Obsessive Irish opera enthusiast Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) plans to build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. First, he has to make his fortune and…
Browsing: Movies 1982
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Forbidden World is another low-budget Alien rip-off from the Roger Corman stable, but this is actually one of his better tries at latter-day exploitation filmmaking.…
The Hercules family buy a Venice Beach (California) house that contains a door leading to the Sixth Dimension via a large set of intestines. The…
The tragic, horrifying life and times of actress Frances Farmer (played here by Jessica Lange), a beautiful young woman ascending the ladder to stardom -…
Ron (Jon Blake) is an unemployed young man in 1980s Australia, with poor prospects but rich fantasies. On a whim, he steals a silver Porsche…
The third film in the Friday the 13th series was released in 1982 in 3D and was the first movie in the series to feature…
Richard Attenborough’s powerful account of the saintly Indian leader picked up eight Oscars and drew breathless praise from critics, partly for Ben Kingsley’s quietly charismatic…
This live-action adaptation of Australia’s most iconic (and longest-running) comic strip chronicles the episodic misadventures of its titular character – a mischievous but good-hearted carrot-topped…
Set in Sydney, Australia, in an early 1980s world of parties, live music, casual sex, unemployment, drink, drugs, wankers, posers and spongers, a group of…
“The winter’s sun was going down on Surfers Paradise. It was my 98th day on the wagon, and I didn’t feel any better than my…
This unprepossessing sequel to the massive John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John hit is notable for a great title song by the Four Tops (Back to School Again) and…
This short (45 minute) dramatised documentary follows a day in the life of four unemployed young adolescents – Debbie, Gina, Steve and Hickey – in…
This second sequel has nothing to do with the first and second films in the Halloween series and Michael Myers is nowhere in sight. In Santa Mira, California,…
Directed by Sidney Poitier, this 1982 comedy-thriller stars Gene Wilder as Michael Jordan, a mild-mannered Chicago-based architect on a business trip to New York. A…
Ralph Bakshi’s love letter to the 1950s begins with a middle-aged woman encountering a strange man on a Long Island street at night, who shows…
Directed by Dean Stockwell and Neil Young (billed as ‘Bernard Shakey’), Human Highway is a fever dream of a film – part musical, part comedy, part…
This made-for-television movie, filmed at Pinewood Studios in England with American money from Hallmark, presents a mix of Victor Hugo’s classic novel of unrequited love,…
Dr Jekyll, a mild-mannered but eccentric surgeon and researcher at a private hospital in Los Angeles, accidentally snorts some of the white powder potion he…
Filmed in 1981, released in 1982, but almost impossible to see ever since, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains caught the tail-end of the punk boom with…
Born and orphaned in the Australian “high country”, Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) is sent to the Harrison lowland farm where – caught between an old…