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The Best Movies of 1982
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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: 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: Cannery Row ( 1982 )
Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not move away even if they could. Probably the most upstanding citizen in the area is Doc, a marine biologist who...
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Movie: Eating Raoul ( 1982 )
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
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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: Best Friends ( 1982 )
When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."
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Movie: Wacko ( 1983 )
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
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Movie: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy ( 1982 )
A wacky inventor and his wife invite two other couples for a weekend party at a romantic summer house in the 1900s countryside.
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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: Visiting Hours ( 1982 )
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
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Movie: Pandemonium ( 1982 )
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
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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: Raw Force ( 1982 )
A group of martial arts students are en route to an island that supposedly is home to the ghosts of martial artists who have lost their honor. A Hitler lookalike and his gang are running a female slavery operation on the island as well. Soon, the two groups meet and all sorts of crazy things happen which include cannibal monks, piranhas, zombies, and more!
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Movie: The New York Ripper ( 1982 )
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
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Movie: My Favorite Year ( 1982 )
A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.
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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: 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: Don't Go to Sleep ( 1982 )
A young girl begins seeing the ghost of her sister who died in an accident a year earlier.
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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: The Plague Dogs ( 1982 )
Two dogs escape from a laboratory and are hunted as possible carriers of the bubonic plague.
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Movie: Author! Author! ( 1982 )
While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
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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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean ( 1983 )
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior ?
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Movie: The Executioner's Song ( 1982 )
The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.
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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: Kiss Me Goodbye ( 1982 )
The ghost of a dead husband haunts his wife as she moves back to their house in NYC. She's about to marry an egyptologist there.
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Movie: Six Weeks ( 1982 )
A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, assumes the lead in The Nutcracker ballet, and sight-sees most of the city.
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Movie: Savannah Smiles ( 1982 )
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not-so-bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures to her. A surprising bond of love and redirection forms among the trio as the police close down on the supposed kidnappers.
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Movie: Fast-Walking ( 1982 )
A corrupt prison guard becomes involved in a plot to murder a black revolutionary serving time in his prison.
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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: Veronika Voss ( 1982 )
Partially based upon the life of Sybille Schmitz, WI found fame under the Nazi regime, but woods career was destroyed afterwards, Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
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Movie: Let's Do It! ( 1982 )
A virgin named Freddie has a major complex about his mother and won't let himself become involved with any other woman.
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Movie: Homework ( 1982 )
Good-looking but virginal "rockstar" teen Tommy tries to score with some of the local high school girls. But a classmate's mom decides to make a man out of him.
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Movie: Liar's Moon ( 1981 )
A poor kid elopes with a banker's daughter.
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Movie: I Ought to Be in Pictures ( 1982 )
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
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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.