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Shuffle (1981)

Summary: A cop chases a punk who had a fight with his girlfriend through every kind of urban setting, going on so long the punk starts hallucinating.

Release Date: December 05, 1981

Genre: Short

Director: Gakuryû Ishii

Writers: Gakuryû Ishii

, Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Runtime: 0 h 34 min

Production: Dynamite Productions/ATG, Dynamite Productions, Art Theatre Guild (ATG)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Hôtel des Amériques (1981)

Summary: Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect.

Release Date: December 02, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: André Téchiné

Writers: Gilles Taurand

, André Téchiné

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sara Films, Films A2

Distributor: Lions Gate Films

Country: France

Language: French

La Soupe Aux Choux (1981)

Summary: 2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Release Date: December 02, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Jean Girault

Writers: René Fallet

, Louis de Funès

, Jean Halain

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

Production: Films A2, Les Films Christian Fechner

Country: France

Language: French

Bret Maverick (1981)

Summary: Set in Sweetwater, Arizona in the 1880s with solid citizen Bret owning a ranch and part of the Red Ox Saloon. Stable cast with varying stories, often centered on conflict between the ambitious sheriff and everyone else.

Release Date: December 01, 1981

Genres: Drama, Western

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Cherokee Productions, Warner Bros. Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Just Before Dawn (1981)

Summary: Five young people venture into the backwoods of Oregon to claim a property, and find themselves being stalked by a hulking, machete-wielding psychopath.

Release Date: November 27, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Director: Jeff Lieberman

Writers: Mark Arywitz

, Jeff Lieberman

, Jonas Middleton

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hollywood West Entertainment, Oakland Productions

Distributor: Juniper Releasing, Paragon Video Productions, CBS, Media Blasters, Shriek Show, Code Red DVD

Country: United States

Language: English

Strong Medicine (1981)

Summary: Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fou...

Release Date: November 25, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: Richard Foreman

Writer: Richard Foreman

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States

Language: English

The Skin (1981)

Summary: After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.

Release Date: November 25, 1981

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Liliana Cavani

Writers: Curzio Malaparte

, Robert Katz

, Liliana Cavani

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Opera Film Produzione, Gaumont

Distributor: The Criterion Channel

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Simon & Simon (1981)

Summary: Two brothers of disparate tastes and manners run a private detective agency.

Release Date: November 24, 1981

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Universal Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Das Traumschiff (1981)

Summary: Revolving around cruises on a German luxury liner, the show features intertwining romantic story lines among passengers and crew, set against scenic locales with an uplifting, feel-good vibe and happy resolutions.

Release Date: November 22, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Polyphon Film-und Fernsehgesellschaft, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Countries: Austria, West Germany

Language: German

No Mercy, No Future (1981)

Summary: Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a ...

Release Date: November 18, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Writers: Rita G.

, Helma Sanders-Brahms

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: Helma Sanders Filmproduktion, Mainline

Country: West Germany

Language: German

A Country Practice (1981)

Summary: The highs and lows of the Wandin Valley residents, from the patients and staff at the rural town's hospital, to the locals and their everyday lives.

Release Date: November 18, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: JNP Productions

Country: Australia

Language: English

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

Summary: D.B. Cooper parachutes with his stolen money and proceeds to contact his wife. Meanwhile, his former army sergeant, who now works as an insurance investigator, manages to identify him and decides to track him down.

Release Date: November 13, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Directors: Roger Spottiswoode

, Buzz Kulik

Writers: J.D. Reed

, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

, Ron Shelton

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: PolyGram Pictures

Distributor: CBS, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, King Features Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Live Home Video, MCA Videocassette, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,702,028

Kessler (1981)

Summary: In the years after World War II, the tables have turned: ambitious, cruel Gestapo-officer Ludwig Kessler, the most implacable hunter of every opponent to the Third Reich, can no longer deny its rule is militarily annihilated by th...

Release Date: November 13, 1981

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 0 h 50 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Goliath Awaits (1981)

Summary: A team of scientists discover a secret underwater community within the wreck of an ocean liner that sank during World War II.

Release Date: November 11, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 3 h 20 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Larry White Productions, Gay-Jay Production, Columbia Pictures Television

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

The Prowler (1981)

Summary: An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small California town, bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance.

Release Date: November 10, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Joseph Zito

Writers: Glenn Leopold

, Neal Barbera

, Eric Lewald

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: Graduation

Distributor: Sandhurst, VCII Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Time Bandits (1981)

Summary: A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Release Date: November 06, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Terry Gilliam

Writers: Michael Palin

, Terry Gilliam

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: HandMade Films

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS, Paramount Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 42,365,581

International: $ 2,444

Freak Orlando (1981)

Summary: In the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story...

Release Date: November 06, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Ulrike Ottinger

Writer: Ulrike Ottinger

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

Production: Ulrike Oettinger Filmproduktion, Pia Frankenberg Filmproduktion, Hamburg, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Clean Slate (1981)

Summary: A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.

Release Date: November 04, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Writers: Jean Aurenche

, Bertrand Tavernier

, Jim Thompson

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Films de la Tour, Films A2, Little Bear

Distributor: Moreno Films, Quartet Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 11,527

The Fall Guy (1981)

Summary: Film stuntman Colt Seavers moonlights as a bounty hunter.

Release Date: November 04, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: 20th Century Fox Television, Glen A. Larson Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Father Murphy (1981)

Summary: John Murphy leads a struggle against a mining boss that causes some children to be orphaned. he poses as a priest to circumvent the authorities. He and schoolteacher Mae struggle to provide everyday needs for two dozen children.

Release Date: November 03, 1981

Genres: Drama, Family, Western

Runtime: 0 h 48 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: NBC Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

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