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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

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

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

Writers: Wallace Shawn

, Andre Gregory

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

Prince of the City (1981)

Summary: A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Release Date: August 26, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Jay Presson Allen

, Sidney Lumet

, Robert Daley

Runtime: 2 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,600,000

Domestic: $ 8,124,257

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

Thief (1981)

Summary: After years in prison, ace safe-cracker Frank owns a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, which are fronts for high-stakes jewelry heists. He wants to complete one last big heist for the Mob before he goes straight.

Release Date: March 27, 1981

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Michael Mann

Writers: Frank Hohimer

, Michael Mann

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mann/Caan Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 11,492,915

International: $ 1,897

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

The Girl with the Red Hair (1981)

Summary: The story of Hannie Schaft of the Dutch resistance told in flashbacks how she tries to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

Release Date: September 17, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Ben Verbong

Writers: Ben Verbong

, Pieter de Vos

, Theun de Vries

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Meteor Film Productions, Movies Productions B.V., Quendo, The Movies, Trio Film, VNU, Verenigde Arbeiders Radio Amateurs (VARA)

Distributor: United Artists Classics

Country: Netherlands

Language: Dutch

Domestic: $ 39,001

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

Escape from New York (1981)

Summary: In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

Release Date: July 10, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: John Carpenter

Writers: John Carpenter

, Nick Castle

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: AVCO Embassy Pictures, International Film Investors, Goldcrest Films International

Distributor: Nelson Entertainment, Embassy Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Image Entertainment, PolyGram Video, MGM Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,244,626

International: $ 31,180

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

This Is Elvis (1981)

Summary: The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and d...

Release Date: April 10, 1981

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Directors: Malcolm Leo

, Andrew Solt

Writers: Malcolm Leo

, Andrew Solt

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: David L. Wolper Productions

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,028,612

Road Games (1981)

Summary: A laid-back American truck driver in south Australia begins to suspect that a man driving a green van is killing young women along his route, which evolves into a game of cat-and-mouse to catch him.

Release Date: February 27, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Richard Franklin

Writers: Everett De Roche

, Richard Franklin

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Essaness Pictures, The Australian Film Commission, Film Victoria, West Australian Film Council, Greater Union Organisation (GUO), Quest Productions

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, Embassy Home Entertainment, Charter Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, StudioCanal, Scream Factory, Tubi TV

Country: Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,750,000

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

Arthur (1981)

Summary: Alcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or m...

Release Date: July 17, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Steve Gordon

Writer: Steve Gordon

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Orion Pictures, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Arthur

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 95,461,682

True Confessions (1981)

Summary: A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Release Date: September 25, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Ulu Grosbard

Writers: John Gregory Dunne

, Joan Didion

, Gary S. Hall

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Chartoff-Winkler Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, WGN, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,850,276

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

Dragonslayer (1981)

Summary: A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.

Release Date: June 26, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Matthew Robbins

Writers: Hal Barwood

, Matthew Robbins

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, Disney Channel, Paramount Home Entertainment, Pioneer, RCA (II), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,110,013

Stripes (1981)

Summary: Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.

Release Date: June 26, 1981

Genres: Comedy, War

Director: Ivan Reitman

Writers: Len Blum

, Daniel Goldberg

, Harold Ramis

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, Home Box Office (HBO), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS, Columbia Pictures Television Distribution, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 85,297,000

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