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A list of U.S. films released in 1982.
Gandhi received the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1982.
The highest-grossing American film released in 1982 was E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
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Title
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Director
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Cast
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Genre
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Note
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48 Hrs. |
Walter Hill |
Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly |
Crime comedy |
Murphy's first film
|
Airplane II: The Sequel |
Ken Finkleman |
Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, Sonny Bono |
Comedy |
sequel to Airplane!
|
Alone in the Dark |
Jack Sholder |
Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence |
Slasher |
New Line Cinema
|
Amityville II: The Possession |
Damiano Damiani |
James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda |
Horror |
prequel to The Amityville Horror
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Android |
Aaron Lipstadt |
Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard |
Sci-fi |
|
Annie |
John Huston |
Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann |
Musical |
based on Little Orphan Annie and stage musical
|
The Atomic Cafe |
Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Documentary |
|
Author! Author! |
Arthur Hiller |
Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Barbarosa |
Fred Schepisi |
Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega |
Western |
Associated Film
|
Basket Case |
Frank Henenlotter |
Kevin Van Hentenryck |
Horror |
|
The Beach Girls |
Pat Townsend |
Jeana Tomasino, Debra Blee |
Comedy |
Crown
|
The Beast Within |
Philippe Mora |
Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, L.Q. Jones |
Horror |
MGM
|
The Beastmaster |
Don Coscarelli |
Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts |
Fantasy |
MGM
|
Best Friends |
Norman Jewison |
Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Ron Silver |
Romantic comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas |
Colin Higgins |
Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Dom DeLuise, Jim Nabors |
Musical |
based on stage musical
|
Blade Runner |
Ridley Scott |
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Joanna Cassidy, Brion James, Joe Turkel |
Science-fiction |
based on a story by Philip K. Dick; 3 BAFTA awards
|
The Border |
Tony Richardson |
Jack Nicholson, Valerie Perrine, Harvey Keitel, Warren Oates |
Drama |
Universal
|
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales |
Friz Freleng |
Mel Blanc, June Foray |
Animation |
|
Burden of Dreams |
Les Blank |
Werner Herzog, Claudia Cardinale, Mick Jagger |
Documentary |
on filming of Fitzcarraldo
|
Butterfly |
Matt Cimber |
Pia Zadora, Ed McMahon, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton, June Lockhart |
Drama |
8 Razzie nominations
|
C-G
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
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Cannery Row |
David S. Ward |
Nick Nolte, Debra Winger |
Drama |
based on John Steinbeck novel
|
Cat People |
Paul Schrader |
Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, Annette O'Toole, John Heard |
Horror |
Universal; Remake of 1942 film
|
Chan Is Missing |
Wayne Wang |
Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi |
Drama |
|
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean |
Robert Altman |
Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black |
Drama |
based on Ed Graczyk play
|
Comeback |
Christel Buschmann |
Animals, Eric Burdon |
Drama |
|
Conan the Barbarian |
John Milius |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Mako |
Action |
Universal
|
The Concrete Jungle |
Tom DeSimone |
Jill St. John, Tracey E. Bregman |
Drama |
|
Creepshow |
George A. Romero |
Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, E. G. Marshall, Ted Danson, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Stephen King |
Horror, Comedy |
based on stories by Stephen King
|
The Dark Crystal |
Jim Henson, Frank Oz |
Voices of Frank Oz, Jim Henson |
Animated |
Universal
|
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
Carl Reiner |
Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner |
Comedy |
Universal
|
Death Valley |
Dick Richards |
Paul Le Mat, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie, Wilford Brimley, Peter Billingsley, Edward Herrmann |
Horror |
Universal; Remake of 1946 film
|
Death Wish II |
Michael Winner |
Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia |
Action |
sequel to Death Wish
|
Deathtrap |
Sidney Lumet |
Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon |
Thriller |
based on Ira Levin play
|
Diner |
Barry Levinson |
Mickey Rourke, Paul Reiser, Ellen Barkin, Steve Guttenberg, Kevin Bacon, Daniel Stern, Tim Daly |
Comedy |
1st film directed by Levinson
|
Don't Go to Sleep |
Richard Lang |
Valerie Harper, Dennis Weaver, Robin Ignico, Kristen Cumming, Oliver Robbins, Ruth Gordon |
Horror Mystery |
|
Warner Bros.
|
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
Steven Spielberg |
Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton |
Science fiction |
9 Oscar nominations
|
Eating Raoul |
Paul Bartel |
Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Endangered Species |
Alan Rudolph |
Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley |
Crime drama |
MGM
|
The Escape Artist |
Caleb Deschanel |
Raúl Juliá, Griffin O'Neal, Teri Garr, Desi Arnaz |
Drama |
Arnaz's final film
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
Amy Heckerling |
Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer |
Comedy |
based on a novel by Cameron Crowe
|
Fast-Walking |
James B. Harris |
James Woods, Tim McIntire, Kay Lenz |
Drama |
|
Fighting Back |
Lewis Teague |
Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin |
Action |
Paramount
|
Firefox |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Nigel Hawthorne |
Action |
Warner Bros.
|
First Blood |
Ted Kotcheff |
Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Jack Starrett, David Caruso |
Action |
based on David Morrell novel; first Rambo film
|
Five Days One Summer |
Fred Zinnemann |
Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley |
Drama |
|
The Flight of Dragons |
Jules Bass, Katsuhisa Yamada |
John Ritter, Bob McFadden |
Animation |
direct-to-video
|
Forbidden World |
Allan Holzman |
Dawn Dunlap, Jesse Vint, Michael Bowen |
Sci-fi |
|
Forbidden Zone |
Richard Elfman |
Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrell, Danny Elfman |
Comedy |
Goldwyn Company
|
Forced Vengeance |
James Fargo |
Chuck Norris, David Opatoshu, Frank Michael Liu |
Action |
MGM
|
Frances |
Graeme Clifford |
Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard |
Drama, Biography |
story of Frances Farmer; 2 Oscar nominations
|
Friday the 13th Part III |
Steve Miner |
Dana Kimmell, Larry Zerner |
Horror |
2nd sequel
|
Genocide |
Arnold Schwartzman |
Archive footage of Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill |
Documentary |
|
Gandhi |
Richard Attenborough |
Ben Kingsley, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen |
Biography |
Story of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; won 8 Oscars
|
Grease 2 |
Patricia Birch |
Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Adrian Zmed, Didi Conn, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Dody Goodman, Eddie Deezen, Connie Stevens, Lorna Luft |
Musical comedy |
sequel to Grease
|
H-M
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Halloween III: Season of the Witch |
Tommy Lee Wallace |
Dan O'Herlihy, Stacey Nelkin |
Horror |
third of series
|
Hammett |
Wim Wenders |
Frederic Forrest, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle |
Mystery |
based on Dashiell Hammett
|
Hanky Panky |
Sidney Poitier |
Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Richard Widmark |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Harry Tracy |
William A. Graham |
Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver |
Western |
7 Genie Award nominations
|
Heidi's Song |
Robert Taylor |
Lorne Greene, Margery Gray, Sammy Davis, Jr. |
Animation, Family |
Hanna-Barbera
|
Hey Good Lookin' |
Ralph Bakshi |
Voices of David Proval, Tina Bowman |
Animation, Adult |
|
Honkytonk Man |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, Verna Bloom |
Drama |
from Clancy Carlile novel
|
Hospital Massacre |
Boaz Davidson |
Jon Van Ness, Barbi Benton |
Horror |
|
Human Highway |
Neil Young, Dean Stockwell |
Neil Young, Russ Tamblyn, Devo |
Comedy |
|
I Ought to Be in Pictures |
Herbert Ross |
Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff |
Drama |
written by Neil Simon
|
I, the Jury |
Richard T. Heffron |
Armand Assante, Paul Sorvino, Barbara Carrera |
Action |
from Mickey Spillane novel
|
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can |
Jack Hofsiss |
Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest |
Drama, Biography |
about filmmaker Barbara Gordon
|
Inchon |
Terence Young |
Laurence Olivier, Toshirō Mifune, Ben Gazzara, Jacqueline Bisset, Richard Roundtree |
War |
won 4 Razzie awards
|
It Came from Hollywood |
Malcolm Leo |
Archive footage of Bela Lugosi, Mamie Van Doren |
Documentary |
|
Ivanhoe |
Douglas Camfield |
James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern, Olivia Hussey |
Adventure |
made for TV; Remake of 1952 film
|
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again |
Jerry Belson |
Bess Armstrong, Mark Blankfield, Tim Thomerson |
Comedy |
spoof of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
|
Jinxed! |
Don Siegel |
Bette Midler, Rip Torn, Ken Wahl |
Comedy |
Siegel's final film
|
Kill Squad |
Patrick G. Donahue |
Cameron Mitchell, Jean Glaudé |
Martial arts |
|
Kiss Me Goodbye |
Robert Mulligan |
Sally Field, James Caan, Jeff Bridges |
Romantic comedy |
Dona Flor & Her Two Husbands remake
|
Koyaanisqatsi |
Godfrey Reggio |
Musical score by Philip Glass |
Documentary |
|
The Last American Virgin |
Boaz Davidson |
Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin |
Comedy |
Cannon Group
|
The Last Horror Film |
David Winters |
Caroline Munro, Joe Spinell |
Comedy horror |
|
The Last Unicorn |
Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges |
Animation |
ITC Entertainment
|
Let's Spend the Night Together |
Hal Ashby |
The Rolling Stones |
Concert |
from 1981 North America tour
|
Liquid Sky |
Slava Tsukerman |
Anne Carlisle, Susan Doukas |
Sci-fi |
|
Lookin' to Get Out |
Hal Ashby |
Jon Voight, Ann-Margret, Burt Young |
Comedy |
Angelina Jolie's debut
|
Love Child |
Larry Peerce |
Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, Mackenzie Phillips |
Biography |
Warner Bros.
|
Love and Money |
James Toback |
Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Madman |
Joe Giannone |
Gaylen Ross, Harriet Bass |
Horror |
|
Making Love |
Arthur Hiller |
Harry Hamlin, Kate Jackson, Michael Ontkean |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Megaforce |
Hal Needham |
Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck |
Action |
20th Century Fox
|
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy |
Woody Allen |
Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Mary Steenburgen, Tony Roberts |
Comedy |
based on Smiles of a Summer Night
|
Missing |
Costa-Gavras |
Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, John Shea |
Drama, Biography |
4 Oscar nominations
|
Monsignor |
Frank Perry |
Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Mother Lode |
Charlton Heston |
Charlton Heston, Kim Basinger, Nick Mancuso |
Adventure |
|
My Favorite Year |
Richard Benjamin |
Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Joseph Bologna, Lainie Kazan, Jessica Harper, Bill Macy |
Comedy |
Oscar nomination for O'Toole
|
N-S
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Night Crossing |
Delbert Mann |
Jane Alexander, Beau Bridges |
Drama |
Mann's final film
|
Night Shift |
Ron Howard |
Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
An Officer and a Gentleman |
Taylor Hackford |
Richard Gere, Louis Gossett, Jr., Debra Winger, David Keith, Lisa Blount |
Drama |
Academy Award for Gossett
|
One from the Heart |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Teri Garr, Frederic Forrest, Nastassja Kinski, Raúl Juliá |
Drama, Musical |
American Zoetrope
|
Pandemonium |
Al Sole |
Tom Smothers, Paul Reubens, Carol Kane |
Comedy |
|
Parasite |
Charles Band |
Demi Moore, Robert Glaudini |
Horror |
|
Partners |
James Burrows |
John Hurt, Ryan O'Neal |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Personal Best |
Robert Towne |
Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly |
Drama, Sports |
Warner Bros.
|
Piranha II: The Spawning |
James Cameron |
Tricia O'Neil, Lance Henriksen |
Horror |
sequel
|
Poltergeist |
Tobe Hooper |
Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne |
Horror |
MGM; first of series
|
Porky's |
Bob Clark |
Kim Cattrall, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight |
Comedy |
3 sequels
|
Q |
Larry Cohen |
Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, Richard Roundtree |
Sci-fi |
|
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip |
Joe Layton |
Richard Pryor |
Comedy |
concert film
|
Rocky III |
Sylvester Stallone |
Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Mr. T, Hulk Hogan |
Drama |
third of Rocky series
|
Safari 3000 |
Harry Hurwitz |
David Carradine, Stockard Channing |
Action comedy |
|
Savannah Smiles |
Pierre de Moro |
Mark Miller, Donovan Scott |
Comedy |
|
The Secret of NIMH |
Don Bluth |
Voices of Dom DeLuise, Peter Strauss |
Animated |
MGM
|
The Seduction |
David Schmoeller |
Morgan Fairchild, Andrew Stevens, Colleen Camp |
Thriller |
3 Razzie nominations
|
The Sender |
Roger Christian |
Kathryn Harrold, Paul Freeman |
Horror |
|
Shoot the Moon |
Alan Parker |
Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen |
Drama |
MGM
|
Silent Rage |
Michael Miller |
Chuck Norris, Ron Silver |
Action |
|
Six Pack |
Daniel Petrie |
Kenny Rogers, Diane Lane, Barry Corbin, Erin Gray, Terry Kiser, Anthony Michael Hall |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Six Weeks |
Tony Bill |
Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy |
Drama |
Universal
|
The Slayer |
J.S. Cardone |
Sarah Kendall, Frederick Flynn |
Horror |
|
Slumber Party Massacre |
Amy Holden Jones |
Michelle Michaels, Andree Honore |
Horror |
|
Some Kind of Hero |
Michael Pressman |
Richard Pryor, Ronny Cox, Margot Kidder |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Sophie's Choice |
Alan J. Pakula |
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol |
Drama |
based on William Styron novel; Oscar for Streep
|
Soup for One |
Jonathan Kaufer |
Saul Rubinek, Marcia Strassman |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan |
Nicholas Meyer |
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalbán |
Science fiction |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture sequel
|
Still of the Night |
Robert Benton |
Meryl Streep, Roy Scheider |
Suspense |
MGM
|
Summer Lovers |
Randal Kleiser |
Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah |
Drama |
Filmways
|
Swamp Thing |
Wes Craven |
Adrienne Barbeau, Louis Jourdan |
Science fiction |
based on the comic book
|
The Sword and the Sorcerer |
Albert Pyun |
Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller |
Fantasy |
|
T-Z
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Tempest |
Paul Mazursky |
John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Molly Ringwald |
Adventure Comedy Drama |
based on The Tempest by William Shakespeare
|
Tex |
Tim Hunter |
Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly |
Drama |
based on a novel by S.E. Hinton
|
That Championship Season |
Jason Miller |
Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino, Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach |
Drama |
based on Jason Miller play
|
They Call Me Bruce? |
Elliott Hong |
Johnny Yune, Margaux Hemingway |
Comedy |
sequel in 1989
|
The Thing |
John Carpenter |
Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley |
Horror |
remake of 1951 film
|
Things Are Tough All Over |
Thomas K. Avildsen |
Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong |
Comedy |
|
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann |
William Dear |
Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote |
Sci-fi |
screenplay by Michael Nesmith
|
Time Walker |
Tom Kennedy |
James Karen |
Sci-fi |
|
Tootsie |
Sydney Pollack |
Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Dabney Coleman, George Gaynes |
Comedy |
Oscar for Lange; 10 nominations
|
The Toy |
Richard Donner |
Jackie Gleason, Richard Pryor, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, Ned Beatty |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Tron |
Steven Lisberger |
Jeff Bridges, David Warner, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan |
Sci-fi |
Disney; followed by Tron: Legacy
|
The Verdict |
Sidney Lumet |
Paul Newman, Jack Warden, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling, Wesley Addy, Lindsay Crouse |
Drama |
5 Oscar nominations; Remake of 1946 film
|
Vice Squad |
Gary Sherman |
Season Hubley, Wings Hauser, Fred Berry |
Thriller |
Embassy Pictures
|
Victor Victoria |
Blake Edwards |
Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies |
Musical comedy |
7 Oscar nominations; based on German film
|
Visiting Hours |
Jean-Claude Lord |
Michael Ironside, Lee Grant |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox
|
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time! |
Lee Hays |
The Weavers, Pete Seeger |
Documentary |
|
White Dog |
Samuel Fuller |
Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Jameson Parker |
Thriller |
Fuller's final U.S. film
|
The World According to Garp |
George Roy Hill |
Robin Williams, Glenn Close, Mary Beth Hurt, John Lithgow |
Comedy |
from John Irving novel; 2 Oscar nominations
|
Wrong Is Right |
Richard Brooks |
Sean Connery, Katharine Ross |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Yes, Giorgio |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
Luciano Pavarotti, Kathryn Harrold |
Comedy |
Pavarotti's only film
|
Young Doctors in Love |
Garry Marshall |
Michael McKean, Sean Young |
Comedy |
Marshall's first film
|
Zapped! |
Ken Rosenthal |
Scott Baio, Willie Aames |
Comedy |
Embassy Pictures
|
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