Best Movies of 1983

These are the 25 best-rated movies released in 1983, led by Fords on Water, U2: Live at Red Rocks - Under a Blood Red Sky and Mortuary. Ranked by audience score, with cast, trailers and legal places to watch on every page.

1. Fords on Water (1983)

★ 9.0/10

Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.
2. U2: Live at Red Rocks - Under a Blood Red Sky (1983)

★ 8.1/10

Recorded at the breathtakingly beautiful Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado in 1983, this concert features Irish rock sensation U2 and front man Bono in their early glory days. Including five previously unreleased…
3. Mortuary (1983)

★ 8.0/10

After a college dare goes wrong, the investigating officer arrests his son and locks horns with his estranged wife while trying to find the truth.
4. The Wind of Ayahuasca (1983)

★ 7.0/10

A love story of a sociologist and a girl from country in the magic-religious context of Amazon.
5. A Season in Hakkari (1983)

★ 6.9/10

An urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural…
6. The Dresser (1983)

★ 6.8/10

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry…
7. The 4th Man (1983)

★ 6.7/10

A writer whose lover is a woman widowed three times begins to suspect she may be responsible for her husbands' deaths.
8. Leyla and Mecnun (1983)

★ 6.7/10

A fortune-teller reveals the Sultan that his daughter will get married to somebody poor, born on the same day with her. So, the Sultan gets all the baby boys born on the same day are killed and only Kadir is saved…
9. Lianna (1983)

★ 6.5/10

Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Lianna takes a…
10. Six Swedish Girls in Alps (1983)

★ 6.5/10

This comedy has everyone's favorite 6 Swedish gals enjoying their stay in the alps. When the girls aren't enjoying the pleasure of their own company they're out having a good time with nearly everyone else in town.
11. En Büyük Şaban (1983)

★ 6.4/10

A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation.
12. The Store (1983)

★ 6.4/10

THE STORE is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of a vast array of…
13. A Caribbean Mystery (1983)

★ 6.2/10

Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer…
14. Remedy (1983)

★ 6.0/10

A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isolated village., where she’s soon tending sick children and delivering babies.
15. Sparkling Cyanide (1983)

★ 6.0/10

The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the…
16. Gırgıriye'de Cümbüş (1983)

★ 5.8/10

Another story of Gırgıriye Neighbourhood. Güllü, her mother Sabahat, her uncle Bekir, Bayram, her father Emin, her sister Sevim, and her aunt Rabiş. Sabahat has completely lost her mind over money. They pool their…
17. Sprout Wings and Fly (1983)

★ 5.8/10

Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-old Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC. Tommy was quirky, gregarious and generous, and this film shows him at his best, in fine…
18. The Story of Piera (1983)

★ 5.7/10

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special…
19. Lovesick (1983)

★ 5.7/10

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
20. The Golden Seal (1983)

★ 5.4/10

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. But the greed for her valuable pelt sets off the hunters, including…
21. Going Down (1983)

★ 4.4/10

Middle-class Karli, alcoholic Jane, unemployed Jackie, and square Ellen are four friends living together and barely scraping by in suburban Sydney. But when Karli’s father offers her a little money and a one-way ticket…
22. Savage Sadists (1983)

★ 2.8/10

A duo of hoodlums hold a pornographer and his wife hostage, forcing them into acts of debauchery.
23. The Bleeder (1983)

★ 2.8/10

On tour through Sweden, the all-girl rock 'n' roll band "Rock Cats" suddenly find themselves trapped in no-man's land when their tour-bus breaks down. Soon they get to meet "the Bleeder", an insane beast of a man whose…
24. Thursday's Child (1983)

★ 1.0/10

Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the…
25. Gecenin Sonu (1983)

★ 0.0/10

The film is about a father and son, both notorious gangsters, reuniting after many years. Hasan, a notorious gangster, works for Osman, a heroin smuggler. After years of involvement in dirty business, Hasan decides to…