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The Evil Dead (1981)

Summary: Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

Release Date: May 26, 1983

Genre: Horror

Director: Sam Raimi

Writer: Sam Raimi

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: Renaissance Pictures

Distributor: Congress Video Group, USA Network, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Evil Dead

Movie budget: $ 350,000

Domestic: $ 2,400,000

International: $ 495,590

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

Writers: Michael Kane

, Walter Hill

, David Giler

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

Venom (1981)

Summary: Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.

Release Date: January 29, 1982

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Directors: Piers Haggard

, Tobe Hooper

Writers: Alan Scholefield

, Robert Carrington

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Morison Film Group, Venom Productions Limited

Distributor: Vestron Video, Blue Underground, Full Moon Streaming

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,229,643

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

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Summary: A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.

Release Date: February 13, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: George Mihalka

Writers: Stephen A. Miller

, John Beaird

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Famous Players, Secret Films

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Paramount Home Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Scream Factory

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,300,000

Domestic: $ 5,672,031

The Amateur (1981)

Summary: A CIA operative takes justice in his own hands, as his girlfriend is brutally murdered by terrorists. He carefully designs a plan to hunt down the terrorists, after the crime, and executes them one by one.

Release Date: December 11, 1981

Genres: Crime, Thriller

Director: Charles Jarrott

Writers: Robert Littell

, Diana Maddox

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: G

Production: Balkan Productions, Tiberius Film Productions

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,600,000

Domestic: $ 6,892,098

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 Funhouse (1981)

Summary: Teenage Amy Harper, her boyfriend Buzz Dawson, and their friends Richie Atterbury and Liz Duncan visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement, but soon witness a fortune teller's murder and find that the exits are locked.

Release Date: March 13, 1981

Genre: Horror

Director: Tobe Hooper

Writer: Lawrence J. Block

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, GoodTimes Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Scream Factory, MCA Videocassette, TeleFutura, The Criterion Channel, The Sci-Fi Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,886,857

International: $ 142

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

Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)

Summary: Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he make friends with some of the staff, and the...

Release Date: January 22, 1982

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: John Badham

Writers: Brian Clark

, Reginald Rose

, John Badham

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), SLM Production Group

Distributor: WGN

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,206,145

Deadly Blessing (1981)

Summary: After her husband dies under mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.

Release Date: August 14, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Director: Wes Craven

Writers: Glenn M. Benest

, Matthew Barr

, Wes Craven

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Inter Planetary Productions Corporation, Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Distributor: United Artists, Embassy Home Entertainment, CBS, Scream Factory, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 8,279,042

Wolfen (1981)

Summary: A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.

Release Date: July 24, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Director: Michael Wadleigh

Writers: Whitley Strieber

, Michael Wadleigh

, David Eyre

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Orion Pictures, King-Hitzig Productions

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,626,725

Rollover (1981)

Summary: The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collapse.

Release Date: December 11, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Writers: Howard Kohn

, David Shaber

, David Weir

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: IPC Films

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,851,261

Victory (1981)

Summary: As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.

Release Date: July 31, 1981

Genres: Drama, Sport, War

Director: John Huston

Writers: Yabo Yablonsky

, Djordje Milicevic

, Jeff Maguire

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Lorimar Film Entertainment, Victory Company, New Gold Entertainment

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, HBO Max, MGM/CBS Home Video, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,853,418

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

Das Boot (1981)

Summary: A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Release Date: February 10, 1982

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Writers: Wolfgang Petersen

, Lothar G. Buchheim

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

Production: Bavaria Film, Twin Bros. Productions, Radiant Film GmbH, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: Producers Sales Organization (PSO), Triumph Films, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, RCA (II)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 32,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,487,676

International: $ 1,102

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

Back Roads (1981)

Summary: A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Release Date: March 13, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Director: Martin Ritt

Writer: Gary DeVore

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: CBS Theatrical Films, Meta-Films Associates

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, CBS/Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,809,387

Comin' at Ya! (1981)

Summary: Tragedy strikes as two ruthless brothers kidnap a bride during her wedding. Hurt and angry, H.H. begins his quest to find the love he lost, and take vengeance upon the wicked. Comin' at Ya.

Release Date: July 24, 1981

Genre: Western

Director: Ferdinando Baldi

Writers: Wolfe Lowenthal

, Lloyd Battista

, Gene Quintano

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lupo-Anthony-Quintano Productions

Distributor: Filmways Pictures, Rhino Home Video, Drafthouse Films, MVD Distribution, Tubi TV

Countries: Italy, Spain, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 12,000,000

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Summary: The sensuous wife of a roadside diner proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordid, steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Release Date: March 20, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Bob Rafelson