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Best Movies of 1983, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
60 films from 1983 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Return of the Jedi ('1983), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Return of the Jedi, 8.3 on IMDb against 58 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Return of the Jedi '1983 | Action / Sci-Fi | 8.3 | 83% | 58 | 7.9 | Richard Marquand |
| 2 | Scarface '1983 | Action / Crime / Drama | 8.3 | 77% | 65 | 8.2 | Brian De Palma |
| 3 | A Christmas Story '1983 | Comedy | 7.9 | 87% | 77 | 7.2 | Bob Clark |
| 4 | Koyaanisqatsi '1983 | Documentary / Musical | 8.2 | 91% | 72 | 7.9 | Godfrey Reggio |
| 5 | The Right Stuff '1983 | Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Philip Kaufman |
| 6 | Michael Jackson's Thriller '1983 | Horror / Musical / Thriller | 8.7 | - | - | 8.3 | John Landis |
| 7 | Trading Places '1983 | Comedy | 7.5 | 87% | 69 | 7.2 | John Landis |
| 8 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life '1983 | Comedy | 7.5 | 86% | 72 | 7.3 | Terry Jones |
| 9 | Nostalgia '1983 | Drama / Romance | 7.9 | 89% | 78 | 7.8 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 10 | Eddie Murphy: Delirious '1983 | Comedy | 8.1 | 83% | - | 7.6 | Bruce Gowers |
| 11 | Zelig '1983 | Comedy | 7.6 | 97% | - | 7.4 | Woody Allen |
| 12 | The Evil Dead '1983 | Horror | 7.3 | 85% | 71 | 7.3 | Sam Raimi |
| 13 | Mickey's Christmas Carol '1983 | Animation | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Burny Mattinson |
| 14 | Terms of Endearment '1983 | Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 81% | 79 | 7.1 | James L. Brooks |
| 15 | National Lampoon's Vacation '1983 | Comedy | 7.3 | 94% | 55 | 7.1 | Harold Ramis |
| 16 | Videodrome '1983 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.2 | 83% | 58 | 7.2 | David Cronenberg |
| 17 | Local Hero '1983 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 100% | 83 | 6.8 | Bill Forsyth |
| 18 | WarGames '1983 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.1 | 93% | 77 | 7.1 | John Badham |
| 19 | The Dead Zone '1983 | Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 89% | 69 | 7.0 | David Cronenberg |
| 20 | The Big Chill '1983 | Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 70% | 61 | 6.8 | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 21 | Rumble Fish '1983 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 77% | 63 | 7.0 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 22 | L'Argent '1983 | Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 95 | 6.9 | Robert Bresson |
| 23 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence '1983 | Drama / War | 7.2 | 86% | 53 | 7.3 | Nagisa Ōshima |
| 24 | Project A '1983 | Action / Comedy | 7.2 | 81% | - | 7.3 | Jackie Chan |
| 25 | The Outsiders '1983 | Crime / Drama | 7.0 | 71% | 45 | 7.2 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 26 | Bad Boys '1983 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 89% | 53 | 7.0 | Rick Rosenthal |
| 27 | Silkwood '1983 | Drama | 7.1 | 78% | 65 | 6.9 | Mike Nichols |
| 28 | Angst '1983 | Thriller / Crime / Horror | 7.1 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Gerald Kargl |
| 29 | Go for It '1983 | Action / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Enzo Barboni |
| 30 | The Day After '1983 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.0 | 86% | - | 6.8 | Nicholas Meyer |
| 31 | The ComDads '1983 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Francis Veber |
| 32 | Gramps Is in the Resistance '1983 | Comedy / War | 6.7 | - | - | 6.9 | Jean-Marie Poiré |
| 33 | Christine '1983 | Horror | 6.8 | 69% | 57 | 6.9 | John Carpenter |
| 34 | Risky Business '1983 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 6.8 | 93% | 75 | 6.6 | Paul Brickman |
| 35 | Soap and Water '1983 | Comedy / Romance | 6.5 | - | - | 6.7 | Carlo Verdone |
| 36 | Fantozzi Still Suffers '1983 | Comedy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.5 | Neri Parenti |
| 37 | Christmas Holidays '1983 | Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 6.2 | Carlo Vanzina |
| 38 | Gorky Park '1983 | Thriller / Crime / Drama / Mystery | 6.7 | 78% | 60 | 6.3 | Michael Apted |
| 39 | Fire and Ice '1983 | Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 6.5 | 60% | 45 | 6.7 | Ralph Bakshi |
| 40 | Mr. Mom '1983 | Comedy / Drama | 6.6 | 77% | 50 | 6.6 | Stan Dragoti |
| 41 | The Hunger '1983 | Horror / Drama | 6.6 | 62% | 52 | 6.7 | Tony Scott |
| 42 | Psycho II '1983 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 67% | 54 | 6.5 | Richard Franklin |
| 43 | Sudden Impact '1983 | Thriller / Crime / Action / Drama | 6.6 | 52% | 52 | 6.5 | Clint Eastwood |
| 44 | The Key '1983 | Drama / Romance | 5.4 | - | - | 6.0 | Tinto Brass |
| 45 | Lone Wolf McQuade '1983 | Action / Crime | 6.3 | 57% | 65 | 6.5 | Steve Carver |
| 46 | Blue Thunder '1983 | Drama / Action / Thriller | 6.4 | 79% | 66 | 6.3 | John Badham |
| 47 | The Man with Two Brains '1983 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Romance | 6.4 | 79% | 61 | 6.2 | Carl Reiner |
| 48 | Twilight Zone: The Movie '1983 | Horror / Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 6.4 | 57% | 44 | 6.5 | John Landis |
| 49 | Octopussy '1983 | Action / Thriller | 6.5 | 41% | 63 | 6.4 | John Glen |
| 50 | All the Right Moves '1983 | Romance / Drama | 6.0 | 61% | 62 | 5.8 | Michael Chapman |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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