Best Drama movies of 1982

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Esko Nikkari, Matti Pellonpää,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Actors : Doug McKeon, John Hurt, Keith McKeon, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

Two men want to escape from East Germany, but they will only go if they can take their families with them.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Orson Welles, Pia Zadora, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

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.

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...

Actors : Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Jonathan Sagall, Dvora Kedar,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

Three young Israeli men join the army, and it soon turns out that they're more interested in chasing skirts than following orders.

Actors : Raul Julia, Teri Garr, Griffin O'Neal, Desi Arnaz,
Directors : Caleb Deschanel,

The young and self-confident Danny blufs at the local police-station that he will escape out of prison within one hour. What follows is a flashback about his childhood with his uncle and ...

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Tony Bill,

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 ...

Actors : Tarcísio Meira, Íris Bruzzi, Xuxa, Vera Fischer,
Directors : Walter Hugo Khouri,

Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important...

Actors : Paul Smith, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Caroline Gillmer, Kris McQuade,
Directors : Michael Caulfield,

Fighting Back will bring you face-to-face with the unpleasant reality and disruptive consequences of a deeply disturbed young mind. A mind in adolescent turmoil; in rebellious conflict with...

Actors : Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Dominique Labourier,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human ...

Actors : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

Actors : Henriëtte Tol, Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Cox Habbema,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other ...

Actors : Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background...

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Robert Urich,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

About a retired New York cop on Vacation in America's West who is drawn into a female sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Patrick Dewaere, Caroline Cellier, Charles Denner,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American ...

Actors : Lino Ventura, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

Sébastien Grenier,a secret agent eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates.

Actors : Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Alan Devlin, Stephen Rea,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So ...

Actors : Aleksandr Abdulov, Klara Luchko, Irina Muravyova, Yuriy Yakovlev,
Directors : Tatyana Lioznova,

A coming-of-age story about a small town girl's struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.

Actors : Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer, Désirée Nosbusch,
Directors : Eckhart Schmidt,

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later...

Actors : Nanda, Shammi Kapoor, Tanuja, Vijayendra Ghatge,
Directors : Raj Kapoor,

Manorama, the daughter of a rich, orthodox family is married off, leaving her childhood friend Deodhar and his secret love for her, in despair. When tragedy befalls her, and traditions seem unfair, Deodhar must fight for what's right.