Top Movies of 1982


The top movies of 1982 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

21. Pink Floyd: The Wall

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Bob Hoskins, David Bingham
Plot: The trippy adaptation based on the double-album The Wall by Pink Floyed - follows the story of Pink - a burnt out rocker who has built up his own personal wall of physical and social isolation - driving himself to drugs and madness. Only by breaking this wall down can he truly be free.

22. Tootsie

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, Geena Davis
Plot: A difficult male actor lands a gig on a soap opera acting as a women in which the studio execs are unsuspecting that he is male.

23. The Long Good Friday

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Mackenzie
Actors: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Bill Moody, Ruby Head, Pierce Brosnan, Roy Alon
Plot: Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places.

24. Diner

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Ellen Barkin
Plot: 1959 Baltimore is a time for girls and french fries. But as adulthood sets in the 5 boys start to understand what it means to grow up.

25. Fitzcarraldo

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Peter Berling, Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez
Plot: Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald has a dream of building an opera house in the jungle. He must first raise the money via the rubber business and then move a massive river boat over a small mountain with help from the local tribes.

26. Missing

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, David Clennon, Charles Cioffi
Plot: In a coup, a junta, a young man goes missing. Fearing he is dead, his wife and his father use all their influence at the American embassy to find, him dead or alive.

27. Victor/Victoria

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, John Rhys-Davies, Alex Karras
Plot: Remake of the German film Victor und Victoria.
During the depression singer Victoria finds herself at the end her tether. Then she meets Tody, who suggests a unique way to show off her talents
pretend to be a man, pretending to be a woman

28. The World According to Garp

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy

29. Meaning, The ( Arth )

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
Actors: Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Raj Kiran, Gulshan Grover, Dina Pathak

30. 48 Hrs.

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Walter Hill
Actors: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly
Plot: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

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