Best Movies of 1982

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Best Movies of 1982
Best Movies of 1982
TOP Movies: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Gandhi (1982), Blade Runner (1982), Tootsie (1982), First Blood (1982), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Poltergeist (1982), The Thing (1982), The King of Comedy (1982), Sophie's Choice (1982), Rocky III (1982), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), Victor Victoria (1982), TRON (1982), The Verdict (1982), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), The Snowman (1982), Missing (1982), The Secret of NIMH (1982), 48 Hrs. (1982).
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, sad, inspirational, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, friendship, childhood, children, coming of age, ufo, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, friendly alien, boy, chase, child protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, future, year 1982, 90s
Place: california, usa, persia, los angeles
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 8.0
 240K
Gandhi (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, India, USA, South Africa
Duration: 191 min.
Story: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of ...
Style: epic, spiritual, inspirational, political, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: protest, biopic, idealism, life philosophy, politics, independence, freedom, british empire, leadership, human spirit, religious intolerance, indian history ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 19th century, victorian era, 1940s ...
Place: india, south africa, britain, los angeles, new delhi ...
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 8.1
 817K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, melancholy, fugitives, police detective, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 114K
Tootsie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego -- Dorothy Michaels -- in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Style: feel good, light, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: cross dressing, man dressed as a woman, actor, gender bending, love, love and romance, actress, transvestite, relationships, double life, love triangle, gender ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.7
 273K
First Blood (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo ...
Style: cult classic, serious, suspense, exciting, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, one man army, vietnam war, manhunt, soldier, tough heroes, tough guy, danger, police brutality, escape, bad cop, lone wolves ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: vietnam, washington state, usa, arizona
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond ...
Style: realistic, sexy, romantic, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, date night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: officers and cadets, love, military life, love story, navy, u.s. navy, military, u.s. military, military officer, love of one's life, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, the philippines, manila philippines
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 7.3
 178K
Poltergeist (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: poltergeist, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, psychic, haunted, suburban life, haunting, paranormal, nightmare, child in peril, children ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: california
Is relevant ?
 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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The King of Comedy (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 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.
Style: tragicomedy, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, talky ...
Plot: obsession, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, character study, delusion, kidnapping, artists and showbiz, insanity, satire, psychology, television ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Sophie's Choice (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity ...
Style: depressing, sad, realistic, heartbreaking, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, mental illness, wartime life, obsession, tragedy, melancholy, loneliness, relationships ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1982, 1930s, post world war two
Place: poland, new york, middle east, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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 6.8
 210K
Rocky III (1982)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After taking a pounding from Lang, the humbled champ turns to former bitter ...
Style: inspirational, captivating, suspenseful, action packed, action adventure ...
Audience: manly, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, comeback, rocky, tough heroes, martial arts, training, coach, fame, defeat, victory, world champion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, los angeles, california ...
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, psychological, disturbing, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, rock and roll, music, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, musician, rock music, visceral, drug addiction, trippy, childhood ...
Time: year 1982, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: england, europe, london, los angeles
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Admiral James T. Kirk is feeling old; the prospect of accompanying his old ship the Enterprise on a two week cadet cruise is not making him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a life or death struggle when Khan escapes from years of ...
Style: saga, futuristic, epic, action adventure, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, revenge, star trek, planet, space opera, self sacrifice, midlife crisis, space station, space, villain, trap, brainwashing ...
Time: future, year 1982, 23rd century
Place: space western
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Victor Victoria (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Style: witty, humorous, clever, stylized, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, cross dressing, nightclub, gender bending, music, gender disguise, farce, dancing, woman dressed as man, jazz, transgender, lgbtq ...
Time: 1930s, year 1982, 20th century, year 1934
Place: paris france, france, europe, chicago
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 6.7
 129K
TRON (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As Kevin Flynn searches for proof that he invented a hit video game, he is "digitalized" by a laser and finds himself inside The Grid, where programs suffer under the tyrannical rule of the Master Control Program. With the help of TRON, a ...
Style: stylized, surreal, cyber, visually stunning, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, computer, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, distopia, computer game, video game, hacking, dystopia, computer hacker, programmer ...
Time: 80s, future, year 1982, 20th century
Place: pentagon, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 46K
The Verdict (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties ...
Style: suspense, tense, atmospheric, intense, thought provoking ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, redemption, lawyer, court, legal action, character study, fighting the system, legal, alcoholic, trial, law ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, new york, new york state
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage pregnancy, stoner, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, youth, high school life, shopping mall, sex scene, loss of virginity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
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 8.2
 17K
The Snowman (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
Story: A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes the boy on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.
Style: christmas classics, sweet, sad, heartbreaking, christmas special ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: christmas, imaginary kingdom, holiday, northern lights, winter, xmas, snow, christmas spirit, cold, new year's eve, ice, dance ...
Time: 1900s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: antarctic, brighton, england
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 7.7
 23K
Missing (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he ...
Style: political, political thriller, emotional, talky, tense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dictatorship, politics, military coup, political conspiracy, corruption, conspiracy, journalist, political intrigue, military, missing person, capitalism, coup d'etat ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1982, year 1973
Place: chile, latin america, south america, washington d.c., santiago chile
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The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
Style: fairy tale, touching, atmospheric, feel good, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: mouse, heroic mission, friendship, against the odds, laboratory, rat, rescue, illness, family problems, cure, danger, heroes ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 90s, 20th century
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 85K
48 Hrs. (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Style: exciting, detective, funny, neo noir, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens, adult
Plot: prison, buddy cop, reluctant partners, cop, tough cop, violence, revenge, buddy, police investigation, law enforcement, tough guy, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area
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The World According to Garp (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all ...
Style: dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, humorous, clever ...
Plot: writers, transgender, single mother, wrestling, coming of age, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, writer's life, lgbt, magic realism, female nudity, death ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: bolivia, new york
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Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A film adaptation of the classic sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood ...
Style: dark fantasy, stylized, exciting, epic fantasy, visual ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: sword and sorcery, barbarian, sword fight, fight, good versus evil, snake, medieval, wizard, slavery, warlord, mythology, black magic ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, prehistoric times, stone age
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 6.6
 49K
Annie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, period piece, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: orphan, little girl, broadway, redhead girl, dancing, adoption, child, dance, childhood, orphanage, coming of age, love ...
Time: year 1982, 90s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c. ...
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The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There, on the eve of an attempted coup, he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people and ...
Style: political, atmospheric, thought provoking, historically accurate, tropical ...
Plot: journalism, journalist, politics, embassy, diplomat, photography, photograph, photographer, secrets, genocide, reporter, newspaper ...
Time: 60s, year 1982, 20th century, year 1965
Place: australia, the philippines, east asia, indonesia, asia ...
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 23K
Diner (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: friendship, coming of age, food, christmas, diner, gambling debt, love and romance, adulthood, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, buddies, lifestyle ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1982, year 1959, 20th century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 53K
Creepshow (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Style: anthology, dark comedy, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary ...
Plot: monster, death, murder, torture, gory, zombie, dark humor, transformation, brutality, voodoo, demon, life & death ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 19th century, 1830s, future
Place: pittsburgh
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The Dark Crystal (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
Style: dark fantasy, fairy tale, visual, light, visually appealing ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: puppetry, good versus evil, sword and sorcery, fantasy world, wizard, medieval, race against time, mission, crystal, magic, monster, puppet ...
Time: 90s, year 1982, 1900s
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Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style: disturbing, philosophical, art house, visual, surreal ...
Plot: childhood, ghost, christmas, children, coming of age, grief, brother sister relationship, child abuse, christmas eve, abusive stepfather, marriage as hell, boy ...
Time: turn of the century, year 1982, 20th century, victorian era, 1910s ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 18K
The Entity (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: rape, supernatural, sexual abuse, female nudity, demon rape, paranormal phenomena, ghost, haunted, sexual assault, invisibility, torment, sex crime ...
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