Movies Using the English Language and Released in 1983
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The list below includes all films using the English language, including movies using other languages as well.
Note: Since we are still actively researching languages, we consider this chart to be in beta mode.
While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| Movie | Language(s) | Genre | Production
Budget | Worldwide
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi |
English |
Adventure |
$32,500,000 |
$482,365,284 |
|
| Flashdance |
English |
Drama |
$7,000,000 |
$201,463,574 |
|
| Octopussy |
English |
Action |
$27,500,000 |
$187,500,000 |
|
| Never Say Never Again |
English |
Action |
$36,000,000 |
$160,000,000 |
|
| Staying Alive |
English |
Drama |
$22,000,000 |
$126,041,474 |
|
| Terms of Endearment |
English |
Drama |
|
$108,423,749 |
|
| Trading Places |
English |
Comedy |
|
$90,400,000 |
|
| Superman III |
English |
Adventure |
$39,000,000 |
$80,200,000 |
|
| WarGames |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$12,000,000 |
$74,433,837 |
|
| Sudden Impact |
English |
Action |
|
$67,642,693 |
|
| Mr. Mom |
English |
Comedy |
|
$64,800,000 |
|
| Risky Business |
English |
Comedy |
|
$63,541,777 |
|
| National Lampoon’s Vacation |
English |
Comedy |
$15,000,000 |
$61,400,000 |
|
| The Big Chill |
English |
Comedy |
|
$56,077,578 |
|
| Scarface |
English |
Drama |
$25,000,000 |
$45,233,082 |
|
| Blue Thunder |
English |
Action |
|
$42,313,354 |
|
| Jaws 3-D |
English |
Horror |
|
$42,245,180 |
|
| Yentl |
English,
Hebrew |
Musical |
$12,000,000 |
$39,012,241 |
|
| Porky's II: The Next Day |
English |
Comedy |
|
$33,759,266 |
|
| The Evil Dead |
English |
Horror |
$375,000 |
$29,400,000 |
|
| High Road to China |
English |
Adventure |
|
$28,416,459 |
|
| Uncommon Valor |
English |
Action |
|
$27,900,000 |
|
| The Outsiders |
English |
Drama |
$10,000,000 |
$25,722,974 |
|
| The Right Stuff |
English |
Drama |
$27,000,000 |
$21,500,213 |
|
| Christine |
English |
Horror |
|
$21,228,951 |
|
| The Dead Zone |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$10,000,000 |
$20,766,000 |
|
| A Christmas Story |
English |
Comedy |
$3,250,000 |
$20,640,209 |
|
| Breathless |
English |
Action |
$7,000,000 |
$19,910,002 |
|
| All the Right Moves |
English |
Drama |
|
$17,200,000 |
|
| Valley Girl |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$16,800,549 |
|
| Krull |
English |
Adventure |
|
$16,519,460 |
|
| D.C. Cab |
English |
Comedy |
|
$16,134,000 |
|
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,929,552 |
|
| Private School |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,049,540 |
|
| The Entity |
English |
Horror |
|
$13,277,558 |
|
| Lone Wolf McQuade |
English |
Western |
$5,000,000 |
$12,232,628 |
|
| Zelig |
English |
Comedy |
|
$11,798,616 |
|
| The Smurfs and the Magic Flute |
English,
French |
Adventure |
|
$11,234,220 |
|
| Doctor Detroit |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,400,000 |
|
| Lovesick |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
$10,100,000 |
$10,143,618 |
|
| The House on Sorority Row |
English |
Horror |
|
$8,184,633 |
|
| 10 to Midnight |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$7,175,592 |
|
| Nightmares |
English |
Horror |
|
$6,670,680 |
|
| The Sting II |
English |
Comedy |
|
$6,347,072 |
|
| Local Hero |
English |
Comedy |
|
$5,840,040 |
|
| Something Wicked This Way Comes |
English |
Horror |
|
$5,656,087 |
|
| Vigilante |
English |
Action |
|
$5,091,888 |
|
| The Hunger |
English |
Horror |
|
$4,800,000 |
|
| Eddie and the Cruisers |
English |
Drama |
$5,000,000 |
$4,685,097 |
|
| Yor: Hunter From the Future |
English |
Action |
|
$2,810,199 |
|
| Table for Five |
English |
Drama |
|
$2,400,000 |
|
| Videodrome |
English |
Horror |
$5,952,000 |
$2,121,939 |
|
| Screwballs |
English |
Comedy |
|
$2,082,000 |
|
| Mortuary |
English |
Horror |
|
$1,722,738 |
|
| Baby It's You |
English |
Comedy |
|
$1,312,473 |
|
| Eddie Macon's Run |
English |
Action |
|
$1,300,000 |
|
| Losin' It |
English |
Comedy |
$7,000,000 |
$1,246,141 |
|
| Pieces |
English |
Horror |
|
$1,201,028 |
|
| Getting It On |
English |
Comedy |
|
$975,414 |
|
| Heat and Dust |
English,
Hindi,
Urdu |
Drama |
|
$926,874 |
|
| The Wicked Lady |
English |
Drama |
$8,000,000 |
$589,308 |
|
| Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars |
English |
Documentary |
|
$382,234 |
|
| Deadly Force |
English |
Action |
|
$294,316 |
|
| E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà |
English,
Italian |
Horror |
$400,000 |
$126,387 |
|
| The Prey |
English |
Horror |
|
$49,677 |
|
| The Draughtsman’s Contract |
Dutch,
English,
German |
Drama |
|
$27,011 |
|
| Dans la ville blanche |
English,
French,
German,
Portuguese |
Drama |
|
$2,551 |
|
| Utu |
English |
Adventure |
|
$717 |
|
| Heart Like a Wheel |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Enigma |
English,
German |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| The Grey Fox |
English |
Western |
|
$0 |
|
| Betrayal |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Threshold |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Curtains |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Sleepaway Camp |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Space Raiders |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Madman |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Duel |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| One Dark Night |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Being |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Trial by Terror |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| The Day After |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| The Plague Dogs |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Carnival Magic |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Dark Circle |
English |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
| BMX Bandits |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| House of the Long Shadows |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
