Top Favorite Films of 1983

Directed by Bob Clark

Starring Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz, Ian Petrella, Tedde Moore, R.D. Ward, Zack Ward, Jeff Gillen, Leslie Carlson, Yano Anaya, Patty Johnson, Drew Hocevar, and Dwayne McLean

Directed by John Badham

Starring Roy Schneider, Warren Oates, Malcolm McDowell, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, Joe Santos, Paul Roebling, David Shenier, Jason Bernard, Anthony James, and James Murtaugh

Directed by John Carpenter

Starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford, Roberts Blossom, William Ostrander, Kelly Preston, Malcolm Danare and David Spielberg

Directed by Lewis Teague

Starring Dee Wallace, Danny Pinaturo, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter, Billy Jayne, Mills Watson, Sandy Ward, Jerry Hardin, Merritt Olsen, and Arthur Rosenberg

Directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam

Starring Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Carol Cleveland, Simon Jones, Patricia Quinn, Paddy Ryan, Matt Frewer, Andrew MacLachlan, Imogen Bickford Smith, and Jane Leeves

Directed by David Cronenberg

Starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen, Colleen Dewhurst, Anthony Zerbe, Nicholas Campbell, Jackie Burroughs, Leslie Carlson and William B. Davis

Directed by Carrol Ballard

Starring Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq,
Samson Jorah, Hugh Webster, Martha Ittimangaq, Tom Dahlgren and Walter Stuart

 

Directed by Harold Ramis

Starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Imogene Coco, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Eddie Bracken, Brian-Doyle Murray, Miriam Flynn, James Keach, Eugene Levy, Frank McRae, John Candy, Christie Brinkley, and Jane Krakowski

Directed by Martha Coolidge

Starring Nicholas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Micheal Bowen, Cameron Dye, Heidi Holicker, Michelle Meyrink, Tina Theberge, Richard Sanders, Colleen Camp, Lee Purcell, Fredreric Forrest, Joyce Hyser, and Steven Bauer

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Starring Patrick Swayze, C. Thomss Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Emilo Estevez, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Glenn Withrow, Michelle Meyrink, Darren Dalton, Tom Waits, Leif Garrett and Gailard Sartain

Directed by Martin Rosen

Featuring the voices of John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam, Nigel Hawthorne, Warren Mitchell, Bernard Hepton, Barbara Leigh Hunt, John Bennett, Judy Geeson, and Patrick Stewart

Directed by Richard Marquand

Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Alec Guiness, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, Sebastian Shaw, Michael Pennington, Warwick Davis, Kenneth Colley, Michael Carter, Denis Lawson, Tim Rose, Dermot Crowley, Caroline Blakiston, Jeremy Bulloch, Jack Purvis, Tony Cox, and Phil Fondacaro

Directed by Philip Kaufman

Starring Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Kim Stanley, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed, Scott Paulin, Charles Frank, Donald Moffat, Jeff Goldblum, Levon Helm, Scott Wilson, Mary Jo Deschanel, Kathy Baker, David Clennon, John P. Ryan, William Russ and Harry Shearer

Directed by Barbra Streisand

Starring Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Steven Hill, Allan Corduner, David de Keyser, Ruth Goring, Doreen Mantle, Lynda Baron, Miriam Margolyes, Jack Lynn, Ian Sears, Kerry Shale, Peter Whitman, and Derek Lyons

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Starring Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid, Nicholas Cage, Chris Penn, Tom Waits, Laurence Fishburne, William Smith, Glenn Withrow, Tracey Walter, Vincent Spano and Sofia Coppola

Directed by Jack Clayton

Stsrring Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Royal Dano, Vidal Peterson, Shawn Carson, Mary Grace Canfield, Richard Davalos, Jack Dobson, Pam Grier, Phil Fondacaro, Angelo Rossitto, and featuring voice of Arthur Hill

Directed by Martin Davidson

Starring Michael Pare, Ellen Barkin, Joe Pantoliano, Tom Berringer, Helen Schneider, Matthew Laurence, David Wilson, Michael "Tunes" Antunes, John Stockwell, Michael Toland, Roberto Lombardi, Frank Mamarak, and Frank Patton

Directed by David Cronenberg

Starring James Woods, Sonja Smiths, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, Jayne Eastwood, Lally Cadeau, Rainer Schwartz, and David Tsubochi

Directed by Burny Mattinson

Featuring the voices of Wayne Allwine, Allan Young, Hal Smith, Patricia Pattis, Will Ryan, Eddie Carroll, Dick Billingsley, and Clarence Nash

 

Directed by John Landis, Joe Dante, George Miller, and Steven Spielberg

Starring John Lithgow, Dan Akyroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Charles Hallahan, Steven Williams, Scatman Crothers, John Larroquette, Katheleen Quinlan, Jeremy Licht, Bill Mumy, Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller, Nancy Cartwright, Donna Dixon, and featuring voices of Burgess Meredith and Ron Serling

Directed by Adrian Lyne

Starring Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Kyle T. Heffner, Lee Ving, Ron Karabatos, Belinda Bauer, Cynthia Rhodes, Robert Wuhl, Liz Sagal, and Marine Jahan

Directed by Joseph Sargent

Starring Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen, Christina Raines, Dixie Lynn Royce, Lee Ving, Moon Unit Zappa, Tony Plana, Richard Masur, Veronica Cartwright, Albert Hague, Flea, William Sanderson and the voice of James Tolkan

Directed by Paul Brickman

Starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Masur, Bronsan Pinchot, Curtis Armstrong, Nicholas Pryor, Janet Carroll, Raphael Sbarge, Megan Mullally, Jason Gedrick, Anne Lockhart and Sean Penn

Directed by Brian DePalma

Starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin, Pepe Serna, Angel Salazar, Arnaldo Santana and Richard Belzer

Directed by Bob Fosse

Starring Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees, David Clennon, Josh Mostel, Liz Sheridan, Keenan Ivory Wyans, Neva Peterson, and Robert Picardo

Directed by Nicholas Meyer

Starring John Lithgow, Jason Robards, Steve Guttenberg, Jo Beth Williams, John Callum, Bibi Besch, Amy Madigan, Jeff East, Wayne Knight, Calvin Jung and Arliss Howard

Directed by Clint Eastwood

Starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Brandford Dillman, Paul Drake, Audrie Newman, Jack Thibeau, Albert Popwell, Kevyn Major Howard, Nancy Fish, Carmen Argenzino, Nancy Parsons, Camryn Manheim, and Michael Currie

Directed by John Landis

Stsrring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliot, Ralph Bellamy, Don Amche, Nicholas Guest, Giancarlo Esposito, James Eckhouse, Paul Gleason, Frank Oz, Jim Belushi, and Bill Cobb

Directed by Tony Scott

Starring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, David Bowie, Cliff DeYoung, Don Hedaya, Beth Ehlers, Rufus Collins, Suzanne Bertish, James Aubrey, Ann Magnuson, Shane Rimmer, John Pankow, Willem Dafoe, Sophie Ward, Jane Leeves and Peter Murphy

Directed by John Badham

Starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Woods, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay, Susan Davis, Joe Dorsey, Irving Metzman, Michael Ensign, Dennis Lipscomb, James Tolkan, John Spenser, Michael Madsen, Jason Bernard, Alan Blumenfeld, Jesse B. Goins, Maury Chakin, Eddie Deezen, Art LeFleur, and William H. Macy

Directed by Michael Apted

Starring William Hurt, Joanna Pacula, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Richard Griffiths, Michael Elphick, Rikki Fulton, Alexei Sayle, Ian McDiarmid, Alexander Knox, and Pat Field

Directed by Robert McKimson and Chuck Jones

Starring Mel Blanc, June Foray, and Les Tremayne

Directed by Sam Firstenberg

Starring Sho Kusogi, Keith Vitali, Virgil Frye, Arthur Roberts, Mario Gallo, Grace Oshita, Ashley Ferrare, Kane Kusogi, Don Shanks, Mel Hamilton, and Professor Toru Tankana

Directed by Lawerence Kasdan

Starring Jeff Golblum, Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams, William Hurt, Mary Kay Place, Kevin Kline, Don Galloway, James Gillis, Jon Kasdan, Meg Kasdan, and Jake Kasdan

Directed by Richard Franklin

Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Mills, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz, Hugh Gillin, Claudia Bryar, Robert Alan Browne, Lee Garlington, Chris Hendrie, Ben Hartigan, Oz Perkins, Michael Lomazwow, George Dickerson, Tom Holland, and featuring voice of Virginia Gregg

Directed by Rick Rosenthal

Starring Sean Penn, Ally Sheedy, Ray Santoni, Esai Morales, Jim Moody, Clancy Brown, Eric Gurry, Jason Gedrick, Robert Lee Rush, John Zenda, Rick Rosenthal, Robin Coleman, and Alan Ruck

Directed by Ted Kotcheff

Starring Gene Hackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Patrick Swayze, Fred Ward, Robert Stack, Reb Brown, Tim Thomerson, Harold Sylvester, Jane Kaczmarek, Todd Allen, Gail Strickland, Jan Kriska, Michael Dudikoff, Jeremy Kemp, Le Tuan, and Barrett Oliver

Directed by John Glen

Starring Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Steven Berkoff, Kabir Bedi, David Meyer, Tony Meyer, Robert Brown, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Michella Clevall, Walter Gotell, Vijjay Amritraj, Albert Moses, Geoffrey Keen, Richard LeParmentier, Jeremy Bulloch, and Dermot Crowley

Directed by Peter Yates

Starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Liam Neeson, Robbie Coltrane, Francesa Annis, Alun Armstrong, David Battley, Bernard Bresslaw, Todd Carty, Belinda Mayne, John Walsh, Andy Bradford, Bill Weston, and the voices of Lindsay Crouse, Trevor Martin, and Michael Elphick

Directed by Richard Cuipka

Starring John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Anne Ditchburn, Lynne Griffin, Sandid Currie, Lesleh Donaldson, Deborah Burgess, Michael Wincott, Maury Chaykin and William Marshall

Directed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas

Starring Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Max Von Sydow, Lynne Griffin, Paul Dooley, Angus McInneses, Douglas Campbell, Tom Harvey, Brian McConnachie, Roger Dunn, Margaret Charlotte Wilcox, and the voice of Mel Blanc

Directed by Alan Johnson

Starring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Jack Riley, George Gaynes, Ronny Graham, Lewis J. Stradlen, George Wyner, Christopher Lloyd, Jose Ferrer, Charled Durning, Tim Matheson, and Earl Boen

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

Starring Rutger Hauer, Craig T. Nelson, John Hurt, Meg Foster, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon, Helen Shaver, Cassie Yates, Burt Landcaster, Jan Triska, Buddy Joe Hooker, Merete Van Kamp, Walter Kelley, and Tim Thomerson

Directed by Michael Mann

Starring Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Robert Prosky, Alberta Watson, Jurgen Prochnow, Gabriel Byrne, William Morgan Sheppard, Wolf Kahler, Sean Baker, Rosalie Crutchley, Peter Guiness, Ralph Morse, and Bruce Payne

Directed by James L. Brooks

Starring Shirley MacLain, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow, Lisa Hart Carroll, Troy Bishop, Betty King, Huckleberry Fox, Norman Bennett, and David Wohl

Directed by Ralph L. Thomas

Starring Eric Fryer, Chris Makepeace, Rosalind Chao, Robert Duvall, Michael Zelnicker, Elva Mai Hoover, Frank Adamson, Marie McCann, R.H. Thompson, Saul Rubinek, Matt Craven, and Alf Humphries

Directed by Clive A. Smith

Featuring voices of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Don Francks, Gregory Salata, Susan Roman, Deborah Harry, Robin Zander, Catherine O'Hara, Chris Wiggins, Paul LaMat, Dan Hennessey, and Samantha Langevin

Directed by Lamont Johnson

Starring Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Michael Ironside, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marracovi, Hrant Alianak, Deborah Pratt, Aleisa Shirley, Cali Timmins, Colin Mochrie, and voice of Harold Ramis

Directed by Charles Band

Starring Jeffrey Byron, Kelly Preston, Richard Moll, Michael Preston, Tim Thomerson, R. David Smith, Larry Pennell, Marty Zagon, Mickey Fox, William Jones, Mickey Fox, Michael Cassidy, and Winston Jones

Directed by Stan Dragoti

Starring Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull, Fred Koehler, Tailesin Jaffe, Courtney White, Britney White, Ann Jillian, Jeffrey Tamor, Miriam Flynn, Christopher Lloyd, Tom Leopold, Graham Jarvis, Carolyn Seymour, Michael Alaimo, Valri Bloomfield, Michael Ensign, Doug McGrath, Edie McClurg, Patti Deutsch, Bob French, Lisa French, and Gerry Black