Movies released in 1982| 1990: The Bronx Warriors | Enzo G. Castellari |
| 48 Hrs. | Walter Hill |
| Aces Go Places | Eric Tsang |
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York | Stanislav Látal |
| Aftermath, The | Steve Barkett |
| Airplane II: The Sequel | Ken Finkleman |
| Alice at the Palace | Emile Ardolino |
| Alone in the Dark | Jack Sholder |
| Amityville II: The Possession | Damiano Damiani |
| Android | Aaron Lipstadt |
| Annie | John Huston |
| Attack Force Z | Tim Burstall |
| Attack on a Bakery | Naoto Yamakawa |
| Babobilicons | Daina Krumins |
| Bad Brains: Live at CBGB | Richard Oretsky |
| Basket Case | Frank Henenlotter |
| Beach Girls, The | Bud Townsend |
| Beast Within, The | Philippe Mora |
| Beastmaster, The | Don Coscarelli |
| Black Candles | José Ramón Larraz |
| Black Room, The | Elly Kenner, Norman Thaddeus Vane |
| Blade Runner | Ridley Scott |
| Blood Tide | Richard Jefferies |
| Boardinghouse | John Wintergate |
| Box | Takashi Ito |
| Brain 17 | Minoru Yamada, Michael Part |
| Brave Archer and His Mate | Chang Cheh |
| Britannia Hospital | Lindsay Anderson |
| Bunker of the Last Gunshots, The | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro |
| Burden of Dreams | Les Blank |
| Café Flesh | Stephen Sayadian |
| Calamity of Snakes | Chi Chang |
| Cat People | Paul Schrader |
| Centipede Horror | Keith Li |
| Challenge, The | John Frankenheimer |
| Class of 1984 | Mark L. Lester |
| Class Reunion | Michael Miller |
| Conan the Barbarian | John Milius |
| Creepshow | George A. Romero |
| Curse of the Screaming Dead, The | Tony Malanowski |
| Cute Devil | Nobuhiko Ōbayashi |
| Dark Crystal, The | Frank Oz, Jim Henson |
| Dead and the Deadly, The | Wu Ma |
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner |
| Deadly Eyes | Robert Clouse |
| Death Screams | David Nelson |
| Death Valley | Dick Richards |
| Death Wish II | Michael Winner |
| Deathtrap | Sidney Lumet |
| Different Image, A | Alile Sharon Larkin |
| Diner | Barry Levinson |
| Disco Dancer | Babbar Subhash |
| Dorm That Dripped Blood, The | Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow |
| Dragon Lord | Jackie Chan |
| Dragon's Snake Fist, The | Godfrey Ho, Kim Si-hyun |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg |
| Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel |
| Endangered Species | Alan Rudolph |
| Entity, The | Sidney J. Furie |
| Evil Under the Sun | Guy Hamilton |
| Fall Guy | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Fan, The | Eckhart Schmidt |
| Fanny and Alexander | Ingmar Bergman |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling |
| Ferat Vampire | Juraj Herz |
| First Blood | Ted Kotcheff |
| Fist of Death, The | Alfredo B. Crevenna |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog |
| Five Element Ninjas | Chang Cheh |
| Forbidden Love | Steven Hilliard Stern |
| Forbidden World | Allan Holzman |
| Forced Vengeance | James Fargo |
| Friday the 13th Part III | Steve Miner |
| Fury of the Karate Experts, The | Alfredo B. Crevenna |
| Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
| Gang Master | Tsui Siu-Ming |
| Ghost Dance, The | Peter F. Buffa |
| Girls Nite Out | Robert Deubel |
| Gold Raiders | Philip Chalong |
| Grease 2 | Patricia Birch |
| Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat, The | Bill Perez |
| Gunan, King of the Barbarians | Franco Prosperi |
| Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Tommy Lee Wallace |
| Hanky Panky | Sidney Poitier |
| Hell Has No Boundary | Yang Chuan |
| Hey Good Lookin' | Ralph Bakshi |
| House of Traps | Chang Cheh |
| House Where Evil Dwells, The | Kevin Connor |
| Human Lanterns | Sun Chung |
| Humongous | Paul Lynch |
| Hunters of the Golden Cobra, The | Antonio Margheriti |
| I Are You, You Am Me | Nobuhiko Ōbayashi |
| In the Custody of Strangers | Robert Greenwald |
| Incubus | John Hough |
| Invaders of the Lost Gold | Alan Birkinshaw |
| It Came from Hollywood | Andrew Solt, Malcolm Leo |
| Just in Case: Suppression of School Bus Fires | Gene Starbecker |
| Karma Punishment | Jimmy Atmaja |
| Kill Squad | Patrick G. Donahue |
| King of Comedy, The | Martin Scorsese |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains | Lou Adler |
| Last American Virgin, The | Boaz Davidson |
| Last Unicorn, The | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Legendary Weapons of China | Liu Chia-Liang |
| Living Dead Girl, The | Jean Rollin |
| Lonely Hearts Club Band in September, The | Shunichi Nagasaki |
| Made in Britain | Alan Clarke |
| Man Who Saved the World, The | Çetin İnanç |
| Manhattan Baby | Lucio Fulci |
| Mansion of the Living Dead | Jesús Franco |
| Masters of Time, The | René Laloux |
| MegaForce | Hal Needham |
| Mercenaries from Hong Kong | Wong Jing |
| Midnight | John A. Russo |
| Murder by Phone | Michael Anderson |
| My Favorite Year | Richard Benjamin |
| My Rebellious Son | Sun Chung |
| National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Bob Giraldi, Henry Jaglom |
| New York Ripper, The | Lucio Fulci |
| Night Shift | Ron Howard |
| Nightbeast | Don Dohler |
| Ninja In The Dragon's Den | Corey Yuen |
| Ninja Kids | Ko Pao |
| Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon | Naosuke Kurosawa |
| Oasis of the Zombies | Jesús Franco |
| Officer and a Gentleman, An | Taylor Hackford |
| One Dark Night | Tom McLoughlin |
| One Down, Two to Go | Fred Williamson |
| One from the Heart | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather | Hideo Gosha |
| Pandemonium | Alfred Sole |
| Panic | Tonino Ricci |
| Parasite | Charles Band |
| Partners | James Burrows |
| Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman | Chor Yuen |
| Personal Best | Robert Towne |
| Pieces | Juan Piquer Simón |
| Pink Force Commando | Chu Yen-ping |
| Piranha II: The Spawning | James Cameron |
| Plague Dogs, The | Martin Rosen |
| Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper |
| Postman Strikes Back, The | Ronny Yu |
| Private Popsicle | Boaz Davidson |
| Q | Larry Cohen |
| Raiders of the Shaolin Temple | Hao Fang |
| Raw Force | Edward D. Murphy |
| Return of the Ewok | David Tomblin |
| Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | Joe Layton |
| Rocky III | Sylvester Stallone |
| Runaway Nightmare | Mike Cartel |
| Satan's Baby Doll | Mario Bianchi |
| Satan's Mistress | James Polakof |
| Savannah Smiles | Pierre De Moro |
| Scorpion with Two Tails | Sergio Martino |
| Secret of NIMH, The | Don Bluth |
| Sender, The | Roger Christian |
| Shadow Riders, The | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| Shaolin Drunken Monk | Tsai Yang-Ming |
| Shaolin Temple | Cheung Yam-Yim |
| Six God Combination GodMars: The Movie | Tetsuo Imazawa |
| Slumber Party Massacre, The | Amy Holden Jones |
| Smithereens | Susan Seidelman |
| Snowman, The | Dianne Jackson |
| Soldier, The | James Glickenhaus |
| Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula |
| Sorceress | Jack Hill |
| Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie | Osamu Dezaki |
| Special Silencers | Arizal |
| Split Image | Ted Kotcheff |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Nicholas Meyer |
| Starbirds | Michael Part |
| Superstition | James W. Roberson |
| Suzanne, Suzanne | James Hatch, Camille Billops |
| Swamp Thing | Wes Craven |
| Sword and the Sorcerer, The | Albert Pyun |
| Ten Violent Women | Ted V. Mikels |
| Tenebre | Dario Argento |
| They Call Me Bruce? | Elliott Hong |
| Thing, The | John Carpenter |
| Tiger Killer | Li Han-Hsiang |
| Time Walker | Tom Kennedy |
| Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | William Dear |
| Toy, The | Richard Donner |
| Trick or Treats | Gary Graver |
| Tron | Steven Lisberger |
| Turkey Shoot | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Vals, The | James Polakof |
| Verdict, The | Sidney Lumet |
| Vice Squad | Gary Sherman |
| Vigilante | William Lustig |
| Violence in a Women's Prison | Bruno Mattei |
| Visiting Hours | Jean-Claude Lord |
| Wacko | Greydon Clark |
| Waitress! | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz |
| Warlords of the 21st Century | Harley Cokeliss |
| White Dog | Samuel Fuller |
| Who Dares Wins | Ian Sharp |
| Wild Style | Charlie Ahearn |
| Witch with Flying Head, The | Chang Ren-Chieh |
| Wolf Devil Woman | Chang Ling |
| Xtro | Harry Bromley Davenport |
| Year of Living Dangerously, The | Peter Weir |
| Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper | Steve Lumley |
| Young Doctors in Love | Garry Marshall |