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Cannibal Ferox (1981)

Summary: Three friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe.

Release Date: April 24, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Horror

Director: Umberto Lenzi

Writer: Umberto Lenzi

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dania Film, Medusa Distribuzione, National Cinematografica

Distributor: Aquarius Releasing, Tubi TV

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

The Howling (1981)

Summary: After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Release Date: April 10, 1981

Genre: Horror

Director: Joe Dante

Writers: Gary Brandner

, John Sayles

, Terence H. Winkless

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: AVCO Embassy Pictures, International Film Investors, Wescom Productions

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, Embassy Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, Scream Factory, Rialto Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,985,893

Rich and Famous (1981)

Summary: Liz and Merry become BFFs in college. A decade later, Liz is a serious writer with writer's block, and Merry is a homemaker and a mom who has written a novel. Other bestsellers, riches, and fame follow.

Release Date: October 09, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: George Cukor

Writers: Gerald Ayres

, John Van Druten

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Jaquet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 14,492,125

Absence of Malice (1981)

Summary: When prosecutor Elliot Rosen leaks to naive but well-meaning Miami reporter Megan Carter that liquor wholesaler Mike Gallagher is suspected in the murder of local longshoreman union president Joey Diaz, Gallagher's life begins to ...

Release Date: May 01, 2019

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Director: Sydney Pollack

Writer: Kurt Luedtke

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, Mirage Enterprises

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), GoodTimes Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Image Entertainment, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,716,963

Reds (1981)

Summary: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Release Date: December 25, 1981

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Warren Beatty

Writers: Warren Beatty

, Trevor Griffiths

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance, JRS Productions

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 32,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,382,659

International: $ 129

The Beyond (1981)

Summary: A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Release Date: November 11, 1983

Genre: Horror

Director: Lucio Fulci

Writers: Dardano Sacchetti

, Giorgio Mariuzzo

, Lucio Fulci

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fulvia Film

Distributor: Aquarius Releasing, Thriller Video, Astro, Grindhouse Releasing, Rolling Thunder Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Diamond Entertainment Group (DEG), Indie Rights, KOCH International, SGL Entertainment, Shudder, TGG Direct

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 400,000

Domestic: $ 123,843

Blow Out (1981)

Summary: A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

Release Date: July 24, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Brian De Palma

Writers: Brian De Palma

, Bill Mesce Jr.

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Filmways Pictures, Geria Productions, Geria Productions, Cinema 77, Viscount Associates

Distributor: Filmways Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO), RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, Vestron Video, Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, GoodTimes Home Video, Image Entertainment, Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,000,000

International: $ 1,495

Mommie Dearest (1981)

Summary: The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.

Release Date: September 25, 1981

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Frank Perry

Writers: Christina Crawford

, Frank Yablans

, Frank Perry

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,032,261

International: $ 1,895

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

Writers: John Carpenter

, Debra Hill

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

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

Summary: Kermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.

Release Date: June 26, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Director: Jim Henson

Writers: Tom Patchett

, Jay Tarses

, Jerry Juhl

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Henson Associates (HA), ITC Entertainment, Incorporated Television Company (ITC), Henson Associates (HA)

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Associated Film Distribution (AFD), 20th Century Fox Video, CBS, CBS/Fox, Disney Channel, Buena Vista Home Video, Jim Henson Video, Jim Henson Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Disney+, RCA (II)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Muppets

Domestic: $ 31,206,251

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Summary: Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Director: Desmond Davis

Writer: Beverley Cross

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Charles H. Schneer Productions, Peerford Ltd.

Distributor: MGM/CBS Home Video, WGN, Disney Channel, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 41,092,328

The Four Seasons (1981)

Summary: Witty character study of three couples who vacation together each season. After one divorces, feelings of betrayal and more spawn criticisms of one another, but things that unite them are stronger than those which might pull them ...

Release Date: May 22, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Alan Alda

Writer: Alan Alda

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 50,427,646

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Summary: Secret service agent James Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Release Date: June 26, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Director: John Glen

Writers: Richard Maibaum

, Michael G. Wilson

, Ian Fleming

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Eon Productions

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Video, Home Box Office (HBO), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: James Bond

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 54,812,802

International: $ 24,894

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Summary: In 1936, archaeologists and adventurers of the U.S. government hired Indiana Jones to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis could obtain its extraordinary powers.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Lawrence Kasdan

, George Lucas

, Philip Kaufman

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Lucasfilm

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Indiana Jones

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 248,159,971

International: $ 141,766,000

Ms .45 (1981)

Summary: After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress goes insane, takes to the streets of New York City after dark, and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.

Release Date: April 24, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Abel Ferrara

Writer: Nicholas St. John

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: Navaron Films

Distributor: Drafthouse Films, Complete Entertainment, Family Home Entertainment (FHE), Hollywood Media Bridge, Image Entertainment, Tubi TV, U.S.A. Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 62,000

Christiane F. (1981)

Summary: A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

Release Date: April 02, 1981

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Uli Edel

Writers: Herman Weigel

, Kai Hermann

, Horst Rieck

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: R

Production: Solaris Film, Maran Film, Popular Filmproduktion

Distributor: Image Entertainment

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Polyester (1981)

Summary: A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's ...

Release Date: May 29, 1981

Genre: Comedy

Director: John Waters

Writer: John Waters

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema

Distributor: New Line Cinema, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 300,000

Galaxy of Terror (1981)

Summary: A ragtag spaceship crew sent on a rescue mission encounter a formidable enemy, their worst fears projected by their own imaginations.

Release Date: January 01, 1982

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror

Director: Bruce D. Clark

Writers: Marc Siegler

, Bruce D. Clark

, William Stout

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: New World Pictures

Distributor: Showtime Networks, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, Scream Factory, Shout! Factory, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 700,000

Maeve (1981)

Summary: Maeve (Mary Jackson) returns to Belfast after being away for several years, and she stays in the family home with her sister and father.

Release Date: June 16, 1983

Genre: Drama

Directors: Pat Murphy

, John Davies

Writer: Pat Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: British Film Institute (BFI) Production Board

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Summary: At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.

Release Date: May 15, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: J. Lee Thompson