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The Best Movies of 1983
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Movie: Scarface ( 1983 )
In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ( 1983 )
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
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Movie: The Outsiders ( 1983 )
In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.
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Movie: Never Say Never Again ( 1983 )
James Bond is called upon to try to recover nuclear bombs stolen by Spectre, but he will have to get rid of a professional assassin, hired especially to eliminate him.
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Movie: Risky Business ( 1983 )
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
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Movie: National Lampoon's Vacation ( 1983 )
The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.
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Movie: Trading Places ( 1983 )
A snobbish Wall Street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire brothers who run a brokerage house.
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Movie: Octopussy ( 1983 )
A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base.
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Movie: Flashdance ( 1983 )
An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
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Movie: WarGames ( 1983 )
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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Movie: Terms of Endearment ( 1983 )
Widow Aurora Greenway juggles her own struggles with a new romantic interest while trying to sort out the emotional problems of her daughter who's married to a philandering husband.
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Movie: Christine ( 1983 )
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
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Movie: The Dead Zone ( 1983 )
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
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Movie: The Big Chill ( 1983 )
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
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Movie: Sleepaway Camp ( 1983 )
Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.
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Movie: The Hunger ( 1983 )
A love triangle develops between a vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.
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Movie: Videodrome ( 1983 )
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
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Movie: Superman III ( 1983 )
Entrepreneur Ross Webster teams up with a computer genius in order to realise his own evil intentions. When Superman obstructs his plans, he decides to destroy him.
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Movie: The Right Stuff ( 1984 )
The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
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Movie: Twilight Zone: The Movie ( 1983 )
Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.
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Movie: The Day After ( 1983 )
The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
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Movie: Krull ( 1983 )
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet, Krull.
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Movie: Bad Boys ( 1983 )
Chicago crime kid, Mick O'Brien, is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.
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Movie: Nostalghia ( 1983 )
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
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Movie: Private School ( 1983 )
Chris from a girls' boarding school loves Jim from a nearby boys' boarding school. Jordan also wants Jim and plays dirty. Jim and two friends visit the girls' school posing as girls.
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Movie: Local Hero ( 1983 )
An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
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Movie: Cujo ( 1983 )
Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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Movie: Staying Alive ( 1983 )
Five years later, 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.
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Movie: Monty Python's the Meaning of Life ( 1983 )
The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
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Movie: Jaws 3-D ( 1983 )
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
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Movie: Sudden Impact ( 1983 )
When a woman exacts deadly revenge on the aggressors who raped her and her sister ten years earlier, Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to the case.
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Movie: Rumble Fish ( 1983 )
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
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Movie: Suburbia ( 1984 )
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society.
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Movie: Fire and Ice ( 1983 )
At the end of the ice age, an evil queen and her son are set on conquering the world using magic and warriors. The lone survivor of a crushed village fights back as does the king of Fire Keep.
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Movie: Gorky Park ( 1983 )
A Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.
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Movie: Deathstalker ( 1983 )
A lone warrior nicknamed Deathstalker is sent by a witch on a quest to find a sword, a chalice, and an amulet, two of which are held by the wicked king and sorcerer, Munkar.
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Movie: Lone Wolf McQuade ( 1983 )
After helping the local police with some horse thieves, a Texas Ranger aims at a drug lord with arms trade as well. They're interested in the same woman and they're both into martial arts.
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Movie: Valley Girl ( 1983 )
Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.
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Movie: Psycho II ( 1983 )
After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.
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Movie: All the Right Moves ( 1983 )
An ambitious young football star is trapped in a dying mill town--unless his gridiron skills can win him a way out.
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Movie: A Christmas Story ( 1983 )
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
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Movie: Brainstorm ( 1983 )
Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds. But when people involved bring their personal problems into the equation, it becomes dangerous - perhaps deadly.
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Movie: Silkwood ( 1984 )
A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
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Movie: Mr. Mom ( 1983 )
After he's suddenly laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife. She returns to the workforce, and he becomes a stay-at-home dad, and he has to take care of three young children, a job he has no clue how to do.
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Movie: Breathless ( 1983 )
When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate - but when will it end?
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Movie: Yentl ( 1984 )
A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
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Movie: Class ( 1983 )
A naive high school senior transfers to a classy prep school, and his rich roommate decides that he should lose his virginity, so he sends him to Chicago, where he meets a beautiful older woman, only to make a shocking discovery later on.
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Movie: Hercules ( 1983 )
The story of the Greek mythological figure Hercules, battling the wizard King Minos, who uses "science" in an attempt to take over the world. Hercules must stop him and rescue his princess love in the process.
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Movie: Screwballs ( 1983 )
Frolicking youth comedy about zany high school students set in the 1960s.
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Movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes ( 1983 )
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
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Movie: Uncommon Valor ( 1983 )
Ten years after his son went M.I.A. in Vietnam, U.S. Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in P.O.W. camps in Laos.
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Movie: Blue Thunder ( 1983 )
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
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Movie: BMX Bandits ( 1983 )
A trio of teen BMX enthusiasts become entangled with a group of bank robbers after discovering their cache of walkie-talkies.
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Movie: Strange Brew ( 1983 )
Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.
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Movie: Easy Money ( 1983 )
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard-living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before they get the best of him.
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Movie: Eddie and the Cruisers ( 1983 )
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.
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Movie: The Keep ( 1983 )
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
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Movie: Yellowbeard ( 1983 )
After serving two decades in prison, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) breaks out determined to recover the treasure that he buried so long ago, alongside his son, old crew, and the British Navy.
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Movie: Stroker Ace ( 1983 )
The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.
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Movie: Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 ( 1983 )
Big and Little Enos are opening a sea food restaurant. They bet Sheriff Buford T. Justice that he cannot drive from Miami to the Enos ranch in Texas in a given amount of time. If Buford loses he has to give up his badge.
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Movie: The Man with Two Brains ( 1983 )
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale whose life he saved, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go even more awry when he falls in love with a telepathic brain.
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Movie: Mortuary ( 1983 )
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.
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Movie: Spring Break ( 1983 )
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.
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Movie: 10 to Midnight ( 1983 )
An LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women.
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Movie: Star 80 ( 1984 )
A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous.
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Movie: Losin' It ( 1983 )
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.
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Movie: High Road to China ( 1983 )
Just after WW1, alcoholic American biplane pilot Patrick O'Malley is hired by Eve Tozer, the spoiled daughter of an industrialist, to locate her father, who disappeared somewhere in Asia.
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Movie: Tender Mercies ( 1983 )
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.
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Movie: Two of a Kind ( 1983 )
When God decides to destroy Earth, four angels aim to redeem mankind through a young man and woman with their own troubles.
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Movie: Sahara ( 1984 )
Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara desert.
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Movie: Project A ( 1983 )
Fighting against pirates at the turn of the 20th century, the Hong Kong navy are failing miserably. It's up to Sergeant Dragon Ma to take matters into his own hands.
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Movie: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone ( 1983 )
On a distant planet inhabited by mutants, two bounty-hunters race to rescue three Earth female captives from the clutches of an evil mutant warlord.
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Movie: Meantime ( 1986 )
When one brother gets a job from their wealthy aunt, the other becomes increasingly jealous.
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Movie: Zelig ( 1983 )
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
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Movie: Educating Rita ( 1983 )
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
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Movie: Curtains ( 1983 )
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
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Movie: The Final Terror ( 1983 )
A group of rangers go camping on unfamiliar forest grounds. All's well until the group members start getting killed by a cunning killer in the woods.
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Movie: Porky's II: The Next Day ( 1983 )
The naughty high schoolers of Angel Beach High now seek revenge on a group of KKK religious fanatics and corrupt politicians who want to shut down their Shakespeare production after they cast a Seminole transfer student in the lead.
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Movie: The Pirates of Penzance ( 1983 )
After a young man leaves a band of pirates, hilarity ensues.
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Movie: Joysticks ( 1983 )
When a top local businessman and his two bumbling nephews try to shut down the town's only video arcade, which is run by the owner's grandson, the arcade employees and patrons fight back.
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Movie: Never Cry Wolf ( 1984 )
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
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Movie: The Wicked Lady ( 1983 )
A noblewoman grows restless with her privileged life and secretly takes to robbing travelers. She partners with a dashing highwayman, but her dangerous double life threatens to expose her true identity.
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Movie: Testament ( 1984 )
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
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Movie: The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 )
During the Cold War, a controversial television journalist is asked by the C.I.A. to persuade certain acquaintances, who are Soviet Agents of the Omega network, to defect.
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Movie: Curse of the Pink Panther ( 1983 )
Ensuing after the events of Clouseau's disappearance, his bosses at the Surete put a computer into service to elect a new shrewd detective, Sleigh, who turns up just as inept as Clouseau.
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Movie: Amityville 3-D ( 1983 )
Inquisitive Reveal Magazine journalist John Baxter moves into the Amityville house in defiance of the supernatural events connected to it and finds everyone around him besieged by evil manifestations connected to a demonic presence.
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Movie: Under Fire ( 1983 )
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
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Movie: Chained Heat ( 1983 )
Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison, where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs, and staff corruption and brutality.
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Movie: To Be or Not to Be ( 1983 )
At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
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Movie: Doctor Detroit ( 1983 )
A pimp on the run trusts his prostitutes to a meek professor of literature, who accepts the challenge.
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Movie: Going Berserk ( 1983 )
A clumsy chauffeur is hypnotized by a cult to kill the father of his fiancée, a congressman who's suing the cult for fraud, and encounters several weird characters during the days leading up to his wedding.
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Movie: Still Smokin ( 1983 )
Cheech and Chong fly to the marijuana capital of the world, Amsterdam, for a film festival where they take Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds' place in a limo, suite, press conference and performance. They throw in some sketches as well.
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Movie: A Night in Heaven ( 1983 )
A married college professor begins a torrid affair with her failing student, who secretly moonlights as a late-night strip-club dancer.
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Movie: D.C. Cab ( 1983 )
The misadventures of a group of unfortunate but streetwise cabbies working for a Washington, D.C., decrepit taxicab company.
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Movie: House of the Long Shadows ( 1984 )
An American author finds a dilapidated Welsh manor perfect for writing until the residents host a bizarre family reunion.
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Movie: The Survivors ( 1983 )
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.
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Movie: Eureka ( 1983 )
In 1925, a lone and obsessed Arctic prospector Jack McCann finally strikes gold. Twenty years later, he begins spiraling out of control when his only daughter becomes engaged to a man he strongly dislikes.
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Movie: The Star Chamber ( 1983 )
Frustrated with a legal system gone haywire, a secret society of judges hires hitmen to snuff out criminals who escape courtroom justice - but one young judge questions the ethics of their vigilante system.
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Movie: The Prey ( 1983 )
Three couples go on a camping trip in the woods of southern California during the summer, where a deformed man is stalking their camp.
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Movie: Eyes of Fire ( 1983 )
A preacher is accused of adultery, and he and his followers are chased out of town. They become stranded in an isolated forest, which is haunted by the spirits of French colonists controlled by evil.