Best Drama Films of 1982
I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can
Jill Clayburgh plays, as ... disastrous attempt to go cold turkey but fails miserably, finally having to undergo a painful rehabilitation in an institution. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
That Championship Season
Adapted from Jason Miller's ... collapsing before them. Performers in this drama include Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino, Robert Mitchum, Bruce Dern and Stacy Keach. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
An Officer and a Gentleman
Richard Gere plays Zack ... the hit song "Up Where We Belong." The closing scene has surely become a classic of movie romance. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Shoot the Moon
Director Alan Parker and ... wife to date other men and demands the love of his daughters -- all of whom now detest him. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Rocky III
Sylvester Stallone returns to ... time. "Eye of the Tiger," the theme song Stallone commissioned from the band Survivor, became a huge hit single. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Year of Living Dangerously
Mel Gibson stars in ... location in the Philippines and Australia, the film was financed by MGM, in the first such American-Australian financial collaboration. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Border
Tom Jones director Tony ... with a young Mexican mother Elpidia Carillo. Harvey Keitel and Warren Oates lend strong support to this atmospheric tale. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
La Truite
This French sex farce ... complicated series of business dealings. Eventually, she longs for a return to her simpler life on the trout farm. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Heat and Dust
Two women, related but ... Prawer Jhabvala won "Best Adapted Screenplay" at the 1983 British Academy Awards for her script of Heat And Dust. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist represents ... cast, including Raul Julia, Desi Arnaz Jr., Joan Hackett, Teri Garr, Jackie Coogan, Huntz Hall and M. Emmet Walsh. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Missing
Costa-Gavras's tense political drama ... an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Brimstone and Treacle
The arrival of a ... unhealthy obsession, but Potter's distinctly warped sensibility and the solid performances generally carry the film over its rough patches. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Making Love
Arthur Hiller directed this ... leads to another, and soon Zack announces to Claire that he wants to explore his new-found sexuality with Bart. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
White Dog
A little-seen film, suppressed ... this one frightened studio executives, who deep-sixed it. It was hailed by critics when it was released in Europe. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Flash Fire
Building is Howard's passion, ... one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Barchester Chronicles
Adapted from a series ... Harding into contact with Reverend Obadiah Slope (Alan Rickman), an unpleasant man who may be hiding some deep secrets. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
St. Elsewhere: Season 01
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Querelle
A sailor learns to ... Mademoiselle, a Tony Richardson effort co-scripted by Genet. Look for Frank Ripploh, another pioneering German director, in a cameo. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Honkytonk Man
Clint Eastwood put his ... of Nashville legends appear in cameo roles, including Marty Robbins, Porter Wagoner, Ray Price, Merle Travis, and Johnny Gimble. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Dallas: Season 06
Season six of Dallas ... threatens to consume all of the Southfork mansion, with J.R., Sue Ellen, and their son, John Ross, trapped inside! [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Fake-Out
Just as the singing ... and her bodyguard (Desi Arnaz, Jr.). Meanwhile, Lieutenant Thurston is heading for a final round-up with the nefarious mobsters. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Entity
Another "true story" of ... revelation that proves to be its downfall. The Entity was adapted by Frank de Felitta from his own novel. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Antonieta
In this French-Mexican-Spanish film ... be said that no one seems to know Antonieta really well, or why she would want to kill herself. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Smiley's People
A sequel to 1980's ... the sequel has one major casting substitution: Michael Byrne instead of Michael Jayston as Peter Guillam, Smiley's faithful lieutenant. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
A troubled teenage girl ... at every turn and transforms the talentless Stains into national sensations and causing them untold stress and inner turmoil. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Frances
As played by Jessica ... concern, the producers of the theatrical feature Frances were able to ship their production out to the public first. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Tex
Tex represented the first ... show up in an additional three. S.E. Hinton herself appears in the small role of Mrs. Barnes, a schoolteacher. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Personal Best
In 1982, there was ... Best was the directorial debut for Robert Towne, who was not to direct another film until 1987's Tequila Sunrise. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Forty Deuce
The seamy underworld of ... boy to a homosexual. The kid soon over-doses on heroin and dies. The prostitute then begins framing the homosexual. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Killing Hour
Young art student Virna ... police in the end, though they also have no problem in exploiting Virna's unique visions of the murder victims. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
One for the Road
A depressed, alcoholic man ... further and further towards the edge as unbidden memories of his years as an abused child continue to resurface. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Loveless
The period biker flick ... teenage daughter of a rich redneck. Their little tryst creates even more tension, and the day ends with violence. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Moonlighting
Jeremy Irons portrays Nowak, ... wisely, he avoids conveying his message in fluent tract, relating his story with generous doses of humor and irony. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Christiane F.
Helmed by director Uli ... Brunkhorst falls in with junkie/pusher Thomas Haustein. Christiane F boasts a generous chunk of concert footage featuring David Bowie. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Fame: Season 01
The first season of ... Carney; and the human side of the imperious Shorofsky is revealed when he is hospitalized with a serious illness. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Now and Forever
This romantic melodrama is ... a rapist. The only way the wife can cope with the pain is to become an alcoholic drug addict. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Forbidden Relations
The Hungarian Forbidden Relations ... weren't always certain whether Forbidden Relations was simply a paean to individual freedom or an advocacy of impure love. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Filmed in 1982, this ... Nicholas must find a way to to protect his family and come to terms with his own complicated emotions. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Egymásra nézve
Another Way is another ... Szapolowska, another journalist. Withheld from Hungarian release for several years, Another Way proved to be a film-festival success internationally. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Big Rascal
Kung-fu epic The Big ... is enough. After honing their martial-arts skills to perfection, the boys endeavor to protect their neighbors from further attack. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Countryman
A harmonious fisherman who ... proves capable of unleashing a furious display of acrobatic hand-to-hand combat when forced to fight for what is right. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Kvish Lelo Motza
Yaky Yosha's 1982 Israeli ... to fall hard for Alice, it draws the ire and chagrin of Miri, who begins to seethe with jealousy. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Death Games
In this taut drama, ... to complete their expose of a prominent music promoter, who decides to stop them before they ruin his career. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Mazes and Monsters
Remember that controversial participation ... a logical conclusion. When first aired December 28, 1982, this Canadian-American production was titled Rona Jaffee's Mazes and Monsters. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Noa at 17
Noa at Seventeen is ... to have been filmed for the express purpose of dressing their leading ladies in bare-midriff blouses and tight shorts. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Smithereens
Written, produced, directed, and ... no place to go, Wren seeks out everyone she knows in the city, only to find herself left alone. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Tragedy of King Richard II
Originally produced for television, ... seizing power and taking revenge. The cast also includes Peter McIean as York and Mary Joan Negro as Anne. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Blind Chance
Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's ... clampdowns of 1981) and not permitted a public showing until 1987. The film is also known as The Accident. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Rickshaw Boy
Based on the novel ... from over, for the class distinctions of ancient China are still too strong to be broken, even for love. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
The Wall
It could be said ... location in Sosnowiec, Poland and first telecast February 16, 1982, The Wall earned a Peabody Award the following year. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Panelkapcsolat
Suffering from economic hardships ... noise of the camera, the black-and-white realism is rather bleak, reflecting the current state of their once caring relationship. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Nobody's Wife
When a wife with ... between her old existence or a new, independent life, after that moment with her husband, she changes for good. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
An Egyptian Story
The critically acclaimed Youssef ... the relationships between his life, his work, and his country. Egyptian Story is the follow-up to his preceding Alexandria...Why?. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Guaguasi
Rather than dramatize Castro's ... his decline accelerates, putting both his lover and his friends at the mercy of his slipping hold on stability. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Princess Ida
The Ambrosian Opera Chorus ... part of the Opera World Series of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas originally produced for British television in the '80s. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Oz Scott directed this ... includes performances by such prominent entertainers as Patti LaBelle, Carol Maillard, Lynn Whitfield, Alfre Woodard, and playwright Shange herself. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Nikaah
Bollywood filmmaker B.R. Chopra ... and offers her friendship. When she starts to develop feelings for him, Waseem comes back to beg for forgiveness. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
Otello
This performance of Giuseppe ... opera, Otello, based on the play by Shakespeare, features the vocal talents of Vladimir Atlantov in the title role. [ best drama films - 1982 ]
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