Best Drama movies of 1983

Actors : Cynthia Rhodes, Steve Inwood, Finola Hughes, John Travolta,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

Actors : Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, Jane Alexander, William Devane,
Directors : Lynne Littman,

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Actors : Tom Cruise, John Stockwell, Jackie Earle Haley, John P. Navin Jr.,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Set in 1965, four rowdy teenage guys travel to Tijuana, Mexico for a night of partying when they are joined by a heartbroken housewife who is in town seeking a quick divorce.

Actors : Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Actors : Judy Morris, Robert Grubb, Tom Burlinson, Richard Morgan,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

The true story of a Australian racehorse that becomes a champion with the help of a local stableboy.

Actors : Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Brian Dennehy, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

Actors : John Hurt, Dennis Hopper, Craig T. Nelson, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the C.I.A. that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country, are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security, ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

Actors : Matthew Laurance, Joe Pantoliano, Tom Berenger, Michael Paré,
Directors : Martin Davidson,

A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.

Actors : Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Steve Carver,

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably ...

Actors : Eric Gurry, Jim Moody, Reni Santoni, Sean Penn,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.

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 : Hal Holbrook, Sharon Gless, Michael Douglas, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.

Actors : Satish Shah, Ravi Baswani, Naseeruddin Shah, Bhakti Barve,
Directors : Kundan Shah,

Two friends, attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings, corruption and murder, and must fight to bring the guilty to light.

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 : Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris, Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone,
Directors : Mori Masaki,

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Robin Williams, James Wainwright, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Actors : Freddie Jones, Victor Poletti, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.