Best Drama movies of 1982

Actors : Manny Ojeda, Cherie Gil, Liza Lorena, Sandy Andolong,
Directors : Peque Gallaga,

A tale set in World War II Philippines about how a rich family copes with the war and how the people change amidst violence and death

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Tanuja,
Directors : Ravi Tandon,

Hari R. Srivastav lives a middle-class life in rural India with two step-brothers, Govind and Rajesh. Circumstances compel him to get married to Seema, who dislikes Govind and Rajesh. When ...

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Carmen Carrión, Muriel Montossé, Asunción Calero,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Emmanuelle is recently reunited with her husband, but at the next party, she gets drunk and strips nude for his friends. He returns to his lover. Later, a sober Emmanuelle tries to redeem ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Tom Berenger, Michel Piccoli, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

Mastroianni plays an ex-diplomat imprisoned for the murder of his wife who is visited by a young woman who is not only his lover but also his step-daughter.

Actors : Perry Lang, Mariette Hartley, Edward Asner, Jodie Foster,
Directors : William Bartman,

A mourning workaholic's deceased wife comes back to haunt him, but in a benevolent way, trying to get him to change his dreary attorney life into a life where he has a relationship with his children and is happier with himself.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Mimsy Farmer, Ornella Muti, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

An aging artist sees a beautiful young woman drowning near the beach and helps her. They become lovers. At first he is smitten by her youth, beauty and free spirit but soon he starts worrying that she might actually be insane.

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Glynnis O'Connor, Burton Cummings, Trudy Young,
Directors : Rex Bromfield,

A young woman battles to regain custody of her son.

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 ...

Actors : Orson Bean, Mark Keyloun, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Citera,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, Rex Harrison,

A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is ...

Actors : Ignacio López Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Adjani,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A French psychologist investigates about famous suicidal women. She finds the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who died inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931. To follow the ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Akiko Kana, Masako Natsume, Akiko Nakamura,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa, his adopted daughter Matsue, and his biological daughter Hanako.

Actors : Harue Kyô, Masaki Kyômoto, Yûsuke Takita, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Yôichi Takabayashi,

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by ...

Actors : Jean Glaudé, Francisco Ramírez, Jeff Risk, Jerry Johnson,
Directors : Patrick G. Donahue,

A wealthy business man is a victim of an assault and is shot and wheelchair bound while his wife is gang raped and murdered. He then assembles his motley squad of Vietnam buddies to kung fu...

Actors : Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Bill Hunter, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

A planned housing development in the mid 70's designed for an upstart Cockney immigrant developer, becomes the centre of controversy as tenants and squatters in the older houses refuse to move.

Actors : Harold Sakata, Bruce Le, Jang Lee Hwang, André Koob,

Reformed criminal and ace martial artist Bruce decides to go straight and settle down with his girlfriend after being released from prison. The gang he used to be part of kidnap the ...

Actors : Julia Blake, Wendy Hughes, Jon Finlayson, Norman Kaye,
Directors : Paul Cox,

In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker. In HD.

Actors : Frankie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Billy Chan, Deannie Yip,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Actors : Emily Y. Chang, Sylvia Chang, Sheng-wen Lan, Chi Chen,

Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s.