1983 Movies

Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the legendary Final Academy events at the South London Ritzy Cinema. These were Burroughs-themed art and performance nig...

The film is a battle between feudalism & Communism. Trouble ensues when Raja, a medical college student, falls in love with his classmate Rani, unaware of a powerful enmity existing between their families based on class differences.

A 1983 film for Channel Four’s Visions, featuring interviews about the impact of Godard of British filmmakers and critics.

The truck driver (Molovski) is negligent in his attitude towards work. Despite the warnings that his vehicle is defective, he leaves on the road, and in addition he returns to the local tavern to meet the new waitress and drink "one round". He causes an accide...

Jim Van Bebber's eight-millimeter kung fu short, a prototype for Deadbeat at Dawn.

A man with an ambition to serve his country is facing a dilemma of his romantic relationship.

Documentary about the LA hip hop/electro scene in the early 80s.

The daughter of a sailor who died at sea, she lives in a port city with her mother. The shipowner threatens to kick them out of the house if they don't pay for six months or if she doesn't marry him. The handsome sailor and rebel appears in the city, and makes...

Perhaps no artist and fellow media theorist worked so fastidiously in the vein of McLuhan as Douglas Davis, albeit directly contrary to what he described as McLuhan’s “apocalyptic” message when he proclaimed, “The medium is not the message. You and I, in all o...

Directed by François Brault.

A painter and a novelist share an abandoned apartment building. The painter takes in 99 stray dogs as the subjects of his next work but, as he does not have enough resources to feed them, the dogs turn feral. Meanwhile, the novelist begins to have an uneasy dr...

A beautiful teenage girl, marries an older, wealthy French Marquis, whom she does not love. He gifts her a choker made of rubies, warning her against taking it off.

Alex Leclerc wanders through the empty corridors of a seaside hotel. He is a regular here, at least for Hughie, the former night watchman who died the day before. Alex is a professional gambler, a high roller. He will have to engage in a game of seduction to w...

To save her ranch after the accidental death of her husband, a woman marries the man responsible for the mishap.

A nerdy office worker in a mundane job discovers that a copy machine can print images from paper to life.

Samuka, a village girl, was in love with a navy officer in her past life, but they could not be together. When they are reborn, they face various challenges in their attempts to unite.