Best Movies of 1982
Most watched in 1982
Blade Runner1982 · ★ 7.9 · 1h 58m
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial1982 · ★ 7.5 · 1h 55m
The Thing1982 · ★ 8.1 · 1h 49m
First Blood1982 · ★ 7.5 · 1h 33m
Rocky III1982 · ★ 6.9 · 1h 40m
Poltergeist1982 · ★ 7.2 · 1h 54m
#1 The Thing (1982) · ★ 8.1 · 8,235 votes · 1h 49m · horror, science-fiction, mysteryA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.…
#2 Blade Runner (1982) · ★ 7.9 · 15,447 votes · 1h 58m · thriller, drama, science-fictionIn the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their…
#3 Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) · ★ 7.9 · 1,687 votes · 1h 35m · drama, musicA troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.…
#4 The King of Comedy (1982) · ★ 7.8 · 2,682 votes · 1h 49m · comedy, dramaAspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.…
#5 Vincent (1982) · ★ 7.8 · 946 votes · 0h 6m · fantasy, animationYoung Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.…
#6 Fanny and Alexander (1982) · ★ 7.8 · 918 votes · 3h 8m · fantasy, drama, mysteryAs children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the si…
#7 Gandhi (1982) · ★ 7.6 · 2,580 votes · 3h 12m · drama, historyIn the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed…
#8 Fitzcarraldo (1982) · ★ 7.6 · 919 votes · 2h 37m · adventure, dramaFitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubb…
#9 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) · ★ 7.5 · 12,305 votes · 1h 55m · fantasy, adventure, science-fictionAn alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his b…
#10 First Blood (1982) · ★ 7.5 · 7,144 votes · 1h 33m · action, adventure, thrillerWhen former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war agains…
#11 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) · ★ 7.5 · 2,214 votes · 1h 53m · action, adventure, thrillerThe starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.…
#12 The Verdict (1982) · ★ 7.5 · 764 votes · 2h 9m · dramaFrank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by ser…
#13 The Secret of NIMH (1982) · ★ 7.4 · 981 votes · 1h 23m · fantasy, adventure, dramaA widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave moth…
#14 Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982) · ★ 7.3 · 1,082 votes · 1h 28m · comedyTwo neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a cross-dresser visit t…
#15 Sophie's Choice (1982) · ★ 7.3 · 968 votes · 2h 31m · romance, drama, warStingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survi…
#16 The Last Unicorn (1982) · ★ 7.3 · 621 votes · 1h 33m · fantasy, adventure, animationA unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets ou…
#17 Poltergeist (1982) · ★ 7.2 · 3,460 votes · 1h 54m · horrorThe Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.…
#18 Tootsie (1982) · ★ 7.2 · 1,983 votes · 1h 56m · comedy, romanceWhen struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist…
#19 The Dark Crystal (1982) · ★ 7.2 · 1,317 votes · 1h 33m · fantasy, adventure, animationOn another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Ske…
#20 An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) · ★ 7.0 · 1,201 votes · 2h 4m · romance, dramaZack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense dril…
#21 Rocky III (1982) · ★ 6.9 · 4,666 votes · 1h 40m · action, dramaFollowing Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber Lang – Rocky joins forces with former rival Apollo Creed in an effort to get ba…
#22 Creepshow (1982) · ★ 6.9 · 1,200 votes · 2h 0m · comedy, horrorFive grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of coc…
#23 Evil Under the Sun (1982) · ★ 6.9 · 541 votes · 1h 57m · thriller, drama, crimeAn opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.…
#24 Conan the Barbarian (1982) · ★ 6.8 · 2,939 votes · 2h 10m · action, fantasy, adventureA horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan…
#25 Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) · ★ 6.8 · 1,423 votes · 1h 30m · comedy, romance, dramaA group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.…
#26 Tenebre (1982) · ★ 6.8 · 717 votes · 1h 41m · thriller, horror, mysteryA razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.…
#27 The Entity (1982) · ★ 6.8 · 602 votes · 2h 5m · thriller, horror, mysteryA single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.…
#28 48 Hrs. (1982) · ★ 6.7 · 1,795 votes · 1h 36m · action, comedy, thrillerA hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.…
#29 Banana Joe (1982) · ★ 6.7 · 519 votes · 1h 36m · action, comedyIsland farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana processing plant, Joe kicks them out, bu…
#30 Tron (1982) · ★ 6.6 · 2,876 votes · 1h 36m · action, adventure, science-fictionWhen brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In…
#31 Annie (1982) · ★ 6.5 · 804 votes · 2h 7m · comedy, drama, familyAn orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an or…
#32 The Party 2 (1982) · ★ 6.4 · 664 votes · 1h 49m · comedy, romance, dramaA young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.…
#33 Death Wish II (1982) · ★ 6.2 · 551 votes · 1h 32m · action, thriller, dramaPaul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.…
#34 Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) · ★ 6.1 · 1,317 votes · 1h 24m · comedyA faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all t…
#35 Firefox (1982) · ★ 6.1 · 642 votes · 2h 16m · action, adventure, thrillerThe Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectabl…
#36 Cat People (1982) · ★ 6.1 · 588 votes · 1h 58m · fantasy, thriller, horrorAfter years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator…
#37 The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982) · ★ 6.0 · 613 votes · 1h 40m · comedyCruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work wit…
#38 Friday the 13th Part III (1982) · ★ 5.9 · 1,666 votes · 1h 35m · thriller, horrorAn idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve friends. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to th…
#39 Q (1982) · ★ 5.7 · 501 votes · 1h 33m · horror, crime, mysteryA fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent.…
#40 Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) · ★ 5.3 · 1,597 votes · 1h 38m · thriller, horror, science-fictionAfter a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital clutching the year's most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis sets out to investigate the…