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The most successful movies, first aired in 1983 year
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) USADarth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 475 347 111 IMDb: 8.3/10 (1 112 228) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Terms of Endearment (1983) USA Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 108 423 489 IMDb: 7.4/10 (64 889) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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WarGames (1983) USA A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 79 567 667 IMDb: 7.1/10 (109 684) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Octopussy (1983) United Kingdom, USAJames Bond's next mission sends him to the circus... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 67 893 619 IMDb: 6.5/10 (112 281) |
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Scarface (1983) USA In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 65 884 703 IMDb: 8.3/10 (907 174) |
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Mr. Mom (1983) USA Jack and Caroline are a couple struggling to make ends meet... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 64 783 827 IMDb: 6.6/10 (27 466) User Rating: /10 Votes: 6 |
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Vacation (1983) USA The Griswold family are on a quest... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 61 399 552 IMDb: 7.3/10 (119 345) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Superman III (1983) France, United Kingdom, USASynthetic kryptonite laced with tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 59 950 623 IMDb: 5.0/10 (74 294) |
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The Big Chill (1983) USA A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college friends who are now all grown up and hardened by the big wide world come together for the funeral of Alex, a barely glimpsed corpse (which is played by Kevin Costner as noted in the Special Features section of the DVD), who was at one time the brightest and the best of them, and yet who never managed to achieve half as much as any of the others... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 56 399 659 IMDb: 7.1/10 (41 013) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Yentl (1983) United Kingdom, USA The story of an advanced Jewish girl named Yentl, who used to study the Torah (the Jewish bible) when no woman could do it... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 40 218 899 IMDb: 6.6/10 (15 562) User Rating: /10 Votes: 3 |
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Uncommon Valor (1983) USA A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 30 503 151 IMDb: 6.3/10 (11 553) |
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Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) USA Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 29 450 919 IMDb: 6.4/10 (40 875) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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The Outsiders (1983) USA, France The movie details a town split between the wealthy South Zone gang called 'The Socials' and the poor North Zone gang called 'The Greasers'... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 25 697 647 IMDb: 7.0/10 (96 198) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Cujo (1983) USA Donna Trenton is a frustrated suburban housewife whose life is a turmoil after her husband learns about her having an affair... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 21 156 152 IMDb: 6.1/10 (50 549) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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The Dead Zone (1983) USA Christopher Walken wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 20 766 616 IMDb: 7.2/10 (76 543) |
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A Christmas Story (1983) USA,  CanadaChristmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 20 618 717 IMDb: 7.9/10 (168 231) User Rating: /10 Votes: 3 |
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Breathless (1983) USA Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 19 910 002 IMDb: 6.0/10 (10 309) |
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Max Dugan Returns (1983) USA Nora is a single mother who lives with her son Michael in a small house... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 17 613 720 IMDb: 6.7/10 (3 942) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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All the Right Moves (1983) USA Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 17 233 166 IMDb: 6.0/10 (20 266) |
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Krull (1983) United Kingdom, USA From the sky will come the Black Fortress... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 916 617 IMDb: 6.1/10 (35 954) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) Canada, USA Three women make an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 478 265 IMDb: 5.4/10 (6 545) |
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D.C. Cab (1983) USA The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 134 627 IMDb: 5.5/10 (5 235) |
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The Meaning of Life (1983) United Kingdom The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 949 697 IMDb: 7.5/10 (124 779) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Revenge of the Ninja (1983) USA After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 13 168 027 IMDb: 6.0/10 (5 791) |
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Stroker Ace (1983) USA Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 13 000 000 IMDb: 4.9/10 (4 229) |
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The Black Stallion Returns (1983) USA The Black is stolen from Alec by his former Arabian owners... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 12 049 514 IMDb: 5.9/10 (2 377) User Rating: /10 Votes: 4 |
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The Man with Two Brains (1983) USA Recently widowed Doctor Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world's greatest neurosurgeon, injures Dolores Benedict in a car accident... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 10 353 438 IMDb: 6.4/10 (27 706) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Brainstorm (1983) USA Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 10 219 460 IMDb: 6.4/10 (12 987) |
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Without a Trace (1983) USA This film, centering on a child's abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who treat her and her husband as suspects, even as she hounds them to find her child and drives away her husband (David Dukes) and friends (including Stockard Channing) with her intensity and single-mindedness... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 9 632 062 IMDb: 7.1/10 (2 310) |
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Bad Boys (1983) USA Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien has been sent to a juvenile prison for vehicular manslaughter... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 9 190 819 IMDb: 7.2/10 (16 901) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Tender Mercies (1983) USA Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 8 443 124 IMDb: 7.3/10 (11 869) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) USA In Green Town, Illinois, the twelve year-old boys Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade are neighbors and best friends... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 8 400 000 IMDb: 6.7/10 (10 518) |
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Nightmares (1983) USA A collection of short stories... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 6 670 680 IMDb: 5.7/10 (3 675) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Golden Seal (1983) USA A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaksa, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 6 666 725 IMDb: 5.4/10 (370) |
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The Osterman Weekend (1983) USA The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 6 486 797 IMDb: 5.8/10 (9 343) |
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The Hunger (1983) United Kingdom, USA The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 988 322 IMDb: 6.6/10 (28 815) |
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The Star Chamber (1983) USA Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 555 305 IMDb: 6.3/10 (7 680) |
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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) USA On a desert planet, warlord Jared-Syn is trying to convince a tribe of mutants that he's their messiah and gain unlimited power hidden in a crystal... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 301 085 IMDb: 3.9/10 (1 912) |
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Love Letters (1983) USA A story of love and obsession... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 269 990 IMDb: 5.9/10 (923) |
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Coup de foudre (1983) France In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 3 974 975 IMDb: 7.0/10 (2 172) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) AustraliaDuring the turmoil of the Depression, a young boy becomes a pawn in a bitter family rivalry... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 938 179 IMDb: 6.9/10 (856) User Rating: /10 Votes: 3 |
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Phar Lap (1983) Australia Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 878 404 IMDb: 7.2/10 (1 947) |
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Il mondo di Yor (1983) Italy,  TurkeyYor, an extremely blond prehistoric warrior, comes to question his origins, particularly with regard to a mysterious medallion he wears... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 810 199 IMDb: 4.3/10 (3 461) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Rumble Fish (1983) USA, France Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 494 480 IMDb: 7.1/10 (37 265) |
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Table for Five (1983) USA J... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 439 705 IMDb: 6.1/10 (842) |
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Man, Woman and Child (1983) USA A man with a wife and two daughters learns that he has a son... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 314 561 IMDb: 6.2/10 (453) |
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) United Kingdom,  Japan,  New ZealandIn 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 306 560 IMDb: 7.2/10 (19 835) |
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Testament (1983) USA Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 044 892 IMDb: 6.9/10 (7 091) User Rating: /10 Votes: 11 |
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Gabriela, Cravo e Canela (1983) BrazilIn 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 318 839 IMDb: 6.2/10 (1 287) |
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Losin' It (1983) Canada, USA Teen sex comedy set in 1965 which follows four Los Angeles school friends, Woody, Dave, Spider, Wendell and the series of misadventures they get into when they travel south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to settle a pact to lose their virginity before the night is over, while a young woman, named Kathy, accompanies them for different reasons: to arrange a quick divorce from her husband... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 246 141 IMDb: 4.9/10 (5 164) |
