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1980s
British films of 1983
70 films, in order of release. 59 with no exact release date are listed after them.
Films released in 1983
Released
Title
Director
Certificate
29 April
The Hunger
Tony Scott
18
29 April
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Jack Clayton
10 May
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Nagisa Ōshima
17 June
Superman III
Richard Lester
24 June
Yellowbeard
Mel Damski
August
Runners
Charles Sturridge
15 August
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
Terry Marcel
19 August
Skywhales
Derek W. Hayes
27 October
Bullshot
Dick Clement
December
Slayground
Terry Bedford
23 December
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
D. A. Pennebaker
—
The Academy Of St Martin In The Fields At Longleat
Dave Heather
—
Another Time, Another Place
Michael Radford
—
Ascendancy
Edward Bennett
—
Batsmen (S)
Andrew Gillman
—
Betrayal
David Hugh Jones
—
Champions
John Irvin
—
Chicken Ranch
Sandi Sissel
,
Nick Broomfield
—
The Courtesans of Bombay
Ismail Merchant
—
Curse of the Pink Panther
Blake Edwards
—
Daniel
Sidney Lumet
—
Dog Day
Yves Boisset
—
The Dresser
Peter Yates
—
Educating Rita
Lewis Gilbert
—
El Norte
Gregory Nava
—
Enigma
Jeannot Szwarc
—
Escape from El Diablo
Gordon Hessler
—
Eureka
Nicolas Roeg
18
—
Fanny Hill
Gerry O'Hara
—
Four American Composers
Peter Greenaway
—
Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts
Jimmy Somerville
—
Funny Money
James Kenelm Clarke
—
Ghost Dance
Ken McMullen
—
The Girl Of The Golden West
John Vernon
—
The Gold Diggers
Sally Potter
—
The Great Director
—
The Happy Alcoholic
Karl Francis
—
Heat and Dust
James Ivory
—
High Road to China
Brian G. Hutton
PG
—
The Honorary Consul
John Mackenzie
—
House of the Long Shadows
Pete Walker
—
The Keep
Michael Mann
—
Krull
Peter Yates
—
Local Hero
Bill Forsyth
—
The Mad Death
—
Manon Lescaut
Humphrey Burton
—
Mantrap
Julien Temple
—
Martin Luther, Heretic
Norman Stone
—
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Terry Jones
—
Nelly's Version
Maurice Hatton
—
Never Say Never Again
Irvin Kershner
—
A Night On The Town
Judith de Paul
—
Octopussy
John Glen
—
Owain Glyndŵr
James Hill
—
Party Party
Terry Winsor
—
The Pirates of Penzance
Wilford Leach
—
The Ploughman's Lunch
Richard Eyre
—
The Red and the Blue: Impressions of Two Political Conferences - Autumn 1982
Ken Loach
—
Reilly: Ace Of Spies: An Affair With A Married Woman
Jim Goddard
—
Sahara
Andrew V. McLaglen
—
Schindler: The Documentary
Jon Blair
—
To the Ends of the Earth
William Kronick
—
The Turn of the Screw
Petr Weigl
—
Veronica Four Rose
—
A Voyage Round My Father
—
Where Is Parsifal?
Henri Helman
—
The Wicked Lady
Michael Winner
—
The Wind in the Willows
Mark Hall
PG
—
Xtro
Harry Bromley Davenport
—
Yehudi Menuhin - Brahms Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 77
Bruno Monsaingeon
1982
1984