1983 Movies

Retrospective of TIME's reporting of the personalities and events of the past six decades. Made in collaboration with TIME editors and representatives of the publisher's office, and checked for accuracy by reporter-researchers in the manner of TIME stories. In...

As the alien, Dr Tycho is being chased by an enemy fleet, a team of pilots lead by Jun help him out. Upon landing on Earth he teams up with a scientist named Dr Dotori who works with the team of pilots. Dr. Dotori and Dr. Tycho have Jun and his friends pilot a...

Match factory repairman Parfen Loktionov is offered to become a shift foreman. The new position, on the one hand, is associated with increased responsibility, and on the other, with less earnings (the salary is “ten” less). The mother-in-law and wife insist th...

This story began on the day when an unknown car enthusiast, Grigory Yakovlev, beat famous athletes in a car he had built himself. The head of the design bureau liked his car, who invited the young racing driver to his laboratory...

Bear cub, Buttons, and his fox companion, Rusty, take a ride on a freight train bound for the city. Now they're lost and must get home before Christmas but first they gotta dodge people, cars, and other dangers.

Not really note worthy action movie from the Philippines.

The happiness that has passed away will never return - this is exactly what a young Polish man learns when, in the immediate post-war period, he recalls how he fell in love with a charming Jewish girl before the outbreak of the war. He manages to find her, onl...

Story set in Yokohama.

Short film about the zoetrope, an optical toy

History of a Jewish family, the Oppermanns, in Berlin at the end of 1932, after Hitler has become the leader of Germany's strongest political party.

Tomas and his friends are happy in their town and school but must face the fact that some of the adults around are preparing to leave GDR and move to West Germany.

Yuko arrives at Amami Airport. She sees her sister-in-law and a local young man...

Myths of tartanry exploded

Animated adventure on the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, from achieving sponsorship for the company to arriving in the “New World”.

Filmed in 1974 and edited and released in 1983 (and then rereleased by its director in 2005),DEAD PEOPLE purports to document the final years of Frank Butler, a local fixture in the depressed burg of Ellicot City with a particular fondness for drink and tales...

A drama directed by Jess Franco based on a play by Edgar Wallace.

One of Japan's most renowned baseball pros, Takenori Emoto of the Hanshin Tigers, relates humorous anecdotes from his own career and the game in general. Based on his novel of the same name and its sequel.

The first documentary about Australian trans lives. Given only a limited release in 1983, it has rarely been shown since. Filmed in Sydney in 1981, the film unusually seeks to provide a voice for trans women and men of the time, in contrast with the sensationa...