Movies released in 1983| 10 to Midnight | J. Lee Thompson |
| 18 Bronze Girls of Shaolin | Lai Ya Chian |
| 2019: After the Fall of New York | Sergio Martino |
| 4th Man, The | Paul Verhoeven |
| American Nightmare | Don McBrearty |
| American Snitch, The | Richard A. Harris |
| Amityville 3-D | Richard Fleischer |
| Angst | Gerald Kargl |
| Attack of the Joyful Goddess | Chang Cheh, Chiang Sheng, Lu Feng |
| Attack of the Super Monsters | Tom Wyner, Toru Sotoyama |
| Awesome Lotus | David O'Malley |
| Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal |
| Barefoot Gen | Mori Masaki |
| Bastard Swordsman | Tony Liu Chun-Ku |
| Beast and the Magic Sword, The | Paul Naschy |
| Being, The | Jackie Kong |
| Big Chill, The | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Black Stallion Returns, The | Robert Dalva |
| Blade in the Dark, A | Lamberto Bava |
| Blood Beat | Fabrice A. Zaphiratos |
| Blue Thunder | John Badham |
| BMX Bandits | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Boxer's Omen, The | Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Brainstorm | Douglas Trumbull |
| Brainwash | Bobby Roth |
| Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? | Henry Jaglom |
| Carnival Magic | Al Adamson |
| Carpool | E.W. Swackhamer |
| Cave-In! | Georg Fenady |
| Chained Heat | Paul Nicholas |
| Christine | John Carpenter |
| Christmas Story, A | Bob Clark |
| City of Lost Souls | Rosa von Praunheim |
| Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi | Robert Guenette |
| Cocaine: One Man's Seduction | Paul Wendkos |
| Conquest | Lucio Fulci |
| Copperhead | Leland Payton |
| Crusher Joe | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko |
| Cujo | Lewis Teague |
| Curtains | Richard Ciupka |
| D.C. Cab | Joel Schumacher |
| Daicon Film's Return of Ultraman | Hideaki Anno |
| DAICON IV Opening Animation | Hiroyuki Yamaga |
| Dead Zone, The | David Cronenberg |
| Deadly Force | Paul Aaron |
| Deadly Spawn, The | Douglas McKeown |
| Deathstalker | James Sbardellati |
| Debauchery | Hidehiro Ito |
| Demon Hunter | Gilberto de Anda |
| Demon Is on the Island | Francis Leroi |
| Demons of Ludlow, The | Bill Rebane |
| Desert, The | Çetin İnanç |
| Devil Fetus | Lau Hung-Chuen |
| Devonsville Terror, The | Ulli Lommel |
| Doctor Detroit | Michael Pressman |
| Duel to the Death | Ching Siu-Tung |
| Endgame | Joe D'Amato |
| Escape from the Bronx | Enzo G. Castellari |
| Escapist, The | Eddie Beverly Jr. |
| Eureka | Nicolas Roeg |
| Exterminators of the Year 3000 | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Eyes of Fire | Avery Crounse |
| Fantasy Mission Force | Chu Yen-ping |
| Fearless Hyena 2 | Chuan Chen |
| Final Terror, The | Andrew Davis |
| Final Yamato | Leiji Matsumoto, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Tomoharu Katsumata, Takeshi Shirado |
| Fire and Ice | Ralph Bakshi |
| Fire Dragon | Chester Wong Chung Gwong, Chu Yen-ping |
| Fireback | Teddy Chiu |
| First Turn-On!!, The | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz |
| Fist Full of Talons, A | Sun Chung |
| Flash Future Kung Fu | Kirk Wong |
| Flicks | Kirk Henderson, Peter Winograd |
| Geisha, The | Hideo Gosha |
| Get Crazy | Allan Arkush |
| Getting It On | William Olsen |
| Girl, She Is 100%, A | Naoto Yamakawa |
| Going Berserk | David Steinberg |
| Great Sadness of Zohara, The | Nina Menkes |
| Heartbeat | Paul Naschy |
| Hercules | Luigi Cozzi |
| Holy Flame of the Martial World | Tony Liu Chun-Ku |
| House of the Long Shadows | Pete Walker |
| House on Sorority Row, The | Mark Rosman |
| Hunger, The | Tony Scott |
| Instructor, The | Don Bendell |
| Ironmaster | Umberto Lenzi |
| Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? | Phil Roman |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark |
| Julie Darling | Paul Nicholas |
| Keep, The | Michael Mann |
| Killing of Satan, The | Efren C. Piñon |
| Koyaanisqatsi | Godfrey Reggio |
| Krull | Peter Yates |
| Lady Assassin, The | Tony Liu Chun-Ku |
| Lady Is the Boss, The | Liu Chia-Liang |
| Legend of the Eight Samurai | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Lift, The | Dick Maas |
| Little Dragon Maiden | Hua Shan |
| Little Girl Who Conquered Time, The | Nobuhiko Ōbayashi |
| Local Hero | Bill Forsyth |
| Lone Wolf McQuade | Steve Carver |
| Man with Two Brains, The | Carl Reiner |
| Mantis vs Falcon's Claws | Jo Myung-hwa |
| Martial Monks of Shaolin Temple | Shi-hyeon Kim |
| Master of the World | Alberto Cavallone |
| Mausoleum | Michael Dugan |
| Meantime | Mike Leigh |
| Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn | Charles Band |
| Mickey's Christmas Carol | Burny Mattinson |
| Microwave Massacre | Wayne Berwick |
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | Terry Jones |
| Mortuary | Howard Avedis |
| Mountaintop Motel Massacre | Jim McCullough Sr. |
| Mr. Mom | Stan Dragoti |
| My Tutor | George Bowers |
| Mystère | Carlo Vanzina |
| National Lampoon's Vacation | Harold Ramis |
| Never Say Never Again | Irvin Kershner |
| New Barbarians, The | Enzo G. Castellari |
| Night in Heaven, A | John G. Avildsen |
| Night to Dismember, A | Doris Wishman |
| Nightmares | Joseph Sargent |
| Octopussy | John Glen |
| Of Unknown Origin | George P. Cosmatos |
| Ogroff | N.G. Mount |
| Osterman Weekend, The | Sam Peckinpah |
| Outsiders, The | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Play Dead | Peter Wittman |
| Please Don't Eat the Babies | Henri Charr |
| Porky's II: The Next Day | Bob Clark |
| Possibly in Michigan | Cecelia Condit |
| Pressures of the Text, The | Peter Rose |
| Prey, The | Edwin Brown |
| Prisoners of the Lost Universe | Terry Marcel |
| Prize of Peril, The | Yves Boisset |
| Project A | Jackie Chan |
| Psycho II | Richard Franklin |
| Quälen | Michael J. Murphy |
| Raiders of Atlantis | Ruggero Deodato |
| Red Spell Spells Red | Titus Ho |
| Return of Captain Invincible, The | Philippe Mora |
| Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand |
| Revenge in the House of Usher | Jesús Franco |
| Revenge of the Ninja | Sam Firstenberg |
| Right Stuff, The | Philip Kaufman |
| Risky Business | Paul Brickman |
| Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith |
| Romantic Comedy | Arthur Hiller |
| Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Sans Soleil | Chris Marker |
| Savior of the Earth | Su-yong Jeong |
| Scalps | Fred Olen Ray |
| Scarface | Brian De Palma |
| Screamtime | Michael Armstrong, Stanley A. Long |
| Screwballs | Rafal Zielinski |
| Seeding of a Ghost | Yang Chuan |
| Seven Black Heroines | Chu Yen-ping |
| Shaolin and Wu Tang | Gordon Liu Chia-Hui |
| Shaolin Drunkard | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Shaolin Intruders | Tong Kai |
| Shaolin vs. Lama | Lee Tso-Nam |
| She-Wolf | Marek Piestrak |
| Siege | Paul Donovan, Maura O'Connell |
| Sign of Four, The | Desmond Davis |
| Skullduggery | Ota Richter |
| Sledgehammer | David A. Prior |
| Sleepaway Camp | Robert Hiltzik |
| Smorgasbord | Jerry Lewis |
| Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | Lamont Johnson |
| Spring Break | Sean S. Cunningham |
| Star 80 | Bob Fosse |
| Star Chamber, The | Peter Hyams |
| Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land | Jerry Jameson |
| Stark Raving Mad | George Hood |
| Staying Alive | Sylvester Stallone |
| Strange Brew | Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas |
| Stroker Ace | Hal Needham |
| Stryker | Cirio H. Santiago |
| Sudden Impact | Clint Eastwood |
| Superman III | Richard Lester |
| Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
| Thanksgiving Tale, A | James Field |
| Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose, A | Osamu Dezaki, Satoshi Dezaki |
| To Be or Not to Be | Alan Johnson |
| Trading Places | John Landis |
| Trail, The | Ronny Yu |
| Treasure of the Four Crowns | Ferdinando Baldi |
| Twice Upon a Time | John Korty, Charles Swenson |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller |
| Two of a Kind | John Herzfeld |
| Uncommon Valor | Ted Kotcheff |
| Unico in the Island of Magic | Moribi Murano |
| Valley Girl | Martha Coolidge |
| Videodrome | David Cronenberg |
| WarGames | John Badham |
| Warrior of the Lost World | David Worth |
| Weird Man, The | Chang Cheh |
| White Star | Roland Klick |
| Wind in the Willows, The | Chris Taylor, Mark Hall |
| Winners & Sinners | Sammo Hung |
| Women's Prison Massacre | Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei |
| Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti |
| Young Warriors | Lawrence D. Foldes |
| Zeder | Pupi Avati |
| Zelig | Woody Allen |
| Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain | Tsui Hark |