Best Drama movies of 1983

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 : Carlos Sotto Mayor, Pierre Vernier, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henry Silva,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way.

Actors : Linda Griffiths, Jo Henderson, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries,
Directors : John Sayles,

A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman,

A wealthy, but evil man named Zafar Khan, has fallen in love a girl named Salma and wants to marry her, but she and her father do not let him. Zafar is arrested for various crimes and is ...

Actors : Markku Toikka, Esko Nikkari, Aino Seppo, Hannu Lauri,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.

Actors : Damian Lau, Flora Cheung, Norman Chu, Paul Chang,
Directors : Siu-Tung Ching,

The best sword master from China vs the best sword master from Japan. Who will win?

Actors : Teimuraz Chirgadze, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Ivane Sakvarelidze, Ramaz Giorgobiani,
Directors : Eldar Shengelaia,

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Richard Crenna, Millie Perkins, Jon Voight,
Directors : Robert Lieberman,

J. P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and step-father, but now J. P. feels capable of taking them. Emotional tragedy strikes, ...

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Brooke Shields, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

Actors : Shafi Inamdar, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Ken Takakura, Masako Natsume,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ...

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.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the...

Actors : Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Faye Dunaway, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, ...

Actors : Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Princess Shizu's family is wiped out by an family of undead seeking revenge. The eight samurai can save her, but who and where are they?

Actors : Stoyan Gudev, Yordanka Stefanova, Todor Kolev, Itschak Fintzi,
Directors : Nikolai Volev,

This film is a comedy about a poor man, named Poorco. Poorco always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's.

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Raju Shrestha, Padmini Kolhapure, Naseeruddin Shah,
Directors : Bapu,

Maya, coming from poor family, is married to the affluent Dr. Anand; but she tries to commit suicide on the nuptial night. She tells Anand that she was in love with Prem whose ambition was ...

Actors : Deepti Naval, Farooq Shaikh, Naseeruddin Shah, Jalal Agha,
Directors : Sai Paranjape,

Rajaram P. Joshi (Naseeruddin Shah) is a middle-class Clerk living in a chawl in Bombay. He is secretly in love with his neighbor, Sandhya Karnik (Deepti Naval) but is unable to disclose ...

Actors : Takis Spiridakis, Dora Masklavanou, Takis Moschos, Despina Tomazani,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to ...

Actors : Joakim Schröder, Ulrika Örn, Sebastian Håkansson, Niclas Wahlgren,
Directors : Staffan Hildebrand,

Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also ...