Best Drama movies of 1983

Actors : Robby Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Cron, Jeff McCracken,
Directors : Donald Shebib,

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.

Actors : Kristjan Markersen, Erik Petersén, Axel Strøbye, Birgit Sadolin,
Directors : Rumle Hammerich,

Topper and Viggo are best friends and they live in the same house, where Viggo's father is an proprietor of a pub, called the "The Blue Sea Cat". Viggo has both his parents with him, but ...

Actors : Ming Hsu, Sylvia Chang, Terry Hu, Hou Tao Hsiao,
Directors : Edward Yang,

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Eduard Artemev, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.

Actors : Ofelia Medina, Juan José Gurrola, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook,
Directors : Paul Leduc,

The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible ...

Actors : Bonnie Bartlett, James Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Matt Clark,
Directors : Amy Holden Jones,

A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's ...

Actors : Ekaterina Yudina, Inna Churikova, Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko,
Directors : Pyotr Todorovskiy,

This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged ...

Actors : Robin Hooper, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Phillip Mawdsley,
Directors : Terence Davies,

Davies' film is divided into three segments entitled "Children", "Madonna and Child", and "Death and Transfiguartion". The segments tell the life of Robert Tucker. The first segment looks ...

Actors : Michael Callan, Pamela Hensley, Joanna Pettet, James Stacy,
Directors : William Byron Hillman,

A photographer for a men's magazine is disturbed by a recurring dream he has that he is killing his models by various gruesome means. Then he discovers that his city is being terrorized by ...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Penot, Michael York, Helen Hughes,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

The true story of Martin Gray, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust, from how he survived the German invasion, how got captured, and how he fought back with the rebels, to his life in the ...

Actors : James Van Patten, Ernest Borgnine, Lynda Day George, Richard Roundtree,
Directors : Lawrence David Foldes,

A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, ...

Actors : Gábor Fehér, Hédi Temessy, Heinrich Starhemberg, Ferenc Zenthe,

Hungary, 1943. An elderly Jewish couple, Job and Roza, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Angelo Infanti, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

Actors : Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Lou Ferrigno, Sybil Danning,

A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, ...

Actors : Bor Jeng Chen, Te-Nan Lai, Li-Yin Yang, Kuo-Feng Tseng,

Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.

Actors : Jerry Daugirda, H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia, Hoyt Axton,
Directors : H.B. Halicki,

After the attempted theft of his daughter's husband's car, LAPD Captain Gibbs declares war on master car thief Maindrian Pace, whose insurance investigation company provides the perfect ...

Actors : Jack Elam, Tim McIntire, L.Q. Jones, Mindi Miller,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

In 1861 Oregon, a mountain man and his squaw live in a cabin built on a Paiute burial site, leading to a violent dispute with the local tribe.

Actors : Professor Morono, Mark Walker, Carl Koch, Frances Raines,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

Twin sisters are implicated in a series of slasher murders. The question is, did one of them do it, did both of them do it, or did neither of them do it?

Actors : Emiliano Redondo, Helga Liné, José Antonio Ceinos, Josephine Jacqueline Jones,
Directors : Claude Mulot,

Spanish actor Jose Antonio Ceinos stars as a down-and-out sculptor, whose inspiration returns with the strange appearance of a beautiful, mysterious black muse.

Actors : Thavakalai, Unnimary, Urvashi,
Directors : Bhagyaraj,

A woman finds a husband and tries to win his love through unconventional means.