Best movies of 1983 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Carroll Baker, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner,
Directors : Alan Johnson,

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while ...

Actors : Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Actors : Dana Hill, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Wilford Leach,

This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent ...

Actors : Leo Rossi, Bruce Barlow, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...

Actors : Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Antonio Gades, Marisol,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...

Actors : Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (...

Actors : Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Mac Davis, Jackie Gleason,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Kelly McGillis, Tom Conti, Joel Fabiani,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Actors : Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

The reviewer above states that 'the entire story is told from the husband's point of view'. This is incorrect - the movie takes an objective point-of-view - the husband is not present in several of the segments.