Drama Movies of 1982
The Return of the Soldier
The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Verdict
In Sidney Lumet's powerful courtroom drama The Verdict, Paul Newman stars as Frank Galvin, an ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Portrait of a Showgirl
The daily travails of a Vegas chorus girl provide the fodder for this ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can
Jill Clayburgh plays, as one character calls her, "a pill-popping dingbat" in this film adaptation of television producer ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
That Championship Season
Adapted from Jason Miller's play which won the Pulitzer Prize, That Championship Season is about a group of men who, after 25 years, get together again for a high-school basketball ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
An Officer and a Gentleman
Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he's arrived at training camp ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Shoot the Moon
Director Alan Parker and writer Bo Goldman chronicle the emotional disintegration of an unhappy marriage. Albert Finney and Diane ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Rocky III
Sylvester Stallone returns to the character which made him famous in this wildly successful sequel. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion so famous that his likeness is everywhere, including ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Year of Living Dangerously
Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Border
Tom Jones director Tony Richardson might seem a curious choice to direct the contemporary western The Border, but he does his best to emulate Sam Peckinpah. Jack Nicholson stars as an El Paso border guard, saddled with ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
La Truite
This French sex farce is translated in English as The ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Heat and Dust
Two women, related but separated by one generation and 60 years, have parallel experiences in the evocative mystical environment of India in this period drama from ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist represents the laudable directorial debut of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. Griffin O'Neal, the real-life son of Ryan O'Neal, plays ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Missing
Costa-Gavras's tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country (though clearly intended to be Chile) in the throes of a military coup. ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Brimstone and Treacle
The arrival of a mysterious stranger disrupts the lives of the members of a British family in this dark, psychological thriller. The stranger is one Martin Taylor (Sting), a dangerous charmer who ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Making Love
Arthur Hiller directed this drama exploring the disintegration of an ideal marriage after the husband discovers he is gay. Kate Jackson is Claire, a successful television producer, and Michael ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
White Dog
A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a handsome white dog with her car ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Flash Fire
Building is Howard's passion, and he is so ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Sophie's Choice
The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Barchester Chronicles
Adapted from a series of novels by Anthony Trollope, the Masterpiece Theatre production of The Barchester Chronicles features Donald Pleasence as Reverend Harding. Scandal taints the town of ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
St. Elsewhere: Season 01
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Querelle
A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Honkytonk Man
Clint Eastwood put his tough-guy image on hold for this personal project, which follows a musician taking one final chance at the big time. Red Stovall (Eastwood) is a would-be country singer who has ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Dallas: Season 06
Season six of Dallas opens with the resolution of the cliffhanger that ended season five, as Cliff Barnes ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Fake-Out
Just as the singing star Bobbie Warren (Pia Zadora) finishes her act, she is clapped into handcuffs by police lieutenant Thurston (Telly Savalas) and jailed in a woman's prison until she tells them about her mobster ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Entity
Another "true story" of dubious authenticity, The Entity concerns a libidinous invisible presence. This unseen force repeatedly rapes poor Barbara Hershey, who can't ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Antonieta
In this French-Mexican-Spanish film that hops back and forth between the narration's present and its past, viewers watch Antonieta (Isabelle Adjani) as she is involved in the turbulent Mexican political scene in the first decades of the 20th ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Smiley's People
A sequel to 1980's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, this BBC miniseries once again focuses on British spy George Smiley (Sir Alec Guinness), once again called out of ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
A troubled teenage girl and her two pals decide to vent their repressed and roiling emotions via a punk rock band, the Fabulous Stains. Though utterly devoid of ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Frances
As played by Jessica Lange, Frances Farmer is a rebel from the word go, winning a high school ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Tex
Tex represented the first film adaption of a novel by "teen angst" specialist S. E. Hinton. Matt Dillon ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Personal Best
In 1982, there was a brief cycle of homosexual-relationship films, none of which were successful enough to form the basis of a trend. Producer/director/writer Robert Towne's Personal ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Forty Deuce
The seamy underworld of Manhattan's 42nd street provides the ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Killing Hour
Young art student Virna Nightbourne (Elizabeth Kemp) has the unconscious ability to draw ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
One for the Road
A depressed, alcoholic man is driven further and further towards the edge as unbidden memories of his years ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Loveless
The period biker flick The Loveless marks the feature ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Moonlighting
Jeremy Irons portrays Nowak, one of four Polish laborers, living in England. In exchange for a place to stay, Irons and his buddies -- none of whom have British work permits ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Christiane F.
Helmed by director Uli Edel, this West German coming-of-age drama is the tale of an aimless teen-aged girl, played by Natja Brunkhorst. In search of kicks, Brunkhorst falls in ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Fame: Season 01
The first season of the musical drama series Fame could boast of several carryovers from the 1980 film favorite of the same name, beginning with Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant, tough-taskmaster dance teacher at New York's ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Night of the Shooting Stars
In Tuscan lore, the evening of August 10th is la notte di san lorenzo (the night of the shooting stars). Each of these stars is believed to grant one wish. ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Now and Forever
This romantic melodrama is based on a novel by Danielle Steele and chronicles a wife's reaction to her husband's run of ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Forbidden Relations
The Hungarian Forbidden Relations is a shockingly straightforward treatise on the ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Filmed in 1982, this Tony award winning production of ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Egymásra nézve
Another Way is another above-average study of a ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Big Rascal
Kung-fu epic The Big Rascal is set in a provincial village, where bandit hordes regularly converge to loot and pillage. Two of ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Countryman
A harmonious fisherman who lives his life peacefully drifting with the tides finds himself drawn ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Kvish Lelo Motza
Yaky Yosha's 1982 Israeli drama Kvish Lelo Motza (aka Dead End Street) observes the trials and travails of a young prostitute named Alice (Anat Atzmon) who is thrust into ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Death Games
In this taut drama, two documentary makers risk it all to complete their expose of a prominent music promoter, who decides to stop them before they ruin his career. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Fanny & Alexander
Though he made allusions to his own life in all of his films, Fanny and Alexander was the first overtly autobiographical film by Ingmar Bergman. Taking his time throughout (188 minutes to be exact), Bergman recreates ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Mazes and Monsters
Remember that controversial participation game of the 1980s called "Dungeons and Dragons"? Remember how sociologists warned us that the game was potentially dangerous to those who couldn't altogether separate fantasy from ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Noa at 17
Noa at Seventeen is set in Israel in 1951. Noa (Dalia Shimko) is the teenaged daughter of middle-class Jewish family. A feature-length argument brews over whether the girl will ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Smithereens
Written, produced, directed, and edited by Susan Seidelman in true student film fashion, Smithereens is the story of Wren ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Tragedy of King Richard II
Originally produced for television, this adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical tragedy stars David Birney as Richard ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Blind Chance
Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance was originally titled Przypadek. Boguslaw Linda ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Rickshaw Boy
Based on the novel by Lao She, Rickshaw Boy tells the story of a peasant who toils for three long years in order to reach the Chinese capital. Finally arriving at his destination and setting up his own business, the young man finds that his ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
The Wall
It could be said that without the incredible ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Panelkapcsolat
Suffering from economic hardships that slowly rip apart their once harmonious relationship, a ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Nobody's Wife
When a wife with two children discovers that her husband has been having an ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
An Egyptian Story
The critically acclaimed Youssef Chahine wrote, directed, and produced this autobiographical movie about his filmmaking career and the Egyptian political ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Guaguasi
Rather than dramatize Castro's Cuban revolution as a central theme, this film made by ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Princess Ida
The Ambrosian Opera Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra perform this 1982 version of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Oz Scott directed this made-for-television performance of Ntozake Shange's musical For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide. ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Nikaah
Bollywood filmmaker B.R. Chopra directs the 1982 drama Nikaah (Marriage), based on a play by Achala Nagar. Salma Agha made her feature-film debut as a university-educated woman named Neelofar. ... [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
Otello
This performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Otello, based on the play by Shakespeare, features the vocal talents of Vladimir Atlantov in the title role. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1982 ]
