Search results for "1983"
Piratene

Piratene

Piratene
IMDb: 6.2
93

The film follows a gang of unemployed youth in the little town of Svolvær, Lofoten, starting up an illegal radio-channel called “Radio Feskslog”.

Cross Creek

Cross Creek

Cross Creek
IMDb: 6.9
127

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida’s backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes…

Santa’s Magic Toy Bag

Santa’s Magic Toy Bag

Santa’s Magic Toy Bag
IMDb: 6.5
30

In this TV special, Sherman the elf bungles his way from one job to the next at the North Pole, trying to find where he fits in. Finally, Santa Claus…

Genre: Family
The Geisha

The Geisha

The Geisha
IMDb: 6.9
144

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep

Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep

Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
IMDb: 4.5
68

Mayumi and Mai are hair stylists who open a Barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to their super-short skirts. When the girls…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Demons of Ludlow

The Demons of Ludlow

The Demons of Ludlow
IMDb: 3.8
92

A murderous demon lurks inside an antique piano in a picturesque coastal town.

Genre: Horror
I Married a Shadow

I Married a Shadow

I Married a Shadow
IMDb: 6.4
95

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

Handgun

Handgun

Handgun
IMDb: 6.4
101

Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Running Brave

Running Brave

Running Brave
IMDb: 6.7
106

The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.

The Bund

The Bund

The Bund
IMDb: 6.3
103

After losing everything, a young man rebuilds his life and finds love in 1920s Shanghai — all while rising to power in an organized crime syndicate.

Genre: Drama
Last Affair

Last Affair

Last Affair
IMDb: 5.8
89

A lonely Chinese woman in Paris starts an affair with an womanizer musician.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Wild Duck

The Wild Duck

The Wild Duck
IMDb: 6
95

Ibsen’s play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter’s legitimacy.

Genre: Drama
The Family Game

The Family Game

The Family Game
IMDb: 7.1
107

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success;…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Bastard Swordsman

Bastard Swordsman

Bastard Swordsman
IMDb: 7.1
95

Yun Fei Yang is the viciously bullied orphan who takes on the unpleasant tasks at a formidable kung-fu school. Constantly mocked by the other students of the school, Yen counts…

Genre: Action, Mystery
The Lost Tribe

The Lost Tribe

The Lost Tribe
IMDb: 5.4
114

Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what…

Demon of the Lute

Demon of the Lute

Demon of the Lute
IMDb: 6.4
90

From first-time director Lung Yi Sheng comes Demon Of The Lute, a 1983 fantasy swordplay epic featuring a ragtag group of heroes as they face off against a demonic force…

Holy Flame of the Martial World

Holy Flame of the Martial World

Holy Flame of the Martial World
IMDb: 6.8
89

A brother and sister seek vengeance for the death of their parents by honing their martial skills and searching for the legendary Holy Flame sword. To avenge their parents they…

Man of Flowers

Man of Flowers

Man of Flowers
IMDb: 7.1
91

An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Boys from Fengkuei

The Boys from Fengkuei

The Boys from Fengkuei
IMDb: 7.3
98

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to…

Genre: Drama
Cecilia

Cecilia

Cecilia
IMDb: 4.3
105

After repeatedly flaunting her peerless body to her servants, snobbish aristocrat Cecila becomes the victim of rape. But the experience triggers a carnal awakening, full of socialite sex parties and…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
IMDb: 6.5
136

Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus unwillingly, as he will have to leave his recently-betrothered Julia. Valentine soon falls in love with Silvia,…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt

The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt

The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt
IMDb: 7.5
93

Theodore Roosevelt was America’s 26th president and a larger-than-life legend whose incredible story must be seen to be believed. Narrated by George C. Scott, this documentary weaves extremely rare archival…

Romantic Comedy

Romantic Comedy

Romantic Comedy
IMDb: 5.3
103

Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher with an urge to write. On the day Jason is being married, Jason…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Urusei Yatsura: Only You

Urusei Yatsura: Only You

Urusei Yatsura: Only You
IMDb: 6.7
101

Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle’s shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle’s culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in…

Special Bulletin

Special Bulletin

Special Bulletin
IMDb: 7.6
103

A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Death and Transfiguration

Death and Transfiguration

Death and Transfiguration
IMDb: 7.4
27

A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.

Genre: Drama, Short
Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast
IMDb: 7
90

When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays, he starts feeling increasingly rejected and jealous, as his adolescent daughter starts looking for real beaus.

Genre: Drama
The House of Lost Women

The House of Lost Women

The House of Lost Women
IMDb: 4.7
90

Desdemona lives on an isolated island with her strange family: her father Mario, her stepmother Dulcinea and her mentally challenged sister Paulova. As the only inhabitants on the island loneliness…

Genre: Drama
Master of the World

Master of the World

Master of the World
IMDb: 3.8
100

Conqueror of the World, a thrilling and explosive story of violence…of human drama, of a rare man, strong and primitive. Set two hundred thousand years ago, when the human race…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Fellini Racconta: Diary of a Film

Fellini Racconta: Diary of a Film

Fellini Racconta: Diary of a Film
IMDb: 7.2
51

A documentary made by Italian television with behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Federico Fellini’s AND THE SHIP SAILS ON and extensive interview footage of Fellini.

Genre: Documentary
Blue Rain Osaka

Blue Rain Osaka

Blue Rain Osaka
IMDb: 4.5
79

A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover.

Genre: Drama
The Wheel of Life

The Wheel of Life

The Wheel of Life
IMDb: 6.7
105

Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three shorts with the same cast of…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Body Is Willing

The Body Is Willing

The Body Is Willing
IMDb: 4.3
89

A wealthy playboy sets out to sleep with Japan’s foremost recording artist, Mari Yamasaki, despite her wishes to the contrary. Will he succeed in adding her to his list of…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Tora-san Goes Religious?

Tora-san Goes Religious?

Tora-san Goes Religious?
IMDb: 7
105

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi’s hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest’s robe delivers the memorial speech,…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Song of Love

Tora-san’s Song of Love

Tora-san’s Song of Love
IMDb: 6.4
101

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo’s (Tora-san’s nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Seventeen

Seventeen

Seventeen
IMDb: 7.6
120

In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. They are…

Genre: Documentary
The Boxer’s Omen

The Boxer’s Omen

The Boxer’s Omen
IMDb: 7
105

After his brother was crippled in the ring by a cheating Thai boxer, Chan Hung goes to Thailand to avenge his brother, and finds the key to an omen which…

Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance
IMDb: 6.6
100

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses…

Black Wax

Black Wax

Black Wax
IMDb: 7.9
79

Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently reissued on video. Interspliced between performance footage of Scott-Heron…

My Memories of Old Beijing

My Memories of Old Beijing

My Memories of Old Beijing
IMDb: 7.7
96

It is the late 1920s when six-year-old Yingzi and her family move to Beijing. As Yingzi explores the busy streets and alleys, she befriends a widow who, driven mad by…

Genre: Drama