1983

Nine years old, a single-minded wish, and a narrator who never lets you forget it.

A maverick pilot, a flying surveillance machine and a paranoid 1980s that still feels eerily familiar.

Obsession, adolescence and a car that won't let go.

A mother, a boy and a locked car — Donna Trenton holds the line.

De Lift: corporate power and our relationship with technology, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Easy Money: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

A working‑class hairdresser, an exasperated tutor and a lesson that changes both of them.

Flashdance: family and mortality and lifespan, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Jaws 3-D: freedom and authority, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Local Hero: corporate power and greed, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Lone Wolf McQuade: heroism and parents protecting their children, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

A very British banquet of bodily comedy, institutional savaging and one famously explosive dinner.

Mr. Mom: family and consumerism, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

A disastrously planned holiday that somehow still makes you laugh — and wince.

Sean Connery comes back, the nukes go missing, and the old Bond gets a very 1980s second act.

A Fabergé egg, a travelling circus and the Cold War — Bond still does spectacle like a Trojan horse.

Psycho II: family and the safety of home, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

A suburban teenager, a one‑night business and the day ambition learned to look dangerous.

A refugee's hunger for respect turns into reckless rule — and a very expensive mess.

Sleepaway Camp: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi: mortality and lifespan and mortality, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Sudden Impact: fear and friendship, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Superman III: our relationship with technology and courage, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

A sharp, sentimental and sometimes infuriating love story — mostly between a mother and her impossible daughter.

A funeral, a stack of records and a weekender where old promises get examined.

The Black Stallion Returns: friendship and freedom, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

A quiet schoolteacher, an awful glimpse of tomorrow and the heavy work of knowing too much.

The Hunger: the safety of home and family, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

The Keep: family and parents protecting their children, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

The Man with Two Brains: love and authority, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Ponyboy's voice, a neighbourhood at war, and the moment childhood truly ends.

A lone test pilot, a public spectacle — and the stubborn shape of American heroism.

The Survivors: authority, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

To Be or Not to Be: family and the safety of home, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

A rigged bet, a culture-swap and Louis Winthorpe III — still very funny, still very sharp.

Uncommon Valor: parents protecting their children and family, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Valley Girl: the safety of home and friendship, and why this 1983 movie still matters.

Television as a drug, a weapon and a wound — and Max Renn is the addict in the middle of it.

A teenage prank that becomes national panic — and a neat little film about humans still being better at meaning than machines.

Yentl: family and love, and why this 1983 movie still matters.