The Road to Patriation

This feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home the Canadian Constitution from England. This film concentrates on the politicking and lobbying that finally led to its patriation in 1982. Five prime ministers had failed before Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau took up the challenge in the early 1970s. Principal players in this documentary are federal Minister of Justice Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister Trudeau, 10 provincial premiers and a host of journalists, politicians, lawyers, and diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic.

Centipede Horror

1982

Cn

5.4

♡ 4

45%

Keith Li Director

Chok Chow Cheung as

Han Chen Wang as

Szu-Ying Chien as

Hui Hsia as

A crazed evil wizard uses his powers to take revenge on beautiful women by making them vomit up live centipedes, which then proceed to eat their victims.

The Plague Dogs

1982

English

7.7

♡ 32

70%

based on novel or book

Martin Rosen Director

Geoffrey Matthews as Farmer

Patrick Stewart as Major

Malcolm Terris as Robert

John Hurt as Snitter

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.

Teahouse

1982

Chinese

8.2

♡ 4

Drama

Tian Xie Director

Ruocheng Ying as Liu Ma Zi

Zongluo Huang as Song Er Ye Xu Zhu

Xu Zhu as Tea guest

Jin Meng as Wang Shufen

An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the People's Republic.

Mother Lode

1982

English

5.7

♡ 7

57%

Charlton Heston Director

Kim Basinger as Andrea Spalding

John Marley as Elijha

Dale Wilson as Gerrard Elliot

Nick Mancuso as Jean Dupre

A couple of young adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.

Female Teacher: In Front of the Students

1982

Japanese

5.1

♡ 18

Yasuaki Uegaki Director

Toshiyuki Kitami as Akiyama / Teacher

Rina Oka as Kumi / Girl Friend of Takuya

Rushia Santô as Reiko / Teacher

Tôru Nakane as Takuya / High School Boy

The lovely Reiko has taken a new teaching job at a creepy old high school. She is an extremely attractive woman and the young students in her class have fallen for her. One night, after tennis practice, she is brutally assaulted in the locker room shower by a man with a stocking over his face. Left on the floor naked and in shock, she discovers a single puzzle piece left behind by the crazed man. A few days later, a pair of students enact a perverted sexual revenge on Reiko for kicking someone off the tennis team. Could one of these students be the man who brutalized her in the locker room? Who owns the strange puzzle piece? As the mystery unfolds, Reiko must come to terms with her own sexual urges and fate.

Tora-san, the Expert

1982

Japanese

6.6

♡ 4

Action

Comedy

Romance

Yôji Yamada Director

Yûko Tanaka as Keiko

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo

Kenji Sawada as Saburô

Hisao Dazai as Shachô

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

1982

Japanese

6.7

♡ 4

Comedy

Yôji Yamada Director

Gajirô Satô as Genko

Gin Maeda as Hiroshi

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo

Hisao Dazai as Umetaro

During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san.

Mercenaries from Hong Kong

1982

Cn

6.8

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Jing Wong Director

Wah Cheung as

Hoi Sang Lee as

Phillip Ko as Naiwen

Wah Yuen as Wen's Brother

Ti Lung plays a Vietnam vet who's now an 'honourable' mercenary-for-hire taking on an assignment tracking down an assassin who's fled to Cambodia after murdering an industrialist from Hong Kong. He recruits a team for the task which consists of who's who of the Shaw Brother's action stars (Lo Lieh, Johnny Wang Lung Wei, Wong Yue, Chan Wei Man and comedy relief Nat Chan). However once they arrived for the mission nothing is what it seems with the standard plot-twists and turns as we find out who's the traitor among the group.

The Scorpion with Two Tails

1982

Italian

4.4

♡ 3

smuggling (contraband)

whodunit

zombie

Sergio Martino Director

John Saxon as Arthur Barnard

Elvire Audray as Joan Barnard

Paolo Malco as Mike Grant

Van Johnson as Mulligan - Joan's father

An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.

Nacional III

1982

Spanish

6.5

Comedy

Luis García Berlanga Director

José Luis López Vázquez as Luis José

Luis Escobar as Marqués de Leguineche

Luis Ciges as Segundo

Chus Lampreave as Viti

In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.

Humongous

1982

English

4.8

♡ 5

13%

Paul Lynch Director

Layne Coleman as Bert Defoe

Janit Baldwin as Carla Simmons

Janet Julian as Sandy Ralston

Page Fletcher as Tom Rice

The monstrous offspring of a violent crime grows up in seclusion on a remote island, where a boatful of hapless teens have shipwrecked, unaware of what's lurking in the woods.

The Executioner's Song

1982

English

7.0

♡ 4

74%

Lawrence Schiller Director

Richard Venture as Earl Dorius

William Sanderson as Gibbs

Rosanna Arquette as Nicole Baker

Ray Girardin as Snyder

In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.

The State of Things

1982

German

6.9

♡ 8

40%

Wim Wenders Director

Isabelle Weingarten as Anna

Allen Garfield as Gordon

Rebecca Pauly as Joan

Samuel Fuller as Joe

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Hammett

1982

English

6.4

♡ 4

75%

62%

Action

based on novel or book

san francisco, california

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Lloyd Kino as Barber

Sylvia Sidney as Donaldina Cameron

R.G. Armstrong as Lt. O'Mara

David Patrick Kelly as The Punk

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.

The Year of Living Dangerously

1982

English

7.1

♡ 20

88%

Peter Weir Director

Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan

Mel Gibson as Guy Hamilton

Sigourney Weaver as Jill Bryant

Michael Murphy as Pete Curtis

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

Making Love

1982

English

6.9

♡ 3

56%

los angeles, california

love triangle

Romance

sexual attraction

Arthur Hiller Director

Gwen Arner as Alrene

Nancy Olson as Christine

Kate Jackson as Claire

Arthur Taxier as Donald

A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.

Little Wars

1982

Arabic

6.2

♡ 5

Maroun Bagdadi Director

Reda Khoury as La mère de Talal

Nabil Ismaïl as Nabil

Soraya Khoury as Soraya

Roger Hawa as Talal

Beirut resident Soraya is drawn to two men: daredevil photographer Nabil and Talal, who must embrace his feudal heritage when his father is kidnapped.

The Shaolin Temple

1982

Chinese

6.8

♡ 16

89%

Hsin-Yen Chang Director

Szu-Ying Chien as Jet Li

Jet Li as Jue Yuan Hai Yu

Hai Yu as Tan Zong Shi Fu

Chenghui Yu as Wng Renze

The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor who killed his father.

Bayi Ajaib

1982

Indonesian

5.6

♡ 3

Action

Horror

Tindra Rengat Director

El Koesno as

Mang Diman as

Udin Labu as

Mang Harry as

A diamond mine in the village is the source of competition between Kosim and Dorman, who are the first ones to find it. They hope to win the position as head of the village. Dorman believes that the soul of his ancestor, Alberto Dominique, who is buried there, will help him achieve his ambition.

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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Mercenaries from Hong Kong

The Scorpion with Two Tails

Nacional III

Humongous

The Executioner's Song

The State of Things

Hammett

The Year of Living Dangerously

Making Love

Little Wars

The Shaolin Temple

Bayi Ajaib