
1983
A Christmas Story
Nine years old, a single-minded wish, and a narrator who never lets you forget it.
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The year was
1983 mixed huge franchise movies with teen favourites, horror, crime and comedy. It was a year where established series continued while a new wave of films captured the style, music and attitude increasingly associated with the decade.
Return of the Jedi, Scarface, National Lampoon's Vacation, Flashdance, Risky Business, Christine and WarGames show just how broad the year's movies were, stretching from blockbuster spectacle to cult cinema.
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1983
Nine years old, a single-minded wish, and a narrator who never lets you forget it.
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1983
A maverick pilot, a flying surveillance machine and a paranoid 1980s that still feels eerily familiar.
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1983
Obsession, adolescence and a car that won't let go.
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1983
A mother, a boy and a locked car — Donna Trenton holds the line.
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1983
De Lift: corporate power and our relationship with technology, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Easy Money: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
A working‑class hairdresser, an exasperated tutor and a lesson that changes both of them.
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1983
Flashdance: family and mortality and lifespan, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Jaws 3-D: freedom and authority, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Local Hero: corporate power and greed, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Lone Wolf McQuade: heroism and parents protecting their children, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
A very British banquet of bodily comedy, institutional savaging and one famously explosive dinner.
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1983
Mr. Mom: family and consumerism, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
A disastrously planned holiday that somehow still makes you laugh — and wince.
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1983
Sean Connery comes back, the nukes go missing, and the old Bond gets a very 1980s second act.
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1983
A Fabergé egg, a travelling circus and the Cold War — Bond still does spectacle like a Trojan horse.
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1983
Psycho II: family and the safety of home, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
A suburban teenager, a one‑night business and the day ambition learned to look dangerous.
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1983
A refugee's hunger for respect turns into reckless rule — and a very expensive mess.
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1983
Sleepaway Camp: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi: mortality and lifespan and mortality, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Sudden Impact: fear and friendship, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Superman III: our relationship with technology and courage, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
A sharp, sentimental and sometimes infuriating love story — mostly between a mother and her impossible daughter.
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1983
A funeral, a stack of records and a weekender where old promises get examined.
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1983
The Black Stallion Returns: friendship and freedom, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
A quiet schoolteacher, an awful glimpse of tomorrow and the heavy work of knowing too much.
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1983
The Hunger: the safety of home and family, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
The Keep: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
The Man with Two Brains: love and authority, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Ponyboy's voice, a neighbourhood at war, and the moment childhood truly ends.
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1983
A lone test pilot, a public spectacle — and the stubborn shape of American heroism.
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1983
The Survivors: authority, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
To Be or Not to Be: family and the safety of home, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
A rigged bet, a culture-swap and Louis Winthorpe III — still very funny, still very sharp.
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1983
Uncommon Valor: parents protecting their children and family, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Valley Girl: the safety of home and friendship, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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1983
Television as a drug, a weapon and a wound — and Max Renn is the addict in the middle of it.
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1983
A teenage prank that becomes national panic — and a neat little film about humans still being better at meaning than machines.
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1983
Yentl: family and love, and why this 1983 movie still matters.
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