1982 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1982

Notable Films Released in 1982

U.S.A. unless stated

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• 48 Hours, directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy

A

• Airplane II: The Sequel, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Chad Everett, Raymond Burr, Sonny Bono, William Shatner
• Alone in the Dark, starring Jack Palance and Martin Landau
• Alsino and the Condor (Alsino y el cóndor) - (Nicaragua/Mexico)
• Amityville II: The Possession, starring James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda
• Android, starring Klaus Kinski
• Angel, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Stephen Rea - (Ireland)
• Angoor, starring Sanjeev Kumar - (India)
• Annie, directed by John Huston, starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry
• Another Way (Egymásra nézve) - (Hungary)
• Arth (The Meaning), directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Shabana Azmi (Silver Lotus Award for best Indian actress) - (India)
• Aphrodite, starring Horst Buchholz, Valerie Kaprisky, Capucine - (France)
• The Atomic Cafe, a documentary film on the era of nuclear warfare
• Author! Author!, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Alan King

B

• La Balance (The Informer), starring Nathalie Baye and Philippe Léotard - (France)
• Barbarosa, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Willie Nelson and Gary Busey
• Basket Case
• The Beastmaster, starring Marc Singer - (U.S.A./West Germany)
• Le Beau Mariage (A Good Marriage), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• The Beehive (La Colmena) - (Spain) Golden Bear (award) winner 1982
• Best Friends, starring Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Ron Silver, Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Audra Lindley
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Jim Nabors, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning
• La bête lumineuse (The Shimmering Beast) - (Canada)
• Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Daryl Hannah
• Blue Island (Due gocce d'acqua salata) - (Italy)
• Boat People (Tau ban no hoi), directed by Ann Hui - (Hong Kong/China)
• The Border, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Warren Oates, Valerie Perrine
• Brimstone and Treacle, starring Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright, Sting - (U.K.)
• Britannia Hospital, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Leonard Rossiter - (U.K.)
• Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
• Burden of Dreams, a documentary film featuring Werner Herzog, Claudia Cardinale, Klaus Kinski
• Butterfly, starring Pia Zadora, Stacy Keach, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton

C

• Cannery Row, directed by David S. Ward, starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger
• Cat People, directed by Paul Schrader, starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
• Cecilia - (Cuba)
• Chan Is Missing, directed by Wayne Wang
• Charodei (Magicians) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Class of 1984, starring Perry King and Timothy Van Patten
• Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, directed by Robert Altman, starring Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black
• Comeback, starring Eric Burdon, Julie Carmen - (U.S.A./West Germany)
• Conan the Barbarian, directed by John Milius, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones
• The Concrete Jungle, directed by Tom DeSimone, starring Jill St. John and Tracey E. Bregman
• Countryman - (Jamaica)
• Creepshow, directed by George A. Romero, starring Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Stephen King

D

• The Dark Crystal, directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward
• Death Wish II, starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia
• Deathtrap, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
• Diner, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser
• A Dog in a Drawer (Kuche v chekmedzhe) - (Bulgaria)
• Dögkeselyű (Egyptian Vulture) - (Hungary)
• The Draughtsman's Contract, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Anthony Higgins and Janet Suzman - (U.K.)

E

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore
• Eating Raoul, directed by and starring Paul Bartel
• Endangered Species, starring Robert Urich and JoBeth Williams
• The Escape Artist, starring Raul Julia, Griffin O'Neal, Desi Arnaz
• L'étoile du nord (The North Star), starring Simone Signoret and Philippe Noiret - (France)
• Evil Under the Sun, starring Peter Ustinov, Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith, James Mason, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Roddy McDowall - (U.K.)

F

• Fall Guy (Kamata koshin-kyoku) - (Japan)
• Fanny and Alexander, directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High, directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston
• Fast-Walking, starring James Woods
• Firefox, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
• First Blood, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Sylvester Stallone (as Rambo), Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
• Fitzcarraldo, directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski - (West Germany)
• The Flight of Dragons - (U.S.A./Japan)
• Forbidden Zone, directed by Richard Elfman
• Forced Vengeance, starring Chuck Norris
• Frances, starring Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley
• Friday the 13th Part III

G

• Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Ben Kingsley - (India/U.K.) - Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for best film
• Grease 2, starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer
• The Grey Fox, starring Richard Farnsworth - (Canada)

H

• Halloween III: Season of the Witch, starring Tom Atkins
• Hammett, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Frederic Forrest, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle
• Hanky Panky, directed by Sidney Poitier, starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Richard Widmark, Kathleen Quinlan
• Harry Tracy, Desperado, starring Bruce Dern and Helen Shaver - (Canada)
• Heart and Guts (Das Tripas Coração) - (Brazil)
• Heatwave, directed by Philip Noyce, starring Judy Davis - (Australia)
• Heidi's Song, an animated film featuring Lorne Greene and Sammy Davis Jr.
• The Herdsman (Mù Mǎ Rén) - (China)
• Hey Good Lookin, an animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi
• Himala (Miracle) - (Philippines)
• Honkytonk Man, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
• How the World Is Losing Poets (Jak svět přichází o básníky) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi and Lesley-Anne Down - (U.S.A./U.K.)

I-J

• I Ought to Be in Pictures, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff
• I, the Jury, starring Armand Assante, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Alan King
• Identification of a Woman (Identificazione di una donna), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - (Italy)
• If You Could See What I Hear, starring Marc Singer, R.H. Thomas, Shari Belafonte, Sarah Torgov, Douglas Campbell
• If You Love This Planet - (Canada)
• I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, starring Jill Clayburgh
• Inchon!, directed by Terence Young, starring Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune
• Interrogation (Przesłuchanie) - (Poland)
• Jinxed!, starring Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, and Rip Torn

K

• Kiss Me Goodbye, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Sally Field, Jeff Bridges, James Caan, Mildred Natwick
• Koyaanisqatsi, directed by Godfrey Reggio

L

• Legendary Weapons of China
• The Last Unicorn, an animated film featuring Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Alan Arkin
• Legend of a Fighter (Huo Yuan-Jia),starring Bryan Leung - (Hong Kong)
• Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones' concert film)
• Liquid Sky
• Look Isan - (Thailand)
• Lonely Hearts - (Australia)
• Lookin' to Get Out, directed by Hal Ashby, staring Ann-Margret and Jon Voight
• Love Child, starring Amy Madigan and Beau Bridges
• Love and Money, starring Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Armand Assante

M

• Les Maîtres du temps (The Masters of Time) - (France)
• Making Love, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Harry Hamlin, Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson
• The Man from Snowy River, starring Tom Burlinson and Kirk Douglas - (Australia)
• The Marathon Family (Maratonci trče počasni krug) - (Yugoslavia)
• Megaforce, directed by Hal Needham, starring Barry Bostwick and Persis Khambatta
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow, Julie Hagerty, Mary Steenburgen, José Ferrer
• Les Misérables, starring Lino Ventura - (France)
• Missing, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek - Palme d'Or winner
• The Missionary, directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
• Mitahat La'af (Under the Nose) - (Israel)
• Monkey Grip - (Australia)
• Monsignor, directed by Frank Perry, starring Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller
• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl - (U.K.)
• Moonlighting, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jeremy Irons - (U.K.)
• Mother Lode, directed by and starring Charlton Heston
• My Favorite Year, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Joseph Bologna, Jessica Harper, Bill Macy

N

• Namak Halaal, starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
• The Night of the Shooting Stars (La Notte di San Lorenzo), by Paolo Emilio Taviani - (Italy)
• Night Shift, directed by Ron Howard, starring Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long
• Nomad (Lie huo qing chun), starring Leslie Cheung - (Hong Kong)

O

• An Officer and a Gentleman, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett, Jr., David Keith, Lisa Blount
• On Top (Með allt á hreinu) - (Iceland)
• On Top of the Whale (Het Dak van de Walvis) - (Netherlands)
• One from the Heart, directed by Francis Coppola, starring Teri Garr, Frederic Forrest, Nastassja Kinski, Raúl Juliá
• Orkestar bez ime (A Band with No Name) - (Bulgaria)
• Oro, Plata, Mata, directed by Peque Gallaga - (Philippines)

P

• Pagliacci, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Plácido Domingo - (Italy)
• Pandemonium, starring Tom Smothers, Eve Arden, Eileen Brennan, Candice Azzara, Carol Kane
• Paradise, starring Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames - (Canada)
• Partners, starring Ryan O'Neal and John Hurt
• The Passerby (La passante du Sans-Souci), starring Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli - (France)
• Personal Best, directed by Robert Towne, starring Mariel Hemingway, Patrice Donnelly, Scott Glenn
• Pink Floyd The Wall, directed by Alan Parker, starring Bob Geldof - (U.K.)
• The Pirate Movie, starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol - (Australia)
• The Plague Dogs, an animated films featuring John Hurt, James Bolam and Nigel Hawthorne - (U.K.)
• Pokrovsky Gates (Pokrovskiye Vorota) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Dominique Dunne, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Beatrice Straight
• The Pool Hustlers (Io, Chiara e lo Scuro) - (Italy)
• Porky's, directed by Bob Clark, starring Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Kim Cattrall, Boyd Gaines, Alex Karras, Susan Clark
• Pra Frente, Brasil (Go Ahead, Brazil) - (Brazil)
• Private Life (Chastnaya zhizn) - (U.S.S.R.)

Q

• Q, starring Michael Moriarty, Richard Roundtree, Candy Clark
• The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Querelle, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau - (West Germany/France)
• A Question of Silence (De stilte rond Christine M.) - (Netherlands)

R

• The Return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre), starring Gérard Depardieu - (France)
• The Return of the Soldier, starring Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
• Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
• Rickshaw Boy (Luòtuo Xiángzi), starring Zhang Fengyi - (China)
• Rocky III, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, with Mr. T, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith

S

• The Scarlet Pimpernel, starring Anthony Andrews, Ian McKellen, Jane Seymour - (U.K.)
• Scusate il ritardo (Sorry for the Delay) - (Italy)
• The Secret of NIMH, an animated film directed by Don Bluth
• The Seduction, starring Morgan Fairchild
• The Sender, starring Kathryn Harrold, Zeljko Ivanek, Shirley Knight
• The Shadow Riders, starring Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott
• Shakti (Power), starring Dilip Kumar - (India)
• The Shaolin Temple (Shàolínsì), starring Jet Li - (Hong Kong)
• She Grazed Horses on Concrete (Pásla kone na betóne) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Shoot the Moon, directed by Alan Parker, starring Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Peter Weller
• Six Pack, starring Kenny Rogers and Diane Lane
• Six Weeks, directed by Tony Bill, starring Mary Tyler Moore and Dudley Moore
• Sophie's Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol
• Soup For One, starring Saul Rubinek
• Split Image, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Peter Fonda
• Sportloto-82 - (U.S.S.R.)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, directed by Nicholas Meyer, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalbán
• Starstruck, directed by Gillian Armstrong - (Australia)
• The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge), directed by Wim Wenders - (West Germany/U.S.A./Portugal) - Golden Lion winner
• Station for Two (Vokzal dlya dvoikh) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Summer Lovers, directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valerie Quennessen
• Swamp Thing, directed by Wes Craven, starring Louis Jourdan and Adrienne Barbeau
• The Sword and the Sorcerer, starring Lee Horsley
• Sword Stained with Royal Blood, directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)

T

• Tempest, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Molly Ringwald, Susan Sarandon
• Tenebrae, directed by Dario Argento, starring Anthony Franciosa - (Italy)
• Tenkōsei (Exchange Students) - (Japan)
• Tex, starring Matt Dillon
• That Championship Season, starring Robert Mitchum, Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Paul Sorvino, Martin Sheen
• That Night in Varennes (Il mondo nuovo), starring Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla and Harvey Keitel - (Italy/France)
• The Thing, directed by John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, David Clennon, Donald Moffat, Richard Dysart, Wilford Brimley
• Things Are Tough All Over, starring Cheech & Chong
• Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, starring Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote
• Time Stands Still (Megáll az idő) - (Hungary)
• Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Teri Garr
• Trail of the Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
• La Traviata, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Plácido Domingo - (Italy)
• Tron, directed by Steven Lisberger, starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
• The Trout (La Truite), directed by Joseph Losey, starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jeanne Moreau - (France)
• Turkey Shoot, starring Steve Railsback and Olivia Hussey - (Australia)

U-V

• The Verdict, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, Jack Warden, Milo O'Shea
• Veronika Voss, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Rosel Zech - (West Germany) - Golden Bear award winner
• Vice Squad, starring Season Hubley and Wings Hauser
• Victor Victoria, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• Vidhaata, starring Dilip Kumar - (India)
• Visiting Hours, starring Lee Grant and William Shatner - (Canada)
• Volver a empezar (aka Begin the Beguine) - (Spain) - Academy Award for Foreign language film

W

• War and Peace (Krieg und Frieden), starring Jürgen Prochnow - (West Germany)
• We of the Never Never, starring Angela Punch McGregor - (Australia)
• Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose) - (West Germany)
• White Dog, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Jameson Parker, Burl Ives
• The Wind (Finye), directed by Souleymane Cissé - (Mali)
• The Wizard of Oz (Ozu no Mahōtsukai) - (U.S.A./Japan)
• Woman of Fire '82 (Hwanyeo '82) - (South Korea)
• The World According to Garp, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt
• The Worthless (Arvottomat), directed by Mika Kaurismäki - (Finland)
• Wrong Is Right, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Sean Connery, Katharine Ross, George Grizzard

Y

• The Year of Living Dangerously, directed by Peter Weir, starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt - (Australia)
• Yes, Giorgio, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Luciano Pavarotti and Kathryn Harrold
• Yol (The Road), directed by Yılmaz Güney - (Turkey) - Palme d'Or winner
• Young Doctors in Love, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Michael McKean and Sean Young

Z

• Zapped!, starring Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Heather Thomas