1982 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1982, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Gandhi
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox
Country: United States of America
Outline: Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Directed by: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Country: United States of America
Outline: With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
Poltergeist
Directed by: Tobe Hooper
Starring: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Country: United States of America
Outline: A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.
Tootsie
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman
Country: United States of America
Outline: Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
An Officer and a Gentleman
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.
48 Hrs.
Directed by: Walter Hill
Starring: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae
Country: United States of America
Outline: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Rocky III
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Country: United States of America
Outline: After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.
Annie
Directed by: John Huston
Starring: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Directed by: Colin Higgins
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning
Country: United States of America
Outline: A town's Sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a television reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.
Nature
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Chris Morgan, George Page
Country: United States of America
Outline: Documentary series exploring various global wildlife issues and subjects.
Los gozos y las sombras
Starring: Eusebio Poncela, Carlos Larrañaga, Charo López, Rafael Alonso
Country: Spain
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Blade Runner
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Country: United States of America
Outline: A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Fitzcarraldo
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Country: United States of America
Outline: The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
The Thing
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Country: United States of America
Outline: A crew in Antarctica finds a neighboring camp destroyed and its crew dead. Whatever killed them is nowhere to be found, unless it's hidden in plain sight.
Fanny and Alexander
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls.
Brummkreisel
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Middletown
Directed by: Brian Kirk
Outline: Six-part documentary on the city of Muncie, Indiana - nicknamed "Middletown" after a study in the 1920s deemed it representative of middle America. The series finds that amid the great ...
The Verdict
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason
Country: United States of America
Outline: A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
The King of Comedy
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard
Country: United States of America
Outline: Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
First Blood
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney
Country: United States of America
Outline: Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.
Sophie's Choice
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Country: United States of America
Outline: Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the ...
Moonlighting
Directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav, Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz
Outline: A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as ...
The Secret of NIMH
Directed by: Don Bluth
Starring: Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Arthur Malet
Country: United States of America
Outline: To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.
The Last Unicorn
Directed by: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Alan Arkin
Country: United States of America
Outline: A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns.
Long zhi ren zhe
Directed by: Corey Yuen
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Conan Lee, Jang Lee Hwang, Kaname Tsushima
Outline: Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together after their master has been killed by a mighty enemy.
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