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Beyond the Next Mountain (1981)
Summary:
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
Release Date:
November 03,
1981
Genres:
Adventure
,
Drama
,
Biography
Directors:
James F. Collier
James F. Collier
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Rolf Forsberg
Rolf Forsberg
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writer:
Rolf Forsberg
Rolf Forsberg
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 37 min
MPAA:
PG
Production:
Forsberg Associates
Distributor:
Vision Video
,
VCI Home Video
Country:
United States
Language:
English
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A Fine Romance (1981)
Summary:
Perplexed and unmarried Laura and sweet but inept Mike form an unlikely union after meeting. Despite differences and lack of chemistry, an undefinable connection keeps the stubborn Laura and grinning Mike together.
Release Date:
November 01,
1981
Genres:
Comedy
,
Romance
Runtime:
0 h 30 min
Production:
London Weekend Television (LWT)
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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Looker (1981)
Summary:
Three of four models, who had plastic surgery done by Larry after a computed list, are dead. Neither the cops nor Larry believe they're suicides. Larry investigates and stays with the fourth model. Who's behind the lists and murders?
Release Date:
October 30,
1981
Genres:
Drama
,
Thriller
,
Sci-Fi
Director:
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
Director
White Male
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Wikipedia
Writer:
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 33 min
MPAA:
18A
Production:
The Ladd Company
,
Warner Bros.
Distributor:
The Ladd Company
,
Warner Bros.
,
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
,
Warner Archive Collection
,
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
,
Warner Home Video
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Movie budget:
$ 8,000,000
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Halloween II (1981)
Summary:
While Dr. Loomis hunts for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and The Shape is not far behind her.
Release Date:
October 30,
1981
Genre:
Horror
Director:
Rick Rosenthal
Rick Rosenthal
Director
White Male
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Writers:
John Carpenter
John Carpenter
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Debra Hill
Debra Hill
Writer
White Female
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 32 min
MPAA:
R
Production:
Dino De Laurentiis Company
,
Universal Pictures
Distributor:
Universal Pictures
,
Home Box Office (HBO)
,
MCA Videocassette
,
MCA Videodisc
,
WGN
,
MCA Television
,
GoodTimes Home Video
,
Goodtimes Entertainment
,
Universal Studios Home Video
,
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)
,
Scream Factory
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Franchise:
Halloween
Movie budget:
$ 2,500,000
Domestic:
$ 25,533,818
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Saturday the 14th (1981)
Summary:
A family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangerous 'Book of Evil' that has all the monsters of the world trapped inside it.
Release Date:
October 30,
1981
Genres:
Comedy
,
Fantasy
,
Horror
Director:
Howard R. Cohen
Howard R. Cohen
Director
Jewish Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writers:
Jeff Begun
Jeff Begun
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Howard R. Cohen
Howard R. Cohen
Writer
Jewish Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 15 min
MPAA:
PG
Production:
New World Pictures
Distributor:
CBS
,
New Concorde Home Entertainment
,
Scream Factory
,
Tubi TV
Country:
United States
Language:
English
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Shock Treatment (1981)
Summary:
Janet and Brad become contestants on a game show and wind up as captives.
Release Date:
October 30,
1981
Genres:
Comedy
,
Musical
Director:
Jim Sharman
Jim Sharman
Director
White Male
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Writers:
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Jim Sharman
Jim Sharman
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 34 min
MPAA:
PG
Production:
Twentieth Century Fox
Distributor:
Twentieth Century Fox
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Movie budget:
$ 3,500,000
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Gimme a Break! (1981)
Summary:
Nell agrees to look after the Kanisky's home, as a special favor to her dying friend, and takes on the role of housekeeper to widowed police chief Carl and a parental figure to his three teenage daughters, and eventually a foster ...
Release Date:
October 29,
1981
Genre:
Comedy
Runtime:
0 h 30 min
MPAA:
TV-G
Production:
Alan Landsburg Productions
,
Mort Lachman & Associates
,
Reeves Entertainment Group
Country:
United States
Language:
English
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Love, Sidney (1981)
Summary:
A middle-aged gay artist shares his New York apartment with a single mother and her little girl.
Release Date:
October 28,
1981
Genre:
Comedy
Runtime:
0 h 30 min
Production:
Warner Bros. Television
Country:
United States
Language:
English
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Quartet (1981)
Summary:
Finding herself penniless after her art-dealer husband Stephan is convicted of theft, Marya Zelli accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who let her live in their home.
Release Date:
October 25,
1981
Genres:
Drama
,
Romance
Director:
James Ivory
James Ivory
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writers:
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Writer
White Female
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Michel Maingois
Michel Maingois
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 41 min
MPAA:
R
Production:
Merchant Ivory Productions
,
Lyric International
,
National Film Trustee Company
Distributor:
Home Vision Entertainment (HVE)
,
The Criterion Collection
,
Cohen Media Group
,
Cohen Film Collection
,
Warner Home Video
Countries:
United Kingdom
,
France
Language:
French
Domestic:
$ 12,042
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The Pit (1981)
Summary:
A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.
Release Date:
October 23,
1981
Genres:
Horror
,
Mystery
Director:
Lew Lehman
Lew Lehman
Director
White Male
Filmography
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Writer:
Ian A. Stuart
Ian A. Stuart
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 36 min
MPAA:
R
Production:
Amulet Pictures
Distributor:
New World Pictures
,
Embassy Home Entertainment
,
Anchor Bay Entertainment
,
Kino Lorber
,
Nelson Entertainment
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Movie budget:
$ 1,000,000
Domestic:
$ 560
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Silence of the North (1981)
Summary:
Based on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving under rugged pioneer conditions in northern Alberta Canada from the early 190...
Release Date:
October 23,
1981
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Allan King
Allan King
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writers:
Olive Frederickson
Olive Frederickson
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Ben East
Ben East
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Patricia Louisianna Knop
Patricia Louisianna Knop
Writer
White Female
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 34 min
MPAA:
PG
Production:
Universal Pictures
,
Universal Productions Canada
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Movie budget:
$ 8,400,000
Domestic:
$ 1,622,898
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That's My Boy (1981)
Summary:
Ida Willis goes to her employment agency, and finds herself with a new job - that of housekeeper to Robert Price and his wife. She soon discovers the man is her son Shane, whom she gave up for adoption many years earlier.
Release Date:
October 23,
1981
Genre:
Comedy
Runtime:
0 h 30 min
Production:
Yorkshire Television (YTV)
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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Southern Comfort (1981)
Summary:
During a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals.
Release Date:
October 22,
1981
Genres:
Action
,
Thriller
Director:
Walter Hill
Walter Hill
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writers:
Michael Kane
Michael Kane
Writer
Black Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Walter Hill
Walter Hill
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
David Giler
David Giler
Writer
Latino Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 46 min
MPAA:
18A
Production:
Cinema Group Ventures
,
Phoenix Films
Distributor:
Home Box Office (HBO)
,
Embassy Home Entertainment
,
United American Video
,
HBO Video
,
MGM Home Entertainment
,
Shout! Factory
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Domestic:
$ 5,000,000
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Tenko (1981)
Summary:
After the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia.
Release Date:
October 22,
1981
Genres:
Drama
,
History
,
War
Runtime:
0 h 50 min
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
,
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Countries:
Australia
,
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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The Professional (1981)
Summary:
Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.
Release Date:
October 21,
1981
Genres:
Action
,
Drama
,
Crime
Director:
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writers:
Patrick Alexander
Patrick Alexander
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Jacques Audiard
Jacques Audiard
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 48 min
MPAA:
Not Rated
Production:
Cerito Films
,
Les Films Ariane
Country:
France
Language:
French
Movie budget:
$ 20,000,000
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Bergerac (1981)
Summary:
Recovering alcoholic and divorced father of a young daughter, DS Jim Bergerac is a true maverick who prefers doing things his own way, and consequently doesn't always carry out his investigations the way his boss would like.
Release Date:
October 18,
1981
Genres:
Drama
,
Crime
,
Mystery
Runtime:
1 h 30 min
MPAA:
TV-14
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
,
7 Network
Countries:
United Kingdom
,
Australia
Language:
English
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Summary:
Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.
Release Date:
October 16,
1981
Genres:
Drama
,
Romance
Director:
Karel Reisz
Karel Reisz
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writers:
John Fowles
John Fowles
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
Writer
Jewish Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Karel Reisz
Karel Reisz
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
2 h 04 min
MPAA:
R
Production:
Juniper Films
Distributor:
United Artists
,
CBS/Fox
,
WGN
,
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
,
Warner Home Video
,
MGM Home Entertainment
,
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
,
The Criterion Collection
,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
,
20th Century Fox Video
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Movie budget:
$ 8,000,000
Domestic:
$ 26,890,068
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Das letzte Loch (1981)
Summary:
"The Last Hole" is the mordant tale of a man haunted by the historic guilt of Germany who desperately tries to find redemption.
Release Date:
October 16,
1981
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Herbert Achternbusch
Herbert Achternbusch
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writer:
Herbert Achternbusch
Herbert Achternbusch
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 32 min
Production:
Herbert Achternbusch Filmproduktion
Country:
West Germany
Language:
German
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My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Summary:
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
Release Date:
October 11,
1981
Genres:
Comedy
,
Drama
,
Biography
Director:
Louis Malle
Louis Malle
Director
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Writers:
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn
Writer
Jewish Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
,
Andre Gregory
Andre Gregory
Writer
White Male
Filmography
Wikipedia
Runtime:
1 h 50 min
MPAA:
PG
Production:
Saga Productions Inc.
,
The Andre Company
Distributor:
Fox Lorber Home Video
,
HBO Max
,
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
,
The Criterion Channel
,
The Criterion Collection
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Domestic:
$ 5,073
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Verano azul (1981)
Summary:
This series follows the adventures of a group of teenagers during their summer vacation in a small town on the southern coast of Spain.
Release Date:
October 11,
1981
Genres:
Comedy
,
Drama
,
Family
Runtime:
0 h 50 min
Production:
Televisión Española (TVE)
Country:
Spain
Language:
Spanish
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