Best movies of 1982

Titles indexed: 76

Blade Runner

Rating: 7.9

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants...

First Blood

Rating: 7.5

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains a...

Basket Case

Rating: 6.2

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who s...

Night Crossing

Rating: 6.1

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a ...

Highpoint

Rating: 4.8

James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinn...

Gandhi

Rating: 7.6

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause ...

Battletruck

Rating: 4.5

It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the a...

Barbarosa

Rating: 5.9

Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He mee...

Fitzcarraldo

Rating: 7.6

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he emba...

Q

Rating: 5.7

A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent....

Love

Rating: 4.5

A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women....

Butterfly

Rating: 4.7

Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually p...

My Favorite Year

Rating: 6.6

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear...

Personal Best

Rating: 5.8

Young sprinter Chris Cahill is having difficulty reaching her potential as an athlete, until she meets established track star Tory Skinner. ...

Homework

Rating: 3.3

Good-looking but virginal "rockstar" teen Tommy tries to score with some of the local high school girls. But a classmate's mom decides to ma...

The Plague Dogs

Rating: 7.8

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by se...

Countryman

Rating: 5.5

A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabri...

The Dark Crystal

Rating: 7.1

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his...

Ivanhoe

Rating: 6.3

Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Pri...

Tenebre

Rating: 6.8

A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest...

Xtro

Rating: 5.8

Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living...

Cat People

Rating: 6.0

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Ire...

Hammett

Rating: 6.2

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction fo...

Eating Raoul

Rating: 6.4

A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to bo...

Hey Good Lookin'

Rating: 5.5

In 1953 Brooklyn, charismatic hood and The Stompers leader Vinnie Genzianna, his friend and second-in-command Crazy Shapiro, and their respe...

The Party 2

Rating: 6.4

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfrien...

Vincent

Rating: 7.9

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother....

Running on Empty

Rating: 4.9

Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racing king, Fox, he gets way in over his hea...

Time Walker

Rating: 4.1

From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the Californi...

Raw Force

Rating: 5.3

A group of martial arts students are en route to an island that supposedly is home to the ghosts of martial artists who have lost their hono...

The Black Room

Rating: 4.1

An unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murd...

Nuclearvision

Rating: 4.5

The dilemmas of a journalist when he accepts a contract to make a Civil Defence film for showing on TV in the event of nuclear war....

Echoes

Rating: 3.5

An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a "troubled soul" from an ...

Prime Suspect

Rating: 6.7

A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disow...

Luger

Rating: 3.0

Chris Luger, a fascistic psychopath from The Hague, kidnaps the simple-minded daughter of a millionaire. Her dad refuses to pay the ransom....

Antonieta

Rating: 5.0

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercad...

Bésame, tonta

Rating: 3.0

A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very s...

Star Assignment

Rating: 5.0

He did not understand how he got to this strange planet. You need to choose, because it turned out that there is also a certain alien, who i...

Ana

Rating: 0.0

An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo....

Raksha

Rating: 5.0

With India ready to enter into the Atomic Age, several international gangsters get together to steal the secret for the benefit of other nat...

Lukáš

Rating: 0.0

A children's film about an internally confused boy who has difficulty forming an emotional relationship with his father, a forest worker. He...

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