burt Lancaster

The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise

Pauline at the Beach (Pauline à la plage), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)

Phar Lap, starring Tom Burlinson - (Australia)

The Pirates of Penzance, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, starring Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt - (U.S.A./U.K.)

The Ploughman's Lunch, starring Jonathan Pryce - (U.K.)

Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France) - Golden Lion award

Private School, starring Phoebe Cates, Matthew Modine, Betsy Russell, Ray Walston

Project A (A Gai Wak), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)

Psycho II, directed by Richard Franklin, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly and Robert Loggia

Rebetiko - (Greece)

Reuben, Reuben, starring Tom Conti and Kelly McGillis

The Right Stuff, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Hershey, Pamela Reed

Risky Business, directed by Paul Brickman, starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay

Rock & Rule, an animated rock musical - (Canada)

Romantic Comedy, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen

Rumble Fish, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Vincent Spano, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper

Running Brave, starring Robby Benson

Sagara Sangamam (The Confluence) - (India)

Sadma (Trauma) - (India)

Sahara, starring Brooke Shields and Horst Buchholz

Sans Soleil (Sunless), directed by Chris Marker - (France)

A Season in Hakkari (Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim) - (Turkey)

Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia

The Scarlet and the Black, directed by Jerry London, starring Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud

Sheer Madness (Heller Wahn), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Hanna Schygulla - (West Germany)

Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher

Sleepaway Camp, starring Mike Kellin

Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, starring Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed

So Long, Stooge (Tchao Pantin), directed by Claude Berri - (France)

Something Wicked This Way Comes, starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, directed by Lamont Johnson, starring Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald

Star 80, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts

The Star Chamber, starring Michael Douglas and Hal Holbrook

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, directed by Richard Marquand, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

Staying Alive, directed by Sylvester Stallone, starring John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes

The Sting II, starring Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed, Teri Garr

Strange Brew, starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas - (Canada)

Strange Invaders, starring Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid

Stray Dogs (Deulgae) - (South Korea)

Streamers, starring Matthew Modine and David Alan Grier

Stroker Ace, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Jim Nabors, Ned Beatty

Sudden Impact, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke

Sugar Cane Alley (Rue Cases-Negres) - (France/Martinique)

Superman III, directed by Richard Lester, starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Annette O'Toole, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn

The Survivors, starring Walter Matthau and Robin Williams

Sweet Bunch, directed by Nikos Nikolaidis - (Greece)

Table for Five, starring Jon Voight, Marie-Christine Barrault, Richard Crenna, Millie Perkins, Roxana Zal

Tender Mercies, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Ellen Barkin

Terms of Endearment, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow

Testament, starring Jane Alexander, William Devane, Leon Ames, Roxana Zal

The Last Ninja

The Thorn Birds, TV miniseries, starring Rachel Ward, Richard Chamberlain, Bryan Brown, Christopher Plummer, Barbara Stanwyck

Three Crowns of the Sailor (Les Trois couronnes du matelot) - (France)

Tight Quarters (Könnyű testi sértés) - (Hungary)

To Be or Not to Be, starring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, José Ferrer

Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (The Little Girl who Conquered Time) - (Japan)

Tough Enough, starring Dennis Quaid, Warren Oates, Stan Shaw

Trading Places, directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche

Trenchcoat, starring Margot Kidder and Robert Hays

Twenty Years of African Cinema a.k.a. Caméra d'Afrique - (Tunisia)

Twilight Zone: The Movie, segments directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller, starring Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan, John Lithgow

Twice Upon a Time

Two of a Kind, directed by John Herzfeld, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

Uncommon Valor, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Robert Stack, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Patrick Swayze

Under Fire, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy

Utu - (New Zealand)

Valley Girl, starring Deborah Foreman and Nicolas Cage

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne) - (Czechoslovakia)

Videodrome, starring James Woods and Deborah Harry - (Canada)

Vigilante, starring Robert Forster

Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (Love by Request) - (U.S.S.R.)

Voyage in Time (Tempo di Viaggio), directed by Tonino Guerra and Andrei Tarkovsky - (Italy)

Walking, Walking (Cammina, cammina), directed by Ermanno Olmi - (Italy)

Walking the Edge, starring Robert Forster and Nancy Kwan

WarGames, directed by John Badham, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Ally Sheedy

Wartime Romance (Voenno-polevoy roman), directed by Pyotr Todorovsky - (U.S.S.R.)

We Are from Jazz (My iz dzhaza) - (U.S.S.R.)

The Wind in the Willows, starring Richard Pearson, Ian Carmichael, David Jason and Michael Hordern - (U.K.)

The Winds of War, TV mini-series, starring Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Polly Bergen, Peter Graves, John Houseman, Ralph Bellamy

Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore

Without a Trace, starring Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch

The Wounded Man (l'Homme blessé) - (France)

Yellowbeard, starring Graham Chapman and Peter Boyle - (U.K.)

Yentl, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

Zappa, directed by Bille August - (Denmark)

Zelig, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow

Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Xin shu shan jian ke), starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[edit]

The top ten 1983 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: