Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Grease 2 (1982)
- Dir. Patricia Brich
Feat. Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Enjoyably bad reprise of the hit musical of 50s High School Americana, still gets by with a handful of good tunes and Michelle Pffiefer.
Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch (Halloween III) (1982)
- Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy
- Interesting, if largely unreleated departure for the HALLOWEEN series temporarily abandons the curse of Michael Myers for a muddy sci–fi plot…
Heat and Dust (1982)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi
- Sophisticated soap opera follows the escapades of two Englishwomen, two generations apart, who both succumb to the seductive mysticism of India.
Heatwave (1982)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Judy Davis, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter
- Phillip Noyce followed NEWSFRONT with this arresting political thriller about an architect embroiled in Sydney’s corrupt inner city housing…
Home Sweet Home (1982)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Frances Barber
- Postmen, social workers, and desperate housewives converge in this biting Mike Leigh feature, one of the director’s early achievements. Originally…
Honkytonk Man (1982)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom
- One of director–star Eastwood's more unusual efforts, playing a TB–stricken country singer in the Great Depression, who tries to make one…
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1982)
- Dir. Peter Duguid
Feat. Tom Baker
- Former Doctor Who Tom Baker plays Inspector Holmes in this serviceable adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan's most famous Sherlock mystery.
How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)
- Dir. Moira Armstrong
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Sian Phillips
- Daniel Day–Lewis plays a Protestant whose friendship with a fellow Catholic solider is severely tested during the harsh realities of WWI in…
Human Lanterns (Ren pi deng long) (1982)
- Dir. Chung Sun
Feat. Leih Lo
- The Shaw Brothers' first international star, Lo Leih, excels in this horror–suspenser as a mad lampshade maker in olden–day China who…
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret
- A Hollywood writer whose career is in freefall has his life made even more complicated when his estranged daughter turns up at his door demanding a…