1983 in film

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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1983 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1983[1]

Rank Title Distributor Box-office gross
1 Return of the Jedi Fox $252,583,617
2 Terms of Endearment $108,423,489
3 Flashdance Paramount $92,921,203
4 Trading Places $90,404,800
5 WarGames $79,567,667
United Artists
6 Octopussy $67,800,000
7 Sudden Impact Warner Bros. $67,642,693
8 Staying Alive Paramount $64,892,670
9 Mr. Mom Fox $64,783,827
10 Risky Business Warner Bros. $63,541,777

Events
February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New
York City.
May 25 - Return of the Jedi, the final installment in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released.
Like the previous films, it goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year.
1983 was a landmark year in film. More films have gotten an R-rating than any other year
thus far.
Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman makes her film debut.
Brainstorm, the final film of screen star Natalie Wood, is released, 2 years after her death.
October - Frank Price resigns as president of Columbia Pictures and is replaced by Guy
McElwaine.

Awards
 41st Golden Globe Awards
January 28, 1984 37th BAFTA 56th Academy
Category/Organization Awards
Awards
Musical or March 25, 1984 April 9, 1984
Drama
Comedy
Terms of Terms of
Best Film Yentl Educating Rita
Endearment Endearment
James L. Brooks

Barbra Streisand
Bill Forsyth

Best Director Terms of

Yentl Local Hero
Endearment
Tom Courtenay
Michael Caine

Michael Caine

The Dresser
Educating Rita
Robert Duvall

Best Actor Educating

Robert Duvall
Dustin Hoffman
Tender Mercies
Rita
Tender Mercies Tootsie
Shirley
Shirley MacLaine

MacLaine
Julie Walters

Best Actress Terms of

Terms of Educating Rita
Endearment
Endearment
Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson
Denholm Elliott

Best Supporting Actor Terms of

Terms of Endearment Trading Places
Endearment
Linda Hunt

Cher
Jamie Lee Curtis

Best Supporting Actress The Year of Living

Silkwood Trading Places
Dangerously
Ruth Prawer James L. Brooks

Best Screenplay,
Jhabvala
Terms of
Adapted
Heat and Dust Endearment
James L. Brooks

Terms of Endearment Paul D.

Best Screenplay, Zimmerman
Horton Foote

Original The King of Tender Mercies

Comedy
Bill Conti

The Right Stuff

Ryuichi
(film)

Giorgio Moroder
Sakamoto

Best Original Score Michel Legrand

Flashdance Merry Christmas,
and Alan and
Mr. Lawrence
Marilyn Bergman

Yentl
"Up Where We
"Flashdance...
"Flashdance... What a Feeling"
Belong"

Best Original Song What a Feeling"

Flashdance An Officer and a

Flashdance
Gentleman
Best Foreign Language Fanny and
Fanny and Alexander Danton
Film Alexander

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Ballad of Narayama ( 楢山節考, Narayama bushiko), directed by Shohei Imamura,

Japan

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard,

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ascendancy, directed by Edward Bennett, United Kingdom

The Beehive (La Colmena), directed by Mario Camus, Spain

Notable films released in 1983

United States unless stated

#
10 to Midnight, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson

A
À Nos Amours (To Our Love), directed by Maurice Pialat, starring Sandrine Bonnaire -
(France)
Adi Shankaracharya, starring Sarvadaman Banerjee, the first film to be made in Sanskrit -
(India)
All the Right Moves, starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn
Americana, directed by and starring David Carradine
Amityville 3-D, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert
Joy, Candy Clark
Among Grey Stones (Sredi serykh kamney) - (U.S.S.R.)
And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
Another Time, Another Place, starring Phyllis Logan - (U.K.)
Ardh Satya (Half Truth), directed by Govind Nihalani, starring Om Puri (Silver Lotus Award
for best actor) - (India)
Ascendancy, starring Julie Covington and Ian Charleson, winner of Golden Bear award -
(U.K.)
Austeria a.k.a. The Inn - Poland
Avtaar, directed by Mohan Kumar, starring Rajesh Khanna - (India)

B
BMX Bandits, starring Nicole Kidman - (Australia)
Baby It's You, directed by John Sayles, starring Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano
Bad Boys, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy, Clancy Brown
Le Bal (The Ball), directed by Ettore Scola - (Italy/France)
Balkan Express - (Yugoslavia)
The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama bushiko), directed by Shohei Imamura (remake of the
1958 film) - (Japan) - Palme d'Or award
Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no gen) - (Japan)
Beauty and the Beast (Skønheden og udyret) - (Denmark)
La Bestia y la Espada Magica (The Beast and the Magic Sword) - (Spain/Japan)
Betaab (Impatient), starring Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh - (India)
Betrayal, starring Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley - (U.K.)
 Better Late Than Never, starring David Niven and Art Carney
The Big Chill, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff
Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams, Don
Galloway
Bill Cosby: Himself, a stand-up comedy performance
The Black Stallion Returns, starring Kelly Reno and Teri Garr
Bloodbath at the House of Death, starring Kenny Everett - (U.K.)
Blue Thunder, directed by John Badham, starring Roy Scheider, Daniel Stern, Malcolm
McDowell, Candy Clark, Warren Oates
Born in Flames, a documentary film by Lizzie Borden
The Boys from Fengkuei (Feng gui lai de ren) - (Taiwan)
Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson and, in her final
film, Natalie Wood
Breathless, directed by Jim McBride, starring Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky
Bush Christmas, debut of Nicole Kidman - (Australia)

C
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, starring Karen Black
Careful, He Might Hear You - (Australia)
Carmen, directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
Champions, starring John Hurt - (U.K.)
Christine, directed by John Carpenter, starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra
Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Kelly Preston
A Christmas Story, directed by Bob Clark, starring Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin,
Melinda Dillon
Circle of Power, starring Yvette Mimieux and Cindy Pickett
City of Pirates (La Ville des pirates) - (France)
Class, starring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Cliff Robertson
Les Compères (Co-Dads), starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard - (France)
Confidentially Yours (Vivement Dimanche), directed by François Truffaut, starring Fanny
Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (France)
Cracking Up, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a Monty Python's short film directed by Terry Gilliam -
(U.K.)
Cross Creek, starring Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard
Curse of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards - (U.K.)
Cujo, starring Dee Wallace and Danny Pintauro

D
D.C. Cab, starring Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Gary Busey
Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
Daniel, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse,
Ellen Barkin
Danton, directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Gérard Depardieu - (France/Poland/West
Germany)
 Dark Habits (Entre tinieblas), directed by Pedro Almodóvar - (Spain)
The Day After (made for television), starring Jason Robards, Steve Guttenberg, JoBeth
Williams, John Lithgow
The Dead Zone, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Christopher Walken, Brooke
Adams, Herbert Lom, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen
Deadly Run (Mortelle randonnee), starring Michel Serrault and Isabelle Adjani - (France)
Deal of the Century, directed by William Friedkin, starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines,
Sigourney Weaver
The Death of Mario Ricci (La mort de Mario Ricci), starring Gian Maria Volonté -
(Switzerland/France)
Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle), directed by Luc Besson - (France)
Doctor Detroit, starring Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon, Fran Drescher,
Lynn Whitfield
The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?) (Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel) - (Netherlands)
The Dresser, directed by Peter Yates, starring Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay - (U.K.)
Duvar - (Turkey)

E
Easy Money, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jennifer Jason
Leigh
Eddie and the Cruisers, starring Michael Paré and Tom Berenger
Eddie Macon's Run, starring Kirk Douglas and John Schneider
Educating Rita, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters - (U.K.)
El Norte, directed by Gregory Nava - (UK/US)
El Sur (The South) - (Spain)
Entre Nous (Between Us), starring Miou-Miou and Isabelle Huppert - (France)
Eréndira, starring Irene Papas - (Mexico)
Eureka, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell,
Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci
Exposed, directed by James Toback, starring Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey
Keitel

F
The Family Game (Kazoku Gēmu), directed by Yoshimitsu Morita - (Japan)
Ferestadeh - (United States/West Germany)
Flashdance, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri
Flesh of Your Flesh (Carne de tu carne) - (Colombia)
Forbidden Relations (Visszaesök) - (Hungary)
The Fourth Man (De Vierde Man), directed by Paul Verhoeven - (Netherlands)
Funny Dirty Little War (No habrá más penas ni olvido) - (Argentina)

G
Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, starring Sônia Braga and Marcello Mastroianni - (Brazil)
Get Crazy, starring Malcolm McDowell
 Gorky Park, starring William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Joanna Pacuła, Ian Bannen, Brian Dennehy
Growing Up (Xiao Bi de gu shi) - (Taiwan)
Gunman (Mue puen) - (Thailand)

H
Heart Like a Wheel, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Bonnie Bedelia and Beau
Bridges
Heat and Dust, directed by James Ivory, starring Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi
Kapoor - (U.K.)
High Road to China, starring Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong
The Honorary Consul, starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere - (U.K.)
The Hunger, directed by Tony Scott, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan
Sarandon - (U.K.)

I
The Illusionist - (Netherlands)
In the White City (Dans la ville blanche), directed by Alain Tanner, starring Bruno Ganz -
(Switzerland)
Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Cliff DeYoung, Frances
Sternhagen, Dianne Wiest

J
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Just Let it Go, Friends), starring Naseeruddin Shah - (India)
Jaws 3-D, starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett Jr.
Un jeu brutal (A Brutal Game) - (France)

K
The Keep, directed by Michael Mann, starring Scott Glenn, Jurgen Prochnow, Alberta
Watson, Ian McKellen, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Prosky
King for a Day (Gospodin za edin den) - (Bulgaria)
The King of Comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis
Krull, directed by Peter Yates, starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Francesca Annis,
Liam Neeson - (U.K.)

L
L'Argent (Money), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
Last Year's Snow Was Falling (Padal proshlogodniy sneg) - (U.S.S.R.)
Lianna, directed by John Sayles, starring Linda Griffiths
Liquid Sky, starring Anne Carlisle
Local Hero, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster - (U.K.)
Lone Wolf McQuade, starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera
 The Lords of Discipline, starring David Keith and Mark Breland
Losin' It, starring Tom Cruise and Shelley Long
Lovesick, starring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness

M
The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
The Man in the Silk Hat (L'homme au chapeau de soie), a documentary about Max Linder -
(France)
Man of Flowers, starring Norman Kaye - (Australia)
The Man Who Loved Women, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Burt Reynolds, Julie
Andrews, Marilu Henner, Kim Basinger
The Man with Two Brains, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Kathleen
Turner
Mandi, directed by Shyam Benegal - (India)
Moon in the Gutter, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, starring Gérard Depardieu and
Nastassja Kinski
Masoom (The Innocent), starring Naseeruddin Shah - (India)
Max Dugan Returns, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Marsha Mason, Jason Robards,
Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu), directed by Nagisa Oshima,
starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano - (Japan/U.K.)
Mickey's Christmas Carol, a featurette which brings Mickey Mouse back to cinemas for first
time since 1953
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman,
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Jones - (U.K.)
Mr. Mom, starring Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull
My Brother's Wedding, directed by Charles Burnett

N
Nankyoku Monogatari (South Pole Story) - (Japan)
Narcissus - (Canada)
Nate and Hayes, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Michael O'Keefe
National Lampoon's Vacation, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly
D'Angelo
Nešto između - (Yugoslavia)
Never Cry Wolf, starring Charles Martin Smith and Brian Dennehy
Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery (as James Bond) with Barbara Carrera, Kim
Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer - (U.K.)
A Night in Heaven, starring Christopher Atkins and Lesley Ann Warren
Nightmares, starring Cristina Raines and Emilio Estevez
Nostalghia, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R./Italy)

O
 Octopussy, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond) with Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan -
(U.K.)
Of Unknown Origin, starring Peter Weller - (United States/Canada)
One Deadly Summer (L'été meurtrier), starring Isabelle Adjani - (France)
The Osterman Weekend, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Rutger Hauer, John Hurt,
Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver, Burt Lancaster, Dennis Hopper,
Chris Sarandon
The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon,
Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Leif
Garrett

P
Pauline at the Beach (Pauline à la plage), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
Phar Lap, starring Tom Burlinson - (Australia)
The Pirates of Penzance, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, starring Kevin Kline, Rex Smith,
Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt - (US/UK)
The Ploughman's Lunch, starring Jonathan Pryce - (U.K.)
Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France) - Golden
Lion award
The Prey, starring Debbie Thureson and Steve Bond
Private School, starring Phoebe Cates, Matthew Modine, Betsy Russell, Ray Walston
Project A (A Gai Wak), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
Psycho II, directed by Richard Franklin, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly and
Robert Loggia

R
Rebetiko - (Greece)
Return of the Jedi, directed by Richard Marquand, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford,
Carrie Fisher
Reuben, Reuben, starring Tom Conti and Kelly McGillis
The Right Stuff, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris,
Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Hershey, Pamela Reed
Risky Business, directed by Paul Brickman, starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay
Rock & Rule, an animated rock musical - (Canada)
Romantic Comedy, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen
Rumble Fish, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane
Lane, Vincent Spano, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper
Running Brave, starring Robby Benson

S
Sagara Sangamam (The Confluence) - (India)
Sadma (Trauma) - (India)
Sahara, starring Brooke Shields and Horst Buchholz
Sans Soleil (Sunless), directed by Chris Marker - (France)
 A Season in Hakkari (Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim) - (Turkey)
Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
The Scarlet and the Black, directed by Jerry London, starring Gregory Peck, Christopher
Plummer, John Gielgud
Sheer Madness (Heller Wahn), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Hanna Schygulla
- (West Germany)
Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Sleepaway Camp, starring Mike Kellin
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, starring Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed
So Long, Stooge (Tchao Pantin), directed by Claude Berri - (France)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, directed by Lamont Johnson, starring
Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald
Star 80, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts
The Star Chamber, starring Michael Douglas and Hal Holbrook
Staying Alive, directed by Sylvester Stallone, starring John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola
Hughes
The Sting II, starring Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed, Teri Garr
Strange Brew, starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas - (Canada)
Strange Invaders, starring Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid
Stray Dogs (Deulgae) - (South Korea)
Streamers, starring Matthew Modine and David Alan Grier
Stroker Ace, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Jim Nabors,
Ned Beatty, Parker Stevenson
Sudden Impact, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke
Sugar Cane Alley (Rue Cases-Negres) - (France/Martinique)
Superman III, directed by Richard Lester, starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor,
Annette O'Toole, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn
The Survivors, starring Walter Matthau and Robin Williams
Sweet Bunch, directed by Nikos Nikolaidis - (Greece)

T
Table for Five, starring Jon Voight, Marie-Christine Barrault, Richard Crenna, Millie Perkins,
Roxana Zal
Tender Mercies, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty
Buckley, Ellen Barkin
Terms of Endearment, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra
Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow
Testament, starring Jane Alexander, William Devane, Leon Ames, Roxana Zal
The Thorn Birds, TV miniseries, starring Rachel Ward, Richard Chamberlain, Bryan Brown,
Christopher Plummer, Barbara Stanwyck
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Les Trois couronnes du matelot) - (France)
Tight Quarters (Könnyű testi sértés) - (Hungary)
To Be or Not to Be, starring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning,
José Ferrer
 Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (The Little Girl who Conquered Time) - (Japan)
Tough Enough, starring Dennis Quaid, Warren Oates, Stan Shaw
Trading Places, directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee
Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Trenchcoat, starring Margot Kidder and Robert Hays
Twenty Years of African Cinema a.k.a. Caméra d'Afrique - (Tunisia)
Twilight Zone: The Movie, segments directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante
and George Miller, starring Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan, John Lithgow
Twice Upon a Time
Two of a Kind, directed by John Herzfeld, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

U
Uncommon Valor, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Robert
Stack, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Patrick Swayze
Under Fire, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna
Cassidy
Utu - (New Zealand)

V
Valley Girl, starring Deborah Foreman and Nicolas Cage
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne) - (Czechoslovakia)
Videodrome, starring James Woods and Deborah Harry - (Canada)
Vigilante, starring Robert Forster
Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (Love by Request) - (U.S.S.R.)
Voyage in Time (Tempo di Viaggio), directed by Tonino Guerra and Andrei Tarkovsky - (Italy)

W
Walking, Walking (Cammina, cammina), directed by Ermanno Olmi - (Italy)
WarGames, directed by John Badham, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Ally
Sheedy
Wartime Romance (Voenno-polevoy roman), directed by Pyotr Todorovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
We Are from Jazz (My iz dzhaza) - (U.S.S.R.)
Wild style, directed by Charlie Ahearn.
The Wind in the Willows, starring Richard Pearson, Ian Carmichael, David Jason and
Michael Hordern - (U.K.)
The Winds of War, TV mini-series, starring Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Polly Bergen,
Peter Graves, John Houseman, Ralph Bellamy
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
Without a Trace, starring Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch
The Wounded Man (l'Homme blessé) - (France)

Y
 Yellowbeard, starring Graham Chapman and Peter Boyle - (U.K.)
Yentl, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving -
Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

Z
Zappa, directed by Bille August - (Denmark)
Zelig, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Xin shu shan jian ke), starring Sammo Hung - (Hong
Kong)

1983 Wide-release films in the U.S.

January–March
Opening Title Studio Cast and crew Genre Medium
Harry Bromley Davenport
(director/screenplay); Michel Perry,
Iain Cassie, Robert Smith
(screenplay); Philip Sayer, Bernice
New Line Stegers, Simon Nash, Maryam Live
7 Xtro Sci-Fi, Horror
Cinema d'Abo, Danny Brainin, Peter action
Mandell, David Cardy, Anna Wing,
Robert Fyfe, Katherine Best,
Robert Pereno, Sean Crawford, Tim
Dry, Arthur Whybrow, Susie Silvey
John Sayles (director/screenplay);
Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon
DeVries, Jo Henderson, Jessica
MacDonald, Jesse Solomon, John
United Artists Live
18 Lianna Sayles, Stephen Mendillo, Betsy Drama
Classics action
Julia Robinson, Nancy Mette,
Maggie Renzi, Madelyn Coleman,
J
Robyn Reeves, Chris Elliott, Marta
A
Renzi, Rochelle Oliver
N

U
Mark Rosman
A
(director/screenplay); Bobby Fine
R
Artists (screenplay); Kathryn McNeil,
Y Releasing Eileen Davidson, Lois Kelso Hunt,
The House on Live
Corporation / Robin Meloy, Harley Kozak, Slasher
Sorority Row action
Film Ventures Michael Sergio, Christopher
International Lawrence, Janis Zido, Jodi Draigie,
Ellen Dorsher, Michael Kuhn,
21 Charles Serio, Ruth Walsh
Ferdinando Baldi (director); Lloyd
Battista, Jim Bryce, Jerry Lazarus
(screenplay); Tony Anthony, Ana
Treasure of the Cannon Film Action, Live
Obregón, Gene Quintano, Jerry
Four Crowns Distributors Adventure action
Lazarus, Francisco Rabal, Emiliano
Redondo, Francisco Villena, Lewis
Gordon
Charles B. Pierce
Pacific
(director/screenplay); Tim McIntire, Drama, Live
28 Sacred Ground International
L.Q. Jones, Jack Elam, Mindi Western action
Enterprises
Miller, Eloy Casados
F 4 Sidney J. Furie (director); Frank De
E
Felitta (screenplay); Barbara
B
Hershey, Ron Silver, David
R
20th Century Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Live
The Entity Horror
U
Fox Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, Michael action
A
Alldredge, Alex Rocco, Allan Rich,
R
Richard Brestoff, Raymond Singer,
Y Natasha Ryan, Melanie Gaffin
David Cronenberg
(director/screenplay); James
Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja
Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie
Universal Live
Videodrome Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Sci-Fi, Horror
Pictures action
Gorman, Julie Khaner, David Bolt,
Reiner Schwarz, Lally Cadeau,
King Cosmos, Kay Hawtrey, David
Tsubouchi
Without a Trace 20th Century Stanley R. Jaffe (director); Beth Drama Live
Fox Gutcheon (screenplay); Kate action
Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David
 Dukes, Stockard Channing, Danny
Corkill, Louise Stubbs, Keith
McDermott, David Simon
Hal Ashby (director); Mick Jagger,
Let's Spend the Northstar Live
11 Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Documentary
Night Together Media action
Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman
18 Martin Scorsese (director); Paul D.
Zimmerman (screenplay); Robert
De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra
Bernhard, Diahnne Abbott, Shelley
Hack, Margo Winkler, Kim Chan,
20th Century
Frederick De Cordova, Edgar Satire, Black
The King of Fox / Embassy Live
Scherick, Ed Herlihy, Tony Randall, Comedy,
Comedy International action
Victor Borge, Joyce Brothers, Drama
Pictures
Catherine Scorsese, Cathy
Scorsese, Martin Scorsese,
Charles Scorsese, The Clash,
Kosmo Vinyl, Ellen Foley, Don
Letts, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Bill Forsyth (director/screenplay);
Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson,
Fulton Mackay, Burt Lancaster,
Norman Chancer, Peter Capaldi,
Comedy, Live
Local Hero Warner Bros. Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Jenny
Drama action
Seagrove, Jennifer Black,
Christopher Rozycki, Christopher
Asante, John Gordon Sinclair,
Caroline Guthrie, John M. Jackson
Marshall Brickman
(director/screenplay); Dudley
Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, John
Warner Bros. / Huston, Alec Guinness, Wallace
Romance, Live
Lovesick The Ladd Shawn, Ron Silver, Alan King,
Comedy action
Company Selma Diamond, Larry Rivers,
David Strathairn, Christine
Baranski, Renée Taylor, Fred
Melamed
Wilford Leach (director/screenplay);
Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury,
Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, Rex Romance,
The Pirates of Universal Live
Smith, Tony Azito, David Hatton, Musical,
Penzance Pictures action
Louise Gold, Teresa Codling, Tilly Comedy
Vosburgh, Stephen Hanan,
Alexandra Korey, Marcie Shaw
Jeremy Paul Kagan (director);
David S. Ward (screenplay); Jackie
Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr,
Karl Malden, Oliver Reed, Ron
Rifkin, José Pérez, Val Avery,
Michael D. Aldredge, John
Universal Live
The Sting II Hancock, Larry Hankin, Bert Comedy
Pictures action
Remsen, Tim Rossovich, Harry
James, Woody Parfrey, Max
Wright, Benny Baker, Frances
Bergen, Larry Bishop, Danny
Dayton, Tony Giorgio, Carl Gottlieb,
Bob Minor
Table for Five Warner Bros. / Robert Lieberman (director); David Drama Live
CBS Theatrical Seltzer (screenplay); Jon Voight, action
Films Marie-Christine Barrault, Millie
Perkins, Richard Crenna, Roxana
 Zal, Robby Kiger, Son Hoang Bui,
Maria O'Brien, Nelson Welch,
Bernie Hern, Moria Turner, Kevin
Costner, Cynthia Kania, Marion
Russell, Gustaf Unger
David Jones (director); Harold
20th Century Pinter (screenplay); Jeremy Irons, Live
20 Betrayal Drama
Fox Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge, Avril action
Elgar
M
John Sayles (director/screenplay);
A
Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano,
R
Joanna Merlin, Leora Dana, Bill
C
Raymond, Sam McMurray, Liane
H Paramount Curtis, Fisher Stevens, Tracy Comedy, Live
Baby It's You
Pictures Pollan, Matthew Modine, Robert Drama action
Downey Jr., Jack Davidson, Nick
Ferrari, Dolores Messina, Claudia
Sherman, Marta Kober, Rachel
Dretzin, Susan Derendorf
Richard Ciupka (director); Robert
Guza, Jr. (screenplay); John
Vernon, Linda Thorson, Samantha
Jensen Farley Eggar, Anne Ditchburn, Lynne Live
Curtains Slasher
Pictures Griffin, Lesleh Donaldson, Michael action
Wincott, Maury Chaykin, Booth
4 Savage, Sandee Currie, Deborah
Burgess
George Bowers (director); Joe
Roberts (screenplay); Caren Kaye,
Matt Lattanzi, Kevin McCarthy,
Crown
Bruce Bauer, Clark Brandon, Arlene Live
My Tutor International Comedy
Golonka, Crispin Glover, Jewel action
Pictures
Shepard, John Vargas, Amber
Denyse Austin, Maria Melendez,
Graem McGavin
Bruce Beresford (director); Horton
Universal Foote (screenplay); Robert Duvall,
Pictures / Tess Harper, Betty Buckley,
Live
Tender Mercies Associated Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Allan Drama
action
Film Hubbard, Lenny Von Dohlen, Paul
Distribution Gleason, Michael Crabtree,
Norman Bennett
J. Lee Thompson
(director/screenplay); William
Roberts (screenplay); Charles
Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew
Crime,
Stevens, Gene Davis, Geoffrey Live
10 to Midnight Cannon Films Horror,
Lewis, Wilford Brimley, Robert F. action
Thriller
Lyons, Bert Williams, Ola Ray,
Kelly Preston, Cosie Costa, Jeana
Tomasina, June Gilbert, Sam Chew
11 Jr., Larry Caruso, Anne Lockhart
Michael Tuchner (director); Jeffrey
Price, Peter S. Seaman
(screenplay); Margot Kidder, Robert
Buena Vista Hays, David Suchet, Gila von Action, Live
Trenchcoat
Distribution Weitershausen, Ronald Lacey, Comedy action
John Justin, Leopoldo Trieste,
Jennifer Darling, Kevork Malikyan,
Vic Tablian, Daniel Faraldo
18 High Road to Warner Bros. / Brian G. Hutton (director); Sandra Adventure, Live
China Umbrella Weintraub, S. Lee Pogostin Romance action
Entertainment (screenplay); Tom Selleck, Bess
Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford
Brimley, Robert Morley, Brian
Blessed, Cassandra Gava, Michael
Sheard, Lynda La Plante, Terry
Richards, Robert Lee, Jeremy
Child, Dino Shafeek, Anthony
Chinn, Timothy Bateson, Wolf
Kahler, Ric Young, Simon Prebble,
Timothy Carlton, Sime Jagarinac,
Domagoj Vukusic, Peggy Sirr,
Shayur Mehta, Peter Llewellyn
Williams, Hai Ching Lim, Chua
Kahjoo, Zdenka Hersak, Marc
Boyle, Kim Rook Teoh, Daniel
Clucas, John Higginson
Jeff Kanew (director/screenplay);
Kirk Douglas, John Schneider, Lee
Purcell, Lisa Dunsheath, Leah
Ayres, Tom Noonan, J.C. Quinn,
Action,
Eddie Macon's Universal Gil Rogers, Jay O. Sanders, Todd Live
23 Thriller,
Run Pictures Allen, Nesbitt Blaisdell, Susan action
Drama
Bongard, Matthew Cowles, Vic
Polizos, Bill DeWeese, John
Goodman, Mark Margolis, J.T.
Walsh, Dann Florek
25 Rick Rosenthal (director); Richard
Universal Di Lello (screenplay); Sean Penn,
Pictures / Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy, Reni Coming-of-
Live
Bad Boys Associated Santoni, Eric Gurry, Jim Moody, Age, Crime,
action
Film Clancy Brown, Robert Lee Rush, Drama
Distribution John Zenda, Alan Ruck, Rick
Rosenthal
Robert Dalva (director); Jerome
Kass, Richard Kletter (screenplay);
MGM/UA
The Black Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Allen Adventure, Live
Entertainment
Stallion Returns Garfield, Woody Strode, Ferdy Family action
Company
Mayne, Jodi Thelen, Teri Garr,
Hoyt Axton, Cass Ole, El Mokhtar
Herbert Ross (director); Neil Simon
(screenplay); Marsha Mason,
Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland,
Max Dugan 20th Century Comedy, Live
Matthew Broderick, Dody
Returns Fox Drama action
Goodman, Sal Viscuso, Panchito
Gomez, Charley Lau, Kiefer
Sutherland
Francis Ford Coppola (director);
Kathleen Rowell (screenplay); C.
Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph
Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob
Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Coming-of- Live
The Outsiders Warner Bros.
Tom Cruise, Leif Garrett, Glenn Age, Drama action
Withrow, Darren Dalton, Michelle
Meyrink, Tom Waits, William
Smith, Nicolas Cage, Flea, Melanie
Griffith, Trey Callaway
Spring Break Columbia Sean S. Cunningham (director); Comedy Live
Pictures David Smilow (screenplay); David action
Knell, Perry Lang, Paul Land,
Steve Bassett, Jayne Modean,
 Corinne Wahl, Donald Symington,
Mimi Cozzens, Richard B. Shull,
Jessica James, Daniel Faraldo,
Fred Buch, Jeff Garlin, Tammy
Lynn Leppert
Richard Fleischer (director); John
Leone (screenplay); Dennis Quaid,
Romance,
20th Century Stan Shaw, Carlene Watkins, Pam Live
Tough Enough Drama,
Fox Grier, Warren Oates, Wilford action
Sports
Brimley, Steve "Monk" Miller, Big
John Hamilton
Daryl Duke (director); Carmen
Culver, Lee Stanley (screenplay);
Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward,
ABC / Warner Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher
Bros. Plummer, Jean Simmons, Bryan
Television Brown, Philip Anglim, Richard
Distribution / Kiley, Piper Laurie, Mare
Drama, Live
27 The Thorn Birds David Wolper- Winningham, Ken Howard, John
Romance action
Stan Margulies Friedrich, Dwier Brown, Earl
Productions / Holliman, Brett Cullen, Stephen W.
Edward Lewis Burns, Barry Corbin, Holly Palance,
Productions John de Lancie, Allyn Ann McLerie,
Richard Venture, Stephanie Faracy,
Antoinette Bower, Sydney Penny,
Vidal Peterson
Terry Jones (director); Monty
Python (screenplay); Graham
Chapman, John Cleese, Terry
Monty Python's Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones,
Universal Musical, Live
31 The Meaning of Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland,
Pictures Comedy action
Life Simon Jones, Patricia Quinn, Judy
Loe, Matt Frewer, John Scott
Martin, Andrew Bicknell, Mark
Holmes, Valerie Whittington

April–June
Opening Title Studio Cast and crew Genre Medium
A
Jonathan Kaplan (director); Ken
P
Friedman, David E. Peckinpah
R
(screenplay); Bonnie Bedelia,
Heart Like a Live
I 20th Century Fox Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Hoyt Biography
Wheel action
L Axton, Bill McKinney, Anthony
Edwards, Tiffany Brisette,
1 Leonard Termo
Rafal Zielinski (director); Linda
Shayne, Jim Wynorski
New World Teen, Live
Screwballs (screenplay); Peter Keleghan,
Pictures Comedy action
Lynda Speciale, Linda Shayne,
Kent Deuters
Lucio Fulci (director); Gino
Clemi Capone, Carlos Vasallo, Jose
Cinematgorafica Antonio de la Loma (screenplay);
Live
6 Conquest / Golden Sun Andrea Occhipinti, Jorge Rivero, Fantasy
action
Producciones Conrado San Martin, Sabrina
Esme Siani, José Gras Palau, Violeta
Cela, Gioia Maria Scola
Adrian Lyne (director); Tom
Hedley, Joe Eszterhas
(screenplay); Jennifer Beals,
Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny
Johnson, Kyle T. Heffner, Lee
Paramount Ving, Ron Karabatsos, Belinda Romance, Live
11 Flashdance
Pictures Bauer, Malcolm Danare, Phil Drama action
Bruns, Micole Mercurio, Lucy Lee
Flippin, Don Brockett, Cynthia
Rhodes, Durga McBroom, Liz
Sagal, Marine Jahan, Stacey
Pickren, Bob Harks, Jumbo Red
Slava Tsukerman
(director/screenplay); Anne
Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova
(screenplay); Anne Carlisle,
Cinevista / Media Paula E. Sheppard, Susan
Live
Liquid Sky Home Doukas, Otto von Wernherr, Bob Sci-Fi
action
Entertainment Brady, Elaine C. Grove, Stanley
Knap, Jack Adalist, Lloyd Ziff,
Harry Lum, Roy MacArthur, Sara
Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Alan
15 Preston, Christine Hatfull
Steve Carver (director); H. Kaye
Dyal, B.J. Nelson (screenplay);
Chuck Norris, David Carradine,
Barbara Carrera, Leon Isaac
Lone Wolf Western, Live
Orion Pictures Kennedy, L.Q. Jones, Robert
McQuade Action action
Beltran, Dana Kimmell, R.G.
Armstrong, Sharon Farrell,
William Sanderson, Jorge
Cervera Jr., Daniel Frishman
22 James Toback
(director/screenplay); Nastassja
MGM/UA Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey
Entertainment Keitel, Ian McShane, Bibi Live
Exposed Drama
Company / Andersson, Ron Randell, Pierre action
United Artists Clémenti, James Russo, Tony
Sirico, James Toback, Amy
Steel, Janice Dickinson, Iman
 The Deadly 21st Century Douglas McKeown Sci-Fi, Horror Live
Spawn Film Corporation (director/screenplay); Charles action
George Hildebrandt, Tom
DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter,
Jean Tafler, Karen Tighe, James
Brewster, Elissa Neil, Ethel
Michelson, John Schmerling
Curtis Hanson (director); Bill L.
Embassy
Norton (screenplay); Tom Cruise,
Pictures
Jackie Earle Haley, John
Corporation /
Stockwell, Shelley Long, John P. Live
Losin' It Tiberius Film Comedy
Navin Jr., Henry Darrow, Hector action
Productions /
Elias, Mario Marcelino, John
Tijuana
Valby, Rick Rossovich, Kale
Productions
Browne, Santos Morales
Tony Scott (director); Ivan Davis,
Michael Thomas (screenplay);
Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie,
MGM/UA Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young,
Live
The Hunger Entertainment Dan Hedaya, Beth Ehlers, Rufus Horror
action
Co. Collins, Willem Dafoe, John
Pankow, John Stephen Hill, Ann
Magnuson, James Aubrey,
Bauhaus, Bessie Love
Jack Clayton (director); Ray
Bradbury (screenplay); Jason
Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane
Buena Vista
Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano,
Distribution /
Something Vidal Peterson, Arthur Hill,
Walt Disney Fantasy, Live
29 Wicked This Shawn Carson, Mary Grace
Productions / Horror action
Way Comes Canfield, Richard Davalos, Jack
The Bryna
Dodson, Bruce M. Fischer, Jack
Company
Dengel, Ellen Geer, James
Stacy, Angelo Rossitto, Sharan
Lea, Tony Christopher
Martha Coolidge (director);
Wayne Crawford, Andrew Lane
(screenplay); Nicolas Cage,
Atlantic Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Teen,
Live
Valley Girl Releasing / Daily, Heidi Holicker, Michael Romance,
action
Valley 9000 Bowen, Cameron Dye, Michelle Comedy
Meyrink, Lee Purcell, Richard
Sanders, Colleen Camp, Frederic
Forrest, Joyce Hyser
M
1 Andrew Davis (director); Jon
A
George, Neill D. Hicks, Ronald
Y Shusett (screenplay); Rachel
Ward, Daryl Hannah, Adrian
Zmed, John Friedrich, Mark
Comworld Live
The Final Terror Metcalf, Joe Pantoliano, Akosua Slasher
Pictures action
Busia, Lewis Smith, Jim Youngs,
Ernest Harden Jr., Cindy Harrell,
Irene Sanders, Richard Jacobs,
Donna Pinder, Lori Lee Butler,
Tony Maccario
V NBC / Warner Kenneth Johnson Sci-Fi Live
Bros. Television / (director/screenplay); Jane action
Kenneth Johnson Badler, Frank Ashmore, Bonnie
Productions Bartlett, Diane Cary, Michael
Durrell, Robert Englund, Faye
Grant, Richard Herd, Richard
Lawson, Peter Nelson, David
 Packer, Neva Patterson, Andrew
Prine, Marc Singer, Jenny
Sullivan, Blair Tefkin, Penelope
Windust, Michael Wright, Jason
Bernard, Viveka Davis, Leonardo
Cimino, George Morfogen,
Camila Ashland, Hansford Rowe,
Evan C. Kim, Rafael Campos,
William Russ, Stack Pierce, Eric
Johnston, Jenny Neumann, Greta
Blackburn
Tommy Chong
Paramount (director/screenplay); Cheech Live
Still Smokin Comedy
Pictures Marin (screenplay); Cheech action
Marin, Tommy Chong
Michael Pressman (director);
Bruce Jay Friedman, Carl
Gottlieb, Robert Boris
(screenplay); Dan Aykroyd,
6 Howard Hesseman, George
Universal Furth, James Brown, T.K. Carter,
Studios / Donna Dixon, Fran Drescher, Live
Doctor Detroit Comedy
Brillstein Lydia Lei, Lynn Whitfield, Kate action
Company Murtagh, Nan Martin, Peter
Aykroyd, Glenne Headly, Robert
Cornthwaite, Parley Baer, John
Kapelos, Steven Williams,
Andrew Duggan, Blackie
Dammett, Cacey Kustosz
John Badham (director); Dan
O'Bannon, Don Jakoby
(screenplay); Roy Scheider,
Warren Oates, Candy Clark,
Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell,
Columbia Action, Live
13 Blue Thunder Joe Santos, Paul Roebling, David
Pictures / Rastar Thriller action
Sheiner, Anthony James, Ed
Bernard, Jason Bernard, Mario
Machado, Jack Murdock, James
Murtaugh, Pat McNamara,
Clifford A. Pellow, Robin Braxton
Robert Clouse (director); Charles
H. Eglee, James Herbert
Warner Bros. / (screenplay); Sam Groom, Live
16 Deadly Eyes Horror
Golden Harvest Scatman Crothers, Sara action
Botsford, Cec Linder, Lisa
Langlois, Lesleh Donaldson
Andrei Tarkovsky
Gaumont / RAI 2 (director/screenplay); Tonino
/ Gaumont Italia / Guerra (screenplay); Oleg
Live
17 Nostalghia Grange Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Drama
action
Communications, Domiziana Giordano, Delia
Inc. / Sovinfilm Boccardo, Patrizia Terreno, Laura
De Marchi
18 Moon in the Jean-Jacques Beineix Drama Live
Gutter (director/screenplay); Olivier action
Mergault, David Goodis
(screenplay); Gérard Depardieu,
Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril,
Bertice Reading, Gabriel Monnet,
Dominique Pinon, Milena
Vukotic, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Bernard Farcy, Anne-Marie
 Coffinet, Katya Berger, Jacques
Herlin, Guido Alberti
Bill Cosby: 20th Century Fox Bill Cosby (director/screenplay); Stand-up Live
Himself / Jemmin, Inc. Bill Cosby comedy action
MGM/UA Nicolas Roeg (director); Paul
Entertainment Mayersberg (screenplay); Gene
Company / Hackman, Theresa Russell,
Recorded Picture Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Live
Eureka Drama
Company / JF Mickey Rourke, Ed Lauter, Joe action
Productions / Pesci, Joe Spinell, James
Sunley Faulkner, Corin Redgrave, Helena
Productions Kallianiotes
Michael Campus (director);
Cinerama Robert J. Poole (screenplay);
20 The Mack (re- Live
Releasing Max Julien, Richard Pryor, Carol Blaxploitation
release) action
Corporation Speed, Roger E. Mosley, George
Murdock
Lamont Johnson (director); David
Preston, Edith Rey, Daniel
Goldberg, Len Blum (screenplay);
Spacehunter: Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald,
Adventures in Columbia Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside, Space Live
the Forbidden Pictures Andrea Marcovicci, Beeson Western action
Zone Carroll, Hrant Alianak, Deborah
Pratt, Aleisa Shirley, Cali
Timmins, Reggie Bennett, Harold
Ramis
Richard Marquand (director);
Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
(screenplay); Mark Hamill,
Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy
Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels,
David Prowse, James Earl
Jones, Ian McDiarmid, Kenny
Baker, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz,
Alec Guinness, Sebastian Shaw,
Michael Pennington, Kenneth
Return of the 20th Century Fox Colley, Michael Carter, Denis Sci-Fi, Live
25
Jedi / Lucasfilm Lawson, Tim Rose, Dermot Fantasy action
Crowley, Caroline Blakiston,
Warwick Davis, Jeremy Bulloch,
Femi Taylor, Annie Arbogast,
Jack Purvis, Mike Edmonds,
Jane Busby, Nicki Reade, Debbie
Carrington, Sadie Corre, Tony
Cox, Phil Fondacaro, Ben Burtt,
Richard Marquand, Mike Quinn,
Deep Roy, Phil Tippett, Larry
Ward, Robert Watts
Paul Nicholas
(director/screenplay); Aaron
Jensen Farley Butler (screenplay); Linda Blair,
Pictures / John Vernon, Sybil Danning,
Live
27 Chained Heat Intercontinental / Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Exploitation
action
TAT Sharon Hughes, Henry Silva, Edy
Filmproduktion Williams, Nita Talbot, Louisa
Moritz, Michael Callan, Greta
Blackburn, Kate Vernon
J
3 The Man with Warner Bros. / Carl Reiner (director/screenplay); Sci-Fi, Live
U
Two Brains Aspen Film Steve Martin, George Gipe Comedy action
Society (screenplay); Steve Martin,
N
Kathleen Turner, David Warner,
E Paul Benedict, George Furth,
Peter Hobbs, Earl Boen, Randi
Brooks, James Cromwell, Frank
McCarthy, Estelle Reiner, Merv
Griffin, Jeffrey Combs, Sissy
Spacek
Richard Franklin (director); Tom
Holland (screenplay); Anthony
Universal Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly,
Live
Psycho II Pictures / Oak Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz, Slasher
action
Industries Hugh Gillin, Robert Alan Browne,
Claudia Bryar, Ben Hartigan, Lee
Garlington, Jill Caroll
John Badham (director);
Lawrence Lasker, Walter F.
Parkes (screenplay); Matthew
Broderick, Dabney Coleman,
John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry
MGM/UA
Corbin, Juanin Clay, Dennis
Entertainment
Lipscomb, Michael Ensign,
Company / Sci-Fi, Live
WarGames William Bogert, John Spencer,
United Artists / Thriller action
Michael Madsen, Alan
Sherwood
Blumenfeld, Maury Chaykin,
Productions
Eddie Deezen, Art LaFleur, Stack
Pierce, Stephen Lee, Jesse
Goins, James Tolkan, Joe
Dorsey, Susan Davis, Irving
Metzman, James Ackerman
John Landis (director); Timothy
Harris, Herschel Weingrod
(screenplay); Dan Aykroyd, Eddie
Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don
Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie
Lee Curtis, Kristin Holby, Paul
Paramount Live
8 Trading Places Gleason, Robert Curtis Brown, Comedy
Pictures action
Alfred Drake, Jim Belushi, Bo
Diddley, Kelly Curtis, Frank Oz,
Richard Hunt, Tom Davis, Al
Franken, Ron Taylor, J.T. Turner,
Giancarlo Esposito, Avon Long,
Don McLeod
John Glen (director); George
MacDonald Fraser, Richard
Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson
(screenplay); Roger Moore, Maud
Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina
United Wayborn, Kabir Bedi, Steven
International Berkoff, David Meyer, Anthony
Live
10 Octopussy Pictures / United Meyer, Desmond Llewelyn, Spy
action
Artists / Eon Robert Brown, Lois Maxwell,
Productions Michaela Clavell, Walter Gotell,
Vijay Amritraj, Geoffrey Keen,
Douglas Wilmer, Albert Moses,
Paul Hardwick, Eva Rueber-
Staier, Peter Porteous, Andy
Bradford, Gary Russell
17 Superman III Warner Bros. / Richard Lester (director); David Superhero Live
Dovemead Ltd. Newman, Leslie Newman action
(screenplay); Christopher Reeve,
Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper,
Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole,
Annie Ross, Pamela
 Stephenson, Robert Vaughn,
Margot Kidder, Gavan O'Herlihy,
Shane Rimmer, Pamela Mandell
Michael Ritchie (director);
Michael Lesson (screenplay);
Walter Matthau, Robin Williams,
Columbia Jerry Reed, Kristen Vigard, Live
22 The Survivors Comedy
Pictures James Wainwright, Skipp Lynch, action
Annie McEnroe, John Goodman,
Marian Hailey, Joseph Carberry,
Meg Mundy, Marilyn Cooper
24 Bob Clark (director/screenplay);
Roger Swaybill, Alan Ormsby
(screenplay); Dan Monahan,
Wyatt Knight, Mark Herrier,
Roger Wilson, Cyril O'Reilly, Tony
Ganios, Kaki Hunter, Scott
Porky's II: The 20th Century Fox Colomby, Nancy Parsons, Live
Comedy
Next Day / Astral Films Joseph Runningfox, Eric action
Christmas, Bill Wiley, Edward
Winter, Ilse Earl, Cisse Cameron,
Art Hindle, Jack Mulcahy, Bill
Hindman, Mal Jones, Richard
Liberty, Fred Buch, Will
Knickerbocker
Twilight Zone: Warner Bros. John Landis Sci-Fi, Live
The Movie (director/screenplay); Steven Horror, action
Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Anthology
Miller (directors); George Clayton
Johnson, Richard Matheson,
Melissa Mathison (screenplay);
Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks,
Scatman Crothers, John Lithgow,
Vic Morrow, Kathleen Quinlan,
Doug McGrath, Charles Hallahan,
Kai Wulff, Steven Williams, Al
Leong, Stephen Bishop, Thomas
Byrd, John Larroquette, Bill
Quinn, Martin Garner, Selma
Diamond, Helen Shaw, Murray
Matheson, Peter Brocco, Priscilla
Pointer, Scott Nemes, Tanya
Fenmore, Evan Richards, Laura
Mooney, Christopher Eisenmann,
Richard Swingler, Alan Haufrect,
Cheryl Socher, Elsa Raven,
Jeremy Licht, Kevin McCarthy,
Patricia Barry, William Schallert,
Nancy Cartwright, Dick Miller,
Cherie Currie, Bill Mumy, Jeffrey
Bannister, Abbe Lane, Donna
Dixon, John Dennis Johnston,
Larry Cedar, Christina Nigra,
Eduard Franz, Jeffrey Weissman,
Rainer Peets, Sue Dugan, Debby
Porter, Annette Claudier, Joseph
Hieu, Myca Dinh Le, Renee Shin-
Yi Chen, Vincent J. Isaac, Bill
Taylor, William S. Taylor, Eddy
Donno, Michael Milgron, Norbert
Weisser, Charles Knapp, Byron
McFarland, Lana Schwab,
Margaret Wheeler, Margaret
 Fitzgerald, Carol Serling, Jeffrey
Lampert, Frank Toth
Mel Damski (director); Graham
Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard
McKenna, David Sherlock
(screenplay); Graham Chapman,
Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin,
Tommy Chong, Peter Cook,
Marty Feldman, Martin Hewitt,
Orion Pictures /
Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Live
Yellowbeard Hemdale Film Comedy
Madeline Kahn, James Mason, action
Corporation
John Cleese, Kenneth Mars,
Spike Milligan, Stacey Nelkin,
Nigel Planer, Susannah York,
Beryl Reid, Ferdy Mayne, Peter
Bull, Bernard Fox, Nigel Stock,
Monte Landis, David Bowie,
Greta Blackburn

July–September
Opening Title Studio Cast and crew Genre Medium
J
Hal Needham
U
(director/screenplay); Hugh
L Wilson (screenplay); Burt
Y Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim
Nabors, Parker Stevenson,
Loni Anderson, John Byner,
Frank O. Hill, Cassandra
Universal
Peterson, Bubba Smith, Action,
Pictures / Warner Live
1 Stroker Ace Warren Stevens, Alfie Wise, Comedy,
Bros. / Yahi action
Cary Guffey, Dale Earnhardt, Sports
Productions
Richard Petty, Neil Bonnett,
Harry Gant, Terry Labonte,
Kyle Petty, Benny Parsons,
Tim Richmond, Ricky Rudd,
Cale Yarborough, Ken Squier,
David Hobbs, Chris
Economaki
Lewis John Carlino (director);
Jim Kouf, David Greenwalt
(screenplay); Rob Lowe,
Comedy, Live
6 Class Orion Pictures Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew
Drama action
McCarthy, Cliff Robertson,
John Cusack, Alan Ruck,
Virginia Madsen
Sylvester Stallone
(director/screenplay); Norman
Wexler (screenplay); John
Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes,
Paramount
Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood, Dance, Live
Staying Alive Pictures / RSO
Julie Bovasso, Charles Ward, Musical action
Records
Norma Donaldson, Jesse
Doran, Joyce Hyser, Frank
Stallone, Kurtwood Smith,
Sylvester Stallone
Woody Allen
(director/screenplay); Woody
Allen, Mia Farrow, Mary
Louise Wilson, John Rothman,
Deborah Rush, Will Holt, Peter
McRobbie, Susan Sontag,
15 Irving Howe, Saul Bellow,
Bricktop, Dr. Bruno
Bettelheim, Professor John
Morton Blum, Charles
Lindbergh, Al Capone, Clara
Warner Bros. / Live
Zelig Bow, William Randolph Mockumentary
Orion Pictures action
Hearst, Marion Davies, Charlie
Chaplin, Josephine Baker,
Fanny Brice, Carole Lombard,
Dolores del Río, Adolf Hitler,
Joseph Goebbels, Hermann
Göring, James Cagney,
Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig,
Babe Ruth, Adolphe Menjou,
Claire Windsor, Tom Mix,
Marie Dressler, Bobby Jones,
Pope Pius XI
22 Jaws 3-D Universal Joe Alves (director); Richard Horror, Thriller Live
Pictures / Alan Matheson, Carl Gottlieb action
Landsburg (screenplay); Dennis Quaid,
Bess Armstrong, Simon
 Productions / MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett
MCA Theatricals Jr., John Putch, Lea
Thompson, P.H. Moriarty,
Kaye Stevens, Dan Blasko,
Liz Morris, Harry Grant, Lisa
Maurer
Stan Dragoti (director); John
Hughes (screenplay); Michael
Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull,
Ann Jillian, Christopher Lloyd,
20th Century Fox
Frederick Koehler, Taliesin Live
Mr. Mom / Sherwood Comedy
Jaffe, Courtney and Brittany action
Productions
White, Jeffrey Tambor,
Graham Jarvis, Miriam Flynn,
Carolyn Seymour, Patti
Deutsch
Peter Yates (director);
Stanford Sherman
(screenplay); Ken Marshall,
Lysette Anthony, Freddie
Jones, Francesca Annis,
Columbia Trevor Martin, David Battley,
Pictures / Bernard Bresslaw, Alun
Barclays Armstrong, Liam Neeson, Sci-Fi, Live
Krull
Mercantile / Robbie Coltrane, Michael Fantasy action
Industrial Elphick, Dicken Ashworth,
Finance Todd Carty, Bronco
McLoughlin, Gerard Naprous,
Andy Bradford, Bill Weston,
John Welsh, Graham
McGrath, Tony Church, Clare
McIntyre, Belinda Mayne
Harold Ramis (director); John
Hughes (screenplay); Chevy
Chase, Beverly D'Angelo,
Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid,
29 John Candy, Christie Brinkley,
Anthony Michael Hall, Dana
National
Barron, Miriam Flynn, Eddie Live
Lampoon's Warner Bros. Comedy
Bracken, Brian Doyle-Murray, action
Vacation
James Keach, Eugene Levy,
Frank McRae, Jane
Krakowski, John P. Navin Jr.,
Mickey Jones, John Diehl,
Harold Ramis, Violet Ramis,
James Staley
Noel Black (director); Dan
Greenburg, Suzanne O'Malley
(screenplay); Phoebe Cates,
Betsy Russell, Matthew
Modine, Michael Zorek, Ray
Universal Live
Private School Walston, Sylvia Kristel, Fran Teen, Comedy
Pictures action
Ryan, Kathleen Wilhoite,
Jonathan Prince, Kari Lizer,
Julie Payne, Frank Aletter,
Frances Bay, Lynda
Wiesmeier
A
5 Daffy Duck's Warner Bros. / Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe, Family, Live
U
Fantastic Island Warner Bros. Robert McKimson (directors); Comedy action
G Animation Friz Freleng
U
(director/screenplay); Mel
S
Blanc, June Foray, Les
T Tremayne
 Allan Arkush (director); Danny
Opatoshu, Henry Rosenbaum,
David Taylor (screenplay);
Malcolm McDowell, Allen
Garfield, Daniel Stern, Gail
Edwards, Ed Begley Jr., Miles
Chapin, Stacey Nelkin, Bill
Henderson, Lou Reed, Howard
Kaylan, Lori Eastside, Lee
Embassy Musical, Live
Get Crazy Ving, John Densmore, Anna
Pictures Comedy action
Bjorn, Robert Picardo, Bobby
Sherman, Fabian Forte,
Franklyn Ajaye, Paul Bartel,
Dan Frischman, Mary
Woronov, Clint Howard,
Denise Galik, Linnea Quigley,
Jackie Joseph, Dick Miller,
Chuck Hanson, Susan Saiger,
Barry Diamond
Paul Brickman
(director/screenplay); Tom
Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay,
Joe Pantoliano, Nicholas
Warner Bros. / Pryor, Janet Carroll, Richard
Live
Risky Business The Geffen Film Masur, Curtis Armstrong, Teen, Comedy
action
Company Bronson Pinchot, Shera
Danese, Raphael Sbarge,
Bruce A. Young, Kevin
Anderson, Nathan Davis, Fern
Persons, Anne Lockhart
Peter Hyams
(director/screenplay); Roderick
Taylor (screenplay); Michael
Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet
Kotto, Sharon Gless, James
20th Century Fox
The Star B. Sikking, Joe Regalbuto, Live
/ Frank Yablans Crime, Thriller
Chamber Don Calfa, David Faustino, action
Presentations
Larry Hankin, Dick Anthony
Williams, DeWayne Jessie,
David Proval, Michael Ensign,
Diana Douglas, Frances
Bergen, Robert Costanzo
John Korty, Charles Swenson
(directors/screenplay); Suella
Warner Bros. / Kennedy, Bill Couturié
Twice Upon a Korty Films / (screenplay); Lorenzo Music, Fantasy,
Animation
Time Lucasfilm / The Julie Payne, James Cranna, Comedy
Ladd Company Hamilton Camp, Marshall
Efron, Paul Frees, Judith
Kahan Kampmann
12 Lewis Teague (director); Don
Carlos Dunaway, Barbara
Warner Bros. / Turner (screenplay); Dee
Taft Wallace, Daniel Hugh-Kelly,
Live
Cujo Entertainment / Danny Pintauro, Christopher Horror
action
Sunn Classic Stone, Ed Lauter, Kaiulani
Pictures Lee, Billy Jacoby, Mills
Watson, Jerry Hardin, Sandy
Ward, Arthur Rosenberg
Curse of the MGM/UA Blake Edwards Comedy Live
Pink Panther Entertainment (director/screenplay); Geoffrey action
Company / Edwards (screenplay); Ted
 United Artists / Wass, Herbert Lom, David
Blake Edwards Niven, Robert Wagner,
Entertainment / Capucine, Robert Loggia,
Tilt Productions Joanna Lumley, André
Inc. Maranne, Burt Kwouk, Harvey
Korman, Leslie Ash, Ed
Parker, Bill Nighy, Roger
Moore, Liz Smith, Michael
Elphick, Hugh Fraser, Joe
Morton, Denise Crosby, Peter
Arne
Bruce Malmuth (director);
Stanford Sherman
(screenplay); Steve
The Man Who Paramount Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Live
Comedy
Wasn't There Pictures Art Hindle, Morgan Hart, Lisa action
Langlois, William Forsythe,
Ron Canada, Michael Ensign,
Richard Paul, Miguel Ferrer
Dick Lowry (director); Stuart
Birnbaum, David Dashev
(screenplay); Jackie Gleason,
Paul Williams, Pat
Smokey and the Universal Action, Live
McCormick, Jerry Reed, Mike
Bandit Part 3 Pictures Comedy action
Henry, Colleen Camp, Faith
Minton, Burt Reynolds, Ava
Cadell, Dick Lowry, Jackie
Davis, Raymond Forchion
Terry Marcel (director);
Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz,
Premier John Saxon, Bill Flynn, Danie
Releasing / Voges, Peter O'Farrell, Ray
Prisoners of the Fantasy, Sci- Live
15 Marcel/Robertson Charleson, Kenneth Hendel,
Lost Universe Fi, Action action
/ United Media Philip Van der Byl, Dawn
Finance Ltd. Abraham, Ron Smerczac,
Charles Comyn, Ian
Steadman, Myles Robertson
19 James Signorelli (director);
Dennis Blair, Rodney
Dangerfield, Michael Endler,
P.J. O'Rourke (screenplay);
Rodney Dangerfield, Joe
Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Live
Easy Money Orion Pictures Candy Azzara, Jennifer Jason Comedy
action
Leigh, Jeffrey Jones, Taylor
Negron, Tom Noonan, Val
Avery, Tom Ewell, Lili Haydn,
Kimberly McArthur, Jeffrey
Altman, Arch Johnson, Mary
Pat Gleason
Charles Band (director); Alan
J. Adler (screenplay); Jeffrey
Metalstorm: The Universal Byron, Mike Preston, Tim
Live
Destruction of Pictures / Arista Thomerson, Kelly Preston, Sci-Fi
action
Jared-Syn Films Richard Moll, R. David Smith,
Larry Pennel, Marty Zagon,
Mickey Fox
Yor, the Hunter Diamant Film / Antonio Margheriti Sci-Fi, Live
from the Future RAI-Radio (director/screenplay); Robert Fantasy action
Televisione Bailey (screenplay); Reb
Italiana Brown, Corinne Cléry, John
Steiner, Carole André, Ayshe
 Gul, Aytekin Akkaya, Sergio
Nicolai
Sidney Lumet (director); E.L.
Doctorow (screenplay);
Timothy Hutton, Mandy
Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse,
Edward Asner, Peter
Friedman, Lee Richardson,
Carmen Mathews, Tovah
Feldshuh, Ellen Barkin,
Amanda Plummer, Julie
Paramount Live
Daniel Bovasso, John Rubinstein, Drama
Pictures action
Colin Stinton, Maria Tucci,
Ilan M. Mitchell Smith, Will
Lee, David Margulies, Leo
Burmester, Rosetta LeNoire,
Ron McLarty, Daniel Stern,
Lee Wallace, Norman Parker,
Joseph Leon, Rita Zohar, Jena
Greco, Dael Cohen, Sonia
Zomina
Ralph Bakshi (director); Gerry
Conway, Roy Thomas
(screenplay); Susan Tyrrell,
Maggie Roswell, Steve
Sandor, Leo Gordon, James
Bridges, Nathan Purdee, Le
20th Century Fox
Tari, William Ostrander,
/ Producers Epic, Fantasy, Adult
Fire and Ice Stephen Mendel, Elizabeth
Sales Adventure animation
26 Lloyd Shaw, Micky Morton,
Organization
Clare Nono, Big Yank, Greg
Wayne Elam, Alan Koss,
Hans Howes, Shane Callan,
Archie Hamilton, Michael
Kellogg, Douglas Payton, Dale
Park, Ray Oliver
Luigi Cozzi
(director/screenplay); Lou
Ferrigno, Sybil Danning, Brad
Harris, Ingrid Anderson,
Rossana Podestà, Mirella
Sci-Fi,
Cannon Italia SrL D'Angelo, William Berger, Live
Hercules Fantasy,
/ Golan-Globus Bobby Rhodes, Gianni Garko, action
Adventure
Yehuda Efroni, Delia
Boccardo, Claudio Cassinelli,
Frank Garland, Gabriella
Giorgelli, Ralph Baldassar,
Eva Robin's
Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
(directors/screenplay); Steve
De Jarnatt (screenplay); Dave
MGM/UA Thomas, Rick Moranis, Paul
Live
Strange Brew Entertainment Dooley, Max von Sydow, Comedy
action
Co. Lynne Griffin, Angus
MacInnes, Mel Blanc, Douglas
Campbell, Tom Harvey, Len
Doncheff, Chris Benson
28 Young Warriors Cannon Home Lawrence D. Foldes Crime, Drama Live
Video / Star (director/screenplay); Russell action
Cinema W. Colgin (screenplay); Ernest
Productions / Borgnine, Richard Roundtree,
Cannon Films Lynda Day George, James
Van Patten, Anne Lockhart,
 Tom Reilly, Ed De Stefane,
Dick Shawn, Mike Norris,
Linnea Quigley
S
Enzo G. Castellari
E
(director/screenplay); Tito
P
Carpi (screenplay); Mark
T Gregory, Timothy Brent,
E
Valeria D'Obici, Henry Silva,
Escape from the Live
M
Fulvia Film Antonio Sabato, Enio Action
Bronx action
B
Girolami, Paolo Malco, Eva
E
Czemerys, Alessandro Prete,
R Moana Pozzi, Carla Brait,
Massimo Vanni, Enzo G.
Castellari
Nagisa Ōshima
(director/screenplay); Paul
Mayersberg (screenplay);
Universal David Bowie, Tom Conti,
Pictures / Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi
2 Merry
Recorded Picture Kitano, Jack Thompson, Live
Christmas, Mr. War
Company / Alistair Browning, Yuya action
Lawrence
Oshima Uchida, Rokko Toura, Kan
Productions Mikami, Hideo Murota, Johnny
Okura, James Malcolm,
Ryunosuke Kaneda, Takashi
Naitō, Tamio Ishikura
Howard Avedis
(director/screenplay); Mary
Citadel Films / McDonough, David Wallace,
Artists Releasing Bill Paxton, Lynda Day
Live
Mortuary Corporation / George, Christopher George, Slasher
action
Film Ventures Alvy Moore, Marlene Schmidt,
International Bill Conklin, Curt Ayers,
Donna Garrett, Danny Rogers,
Greg Kaye, Denis Mandel
Robert Altman (director);
David Rabe (screenplay);
Live
5 Streamers United Artists Matthew Modine, Michael War, Drama
action
Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein,
David Allen Grier, Guy Boyd
Joseph Sargent (director);
Jeffrey Bloom, Christopher
Crowe (screenplay); Emilio
Estevez, Cristina Raines,
Lance Henriksen, Richard
Masur, Veronica Cartwright,
Anthony James, William
Universal Horror, Live
9 Nightmares Sanderson, Lee Ving, Clare
Pictures Anthology action
Nono, Louis Giambalvo,
Mariclare Costello, Moon Unit
Zappa, Billy Jayne, James
Tolkan, Tony Plana, Timothy
Scott, Robin Gammell, Rose
Mary Campos, Bridgette
Andersen, Albert Hague
16 Heat and Dust Universal Studios James Ivory (director); Ruth Historical, Live
/ Curzon Film Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Romantic, action
Distributors / Greta Scacchi, Shashi Drama
Merchant Ivory Kapoor, Julie Christie,
Productions Christopher Cazenove,
Nickolas Grace, Zakir
Hussain, Julian Glover, Susan
 Fleetwood, Patrick Godfrey,
Jennifer Kendal, Charles
McCaughan, Madhur Jaffrey,
Barry Foster
Sam Firstenberg (director);
James Silke (screenplay); Sho
MGM/UA
Kosugi, Keith Vitali, Virgil
Revenge of the Entertainment Martial Arts, Live
Frye, Kane Kosugi, Professor
Ninja Co. / The Cannon Thriller action
Toru Tanaka, Arthur Roberts,
Group
Ashley Ferrare, Mario Gallo,
Grace Oshita, John LaMotta
Michael Laughlin
(director/screenplay); Bill
Condon, Walter Halsey Davis
(screenplay); Paul Le Mat,
Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid,
Michael Lerner, Louise
Strange Orion Pictures / Live
Fletcher, Wallace Shawn, Sci-Fi
Invaders EMI Films action
Fiona Lewis, Kenneth Tobey,
June Lockhart, Charles Lane,
Lulu Sylbert, Joel Cohen, Dan
Shor, Dey Young, Jack Kehler,
Mark Goddard, Thomas
Kopache, Bobby Pickett
William Lustig (director);
Richard Vetere (screenplay);
Robert Forster, Fred
Artists Releasing
Williamson, Richard Bright,
Corporation / Live
Vigilante Rutanya Alda, Don Blakely, Vigilante
Magnum Motion action
Joseph Carberry, Willie Colón,
Pictures Inc.
Joe Spinell, Carol Lynley,
Woody Strode, Steve James,
Vincent Beck, Frank Pesce
Lewis Gilbert (director); Willy
Russell (screenplay); Michael
Caine, Julie Walters, Michael
Williams, Dearbhla Molloy,
Jeananne Crowley, Malcolm
Douglas, Godfrey Quigley,
Columbia Patricia Jeffares, Maeve
Comedy, Live
21 Educating Rita Pictures / Acorn Germaine, Maureen Lipman,
Drama action
Pictures Gerry Sullivan, Pat Daly, Kim
Fortune, Philip Hurdwood,
Hilary Reynolds, Jack Walsh,
Christopher Casson, Gabrielle
Reidy, Des Nealon, Marie
Conmee, Oliver Maguire,
Derry Power, Alan Stanford
23 Martin Davidson
(director/screenplay); Arlene
Davidson (screenplay); Tom
Embassy Berenger, Michael Paré, Joe
Eddie and the Drama, Live
Pictures / Aurora Pantoliano, Matthew
Cruisers Musical action
Productions Laurance, Helen Schneider,
David Wilson, Michael
"Tunes" Antunes, Ellen
Barkin, Kenny Vance
Pieces International J. Piquer Simon (director); Slasher Live
Films Distribution Dick Randall, Roberto Loyola action
/ Artists (screenplay); Christopher
Releasing George, Linda Day, Frank
Corporation / Braña, Ian Sera, Edmund
 Film Ventures Purdom, Paul L. Smith, Jack
International / Taylor, Isabelle Luque, Gérard
Almena Films / Tichy, Hilda Fuchs, May
Fort Films / Heatherly, Alejandro
Spectacular Film Hernández, Roxana Nieto,
Productions Cristina Cottrelli, Leticia Marfil,
Silvia Gambino, Carmen
Aguado, Paco Alvez
Lawrence Kasdan
(director/screenplay); Barbara
Benedek (screenplay); Tom
Columbia Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff
Comedy, Live
28 The Big Chill Pictures / Carson Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin
Drama action
Productions Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg
Tilly, JoBeth Williams, Don
Galloway, Kevin Costner,
James Gillis, Ken Place
30 Douglas Trumbull (director);
Philip Frank Messina, Robert
Stitzel (screenplay);
Christopher Walken, Natalie
MGM/UA
Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Live
Brainstorm Entertainment Sci-Fi
Robertson, Jordan action
Company
Christopher, Donald Hotton,
Alan Fudge, Joe Dorsey, Bill
Morey, Jason Lively,
Georgianne Walken
David Steinberg
(director/screenplay); Dana
Olsen (screenplay); John
Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene
Levy, Alley Mills, Pat Hingle,
Richard Libertini, Paul Dooley,
Universal Dixie Carter, Murphy Dunne, Live
Going Berserk Comedy
Pictures Bill Saluga, Ernie Hudson, action
Kurtwood Smith, Julius Harris,
Elinor Donahue, Eve Brent
Ashe, Ann Bronston, Kathy
Bendett, Elizabeth Kerr, Dan
Barrows, Brenda Currin,
Frantz Turner, Gloria Gifford
John Mackenzie (director);
Christopher Hampton
(screenplay); Michael Caine,
The Honorary Paramount Live
Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Drama
Consul Pictures action
Elpidia Carrillo, Joaquim de
Almeida, A Martinez, Geoffrey
Palmer
The Lonely Lady Universal Peter Sasdy (director); John Drama Live
Pictures Kershaw, Shawn Randall action
(screenplay); Pia Zadora,
Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch,
Joseph Cali, Anthony Holland,
Jared Martin, Ray Liotta, Kerry
Shale, Sandra Dickinson,
Glory Annen Clibbery, Lou
Hirsch, Ed Bishop, Shane
Rimmer, Gianni Rizzo, Mickey
Knox, Kenneth Nelson, Jay
Benedict, Billy J. Mitchell,
Kieran Canter, Carolyn De
Fonseca, Edward Mannix,
 Colette Hiller, Ted Rusoff,
David Zed, Attilio Dottesio

October–December
Opening Title Studio Cast and crew Genre Medium
O Carroll Ballard (director); Curtis
C
Buena Vista Hanson, Sam Hamm, Richard
T Distribution / Kletter (screenplay); Charles Martin
Live
O Never Cry Wolf Amarok Smith, Brian Dennehy, Tom Drama
action
B
Productions Dahlgren, Zachary Ittimangnaq,
E
Ltd. Samson Jorah, Martha Ittimangnaq,
R Hugh Webster, Walker Stuart
Irvin Kershner (director); Lorenzo
Semple Jr. (screenplay); Sean
Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer,
Warner Bros. / Max von Sydow, Barbara Carrera,
7 Taliafilm / Kim Basinger, Bernie Casey, Alec
Never Say Live
Producers McCowen, Edward Fox, Rowan Spy
Never Again action
Sales Atkinson, Saskia Cohen-Tanugi,
Organization Gavan O'Herlihy, Ronald Pickup,
Pamela Salem, Valerie Leon,
Prunella Gee, Pat Roach, Anthony
Sharp
Arthur Hiller (director); Bernard
MGM/UA
Slade (screenplay); Dudley Moore,
Romantic Entertainment Romance, Live
Mary Steenburgen, Frances
Comedy Co. / Taft Comedy action
Sternhagen, Janet Eilber, Robyn
Entertainment
Douglass, Ron Leibman
Walt Disney
Alan Shapiro (director/screenplay);
Television / Sports, Live
9 Tiger Town Roy Scheider, Justin Henry, Ron
Buena Vista Drama action
McLarty, Sparky Anderson
Television
21 Michael Chapman (director); Michael
Kane (screenplay); Tom Cruise,
Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson,
All the Right 20th Century Sports, Live
Charles Cioffi, Gary Graham, Paul
Moves Fox Drama action
Carafotes, Chris Penn, Leon, Sandy
Faison, James A. Baffico, Mel
Winkler, Terry O'Quinn
David Cronenberg (director); Jeffrey
Boam (screenplay); Christopher
Paramount
Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom
Pictures / Dino Sci-Fi, Live
The Dead Zone Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony
De Laurentiis Thriller action
Zerbe, Colleen Dewhurst, Martin
Company
Sheen, Nicholas Campbell, Simon
Craig, Géza Kovács
The Right Stuff Warner Bros. / Philip Kaufman Epic, Live
The Ladd (director/screenplay); Charles Frank, Historical, action
Company Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Lance Drama
Henriksen, Scott Paulin, Dennis
Quaid, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward,
Kim Stanley, Barbara Hershey,
Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed,
Jane Dornacker, Harry Shearer, Jeff
Goldblum, Donald Moffat, Levon
Helm, Mary Jo Deschanel, Scott
Wilson, Kathy Baker, Mickey
Crocker, Susan Kase, Mittie Smith,
Royal Dano, David Clennon, Scott
Beach, John P. Ryan, Eric Sevareid,
William Russ, Robert Beer, Peggy
Davis, John Dehner, Royce Grones,
Brigadier General Chuck Yeager,
Anthony Muñoz, David Gulpilil, Ed
Sullivan, Bill Dana, Yuri Gagarin,
 Nikita Khrushchev, Georgi
Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, Kliment
Voroshilov, Anastas Mikoyan,
Lyndon B. Johnson, John F.
Kennedy, Alan Shepard, James E.
Webb
Francis Ford Coppola
(director/screenplay); S.E. Hinton
(screenplay); Matt Dillon, Mickey
Universal
Rourke, Vincent Spano, Diane Lane,
Pictures / Live
Rumble Fish Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, Drama
Zoetrope action
Dennis Hopper, Chris Penn, Larry
Studios
Fishburne, William Smith, Glenn
Withrow, Tom Waits, Michael
Higgins, Sofia Coppola, S.E. Hinton
Roger Spottiswoode (director); Ron
Shelton, Clayton Frohman
(screenplay); Nick Nolte, Gene
Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Jean- Live
Under Fire Orion Pictures Thriller
Louis Trintignant, Richard Masur, Ed action
Harris, René Enriquez, Hamilton
Camp, Eloy Casados, Jenny Gago,
Alma Martínez, Jorge Zepeda
Michael Winner
(director/screenplay); Leslie Arliss,
Aimée Stuart, Gordon Glennon
(screenplay); Faye Dunaway, Alan
Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm
The Wicked MGM/UA / The Elliott, Hugh Millais, Prunella Live
28 Drama
Lady Cannon Group Scales, Oliver Tobias, Glynis action
Barber, Joan Hickson, Helena
McCarthy, Mollie Maureen, Derek
Francis, Marina Sirtis, Nicholas
Gecks, John Savident, Marc
Sinden, Mark Burns
N
Bob Giraldi, Henry Jaglom
O (directors); Tod Carroll, Gerald
V
Sussman, Shary Flenniken, Pat
E
Mephitis, Ellis Weiner (screenplay);
M
Peter Riegert, Diane Lane, Candy
B
Clark, Teresa Ganzel, Schnootie
E
Neff, Andy Shakman, Tamar
R Howard, Ian Fried, Nedra Volz,
United Artists / Trinidad Silva, John Lawlor, Ann
National Metro-Goldwyn- Dusenberry, Robert Culp, Titos
Live
2 Lampoon's Mayer / Matty Vandis, Bobby Di Cicco, Joe Comedy
action
Movie Madness Simmons Spinell, Margaret Whitton, Fred
Productions Willard, Olympia Dukakis, Mary
Woronov, Dick Miller, George
Dickerson, Jake Steinfeld, Robby
Benson, Richard Widmark,
Christopher Lloyd, Barry Diamond,
Julie Kavner, Elisha Cook, Henny
Youngman, Bill Kirchenbauer, Harry
Reems, Rockne Tarkington, Rhea
Perlman, Lee Wilkof
4 Deal of the Warner Bros. William Friedkin (director); Paul Comedy Live
Century Brickman (screenplay); Chevy action
Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Gregory
Hines, Vince Edwards, Wallace
Shawn, Richard Libertini, William
Marquez, Eduardo Ricard, Richard
Herd, Graham Jarvis, Randi Brooks,
 Ebbe Roe Smith, Ray Manzarek,
Jack Angel, Charles Levin, Pepe
Serna, Wilfredo Hernández, John
Davey, Miguel Piñero, Maurice
Marsac, Joe Ross, Jonathan Terry,
Robert Cornthwaite, Jo Marie
Payton-Noble, Tony Plana, John
Hancock, Helen Martin, Eddie Hice,
John Reilly, Louis Giambalvo,
Robert Alan Browne, Bradford
English, Jim Ishida, Michael Yama,
Judith Baldwin, Robert David Hall,
Tracey Walter, Tom Willett
Peter Duffell (director); June
Roberts, Jack Rosenthal
(screenplay); Elizabeth Edmonds,
Sue Wallace, Geraldine Griffiths,
Experience
Goldcrest Karen Meagher, Maggie Wilkinson, Live
Preferred... But Drama
Films Ron Bain, Alun Lewis, Robert action
Not Essential
Blythe, Roy Heather, Peter Doran,
Arwen Holm, Sion Tudor Owen,
Robert Gwilym, Mostyn Evans, Paul
Haley, Margo Jenkins, Jerry Brooke
Terence Young (director); Richard
Maibaum (screenplay); Sean
Connery, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte
MGM/UA
From Russia Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee,
Entertainment Spy, Live
with Love (re- Daniela Bianchi, Eunice Gayson,
Co. / Eon Action Action
issue) Walter Gotell, Francis de Wolff,
Productions
George Pastell, Nadja Regin, Lois
Maxwell, Aliza Gur, Martin Beswick,
Vladek Sheybal, Leila
Lewis Gilbert (director); Christopher
Wood (screenplay); Roger Moore,
Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale,
Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry, Bernard
MGM/UA Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Desmond
Moonraker (re- Entertainment Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Toshiro Spy, Live
issue) Co. / Eon Suga, Emily Bolton, Blanche Action Action
Productions Ravalec, Irka Bochenko, Michael
Marshall, Leila Shenna, Anne
Lonnberg, Jean-Pierre Castaldi,
Walter Gotell, Alfie Bass, Claude
Carliez
Sam Peckinpah (director); Alan
20th Century
Sharp (screenplay); Rutger Hauer,
Fox / Davis-
John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis
Panzer
The Osterman Hopper, Burt Lancaster, Chris Live
Productions / Thriller
Weekend Sarandon, Meg Foster, Helen action
Osterman
Shaver, Cassie Yates, Sandy
Weekend
McPeak, Merete Van Kamp,
Associates
Christopher Starr
Donald Shebib (director); Henry
Buena Vista
Bean, Shirl Hendryx (screenplay); Biography,
Distribution / Live
Running Brave Robby Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Sports,
Englander action
Cron, Jeff McCracken, Graham Drama
Productions
Greene, Wendell Smith
Lynne Littman (director); John
Sacret Young (screenplay); Jane
Paramount Live
Testament Alexander, William Devane, Leon Drama
Pictures action
Ames, Lukas Haas, Roxana Zal,
Kevin Costner, Rebecca De Mornay
10 Star 80 Warner Bros. / Bob Fosse (director/screenplay); Biography, Live
The Ladd Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Drama action
Company Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger
Rees, David Clennon, Stuart
Damon, Josh Mostel, Jordan
Christopher, Ernest Thompson, Tina
Willson, James Luisi, Sidney Miller,
Deborah Geffner, Lisa Gordon,
Shelly Ingram, Neva Patterson,
Terence Kelly, Stanley Kamel, Cis
Rundle, Kathryn Witt, Gwen Welles,
Robert Picardo, Keith Hefner, Budd
Friedman, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Madhouse /
Unico in the Moribi Murano (director); Masaki Adventure,
Televisa / Animation
Island of Magic Tsuji (screenplay) Family
Discotek Media
18 Richard Fleischer (director); David
Ambrose (screenplay); Tony
Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Live
Amityville 3-D Orion Pictures Horror
Candy Clark, Lori Loughlin, Meg action
Ryan, Neill Barry, Josefina
Echánove
Best Film &
Video Corp. /
New World Jackie Kong (director/screenplay);
Pictures / Martin Landau, José Ferrer, Dorothy Live
The Being Horror
Aquarius Films Malone, Ruth Buzzi, Marianne action
/ Crest Films / Gordon Rogers, Bill Osco
Cybelle
Productions
Bob Clark (director/screenplay);
Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown
(screenplay); Peter Billingsley, Jean
MGM/UA
A Christmas Shepherd, Melinda Dillon, Darren Live
Entertainment Comedy
Story McGavin, Ian Petrella, Scott action
Co.
Schwartz, R. D. Robb, Zack Ward,
Yano Anaya, Tedde Moore, Jeff
Gillen, Leslie Carlson
Ferdinand Fairfax (director); John
Paramount
Hughes, David Odell (screenplay);
Pictures /
Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Live
Nate and Hayes Phillips- Adventure
O'Keefe, Max Phipps, Jenny action
Whitehouse
Seagrove, Grant Tilly, Peter Rowley,
Productions
Prince Tui Teka
John G. Avildsen (director); Joan
Tewkesbury (screenplay);
Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann
A Night in 20th Century Romance, Live
Warren, Robert Logan, Deney Terrio,
Heaven Fox Drama action
Deborah Rush, Sandra Beall, Alix
Elias, Carrie Snodgress, Andy
García
Sleepaway United Film Robert Hiltzik (director/screenplay); Slasher Live
Camp Distribution Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, action
Company / Karen Fields, Christopher Collet,
American Mike Kellin, Katherine Kamhi,
Eagle Films Desiree Gould, Robert Earl Jones,
Paul DeAngelo, Susan Glaze, Amy
Baio, Tom Van Dell, Loris Sallahain,
John E. Dunn, Ethan Larosa, Willy
Kuskin, Owen Hughes, Frank Trent
Saladino, Rick Edrich, Fred Greene,
 Allen Breton, Michael C. Mahon,
Dan Tursi, James Paradise, Paul
Poland, Alyson Mord, Carol
Robinson
Nicholas Meyer (director); Edward
Hume (screenplay); Jason Robards,
JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg,
John Cullum, John Lithgow, Amy
Madigan, Georgann Johnson, Lori
ABC Motion Lethin, Calvin Jung, Rosanna
Drama, Live
20 The Day After Pictures / ABC Huffman, George Petrie, William
Sci-Fi action
Circle Films Allen Young, Jeff East, Dennis
Lipscomb, Stephen Furst, Arliss
Howard, Harry Bugin, Kyle Aletter,
Doug Scott, Ellen Anthony, Lin
McCarthy, Jonathan Estrin, Clayton
Day, Antonie Becker, Stan Wilson
Warner Bros. /
Canadian Film George P. Cosmatos (director);
Development Brian Taggert (screenplay); Peter
Corporation / Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence
Of Unknown Live
24 Famous Dane, Kenneth Welsh, Louis Del Horror
Origin action
Players Limited Grande, Aimée Castle, Shannon
/ Les Tweed, Kevin Knight, Maury
Productions Chaykin
Mutuelles
SEPP,
Brussels /
The Smurfs and José Dutillieu (director); Peyo Comedy,
25 Éditions Dupuis Animation
the Magic Flute (screenplay) Family
/ Belvision
Studios
Dick Lowry (director); Jim Byrnes
(screenplay); Kenny Rogers, Bruce
Boxleitner, Linda Evans, Johnny
Crawford, Charlie Fields, David
Hedison, Robert Hoy, Brion James,
Paul Koslo, Cameron Mitchell,
Mitchell Ryan, Gregory Sierra, Ken
CBS / Sony Swofford, Harold Gould, Macon
The Gambler:
Pictures McCalman, Lee Paul, Ann Gillespie, Live
28 The Adventure Western
Television / Marianne Gordon, Patrick Thomas action
Continues
Lion Share O'Brien, John Putch, Roy Jenson,
Whitney Rydbeck, Bart the Bear,
Gary Cox, Bill Hart, Kelly
Junkerman, Henry 'Hank' Kendrick,
Joe Massengale, Cliff McLaughlin,
Gene McLaughlin, Earl Smith, Bob
Terhune, Henry Wills, Cathy
Worthington, Randal Patrick
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R. Silke, Menahem Golan
Mayer / Golan-
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Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Drama action
Cannon Group /
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John Rhys-Davies, Ronald Lacey,
United Artists
B
John Mills
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R 6 The Dresser Columbia Peter Yates (director); Ronald Drama Live

Pictures Harwood (screenplay); Albert action
Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward
Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins,
Michael Gough, Cathryn Harrison,
Betty Marsden, Sheila Reid,
Lockwood West, Donald Eccles,
 Llewellyn Rees, Guy Manning, Anne
Mannion, Kevin Stoney, Ann Way,
John Sharp, Kathy Staff, Roger
Avon
John Carpenter (director); Bill
Phillips (screenplay); Keith Gordon,
Columbia John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul,
Pictures / Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton,
Live
Christine Delphi Premier Christine Belford, Robert Darnell, Horror
action
Productions / Roberts Blossom, Kelly Preston,
Polar Film William Ostrander, Steven Tash,
Stuart Charno, Malcolm Danare,
David Spielberg
Brian De Palma (director); Oliver
Stone (screenplay); Al Pacino,
Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert
Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray
Abraham, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin,
Universal Crime, Live
Scarface Angel Salazar, Arnaldo Santana,
Pictures Drama action
Pepe Serna, Michael P. Moran, Al
Israel, Dennis Holahan, Mark
Margolis, Michael Alldredge, Ted
Beniades, Geno Silva, Richard
Belzer, Lana Clarkson, Charles
Durning, Dennis Franz
Clint Eastwood (director); Joseph
9 Stinson (screenplay); Clint
Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat
Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Paul
Action, Live
Sudden Impact Warner Bros. Drake, Albert Popwell, Audrie J.
Thriller action
Neenan, Jack Thibeau, Michael
Currie, Michael V. Gazzo, Mark
Keyloun, Kevyn Major Howard,
Bette Ford, Nancy Parsons
James L. Brooks
(director/screenplay); Shirley
MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack
Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Family,
Terms of Paramount Live
Daniels, John Lithgow, Huckleberry Comedy,
Endearment Pictures action
Fox, Albert Brooks, Lisa Hart Drama
Carroll, Troy Bishop, Shane
Sherwin, Megan Morris, Tara
Yeakey, Kate Charleson
MGM/UA Barbra Streisand
Entertainment (director/screenplay); Jack
Company / Rosenthal (screenplay); Barbra Romance,
Live
Yentl United Artists / Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Musical,
action
Barwood Films Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Steven Drama
/ Ladbroke Hill, Allan Corduner, Miriam
Entertainment Margoyles, Doreen Mantle
Mike Nichols (director); Nora
Ephron, Alice Arlen (screenplay);
Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher,
Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana
20th Century Scarwid, Ron Silver, Josef Sommer,
Biography, Live
14 Silkwood Fox / ABC Charles Hallahan, Tess Harper,
Drama action
Motion Pictures Sudie Bond, Henderson Forsythe,
Bruce McGill, David Strathairn, M.
Emmet Walsh, Ray Baker, Will
Patton, E. Katherine Kerr, J.C.
Quinn
16 D.C. Cab Universal Joel Schumacher Comedy Live
Pictures / The (director/screenplay); Adam action
Guber-Peters Baldwin, Charlie Barnett, Irene Cara,
Company / Anne De Salvo, Max Gail, Mr. T,
RKO Pictures José Pérez, Paul Rodriguez, Gary
Busey, Gloria Gifford, Marsha
Warfield, Bill Maher, DeWayne
Jessie, Whitman Mayo, Peter
Barbarian, David Barbarian, Diana
Bellamy, John Diehl, Newton D.
Arnold, Dennis Stewart, Jim Moody,
Bob Zmuda, Jill Schoelen, Timothy
Carey
Robert Ellis Miller (director); Julius
J. Epstein (screenplay); Tom Conti,
20th Century
Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom,
Fox / Saltair
Cynthia Harris, Joel Fabiani, Lois
Productions / Comedy, Live
Reuben, Reuben Smith, Rex Robbins, Kara Wilson,
TAFT Drama action
Robert Nichols, Ed Grady, Scott
Entertainment
Coffey, E. Katherine Kerr, Jack
Pictures
Davidson, Damon Douglas, Dan
Doby
Michael Mann (director/screenplay);
Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson,
Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky,
Paramount Live
The Keep Gabriel Byrne, Ian McKellen, W. Horror
Pictures action
Morgan Sheppard, Royston Tickner,
Michael Carter, Rosalie Crutchley,
Wolf Kahler, Bruce Payne
Martin Rosen (director/screenplay);
John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin,
James Bolam, Nigel Hawthorne,
Embassy Warren Mitchell, Bernard Hepton,
Pictures / Brian Stirner, Penelope Lee,
United Artists / Geoffrey Matthews, Barbara Leigh-
The Plague
Nepenthe Hunt, John Bennett, John Franklyn- Adventure Animation
Dogs
Productions / Robbins, Bill Maynard, Malcolm
Goldcrest Terris, Judy Geeson, Philip Locke,
Films Brian Spink, Tony Church, Anthony
Valentine, William Lucas, Dandy
Nichols, Rosemary Leach, Patrick
Stewart, Percy Edwards
Blake Edwards
(director/screenplay); Milton Wexler,
Geoffrey Edwards (screenplay); Burt
Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim
The Man Who Columbia Live
Basinger, Marilu Henner, Cynthia Comedy
Loved Women Pictures action
Sikes, Jennifer Edwards, Sela
Ward, Ellen Bauer, Denise Crosby,
Tracy Vaccaro, Barry Corbin, Roger
Rose
Alan Johnson (director); Ronny
Graham, Thomas Meehan
20th Century (screenplay); Mel Brooks, Anne
To Be or Not to War, Live
Fox / Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles
Be Comedy action
Brooksfilms Durning, José Ferrer, George
Gaynes, Christopher Lloyd, George
Wyner, Lewis J. Stadlen, Jack Riley
Two of a Kind 20th Century John Herzfeld (director/screenplay); Romance, Live
Fox John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Fantasy, action
Charles Durning, Oliver Reed, Comedy
Beatrice Straight, Scatman
 Crothers, Richard Bright, Toni
Kalem, Ernie Hudson, Jack Kehoe,
Robert Costanzo, Castulo Guerra,
Gene Hackman
Ted Kotcheff (director); Joe Gayton
(screenplay); Gene Hackman, Fred
Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex"
Cobb, Patrick Swayze, Harold
Uncommon Paramount Action, Live
Sylvester, Tim Thomerson, Robert
Valor Pictures War action
Stack, Michael Dudikoff, Kwan Hi
Lim, Lau Nga Lai, Gail Strickland,
Jane Kaczmarek, Gloria Stroock,
Todd Allen
The Adventures
Walt Disney
23 of Rosie Bridget
Productions
and Ann
Chuan Yang (director); Lam Yee
Seeding of a Shaw Brothers Live
29 Hung (screenplay); Phillip Ko, Maria Horror
Ghost Studio action
Yuen, Norman Chui
Kon Ichikawa (director/screenplay);
The Makioka Live
30 Toho Shinya Hidaka, Junichiro Tanizaki Drama
Sisters action
(screenplay)

Births
January 2 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
January 4 - Kerry Condon, Irish actress
January 13 - Julian Morris, British actor
January 16 - Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
January 24 - Frankie Grande, American actor, singer, producer, television host and YouTube
personality
February 4 – Hannibal Buress, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
February 7 - Elina Purde, Estonian actress
February 21 - Mélanie Laurent, French actress
February 23
Aziz Ansari, American actor, writer, producer, director and comedian
Emily Blunt, English actress
February 27 - Kate Mara, American actress
March 1 - Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress and director
March 4 - Julieta Zylberberg, Argentine actress
March 10
Rafe Spall, English actor
Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
March 11 - Lucy DeVito, American actress
March 12 - Ron Funches, American actor, comedian and writer
March 15 - Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
March 17 - Christian and Joseph Cousins, American twin actors
March 31 - Ashleigh Ball, Canadian singer, musician and voice actress
April 1 - Matt Lanter, actor
April 4 - Amanda Righetti, American actress
April 7 - Kyle Labine, Canadian actor
April 10 - Jamie Chung, American actress and former reality television personality
April 21 - Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
May 3 - Ari Magder, Canadian actor (died 2012)
May 4 - Jesse Moss (actor), Canadian actor
May 5 - Henry Cavill, British actor
May 6 - Gabourey Sidibe, actress
May 9 - Michael Roark, American actor
May 11 - Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
May 12 - Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor
May 14 - Amber Tamblyn, actress
May 28 - Megalyn Echikunwoke, American actress
June 2 - Yuliya Snigir, Russian actress and model
June 10 - Leelee Sobieski, actress
June 14 - Louis Garrel, French actor and filmmaker
June 16 - Olivia Hack, actress
June 24 - John Lloyd Cruz, actor
June 30 - Angela Sarafyan, actress
July 8 - DeVaughn Nixon, American actor
July 10 - Golshifteh Farahani, actress
July 18 - Cara Gee, Canadian actress
August 1 - Inga Salurand, Estonian actress
August 3 - Mamie Gummer, American actress
August 4 - Greta Gerwig, American director, writer, and actress
August 7 - Brit Marling, actress
August 8 - Trina Nishimura, American voice actress
August 10 - Bonnie Piesse, Australian actress and singer-songwriter
August 11 - Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
August 14
Mila Kunis, actress
Lamorne Morris, American actor, comedian and television personality
August 20 - Andrew Garfield, English actor
August 23 - Annie Ilonzeh, American actress
August 24 - Antonio Campos, American film director
August 29 - Jennifer Landon, actress
September 21
Scott Evans (actor), American actor
Maggie Grace, actress
Joseph Mazzello, actor
September 25 - Donald Glover, American actor, singer, comedian, writer, producer and
director
October 3 - Tessa Thompson, actress
October 5
 Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
Shelby Rabara, Filipino-American actress and dancer
Noot Seear, Canadian actress
Noah Segan, American actor
October 10 - Layke Anderson, British director and former actor
October 17 - Felicity Jones, English actress
October 19 - Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish actress
October 28 - Joe Thomas, English actor, writer and comedian
November 7 - Adam DeVine, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and singer
November 8 - Chris Rankin, New Zealand-born English actor
November 19 - Adam Driver, American actor
December 8 - Utkarsh Ambudkar, American actor, singer and rapper
December 10
Patrick Flueger, American actor
Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
December 13 - Satya Bhabha, British-American actor
December 20 - Jonah Hill, American actor
December 23 - Joe Dinicol, Canadian actor

Deaths
Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 8 Gale Page 69 US Actress They Drive by Night ·
Knute Rockne, All
American
Shepperd All the King's Men · A
15 75 US Actor
Strudwick Place in the Sun
Robert A Star Is Born · Beau
19 73 US Writer
Carson Geste
George The Philadelphia Story ·
24 83 US Director
Cukor My Fair Lady
Louis de Actor, Writer, La Grande Vadrouille ·
27 68 France
Funès Director L'avare
That'll Be the Day · Play
28 Billy Fury 42 UK Singer, Actor
It Cool
Joan Blazing Sixes · Free,
30 71 US Actress
Valerie Blonde and 21
February Marian Rebecca of Sunnybrook
13 78 US Actress
Nixon Farm · Winner Take All
The Girl from
19 Alice White 75 US Actress Woolworth's · Showgirl
in Hollywood
Marie Short Orders · 7th
21 83 US Actress
Mosquini Heaven
25 Tennessee 71 US Writer A Streetcar Named
 Williams Desire · Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof
Ruth It's a Great Day ·
27 71 UK Actress
Dunning Hoffman
March My Gun Is Quick · Bus
7 Robert Bray 65 US Actor
Stop
Faye The Mask of Dimitrios ·
9 65 US Actress
Emerson Nobody Lives Forever
Maurice Actor, Director, Elevator to the Gallows ·
14 55 France
Ronet Writer Purple Noon
The Glass Bottom Boat ·
Arthur
16 79 US Actor Where Angels Go,
Godfrey
Trouble Follows
James Oliver! · Night and the
27 75 Spain Actor
Hayter City
Walter
28 79 Austria Screenwriter Gaslight · Titanic
Reisch
April Buster Flash Gordon · Jungle
4 75 US Actor
Crabbe Man
Gloria Actress, Sunset Boulevard ·
4 84 US
Swanson Producer Airport 1975
Dolores del Ramona · Bird of
11 77 Mexico Actress
Río Paradise
Walter Lifeboat · Ten Thousand
21 80 Austria Actor
Slezak Bedrooms
Selena Joan of Arc · Night and
23 78 US Actress
Royle Day
Shirley Educating Father ·
26 70 US Actress
Deane Undercover Agent
May Joseph
1 93 Russia Cinematographer Brigadoon · Gigi
Ruttenberg
John Dial M for Murder · To
5 80 UK Actor
Williams Catch a Thief
Al Capone · God's Little
8 Fay Spain 50 US Actress
Acre
The Aristocats · One
George
23 68 US Composer Hundred and One
Bruns
Dalmatians
Murder at Monte Carlo ·
23 Eve Gray 87 UK Actress
Midnight
The Seventh Veil · A Girl
25 Sydney Box 78 UK Producer, Writer
in a Million
Burnett Bonnie and Clyde · From
30 78 US Cinematographer
Guffey Here to Eternity
June Norma The Women · Marie
12 80 US Actress
Shearer Antoinette
 22 David 79 UK Director Dead Men Tell No Tales
MacDonald · The Moonraker
Jonathan The Glass Key · The Big
23 76 US Screenwriter
Latimer Clock
Herbert Dream Wife · Murderers'
30 62 US Screenwriter
Baker Row
July Harry Two Girls and a Sailor ·
5 67 US Musician, Actor
James Bathing Beauty
Eddie Foy Yankee Doodle Dandy ·
15 78 US Actor
Jr. Bells Are Ringing
The Shop Around the
Samson
16 89 US Screenwriter Corner · Heaven Can
Raphaelson
Wait
19 Olle Hilding 85 Sweden Actor Vandring med månen
Spain- Writer, Director, Un Chien Andalou ·
29 Luis Buñuel 83
Mexico Actor Belle de Jour
Raymond Arsenic and Old Lace ·
29 86 US Actor
Massey East of Eden
David The Pink Panther · The
29 73 Switzerland Actor, Producer
Niven Guns of Navarone
Lynn The Guardsman · The
30 95 US Actress
Fontanne Magnificent Yankee
August Straw Dogs · Chitty
1 Peter Arne 64 UK Actor
Chitty Bang Bang
Carolyn King Creole · Last Train
3 53 US Actress
Jones from Gun Hill
Louisiana Hayride · The
Judy
5 69 US Actress Adventures of
Canova
Huckleberry Finn
The Showdown · This
28 Jan Clayton 66 US Actress
Man's Navy
Simon Psycho · West Side
29 68 US Actor
Oakland Story
LeRoy Show Boat · Yankee
September 15 88 US Choreographer
Prinz Doodle Dandy
October Rafael The Professionals · Isle
5 66 Mexico Actor
Bertrand of the Snake People
Support Your Local
Joan
8 49 US Actress Sheriff! · The Last of
Hackett
Sheila
Ralph Doctor Zhivago · Time
10 80 UK Actor, Director
Richardson Bandits
To Kill a Mockingbird ·
14 Paul Fix 82 US Actor
Giant
Some Like It Hot ·
15 Pat O'Brien 83 US Actor
Angels with Dirty Faces
 17 Vittorio 76 Italy Costume Cleopatra · Cromwell
Nino Designer
Novarese
November Eleanore Rose Bowl · Blonde
? 66 US Actress
Whitney Trouble
Michael A Countess from Hong
2 52 UK Actor
Spice Kong
Robert The Heart of Broadway ·
8 84 US Actor
Agnew The College Hero
John Le Ben-Hur · The Pink
15 71 UK Actor
Mesurier Panther
The Longest Yard · They
Michael
22 58 US Actor Shoot Horses, Don't
Conrad
They?
Johnnie I Love to Singa ·
28 73 US Actor
Davis Hollywood Hotel
Christopher
28 52 US Actor El Dorado · Midway
George
December Those Three French
2 Fifi D'Orsay 79 Canada Actress
Girls · Going Hollywood
The Assassination
Maurice
4 64 UK Actor Bureau · The Party's
Browning
Over
The Dirty Dozen · What
Robert
5 65 US Director Ever Happened to Baby
Aldrich
Jane?
Slim Dr. Strangelove · Blazing
8 64 US Actor
Pickens Saddles
Requiem for a
Rod
21 73 US Actor Gunfighter · Santa Fe
Cameron
Passage
Charles
22 81 UK Actor if.... · Dracula
Lloyd-Pack
Mr. Smith Goes to
William
28 91 US Actor Washington · It's a Mad,
Demarest
Mad, Mad, Mad World
A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to
29 Janet Webb 52 UK Actress
the Forum · Joseph
Andrews

Film debuts
Curtis Armstrong - Risky Business
Rowan Atkinson - Never Say Never Again
Kathy Baker - The Right Stuff
Steven Bauer - Scarface
 Juliette Binoche - Liberty Belle
Mark Boone Junior - Variety
Matthew Broderick - Max Dugan Returns
Clancy Brown - Bad Boys
Jim Carrey - All in Good Taste (filmed in 1981, released in May 1983)
Wendy Crewson - Skullduggery
John Cusack - Class
Lolita Davidovich - Class
Warwick Davis - Return of the Jedi
Vincent D'Onofrio - The First Turn-On!
Chris Elliott - Lianna
Andy García - Blue Skies Again
Crispin Glover - My Tutor
Graham Greene - Running Brave
Lukas Haas - Testament
Tess Harper - Tender Mercies
Nicole Kidman - Bush Christmas
Maurice LaMarche - Rock & Rule
Ray Liotta - The Lonely Lady
Rob Lowe - The Outsiders
Virginia Madsen - Class
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Scarface
Andrew McCarthy - Class
Kelly McGillis - Reuben, Reuben
Matthew Modine - Baby It's You
Rick Moranis - Strange Brew
Lori Loughlin - Amityville 3-D
Megan Mullally - Risky Business
Judd Nelson - Rock 'n' Roll Hotel
Sarah Jessica Parker - Somewhere Tomorrow
Alexandra Paul - American Nightmare
Bronson Pinchot - Risky Business
Kelly Preston - 10 to Midnight
Mimi Rogers - Blue Skies Again
Alan Ruck - Bad Boys
Ally Sheedy - Bad Boys
Casey Siemaszko - Class
Kiefer Sutherland - Max Dugan Returns
Lea Thompson - Jaws 3-D
Julie Walters - Educating Rita

See also
List of American films of 1983
List of British films of 1983
 List of French films of 1983
List of German films of the 1980s
List of Bollywood films of 1983
List of Italian films of 1983
List of Japanese films of 1983
List of Swedish films of the 1980s

References
1. "1983 Domestic Grosses" (https://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1983&p=.htm). Box
Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2014.

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