Best movies of 1982 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, John Shea, Melanie Mayron, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Actors : Al Pacino, Bob Dishy, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

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.

Actors : Albert Finney, Peter Weller, Karen Allen, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for ...

Actors : Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Goldie Hawn, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

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...

Actors : Bill McKinney, Meg Tilly, Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler,
Directors : Tim Hunter,

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Wendy Hiller, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, John Cassavetes, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...

Actors : Sally Field, Paul Dooley, Jeff Bridges, James Caan,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancé Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, ...

Actors : Luciano Pavarotti, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, Kathryn Harrold,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Teresa Stratas,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...

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 : Albert Salmi, Mackenzie Phillips, Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the ...