Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

Three Crowns of the Sailor

1982

French

7.1

♡ 6

77%

Raoul Ruiz Director

Mostefa Djadjam as

Paula Brunet-Sancho as Moroccan streetwalker

Diogo Dória as The sailor's sister's fiancé

Hugo Santiago as (voice)

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.

Things Are Tough All Over

1982

English

5.8

♡ 8

62%

Thomas K. Avildsen Director

Senta Moses Mikan as Kid in Laundromat

Don Bovingloh as Maitre D'

Dorothy Neumann as Mom

Rip Taylor as Self

Everybody has problems these days, and Cheech and Chong are no exceptions. They're hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to Las Vegas with $5 million secretly stashed in the front seat. In order to get there, the pair sells off the car piece by piece, including the seven-figure front seat. Cheech and Chong then have a much bigger problem - Slyman and Habib are after them, swearing to kill them after the appropriate torture.

Time Stands Still

1982

Hungarian

7.5

♡ 1

100%

Comedy

Drama

Péter Gothár Director

Éva Szabó as

István Znamenák as Dini

Tamás Jordán as Lovas

Ádám Rajhona as Rajnák, igazgatóhelyettes

A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dini suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of Dini’s father, Bodor, is released from prison and moves in with them. Dini and his brother are far from happy about this intrusion on their family life.

Paradis pour tous

1982

French

6.5

♡ 3

Alain Jessua Director

Patrick Dewaere as Alain Durieux

Stéphane Audran as Edith

Fanny Cottençon as Jeanne Durieux

Jacques Dutronc as Pierre Valois

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.

Coming Out of the Ice

1982

English

6.4

♡ 3

83%

based on memoir or autobiography

biography

Biography

Drama

Waris Hussein Director

Clive Merrison as Bikov

Malcolm Storry as Guard Commander 2

Tom Chadbon as Samsonov

John Savage as Victor Herman

A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

The Last American Virgin

1982

English

6.3

♡ 22

77%

Boaz Davidson Director

Paul Keith as Father

Lawrence Monoson as Gary

Kimmy Robertson as Rose

Brian Peck as Victor

The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.

White Dog

1982

English

7.0

♡ 13

94%

73%

Action

alcohol

based on novel or book

Samuel Fuller Director

Samuel Fuller as Charlie Felton

Bob Minor as Joe

Lynne Moody as Molly

Jameson Parker as Roland Grale

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

Raw Force

1982

English

5.4

♡ 17

Edward D. Murphy Director

Jennifer Holmes as Ann Davis

Cameron Mitchell as Capt. Harry Dodds

Camille Keaton as Girl In Toilet

Hope Holiday as Hazel Buck

A group of martial arts students are en route to an island that supposedly is home to the ghosts of martial artists who have lost their honor. A Hitler lookalike and his gang are running a female slavery operation on the island as well. Soon, the two groups meet and all sorts of crazy things happen which include cannibal monks, piranhas, zombies, and more!

Moonlighting

1982

English

7.3

♡ 14

100%

Jerzy Skolimowski Director

Eugene Lipinski as Banaszak

Trevor Cooper as Hire Shop Man

Jeremy Irons as Nowak

Kenny Ireland as Timber Man

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

The House Where Evil Dwells

1982

English

4.5

♡ 12

20%

Kevin Connor Director

Doug McClure as Alex Curtis

Susan George as Laura Fletcher

Tsuyako Okajima as Majyo Witch

Edward Albert as Ted Fletcher

At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.

Summer Lovers

1982

English

5.8

♡ 30

25%

Randal Kleiser Director

Hilary Shepard as Camp Fire Girl

Daryl Hannah as Cathy Featherstone

Barbara Rush as Jean Featherstone

Peter Gallagher as Michael Pappas

Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When Michael meets Lina, who is in Greece from Paris doing archaeological work, he is enamored with the beautiful foreigner. Cathy, unhappy about Lina getting close to Michael, confronts the woman -- only to be unexpectedly wooed by her charms as well.

Still of the Night

1982

English

6.0

♡ 22

67%

psychological thriller

Thriller

Robert Benton Director

Meryl Streep as Brooke Reynolds

Sara Botsford as Gail Phillips

Joe Grifasi as Joseph Vitucci

Larry Joshua as Mugger

When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.

One Dark Night

1982

English

5.5

♡ 23

40%

Tom McLoughlin Director

Adam West as Allan McKenna

Kevin Peter Hall as Eddie

Meg Tilly as Julie Wells

Melissa Newman as Olivia McKenna

A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised by two other girls. The crypt becomes a scene of horror as Raymar returns to life and deploys his horrifying telekinetic powers.

The Beast Within

1982

English

5.6

♡ 12

17%

Philippe Mora Director

Meshach Taylor as Deputy Herbert

R.G. Armstrong as Doc Schoonmaker

Logan Ramsey as Edwin Curwin

Don Gordon as Judge Curwin

A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.

Young Doctors in Love

1982

English

5.5

♡ 17

35%

Garry Marshall Director

Demi Moore as New Intern

Pamela Reed as Nurse Norine Sprockett

Peggy Trentini as The Others - Christmas Elf

Arnold Margolin as The Surgeons - Doctor Whitehat

An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.

Savannah Smiles

1982

English

7.1

♡ 9

89%

Pierre De Moro Director

Donovan Scott as Boots

Lynn Borden as Carol Collier

Philip Abbott as Chief Pruitt

Fran Ryan as Farmer Wilma

The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures as the police web closes down on the supposed kidnappers.

Smithereens

1982

English

6.7

♡ 9

100%

Susan Seidelman Director

John Doe as Door Guy

Roma Maffia as Prostitute

Chris Noth as Prostitute

Susan Berman as Wren

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.

Jinxed!

1982

English

4.7

♡ 8

30%

Action

Comedy

Don Siegel Director

Val Avery as Milt Hawkins

Ian Wolfe as Morley

Read Morgan as Reno Player

Jacqueline Scott as Woman Bettor

Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.

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