Best award winning movies with a ridiculous premise from 1982
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a ridiculous premise from 1982! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a ridiculous premise from 1982, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Tootsie (1982)
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
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- 1982-12-17 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange
Rating
7.2
2 Victor/Victoria (1982)
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
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- 1982-04-25 | Music / Comedy
Cast
- Julie Andrews, James Garner
Rating
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7.253
3 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliot who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliot, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
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- 1982-06-11 | Science Fiction / Adventure
Cast
- Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore
Rating
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7.519
4 Blade Runner (1982)
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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- 1982-06-25 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer
Rating
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7.939
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5 A Question of Silence (1982)
When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
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- 1982-02-18 | Drama
Cast
- Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda
Rating
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6.1
6 The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
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- 1982-05-14 | Drama / History
Cast
- Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye
Rating
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6.611
7 Night Shift (1982)
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.
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- 1982-07-30 | Comedy
Cast
- Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton
Rating
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6.013
8 Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.
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- 1982-08-27 | Science Fiction / Western
Cast
- Fred Ward, Peter Coyote
Rating
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5.34
9 Poltergeist (1982)
Upon realizing that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists to help before it's too late.
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- 1982-06-04 | Horror
Cast
- Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams
Rating
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7.146
10 An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
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- 1982-07-28 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Richard Gere, Debra Winger
Rating
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7.012
