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The Best Movies of 1982
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Movie: Victor Victoria ( 1982 )
In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant (Dame Julie Andrews), a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole "Toddy" Todd (Robert Preston) may befall the same fate as Victoria, as he was just fired from his singing gig at a second-rate club named "Chez Lui". To solve their problems, Toddy comes up with what he considers to be an inspired idea: with Toddy as her manager, Victoria, pretending to be a man, get a job singing as a female impersonator. If they pull this scheme off, Toddy vows Victoria, as her male alter ego, will be the toast of Paris and as such be extremely wealthy. That alter ego they decide is Polish Count Victor Grazinski, Toddy's ex-lover who was disowned by his family when they found out he was gay. The Count auditions for the city's leading agent, Andre Cassell (John Rhys-Davies), who, impressed, gets him a gig performing in the city's best nightclub. In the audience on the successful opening night is Chicago, Illinois nightclub owner and "businessman" King Marchand (James Garner), a macho male who falls in the love with the woman he sees on-stage, which doesn't sit well with his current girlfriend, Norma Cassady (Leslie Ann Warren). King is shocked to learn that that woman is a man named Count Grazinski. While King tries to reconcile his romantic feelings for "Victoria" (in truth, King doesn't truly believe the Count is a man), his business associates won't tolerate his change in sexual orientation. Although feeling emancipated being treated as a man, Victoria, as herself, in turn, falls in love with King. To pursue something with him as a woman would mean giving up this lucrative career. But the career may also come to an end in a jail term if the authorities find out that Victoria and Toddy have committed fraud in this impersonation.
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Movie: Things Are Tough All Over ( 1982 )
Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs--Mr. Slyman (Cheech) and Prince Habib (Chong). Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throughout the car.
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Movie: Basket Case ( 1982 )
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
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Movie: Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl ( 1982 )
The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Movie: White Dog ( 1982 )
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.
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Movie: The Missionary ( 1982 )
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes. Charles hopes Deborah, his fiancee, will object and give him an excuse to say no to the bishop. But she is so imperturbably innocent that she totally fails to understand what he is being asked to do, and urges him to do his best. Wealthy Lady Ames is expected to fund the work, but once she makes it clear to Charles that there will be no contribution unless he shares her bed...
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Movie: Liquid Sky ( 1983 )
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, who's also a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin disappearing. This increasingly bizarre scenario's observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who's following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model (both models are played by Anne Carlisle). Darkly funny and thoroughly weird.
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Movie: Parasite ( 1982 )
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
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Movie: The Concrete Jungle ( 1982 )
When her slimy boyfriend Danny uses his unsuspecting girlfriend Elizabeth to carry a stash of cocaine in her skis, she is nabbed by airport security. After a speedy trial, she is sent to...
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Movie: The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1982 )
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.
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Movie: The Slumber Party Massacre ( 1982 )
A high school student's slumber party turns terrifying as an escaped mental patient with a drill decides to crash the evening.
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Movie: Forced Vengeance ( 1982 )
A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.
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Movie: Superstition ( 1983 )
A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
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Movie: They Call Me Bruce? ( 1982 )
A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee.
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Movie: Pieces ( 1983 )
While playing with a puzzle, a teenager is repressed by his mother, and he kills her and severs her body with an ax. Forty years later, in an university campus in Boston, a serial killer kills young women and severs their bodies in parts, stealing body pieces from each student. Lt. Bracken makes a deal with the dean of the campus, and infiltrates the agent Mary Riggs as if she were a tennis teacher and together with the student Kendall, they try to find the identity of the killer.
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Movie: Class Reunion ( 1982 )
June 1972. Bob Spinnaker, and his entire class, pull a prank on their classmate, Walter Baylor, sending him to a mental institution. Ten long years later, the class of Lizzie Borden High--including Gary Nash, Hubert Downs, and Meredith Modess--is going through the motions at their class reunion, where Chuck Berry is performing, unbeknownst to them that deranged Walter has escaped from the mental hospital, bent on crashing the party. Now, as unsuspecting guests start disappearing, the boys and girls of Lizzie Borden High must spring into action, and expose the madman. But, can they do it in time, and save the class reunion?
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Movie: Forbidden World ( 1982 )
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
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Movie: Butterfly ( 1982 )
In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.
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Movie: Diner ( 1982 )
A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.
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Movie: Tenebrae ( 1984 )
An American writer in Rome is stalked and harassed by a serial killer who is murdering everyone associated with his work on his latest book.
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Movie: The Seduction ( 1982 )
A popular anchorwoman, Jaime Douglas, is stalked by a photographer who's obsessed with her and wants to win her affections at any cost.
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Movie: The Aftermath ( 1983 )
Two astronauts return to Earth to find that it has been destroyed by nuclear war. L.A. has been taken over by Cutter and his gang of outlaw bikers. Cutter rapes and pillages. There are also mutants. The astronauts hook-up with the only normal people left: two women, a boy and a girl.
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Movie: Tempest ( 1982 )
John Cassavetes gives a compelling performance as a man confronting a mid-life crisis with extraordinary results for everyone around him.
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Movie: Humongous ( 1982 )
The monstrous offspring of a violent crime grows up in seclusion on a remote island, where a boat-full of hapless teens have shipwrecked, unaware of what's lurking in the woods.
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Movie: The Forest ( 1982 )
A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.
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Movie: Still of the Night ( 1982 )
A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
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Movie: 1990: The Bronx Warriors ( 1982 )
In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.
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Movie: The Slayer ( 1982 )
Two couples become stranded on a rugged isle, and are haunted by a supernatural beast, drawn to the wife of one of the couples, who dreams of its killings.
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Movie: Unhinged ( 1982 )
Three young women who crash their car during a rainstorm are taken in by a bizarre family at their large, rural estate.
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Movie: Next of Kin ( 1982 )
In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
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Movie: The Dorm That Dripped Blood ( 1982 )
Four college students are stalked by an unknown assailant while staying on campus over the Christmas holidays to help clear out a dormitory which is to be demolished.
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Movie: A Stranger Is Watching ( 1982 )
The 11-year old daughter and girlfriend of a man whose wife had been raped and killed in front of his daughter three years earlier are kidnapped by the same killer. Held captive in a bunker below Grand Central Station, the two plot their escape while the police try to track the kidnaper.
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Movie: The Incubus ( 1982 )
A small town's doctor takes matters into his own hands after a series of gruesome and bizarre rape crimes perplex the clueless authorities.
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Movie: Split Image ( 1982 )
A rootless young man's drawn into an unnamed religious cult by a beautiful girl. Every moment with the group causes him to become increasingly under the control of the cult's leader. After his parents fail in their attempt, they hire someone who has experience, kidnapPing, and then 'de-programming' - undoing the mental damage - which had been done to him.
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Movie: Trick or Treats ( 1982 )
A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.
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Movie: Sorceress ( 1986 )
Hell-bent on becoming the ultimate ruler of the universe by sacrificing his firstborn, the powerful conjurer of illusions and master of the Black Arts, Traigon, makes an unholy pact with the evil deity, Kalghara. However, fate has other plans, and as the magician's wife gives her last breath to protect her newborn twin daughters, Traigon dies. Nearly two long decades later--imbued with the unlimited white force of their mentor, Krona--the dauntless warrior-sisters, Mira and Mara, embark on a dangerous mission to avenge their slaughtered mother and to defeat the resurrected warlock once and for all. Who shall live and who shall die in the final clash between good and evil?
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Movie: Girls Nite Out ( 1982 )
A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.
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Movie: Personal Best ( 1982 )
The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.
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Movie: The Clairvoyant ( 1982 )
After the body of murdered woman is found, nude and handcuffed, floating down the Hudson River in New York, a string of murders occur by an unseen serial killer who kills men by handcuffing them before killing them. Mac, a TV talk-show host, and Larry, a police detective, team up to try to find the killer and seek help from Virna, a clairvoyant young artist, who draws visions of the murders before they happen. As Mac and Larry try to establish a connection between the victims and the first female victim, who may have been sexually involved all of the male victims, Virna's further visions begin to point to her as the next victim as she unknowingly closes in on the killer's identity.
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Movie: Shoot the Moon ( 1982 )
A mother of four is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. Husband, wife and children struggle to survive the seemingly inevitable divorce.
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Movie: Liar's Moon ( 1981 )
A poor kid elopes with a banker's daughter.