Best Movies of 1982 by Rank
33
1
Steven Spielberg
Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
Family / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
59
2
Ingmar Bergman
Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Period Film
Sweden / France / West Germany
Swedish
85
3
Ridley Scott
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh
Sci-Fi / Drama / Action / Tech-Noir / Cult
USA
English
334
5
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
344
6
Werner Herzog
Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy
Adventure / Drama
Peru / West Germany
English
374
7
Richard Attenborough
Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Religion
UK / India
English
397
8
Barry Levinson
Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
495
9
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Miriam Guidelli
Drama / Fantasy / War
Italy
Italian
800
11
Jerzy Skolimowski
Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav
Drama
UK / West Germany
English
882
12
Tobe Hooper, Steven Spielberg
JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson
Horror / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
938
14
Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün
Drama
Turkey / Switzerland / France
Turkish
981
15
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer
Drama
West Germany
German
1011
16
Peter Weir
Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Romance / Drama
Australia
English
1186
17
Daniel Vigne
Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maurice Barrier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
1399
18
Alan J. Pakula
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1402
19
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
1476
20
Peter Greenaway
Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Neil Cunningham
Comedy / Drama / Mystery
UK
English
1480
21
Franco Zeffirelli
Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil
Drama / Musical
Italy
Italian
1577
22
Amy Heckerling
Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus
Comedy / Cult
USA
English
1632
23
Blake Edwards
Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren
Comedy / Romance / Musical
UK / USA
English
1736
24
Richard Benjamin
Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna
Comedy
USA
English
1798
25
Walter Hill
Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1820
26
Eric Rohmer
Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Féodor Atkine
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
1888
27
Ettore Scola
Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla
Drama / History / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1903
28
Wayne Wang
Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew, Peter Wang
Crime / Comedy / Drama / Detective
USA
English
1906
29
Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Crime / Comedy
France
French
1906
29
George Roy Hill
Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1998
30
Nicholas Meyer
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Family / Cult
USA
English
2000
31
Taylor Hackford
Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia, Louis Gossett Jr.,
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2021
32
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Experimental / Drama / Documentary
France
German
2026
33
Phillip Borsos
Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson
Western / Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
Canada
English
2036
34
Carl Reiner
Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2043
35
George Miller
Tom Burlinson, Kirk Douglas, Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart
Drama / Romance / Western / Family / Period Film
Australia
English
2105
36
Bob Swaim
Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
France
French
2116
37
Steven Lisberger
Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes
Action / Fantasy / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Tech-Noir / Cult
USA / Taiwan
English
2131
38
George T. Nierenberg
Willie May Ford Smith, Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2139
39
Jim Brown
Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Arlo Guthrie, Mary Travers
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2162
40
Les Blank
Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale, Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2167
41
Robert Towne
Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore
Drama / Sports / Romance
USA
English
2200
42
Alan Parker
Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon
Drama / Musical
UK
English
2262
43
Paul Bartel
Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger, Lynn Hobart
Comedy / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2270
44
Ryszard Bugajski
Krystyna Janda, Janusz Gajos, Adam Ferency, Agnieszka Holland, Anna Romantowska
Drama
Poland
Polish
2307
46
Marleen Gorris
Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Henriëtte Tol, Cox Habbema, Eddie Brugman
Drama / Crime
Netherlands
Dutch
2331
47
Jim Abrahams, Reza Badiyi, Georg Stanford Brown, Paul Krasny, Joe Dante, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Rex Hamilton, William Duell, Ed Williams, Peter Lupus
Action / Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2360
48
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2393
49
Susan Seidelman
Susan Berman, Brad Rijn, Richard Hell, Nada Despotovich, Roger Jett
Drama
USA
English
2411
50
Kathleen Collins
Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Noberto Kerner
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2444
51
Samuel Fuller
Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2445
52
Graeme Clifford
Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jonathan Banks
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2445
52
Alan Parker
Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller, Dana Hill, Viveka Davis
Drama
USA
English
2446
53
Bob Clark
Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Cyril O'Reilly
Comedy
Canada / USA
English
2461
54
Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Gary Kurtz
Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA / UK
English
2505
55
Wim Wenders
Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear
Mystery / Crime / Post-Noir / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2542
56
José Luis Garci
Antonio Ferrandis, Encarna Paso, José Bódalo
Drama / Romance
Spain
Spanish
2562
57
Wim Wenders
Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly, Jeffrey Kime, Geoffrey Carey
Drama / Mystery
West Germany / Portugal / USA
German
2591
58
David Leivick, Frederick A. Ritzenberg
James Cleveland, Walter Hawkins, Twinkie Clark, Shirley Caesar
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2607
59
Miguel Littin
Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi
Drama / War
Nicaragua / Cuba / Mexico / Costa Rica
Spanish
2607
59
Jan Troell
Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz
Adventure / Drama
Sweden / West Germany / Norway
French
2607
59
Yuli Raizman
Mikhail Ulyanov, Iya Savvina, Irina Gubanova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2630
60
John Huston
Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry
Family / Musical / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2630
60
David S. Ward
Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, William Bronder, Rosanna de Soto, Kathleen Doyle
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2630
60
Robert Altman
Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Kathy Bates, Marta Heflin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2630
60
John Milius
Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman
Action / Fantasy / Adventure / Cult / Comic
USA
English
2630
60
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2630
60
Don Bluth
Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Arthur Malet, Hermione Baddeley
Animation / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
2630
60
Wes Craven
Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess, Nicholas Worth, Don Knight
Horror / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Cult / Comic
USA
English
2637
61
Frank Henenlotter
Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel
Comedy / Horror
USA
English
2637
61
Pedro Almodóvar
Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Marta Fernández Muro
Comedy
Spain
Spanish
2659
62
Slava Tsukerman
Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto von Wernherr, Bob Brady
Sci-Fi / Comedy
USA
English
2659
62
Alan Clarke
John Bleasdale, Brian Hayes, Sharon Courtney, Terry Richards, Joan Ware
Crime / Drama
UK
English
2663
63
Robert M. Young
Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower, Bruce McGill, Brion James
Drama / Western / Crime
USA
English
2663
63
Julie Dash
Lonette McKee, Rosanne Katon, Ned Bellamy, Jack Rader, Jack Lundi Faust
Drama / Short
USA
English
2683
64
Mrinal Sen
Anjan Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Sreela Majumdar, Indranil Moitra
Drama
India
Bengali
2690
65
Krzysztof Zanussi
Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Sigfrit Steiner, Matthias Habich, Jan Biczycki
Drama
West Germany
English
2692
67
Mario Camus
Victoria Abril, Ana Belén, Concha Velasco, Francisco Rabal, Mario Pardo
Drama / Comedy
Spain
Spanish
2697
68
Joe Layton
Richard Pryor, Julie Hampton, Jesse Jackson
Comedy / Documentary
USA
English
2697
68
Tim Hunter
Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, Frances Lee McCain
Drama
USA
English
2698
69
Orlow Seunke
Gerard Thoolen, Dorijn Curvers, Joop Admiraal, Hans van Tongeren, Olga Zuiderhoek
Drama
Netherlands
Dutch
2698
69
Paul Mazursky
John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman, Raul Julia
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2704
70
Colin Higgins
Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2705
71
Chantal Akerman
Angelo Abazoglou, Frank Aendenboom, Natalia Akerman, Véronique Alain
Drama
Belgium / France / Netherlands / Canada
French
2718
72
Paul Schrader
Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2718
72
Mark L. Lester
Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall, Stefan Arngrim
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Adventure / Gangster
Canada
English
2718
72
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey
Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2718
72
Ji-shun Duan, Junya Sato
Rentaro Mikuni, Misako Konno, Nobuko Otowa, Hideji Otaki, Yoshiko Mita
Drama / Romance / Mystery / Epic / Spy / Action / Detective
Japan / China
Mandarin
2725
73
Jonathan Demme
Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Robert Ridgely, Mike Bacarella, Aaron Freeman
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2747
74
Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Bernard Menoud, Anne-Marie Miéville
Jean-Luc Godard
Documentary
France / Switzerland
French
2758
75
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Olivier Straub, Nadette Thinus, Bernard Thinus
Short
France
French
2758
75
Eduardo de Gregorio
Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Xavier Saint-Macary, Adrian Brine
Drama
France / Belgium
French
2758
75
Raoul Ruiz
Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel, Amber DeGrauw, Jean Badin
Drama / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Netherlands
English
2758
75
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Niels Arestrup
Documentary / War
France / West Germany
French
2758
75
Jacques Demy
Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli
Drama / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Italy / France
French
2777
76
Jean-Luc Godard
Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2779
77
Philippe Garrel
Anne Wiazemsky, Henri de Maublanc, Xuan Lindenmeyer
Drama / Romance
France
French
2783
78
Jane Campion
Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Short / Comedy / Drama
Australia
English
NR
-
Ted Kotcheff
Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Cult / Comic
USA
English
NR
-
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley
Comedy / Crime / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
