Films of the 1980s: 1982 (2025 Edition)

[BleuPanda]

You can post a list of anywhere between 5 and 20 films (or more, but only 20 will be counted) from the period we're covering. The deciding factor in terms of release dates is the IMDb list and the top 15 of each year will go on to the final top 150 (plus a few bonus films). New rounds will be posted on the 16th and first day of each month. The deadline for this poll is December 31st.

The points scheme is as follows:
1. 50
2. 45
3. 40
4. 36
5. 32
6. 28
7. 25
8. 22
9. 19
10. 16
11. 14
12. 13
13. 12
14. 11
15. 10
16. 9
17. 8
18. 7
19. 6
20. 5

However, these are the maximum amounts of points. If you want to put certain films on your list but don't want to give them too many points, you can choose to give these less points than in this scheme (but never more) to decrease the impact on the overall results. If you don't specifically state that you want to give (some of) your films fewer points, I will assume the standard scheme.

Previous 1982 results:
1. (1.) Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (USA / Hong Kong / UK), 560 points, 12 votes , 9 #1 votes
2. (2.) Fanny och Alexander (Fanny & Alexander) (Ingmar Bergman/Sweden/Drama), 360 points, 10 votes , 2 #1 votes
3. (4.) The Thing (John Carpenter/USA/Horror), 221 points, 10 votes , 0 #1 votes
4. (5.) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Steven Spielberg (USA), 210 points, 10 votes , 1 #1 vote
5. (3.) Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog/West Germany/Adventure), 202 points, 9 votes , 0 #1 votes
6. (6.) Tootsie – Sydney Pollack (USA), 166 points, 8 votes , 0 #1 votes
7. (7.) Gandhi (Richard Attenborough/UK/Historical Epic), 155 points, 8 votes , 0 #1 votes
8. (13.) Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio/USA/Experimental), 126 points, 7 votes , 0 #1 votes
9. (9.) The King of Comedy – Martin Scorsese (USA), 124 points, 6 votes , 1 #1 vote
10. (11.) The Verdict – Sidney Lumet (USA), 114 points, 6 votes , 0 #1 votes
11. (30.) Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker), 101 points, 6 votes , 0 #1 votes
12. (17.) The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway/UK/Comedy Drama), 86 points, 3 votes , 1 #1 vote
13. (16.) Diner (Barry Levinson/USA/Comedy Drama), 78 points, 5 votes , 0 #1 votes
14. (12.) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 72 points, 4 votes , 0 #1 votes
15. (23.) Victor/Victoria – Blake Edwards (USA / UK), 65 points, 4 votes , 0 #1 votes

Personal favorites recommendations:
BleuPanda: Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Švankmajer)
acroamor: White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
The Humphreys: Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss [Veronika Voss] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Michel: Le père Noël est une ordure [Santa Claus Is a Stinker] (Jean-Marie Poiré)
Greg: Il pianeta azzurro (The Blue Planet) (Franco Piavoli)
bonnielaurel: Cat People (Paul Schrader)
Petri: Arvottomat [The Worthless] (Mika Kaurismäki)

[BleuPanda]

5 stars (top 250):
1. Blade Runner
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. The Thing
4. The King of Comedy

4.5 stars (top 1000):
5. Koyaanisqatsi
6. Fitzcarraldo
7. The Draughtsman's Contract
8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

4 stars (great):
9. Burden of Dreams
10. White Dog
11. Veronika Voss
12. Victor/Victoria
13. Losing Ground
14. Passion
15. Poltergeist
16. Tootsie
17. Pink Floyd: The Wall

3.5 stars (good):
18. Creepshow
19. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
20. The Snowman
21. The Dark Crystal
22. Tenebre
23. Toute une nuit
24. Gandhi
25. The Secret of NIMH

3 stars (above average):
26. The Slumber Party Massacre
27. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
28. First Blood
29. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
30. Malice in Wonderland

2.5 stars (average):
31. Tron

1.0 stars (terrible):
32. Piranha II: The Spawning

0.5 stars (atrocious):
33. Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

[Humphrey14]

All the 1982 films we've seen. Count the top 13:

Awesome

1. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
2. Fanny och Alexander [Fanny and Alexander] - Ingmar Bergman
3. The Draughtsman's Contract - Peter Greenaway
4. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss [Veronika Voss] - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
5. Losing Ground - Kathleen Collins

Very good

6. Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog

Good

7. The Thing - John Carpenter
8. Gandhi - Richard Attenborough
9. Illusions - Julie Dash
10. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid - Carl Reiner
11. Tenebre [Tenebrae] - Dario Argento

OK

12. Tootsie - Sydney Pollack
13. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Amy Heckerling

Meh

14. Arabic 12 - Stan Brakhage

[bonnielaurel]

1. The King of Comedy
2. Tootsie
3. Cat People
4. Gandhi
5. Le beau mariage
6. Evil Under the Sun
7. The Verdict
8. Identification of a Woman [Identificazione di una donna]
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
10. Annie
11. Poltergeist
12. The World According to Garp
13. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
14. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
15. Le gendarme et les gendarmettes
16. Tenebre
17. Moonlighting
18. A Question of Silence [De stilte rond Christine M.]
19. Victor/Victoria
20. Doktor Faustus

[Petri]

1. Blade Runner
2. Fanny och Alexander [Fanny and Alexander]
3. Arvottomat [The Worthless]
4. Koyaanisqatsi
5. The King of Comedy
6. The Thing
7. Fitzcarraldo
8. Pink Floyd: The Wall
9. White Dog
10. Sophie's Choice
11. Missing
12. Class of 1984
13. Gandhi
14. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
15. The Verdict
16. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss [Veronika Voss]
17. MP - Minä pelkään [I'm Scared]
18. First Blood
19. Tootsie
20. Conan the Barbarian

[acroamor]

It looks as though Dimensions of Dialogue has been switched to a 1983 release on Imdb/Letterboxd

[Michel]

1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
2. The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
3. Le père Noël est une ordure [Santa Claus Is a Stinker] (Jean-Marie Poiré)
4. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
5. Fanny och Alexander [Fanny and Alexander] (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Les fantômes du chapelier [The Hatter's Ghost] (Claude Chabrol)
7. Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
8. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
9. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
10. Missing (Costa-Gavras)
11. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
12. Deathtrap (Sidney Lumet)
13. The World According to Garp (George Roy Hill)
14. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
15. TRON (Steven Lisberger)
16. Paradis pour tous [Paradise for All] (Alain Jessua)
17. Frances (Graeme Clifford)
18. Cat People (Paul Schrader)
19. Der Stand der Dinge [The State of Things] (Wim Wenders)
20. The Thing (John Carpenter)

[acroamor]

1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
2. The Thing (John Carpenter)
3. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
4. Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
5. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
6. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
7. An Officer and a Gentleman (Taylor Hackford)
8. The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen)
9. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
10. Himala (Ishmael Bernal)
11. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
12. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
13. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
14. Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman)
15. Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards)
16. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
17. Toute une nuit (Chantal Akerman)
18. Moral (Marilou Diaz-Abaya)
19. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
20. Tenebre (Dario Argento)

[Humphrey12]

This is to notify you that we watched "Losing Ground" yesterday for the first time, loved it dearly and added at #5 to our list above.

[whuntva]

1) Blade Runner
2) Gandhi
3) The Thing
4) E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
5) Tootsie
6) Pink Floyd The Wall
7) Fitzcarraldo
8) The Secret of NIMH
9) The King of Comedy
10) Star Trek Wrath of Khan

[Greg]

Top 25 (Ranked)

1 | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott (U.K.)
2 | Il pianeta azzurro (The Blue Planet) | Franco Piavoli (Italy)
3 | Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog (Germany)
4 | The Thing | John Carpenter (U.S.)
5 | Burden of Dreams | Les Blank (U.S.)
6 | White Dog | Samuel Fuller (U.S.)
7 | Identificazione di una donna (Identification of a Woman) | Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy)
8 | Parsifal | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (Germany)
9 | Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany)
10 | Transes - Reiter auf dem toten Pferd | Clemens Klopfenstein (Switzerland)
11 | 早池峰の賦 (Ode to Mt. Hayachine) | 羽田澄子 (Sumiko Haneda) (Japan)
12 | The Plague Dogs | Martin Rosen (U.S.)
13 | A ilha dos amores (The Island of Love) | Paulo Rocha (Portugal)
14 | The Year of Living Dangerously | Peter Weir (Australia)
15 | The Secret of NIMH | Don Bluth (U.S.)
16 | Diner | Barry Levinson (U.S.)
17 | Le beau mariage (A Good Marriage) | Éric Rohmer (France)
18 | Chan is Missing | Wayne Wang (U.S.)
19 | Losing Ground | Kathleen Collins (U.S.)
20 | Missing | Costa-Gavras (Greece)

21 | The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese (U.S.)
22 | Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) | Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)
23 | The Dark Crystal | Frank Oz & Jim Henson (U.S.)
24 | Tenebre (Tenebrae) | Dario Argento (Italy)
25 | Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Robert Altman (U.S.)

Honorable Mentions (Alphabetical)

1 | 48 Hrs. | Walter Hill (U.S.)
2 | Toute une nuit (All Night Long) | Chantal Akerman (Belgium)
3 | Ana | Margarida Cordeiro & António Reis (Portugal)
4 | Ashes and Embers | Haile Gerima (Ethiopia)
5 | 投奔怒海 (Boat People) | 許鞍華 (Ann Hui) (Hong Kong)
6 | Cat People | Paul Schrader (U.S.)
7 | Conan the Barbarian | John Milius (U.S.)
8 | Creepshow | George A. Romero (U.S.)
9 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg (U.S.)
10 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling (U.S.)
11 | First Blood | Ted Kotcheff (Canada)
12 | Hammett | Wim Wenders (Germany)
13 | Honkytonk Man | Clint Eastwood (U.S.)
14 | Laberinto de pasiones (Labyrinth of Passion) | Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
15 | A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy | Woody Allen (U.S.)
16 | Lo squartatore di New York (The New York Ripper) | Lucio Fulci (Italy)
17 | Het dak van de Walvis (On Top of the Whale) | Raúl Ruiz (Chile)
18 | Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper (U.S.)
19 | Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany)
20 | Une chambre en ville (A Room in Town) | Jacques Demy (France)
21 | Smithereens | Susan Seidelman (U.S.)
22 | Der Stand der Dinge (The State of Things) | Wim Wenders (Germany)
23 | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack (U.S.)
24 | TRON | Steven Lisberger (U.S.)
25 | Xtro | Harry Bromley Davenport (U.K.)

Shorts

Short (1-10 mins.): Vincent | Tim Burton (U.S.)
Medium (11-30 mins.): The Snowman | Dianne Jackson (U.K.)
Long (31-60 mins.): Befrielsesbilleder (Images of Liberation) | Lars von Trier (Denmark)

Wishlist (Alphabetical)

1 | 可愛い悪魔 (Cute Devil) | 大林宣彦 (Nobuhiko Obayashi) (Japan)
2 | Himmel und Erde (Heaven and Earth) | Michael Pilz (Austria)
3 | Home Sweet Home | Mike Leigh (U.K.)
4 | 転校生 (I Are You, You Am Me) | 大林宣彦 (Nobuhiko Obayashi) (Japan)
5 | Illuminated Texts | R. Bruce Elder (Canada)
6 | 光陰的故事 (In Our Time) | 陶德辰 (Tao Te-Chen) / 楊德昌 (Edward Yang) / Ko I-Chen / 張毅 (Chang Yi) (Taiwan)
7 | ニッポン国 古屋敷村 (A Japanese Village) | 小川紳介 (Shinsuke Ogawa) (Japan)
8 | Macbeth | Béla Tarr (Hungary)
9 | Selva: Un portrait de Parvaneh Navaï (Selva: A Portrait of Parvaneh Navaï) | Maria Klonaris (France)
10 | Finye (The Wind) | Souleymane Cissé (Mali)

[The_Claw]

1. Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
3. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
4. The Thing (John Carpenter)
5. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
6. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
7. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
8. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack(
9. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
10. Toute une nuit [A Whole Night] (Chantal Akerman)
11. Yol [The Road] (Serif Gören)
12. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
13. Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
14. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
15. The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir)
16. Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
17. The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
18. Missing (Costa-Gavras)
19. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
20. La notte di San Lorenzo [Night of the Shooting Stars] (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)

[BleuPanda]

RESULTS

1. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott, 349 Points (8 Votes)
2. The Thing - John Carpenter, 255 Points (8 Votes)
3. Fanny and Alexander / Fanny och Alexander - Ingmar Bergman, 230 Points (6 Votes)
4. The King of Comedy - Martin Scorsese, 197 Points (7 Votes)
5. Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog, 193 Points (7 Votes)
6. Tootsie - Sydney Pollack, 150 Points (8 Votes)
7. Pink Floyd: The Wall - Alan Parker, 131 Points (6 Votes)
8. Koyaanisqatsi - Godfrey Reggio, 128 Points (4 Votes)
9. Gandhi - Richard Attenborough, 126 Points (5 Votes)
10. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg, 122 Points (4 Votes)
11. The Draughtman's Contract - Peter Greenaway, 118 Points (4 Votes)
12. White Dog - Samuel Fuller, 103 Points (4 Votes)
13. Veronika Voss / Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 97 Points (5 Votes)
14. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Amy Heckerling, 91 Points (5 Votes)
15. The Verdict - Sidney Lumet, 73 Points (5 Votes)

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16. Burden of Dreams - Les Blank, 70 Points (3 Votes)
17. Poltergeist - Tobe Hooper, 52 Points (3 Votes)
18. Losing Ground - Kathleen Collins, 50 Points (3 Votes)
19 (tie). Cat People - Paul Schrader, 47 Points (2 Votes)
19 (tie). Identification of a Woman / Identificazione di una donna - Michelangelo Antonioni, 47 Points (2 Votes)
21. The Blue Planet / Il pianeta azzurro - Franco Piavoli, 45 Points (1 Votes)
22. Moonlighting - Jerzy Skolimowski, 44 Points (2 Votes)
23. Missing - Costa-Gavras, 42 Points (4 Votes)
24 (tie). The Good Marriage / Le beau mariage - Éric Rohmer, 40 Points (2 Votes)
24 (tie). The Worthless / Arvottomat - Mika Kaurismäki, 40 Points (1 Votes)
24 (tie). Santa Claus is a Stinker / Le père Noël est une ordure - Jean-Marie Poiré, 40 Points (1 Votes)
27. The Plague Dogs - Martin Rosen, 35 Points (2 Votes)
28. The Secret of NIMH - Don Bluth, 32 Points (2 Votes)
29. Victor/Victoria - Blake Edwards, 29 Points (3 Votes)
30 (tie). Tenebre / Tenebrae - Dario Argento, 28 Points (3 Votes)
30 (tie). Evil Under the Sun - Guy Hamilton, 28 Points (1 Votes)
30 (tie). The Hatter's Ghost / Les Fantômes du chapelier - Claude Chabrol, 28 Points (1 Votes)