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Balance, LaBalance, La (1982) Recommended
Dir. Bob Swaim
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Philippe Leotard, Richard Berry
Money, loyalty and death hang in the balance in this gritty, Cesar–winning thriller. A crime king–pin is exposed by an…
Brimstone and TreacleBrimstone and Treacle (1982)
Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Sting, Joan Plowright, Denholm Elliott
Scripted by Dennis Potter, this cult psychodrama is set in the unstable household of Joan Plowright and Denholm Elliot, which is invaded by an…
Cagney and Lacey (TV Series)Cagney and Lacey (TV Series) (1982)
Feat. Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly
Women’s Lib. makes headway into New York’s crime fighting ranks in this sturdy eighties policier propelled by two staunch female detectives in a…
CrosstalkCrosstalk (1982)
Dir. Mark Egerton
Feat. Gary Day, Penny Downie, John Ewart
Gary Day plays a wheelchair–bound computer genius who devises a system that significantly advances AI technology, but appears to be taking…
Dead EasyDead Easy (1982)
Dir. Bert Deling
Feat. Scott Burgess, Rosemary Paul, Tim McKenzie
Little–known, but in its own way quite unique thriller in which a crime plot underpins various comic and romantic twists. Burgess plays a…
Death Wish 2Death Wish 2 (1982)
Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia
Sequel to the revenge thriller, with Charles Bronson returning as the architect–turned–vigilante, hunting down the people who murdered…
Death Wish 3Death Wish 3 (1982)
Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland
Gratuitous threequel to the vigilante–revenge thriller, Bronson travelling back to New York for more of the same.
DeathtrapDeathtrap (1982)
Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Joe Silver
A clever, self–referential comedy based around a failing writer of crime playwright who plans to murder his student for his brilliant whodunnit…
DivaDiva (1982) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
Feat. Frederic Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Richard Bohringer
Stylish romantic thriller in which an opera–intoxicated youth bootlegs a concert of an unrecorded opera star which leads to trouble with shady…
EnigmaEnigma (1982)
Feat. Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey
Iron curtain defector Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) returns to East Germany on a CIA mission to save five dissidents by stealing an exemplary of the…

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