A miniature alien spacecraft lands on a Manhattan skyscraper inhabited by a drug dealer and his female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The…
Browsing: Movies 1983
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A bunch of hard-nosed Houston oil developers invade a remote fishing village in Scotland with one self-serving purpose in mind – to rip off the…
Sadism, torture, cruelty, racism and Gothic horror surface again in yet another southern military academy in The Lords of Discipline. Under those honey-drippin’ magnolias, there…
From a fact-based screenplay by David Leland (Wish You Were Here) and directed by Alan Clarke (Scum), Made In Britain is a hard-hitting drama that received huge…
Steve Martin is wacky brain surgeon Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr in this brisk comedy – He wants to leave his beautiful but evil and gold-digging wife…
When her mother died 20 years ago, Susan Walker (played as a child by Julie Christy Murray) went into what Simon (Norman Burton) the family…
In 1983, rock star David Bowie starred in two major films: as part of the love-triangle vampire drama with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon in…
Steve Hall (James Laurie) is a sprint car driver from Queensland who travels to Sydney and faces off with a gang of vicious car strippers…
The Monty Python team present a vignette-style cradle-to-grave guide to the ultimate questions; Why we’re born, why we die, and why we should know when…
Gino Condello (newcomer Vince Colosimo) is a 15-year-old Italian-Australian boy living with his migrant family in the gritty inner-city Melbourne suburb of North Fitzroy. He…
Comedy about a married couple who decide to switch roles when the husband becomes unemployed. With the wife now going out to work, the husband…
A Chicago family sets out for a two-week road trip to California and encounters every conceivable mishap along the way. Chevy Chase plays accident-prone (and…
“Good to see you, Mr Bond. Things have been awfully dull around here. Now you’re on this, I hope we’re going to have some gratuitous…
Roger Moore looked pretty long in the snout in For Your Eyes Only (1981), his previous entry in the Bond series. Miraculously, he looks younger than ever…
Successful Manhattan executive Bart Hughes (Peter Weller in his first leading role) stays behind to work in his renovated New York brownstone when his beautiful…
The Osterman Weekend is a junk movie dedicated to the destruction of as many material things as possible – not to mention human lives (which…
Director Francis Ford Coppola mishandles this film adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s novel about rival teenage gangs in Oklahoma during the 1960s (no actual time…
“It’s New Year’s Eve. Larry’s parents are at the vicarage dance, leaving Larry in charge of the house. Big mistake. Because Larry’s a party animal…
Filmed on location at Hever Castle in Kent in the Autumn of 1982 and directed by Charles Wallace, this 22-minute comedy film is set in…
The huge success of Canadian comedy Porky’s (1981) – it grossed over $110 million – convinced the main creative talents that a sequel would be…