List of American films of 1982
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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 | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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48 Hrs. | Walter Hill | Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, Sonny Landham, Brion James, Frank McRae | 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 |
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, Rip Torn | 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, Edward James Olmos, 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 | Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Ed McMahon, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton, June Lockhart | Drama | 8 Razzie nominations |
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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, Ruby Dee | 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, Sandahl Bergman | 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 | 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, Ray Walston | 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 |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Tommy Lee Wallace | Tom Atkins, 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, Geraldine Page, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, 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 |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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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, Lisa Eilbacher, Robert Loggia | Drama | Academy Award for Gossett |
One from the Heart | Francis Ford Coppola | Teri Garr, Frederic Forrest, Nastassja Kinski, Raúl Juliá, Harry Dean Stanton, Lainie Kazan | 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 | JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Zelda Rubinstein, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke | 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, Peter Weller, Dana Hill | 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 | , | 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 |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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Tempest | Paul Mazursky | John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, 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, Milo O'Shea, 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, William Shatner | 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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