1982 Top Ten List

  • The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
  • E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
  • Diner (Barry Levinson)
  • Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  • Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
  • Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
  • Pink Floyd—The Wall (Alan Parker)
  • Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  • My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin)
  • Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)

    • Additional 1982 Films By Rating

  • Smithereens (Susan Seidelman)
  • The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
  • Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
  • The Atomic Cafe (Kevin Rafferty & Jayne Loader & Pierce Rafferty)
  • A Question of Silence (Marleen Gorris)
  • Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
  • White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
  • Missing (Costa-Gavras)
  • Personal Best (Robert Towne)
  • The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
  • So Is This (Michael Snow)
  • Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman)
  • The Thing (John Carpenter)
  • Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman)
  • Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
  • The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (Robert M. Young)
  • Tenebre (Dario Argento)
  • One From the Heart (Francis Coppola)
  • Time Stands Still (Péter Gothár)
  • The Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
  • Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
  • First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
  • The Sender (Roger Christian)
  • Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins)
  • Tron (Steven Lisberger)
  • Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  • An Officer and a Gentleman (Taylor Hackford)
  • Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  • Une chambre en ville (Jacques Demy)
  • The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson & Frank Oz)
  • Conan the Barbarian (John Milius)
  • Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth)
  • Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel)
  • The Beastmaster (Don Coscarelli)
  • Vice Squad (Gary A. Sherman)
  • Cat People (Paul Schrader)
  • Jinxed! (Don Siegel)
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace)