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.
| 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 |
|
| Jaws 3-D |
English |
Horror |
|
$84,715,180 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Scarface |
English |
Drama |
$25,000,000 |
$65,703,398 |
|
| Mr. Mom |
English |
Comedy |
|
$64,800,000 |
|
| Risky Business |
English |
Comedy |
|
$63,541,827 |
|
| National Lampoon’s Vacation |
English |
Comedy |
$15,000,000 |
$61,400,000 |
|
| The Big Chill |
English |
Comedy |
|
$56,077,875 |
|
| Blue Thunder |
English |
Action |
|
$42,313,354 |
|
| Yentl |
English,
Hebrew |
Musical |
$12,000,000 |
$39,012,241 |
|
| Silkwood |
English |
Drama |
|
$35,615,609 |
|
| Porky's II: The Next Day |
English |
Comedy |
|
$33,759,266 |
|
| Psycho II |
English |
Horror |
|
$32,000,000 |
|
| The Evil Dead |
English |
Horror |
$375,000 |
$29,400,000 |
|
| Easy Money |
English |
Comedy |
|
$29,309,766 |
|
| High Road to China |
English |
Adventure |
|
$28,416,459 |
|
| Uncommon Valor |
English |
Action |
|
$27,900,000 |
|
| Never Cry Wolf |
English |
Drama |
|
$27,668,764 |
|
| The Outsiders |
English |
Drama |
$10,000,000 |
$25,779,857 |
|
| Spring Break |
English |
Comedy |
|
$24,071,666 |
|
| Two of a Kind |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$23,700,000 |
|
| My Tutor |
English |
Comedy |
|
$22,587,000 |
|
| Class |
English |
Comedy |
|
$21,667,789 |
|
| The Right Stuff |
English |
Drama |
$27,000,000 |
$21,500,213 |
|
| Christine |
English |
Horror |
|
$21,228,951 |
|
| Cujo |
English |
Horror |
|
$21,156,152 |
|
| A Christmas Story |
English |
Comedy |
$3,250,000 |
$20,825,467 |
|
| The Dead Zone |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$10,000,000 |
$20,766,000 |
|
| Breathless |
English |
Action |
$7,000,000 |
$19,910,002 |
|
| Max Dugan Returns |
English |
Comedy |
|
$17,613,720 |
|
| All the Right Moves |
English |
Drama |
|
$17,200,000 |
|
| Valley Girl |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$16,800,549 |
|
| Krull |
English |
Adventure |
|
$16,519,460 |
|
| Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone |
English |
Adventure |
|
$16,478,265 |
|
| Richard Pryor Here and Now |
English |
Concert/Performance |
|
$16,156,776 |
|
| D.C. Cab |
English |
Comedy |
|
$16,134,000 |
|
| Gorky Park |
English |
Drama |
|
$15,900,000 |
|
| Still Smokin |
English |
Comedy |
|
$15,543,000 |
|
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,929,552 |
|
| Educating Rita |
English |
Drama |
|
$14,688,000 |
|
| Private School |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,049,540 |
|
| The Survivors |
English |
Comedy |
|
$14,000,000 |
|
| The Entity |
English |
Horror |
|
$13,277,558 |
|
| To Be or Not to Be |
English |
Comedy |
|
$13,030,214 |
|
| Stroker Ace |
English |
Comedy |
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| Lone Wolf McQuade |
English |
Western |
$5,000,000 |
$12,232,628 |
|
| Zelig |
English |
Comedy |
|
$11,798,616 |
|
| The Lords of Discipline |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$11,721,041 |
|
| The Smurfs and the Magic Flute |
English,
French |
Adventure |
|
$11,234,220 |
|
| The Man Who Loved Women |
English |
Comedy |
|
$11,000,000 |
|
| Deal of the Century |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,400,000 |
|
| Doctor Detroit |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,400,000 |
|
| The Man with Two Brains |
English |
Comedy |
|
$10,353,438 |
|
| Revenge of the Ninja |
English |
Action |
|
$10,325,628 |
|
| The Year of Living Dangerously |
English |
Drama |
$6,000,000 |
$10,278,575 |
|
| Lovesick |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
$10,100,000 |
$10,143,618 |
|
| The Black Stallion Returns |
English |
Adventure |
|
$9,851,679 |
|
| Without a Trace |
English |
Drama |
|
$9,632,062 |
|
| Hercules |
English |
Adventure |
|
$9,466,655 |
|
| Bad Boys |
English |
Drama |
|
$9,200,000 |
|
| Brainstorm |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
$15,000,000 |
$8,921,050 |
|
| Deathstalker |
English |
Action |
|
$8,890,685 |
|
| 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 |
|
$5,882,579 |
|
| Under Fire |
English |
Drama |
$8,000,000 |
$5,696,391 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Joysticks |
English |
Comedy |
|
$3,952,000 |
|
| Yor: Hunter From the Future |
English |
Action |
|
$2,810,199 |
|
| Table for Five |
English |
Drama |
|
$2,400,000 |
|
| The Man Who Wasn’t There |
English |
Comedy |
|
$2,315,505 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Running Brave |
English |
Drama |
|
$1,204,595 |
|
| 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 |
|
$430,882 |
|
| Deadly Force |
English |
Action |
|
$294,316 |
|
| E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà |
English,
Italian |
Horror |
$400,000 |
$136,926 |
|
| Hanna K. |
|
Drama |
|
$110,000 |
|
| 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 |
|
$925 |
|
| Heart Like a Wheel |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Enigma |
English,
German |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| The Grey Fox |
English |
Western |
|
$0 |
|
| Betrayal |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Twilight Time |
Croatian,
English,
Serbian |
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 |
|
| Papy fait de la résistance |
|
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
