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Zoot Suit (1981)

Summary: When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their f...

Release Date: January 01, 1982

Genres: Drama, Musical

Director: Luis Valdez

Writer: Luis Valdez

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,700,000

Domestic: $ 3,256,082

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

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

Heavy Metal (1981)

Summary: A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.

Release Date: August 07, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

Directors: Gerald Potterton

, John Bruno

, John Halas

Writers: Daniel Goldberg

, Len Blum

, Dan O'Bannon

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Guardian Trust Company, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Potterton Productions

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, TBS Superstation

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,300,000

Domestic: $ 546,545

International: $ 1,015

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writers: Tommy Chong

, Cheech Marin

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: C & C Brown Production, Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 33,982,504

International: $ 3,017,496

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

The Loveless (1981)

Summary: Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.

Release Date: May 25, 1984

Genre: Drama

Directors: Kathryn Bigelow

, Monty Montgomery

Writers: Kathryn Bigelow

, Monty Montgomery

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: Pioneer Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 800,000

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

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

Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)

Summary: A satire of American progression in which a mayor tries to bribe an official to ensure a ramp connects Ticlaw to an up-and-coming intrastate. When his plan fails, the town residents are forced to take matters into their own hands.

Release Date: August 21, 1981

Genres: Action, Comedy

Director: John Schlesinger