July 1983 (Superman III)

• The Alchemist (USA - 1981)

• Another Time, Another Place (UK - 1983)
• L’argent (Swz/Fr - 1983)

• Basket Case (USA - 1981)
• Blue Thunder (USA - 1982) (scope) (70mm Dolby)

• Cindy's Love Games (Amanti miei) (X) (It - 1979)

• Doll’s Eye (UK - 1982) [MFB]

• Fade to Black (USA - 1980)
• For Your Love Only (Reifezeugnis) (TVM) (W.Ger - 1977)

• Heidi’s Song (USA - 1982) (Dolby)
• Hot Fantasies (Los ritos sexuales del diablo) (X) (Sp - 1980)

• Next of Kin (Aus - 1982)

• One From the Heart (USA - 1982) (Dolby)
• The Opening of Misty Beethoven (XXX) (USA - 1975) [BBFC]

• Pauline at the Beach (Pauline a la plage) (Fr - 1982)

• The Rise of Louis XIV (see: Rise to Power of Louis XIV, The)
• The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV) /USA: The Rise of Louis XIV (Fr - 1966) [MFB]

• The Secret of Yolanda (אהבה אילמת) (Israel - 1982)
• Sisters or The Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) (W.Ger - 1979)
• Superman III (USA - 1983) (scope) (70mm Dolby)

• That Championship Season (USA - 1982)

• Young Warriors (USA - 1983)

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June 1983 (Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi)

• The Best Bit of Crumpet in Denmark (Bordellet) /USA: Bordello (XXX) (Den - 1972)

• Bordello (see: Best Bit of Crumpet in Denmark, The)

• Curtains (Can - 1982)

• L’étoile du nord (see: North Star, The)

• Father and Son (父子情) (HK - 1981)
• Fiona on Fire (see: White Flesh is Weak)
• Flashdance (USA - 1983) (Dolby)

• Gala (Can - 1982)

• Humongous (USA - 1981)

• Island of Blood (see: Whodunit?)

• Joysticks (USA - 1983)

• Malou (W.Ger - 1980)

• National Lampoon’s Class Reunion (USA - 1982) (Dolby)
• The New Barbarians (I nuovi barbari) /USA: Warriors of the Wasteland (It - 1982) (scope) (Dolby)
• The North Star (L’étoile du nord) (Fr - 1982)

• Octopussy (UK - 1983) (scope) (70mm Dolby)
• The Outsiders (USA - 1983) (scope) (Dolby)

• Passion (Fr/Swz - 1982)

• A Question of Silence (De stilte rond Christine M.) (Neth - 1982)

• Return of the Jedi [see: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi]

• Spasms (Can - 1982)
• Spring Break (USA - 1983)
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (USA - 1983) (scope) (70mm Dolby)

• Tender Mercies (USA - 1982)
• Treasure of the Four Crowns (Il tesoro de las cuatro coronas) (Sp/It/USA - 1982) (scope) (3-D) (Dolby)

• Unhinged (USA - 1982)

• Warriors of the Wasteland (see: New Barbarians, The)
• White Flesh is Weak (Fiona on Fire) (XXX) (USA - 1978)
• Whodunit? (Island of Blood) (USA - 1982)

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May 1983 (Fanny and Alexander)

• Alone in the Dark (USA - 1982) (Dolby)

• Campsite Massacre (The Final Terror) (USA - 1981)
• Codename: The Soldier (The Soldier) (USA - 1982)
• The Concrete Jungle (USA - 1982)
• Confidence (Bizalom) (Hung - 1979)

• Educating Rita (UK - 1983)

• Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (Swd - 1982) ¹
• The Final Terror (see: Campsite Massacre)

• The Guns and the Fury (USA - 1981) (scope)

• Halloween III: Season of the Witch (USA - 1982) (scope)
• Hellcat Mud Wrestlers (X) (UK - 1983)
• Honkytonk Man (USA - 1982)
• House of the Long Shadows (UK - 1982)
• The Hunger (USA - 1982) (scope)

• Island of Passion (Samanka) (X) (Fr/Sp/Swz - 1982)

• Jesus (USA - 1979)

• The King of Comedy (USA - 1982)

• Mary! Mary! (XXX) (USA - 1976)
• Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (UK - 1983) (Dolby)

• One Dark Night (USA - 1982)

• Personal Best (USA - 1982)
• The Ploughman’s Lunch (UK - 1983)
• Private Popsicle (Lemon Popsicle IV) (ספיחס) (Israel/W.Ger - 1982)

• Samanka (see: Island of Passion)
• Six Weeks (USA - 1982)
• Smash Palace (NZ - 1981)
• The Soldier (see: Codename: The Soldier)

• Tenebrae (Tenebre) /USA: Unsane (It - 1982)

• Unsane (see: Tenebrae)

• The Year of Living Dangerously (Aus - 1982) (scope)
• Young Girls of Wilko (see: Young Ladies of Wilko, The)
• The Young Ladies of Wilko (Panny z Wilka) /USA: Young Girls of Wilko (Pol/Fr - 1979)

¹ Conceived as both a feature film and a 5-episode TV miniseries.

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April 1983 (Friday the 13th Part III)

• 7 Into Snowy (see: As She Likes It)

• America: From Hitler to M-X (USA - 1982 - bw and col) [MFB]

• Ascendancy (UK - 1982)

• Aspern (Port - 1981)
• As She Likes It (7 Into Snowy) (XXX) (USA - 1977)

• Barbarosa (USA - 1982)
• Bianca (see: Sweet Body of Bianca)

• The Courtesans of Bombay (UK - 1982) [MFB]

• Deep in the Heart (see: Handgun)

• Eureka (UK/USA - 1982)

• Friday the 13th Part III (USA - 1982) (scope) (3-D)
• From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (USA - 1980)

• The Girl With the Red Hair (Het meisje met het rode haar) (Neth - 1982)

• Handgun /USA: Deep in the Heart (UK - 1982)

• Parsifal (Fr/W.Ger - 1982) (Dolby)

• Second Thoughts (USA - 1982) [MFB]

• The Sting II (USA - 1983)
• Sweet Body of Bianca (Το γλυκό κορμί της Μπιάνκα) /USA: Bianca (X) (Greece - 1982)

• Tightrope to Terror (UK - 1982)

• The Wicked Lady (UK - 1983)
• Women of Pleasure (The Wonderful World of Girls) (X) (USA - 1965)
• The Wonderful World of Girls (see: Women of Pleasure)

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March 1983 (Sophie's Choice)

• 10 to Midnight (USA - 1983)

• 48 HRS. (USA - 1982) (Dolby)

• Aces Go Places II (最佳拍檔大顯神通) (HK - 1983) (scope) [BBFC]
• Android (USA - 1982)

• Bad Boys (USA - 1983) (Dolby)
• Baker County, U.S.A. (see: Trapped)
• Best Friends (USA - 1982)
• The Boys in Blue (UK - 1983)
• The Budding of Brie (XXX) (USA - 1980)

• Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (see: High Encounters [of the Ultimate Kind])
• The Clinic (Aus - 1982)

• Double Jeopardy (Olivia) (USA/W.Ger - 1981)

• Fanny Hill (X) (UK - 1983)
• Firecracker (see: Naked Fist)

• Game of Death II (see: Tower of Death)

• High Encounters (of the Ultimate Kind) (Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie) (USA - 1980)

• Identification of a Woman (Identificazione di una donna) (It/Fr - 1982)

• Kuhle Wampe (Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt?) (Ger - 1931 - bw)

• Language of Love 2 (Mera ur kärlekens språk) (XX) (Swd - 1970) ¹
• Let’s Spend the Night Together (USA - 1982) (70mm 6-channel)
• Local Hero (UK - 1983)
• Lovesick (USA - 1983)

• The Miracle Fighters (奇門遁甲) (HK - 1982) (scope) [BBFC]
• The Missionary (UK - 1982) (scope)

• Naked Fist (Firecracker) (USA/Phil - 1981)
• Nana (X) (It - 1982)

• Olivia (see: Double Jeopardy)
• One Man's War (La guerre d’un seul homme) (Fr/W.Ger - 1981)

• Pixote (Pixote: A Lei do Mas Fraco) /USA: Pixote: The Survival of the Weakest (Brazil - 1981)
• Pixote: The Survival of the Weakest (see: Pixote)
• Private French Lessons (Ardeurs perverses) (XXX) (Fr/Swz - 1983)

• Q (USA - 1982)
• Q: The Winged Serpent [see: Q]

• Sophie’s Choice (USA - 1982)

• Table for Five (USA - 1983)
• Tales of Ordinary Madness (Storie di ordinaria follia) (It/Fr - 1981)
• They Call It an Accident (see: They Call That an Accident)
• They Call That an Accident (Ils appellent ça un accident) /USA: They Call It An Accident (Fr - 1981)
• Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (USA - 1982) (Dolby)

• Tower of Death (死亡塔) /USA: Game of Death II (HK/S.Korea - 1981) (scope) [BBFC]
• Trapped /USA: Baker County, U.S.A. (Can/USA - 1981)

• Veronika Voss (Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss) (W.Ger - 1982)
• Vijeta (विजेता) (India - 1982)

• Xtro (UK - 1982)

¹ Originally refused a BBFC certificate, but an edited version (More About the Language of Love) was passed by London council in Jul 1974. The same abbreviated print was added to the trade register in 1983 under its 'new' title, after the film was finally given an 18 certificate.

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February 1983 (Tootsie)

• The Beastmaster (USA - 1982) (Dolby)

• Catherine Chérie (X) (W.Ger/Sp - 1982)

• The Dark Crystal (USA - 1982) (scope) (70mm Dolby)

• The Executioner’s Song (TVM) (USA - 1982) ¹

• Fighting Back (Aus - 1982)
• Frances (USA - 1982) (Dolby)

• Legendary Weapons of China (十八般武藝) (HK - 1982) (scope) [BBFC]

• Monsignor (USA - 1982)
• Muddy River (泥の河) (Jpn - 1981 - bw)
• My Favorite Year (USA - 1982)

• Penitentiary II (USA - 1982)
• Pick-Up Girls (La chica de las bragas transparentes) (X) (Sp - 1980)

• Ranch of the Nymphomaniac Girls [see: Ranch of the Nymphomaniacs]
• Ranch of the Nymphomaniacs (Die bumsfidelen Mädchen vom Birkenhof) (X) (Swz - 1974)

• Smithereens (USA - 1982)

• Tootsie (USA - 1982) (scope)

• The World According to Garp (USA - 1982)

• Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (新蜀山劍俠) (HK - 1983) [BBFC]

¹ Condensed feature version of 2-episode TV miniseries.

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January 1983 (An Officer and a Gentleman)

• 1990: The Bronx Warriors (see: Bronx Warriors)

• Airplane II: The Sequel (USA - 1982)
• Avenging Ninja (see: Enter the King of Kung Fu)

• Bronx Warriors (1990: I guerrieri del Bronx) /USA: 1990: The Bronx Warriors (It - 1982) (scope)

• Class of 1984 (USA - 1981)

• Eating Raoul (USA - 1982)
• Enigma (UK/Fr - 1981)
• Enter the King of Kung Fu (Zen Kwun Do Strikes in Paris) (忍拳威震巴黎) /USA: Avenging Ninja (Tai - 1981) (scope)
• Escape 2000 (see: Turkey Shoot)

• G’olé (UK - 1981) (scope) (Dolby)

• Heat and Dust (UK - 1982) (Dolby)

• The Last Unicorn (USA/UK/Jpn/Ger - 1982) (Dolby)
• Looks and Smiles (UK - 1982)

• The Man From Snowy River (Aus - 1982) (scope) (Dolby)

• An Officer and a Gentleman (USA - 1981)

• Party Party (UK - 1983)
• Privates on Parade (UK - 1982)

• The Return of the Soldier (UK - 1982)

• La signora di tutti (It - 1934 - bw)
• Starflight One (Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land) (TVM) (USA - 1982) (Dolby)
• Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (see: Starflight One)
• The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge) (W.Ger/USA/Port - 1982)
• Still of the Night (USA - 1982)
• Summer Lovers (USA - 1982) (Dolby)

• Tempest (USA - 1982) (70mm Dolby)
• Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt (UK - 1982) [MFB]

• Turkey Shoot /USA: Escape 2000 (Aus - 1981) (scope)

• The Verdict (USA - 1982)
• Vigilante (USA - 1982) (scope) (Dolby)

• Yol (Swz - 1982)
• Young Doctors in Love (USA - 1982)

• Zen Kwun Do Strikes in Paris (see: Enter the King of Kung Fu)

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