Superman III
Movie / 1983-06-17 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by John Williams, Ken Thorne
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
Trading Places
Movie / 1983-06-07 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Octopussy
Movie / 1983-06-05 / United Kingdom / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by John Barry
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Wargames
Movie / 1983-06-03 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Arthur B. Rubinstein
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Psycho II
Movie / 1983-06-03 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
A Minor Miracle
Movie / 1983-05-31 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Rick Patterson
A group of orphans and their guardian get together to try to save their orphanage.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return Of The Jedi
Movie / 1983-05-25 / United States / Releases: 7 / Recordings: 2
Composed by John Williams
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Movie / 1983-05-20 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
On a distant planet inhabited by mutants, two bounty hunters race to rescue three Earth female captives from the clutches of an evil warlord.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Movie / 1983-04-29 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 2
Composed by James Horner, Georges Delerue
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Exposed
Movie / 1983-04-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Georges Delerue
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...
Heart Like a Wheel
Movie / 1983-04-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Laurence Rosenthal
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Bad Boys
Movie / 1983-03-25 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bill Conti
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
Max Dugan Returns
Movie / 1983-03-25 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by David Shire
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
The Alchemist
Movie / 1983-03-01 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Richard Band
A man seeks revenge on an evil magician who placed a curse on him.
Lovesick
Movie / 1983-02-18 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Philippe Sarde
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
The Winds of War
Television / 1983-02-06 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bob Cobert
Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
Videodrome
Movie / 1983-02-04 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Howard Shore
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
El Tesoro de las cuatro coronas
Movie / 1983-01-21 / Spain / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Ennio Morricone
A group of adventurers are gathered together to retrieve some mystical gems which are in the possession of a deadly cult.
Tootsie
Movie / 1982-12-17 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Dave Grusin
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
The Dark Crystal
Movie / 1982-12-17 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Trevor Jones
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
Airplane II: The Sequel
Movie / 1982-12-10 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein, Richard Hazard
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
That Championship Season
Movie / 1982-12-09 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bill Conti
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true identity, to be honest with each other for the first time in their lives. When the night comes to an end they decide to go back to the old glorious days and reunite into the team which won that championship season, back in 1957.
The Verdict
Movie / 1982-12-08 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Johnny Mandel
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
48 Hrs.
Movie / 1982-12-07 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by James Horner
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Witness for the Prosecution
Movie / 1982-12-04 / United Kingdom / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by John Cameron
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.