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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)

Summary: An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her at all costs.

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: William Asher

Writers: Steve Breimer

, Alan Jay Glueckman

, Boon Collins

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: Royal American Pictures

Distributor: Comworld Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981)

Summary: Zorro, the legendary swordsman, has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, R...

Release Date: July 17, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Peter Medak

Writers: Hal Dresner

, Greg Alt

, Don Moriarty

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Melvin Simon Productions, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A.

Distributor: CBS

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Domestic: $ 11,118,000

Modern Problems (1981)

Summary: Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little re...

Release Date: December 25, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Director: Ken Shapiro

Writers: Ken Shapiro

, Tom Sherohman

, Arthur Sellers

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, Anchor Bay Entertainment, CBS/Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,154,211

S.O.B. (1981)

Summary: A successful movie director makes the most expensive film in his career and it becomes a huge flop. He tries to salvage his career by reshooting the film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Release Date: July 01, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Blake Edwards

Writer: Blake Edwards

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Artista Management, Geoffrey Productions, Lorimar Film Entertainment

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS Video, MGM/CBS Home Video, CBS, CBS/Fox, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,867,086

History of the World: Part I (1981)

Summary: Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Musical, History

Director: Mel Brooks

Writer: Mel Brooks

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Brooksfilms

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,672,907

Caveman (1981)

Summary: A caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman.

Release Date: April 17, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Carl Gottlieb

Writers: Rudy De Luca

, Carl Gottlieb

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A., Turman-Foster Company

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Video, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Olive Films, HBO Max, MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Countries: Mexico, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 15,965,924

Body Heat (1981)

Summary: During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

Release Date: August 28, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Writer: Lawrence Kasdan

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Ladd Company

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, RCA (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 24,058,838

Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)

Summary: In New York City, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.

Release Date: February 06, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Daniel Petrie

Writers: Heywood Gould

, Thomas Mulhearn

, Pete Tessitore

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: R

Production: Time Life Films, Producers Circle

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, HBO Video, Home Box Office (HBO), Live Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Vestron Video, Video Treasures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 29,200,000

Puberty Blues (1981)

Summary: The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney.

Release Date: December 10, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Bruce Beresford

Writers: Margaret Kelly

, Kathy Lette

, Gabrielle Carey

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Limelight Productions (II)

Distributor: Universal Classics, Umbrella Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 237,000

International: $ 253

The Final Conflict (1981)

Summary: The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.

Release Date: March 20, 1981

Genre: Horror

Director: Graham Baker

Writers: David Seltzer

, Andrew Birkin

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Harvey Bernhard Productions, Mace Neufeld Productions, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: CBS, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox, Scream Factory

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Omen

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 20,471,382

Night School (1981)

Summary: Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled.

Release Date: September 11, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Ken Hughes

Writer: Ruth Avergon

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lorimar Productions, Fiducial Resource Industrial, Resource Films

Distributor: Key Video, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,169,875

Student Bodies (1981)

Summary: A serial killer with his signature heavy breathing proceeds to systematically kill the students and teachers of Lamab high school.

Release Date: May 01, 2020

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Directors: Mickey Rose

, Michael Ritchie

Writer: Mickey Rose

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: G

Production: Allen Smithee Classic Films, Paramount Pictures, Universal Southwest Cinema

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Legend Films, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,165,432

Gallipoli (1981)

Summary: Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Peter Weir

Writers: David Williamson

, Peter Weir

, Ernest Raymond

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: R&R Films, The Australian Film Commission

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,600,000

Domestic: $ 5,732,587

International: $ 4,442

Buddy Buddy (1981)

Summary: During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next-door neighbor wants to commit suicide over marital problems.

Release Date: December 11, 1981

Genre: Comedy

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Francis Veber

, Billy Wilder

, I.A.L. Diamond

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Heron Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,258,543

The Road Warrior (1981)

Summary: In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.

Release Date: May 21, 1982

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: George Miller

Writers: Terry Hayes

, George Miller

, Brian Hannant

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Kennedy Miller Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: Australia

Language: English

Franchise: Mad Max

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,667,907

International: $ 2,946

Continental Divide (1981)

Summary: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Release Date: September 18, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Michael Apted

Writer: Lawrence Kasdan

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment

Distributor: Universal Pictures, CBS, Disney Channel, MCA/Universal Home Video, Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 15,578,237

Only When I Laugh (1981)

Summary: A Broadway actress fresh out of rehab navigates sobriety, her career, demanding daughter, and supporting her troubled friends' personal crises.

Release Date: September 25, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Glenn Jordan

Writer: Neil Simon

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Rastar Films

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 25,524,778

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Summary: American college students David Kessler and Jack Goodman on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. Jack dies. David recovers in a hospital, where he has nightmares.

Release Date: August 21, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Director: John Landis

Writer: John Landis

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,565,292

International: $ 253,991

Nice Dreams (1981)

Summary: Disguised as ice cream vendors, Cheech and Chong make--and subsequently lose--millions of dollars selling a batch of marijuana with an unusual side effect.

Release Date: June 05, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Director: Tommy Chong