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Subgenre Sampler
Force Five (1981)- Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Joe Lewis - Ultraviolent action, with Joe Lewis leading a skilled quintet of martial artists to rescue a girl from an island fortress ruled over by a religious…
Game of Death 2 (1981)- Dir. Ng See Yuan
Feat. Bruce Lee - Posthumous reworking of Bruce Lee's uncompleted final film utilises a lookalike and found footage to pad out the fight sequences already…
Loveless, The (1981)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter - A brooding, fetishised love–letter to the motorcycle movies of the 1950s (THE WILD ONE et al), with a bike gang having a troubled interlude in…
My Young Auntie (1981)- Dir. Liu Chia Liang
Feat. Kara Hui, Liu Chia Liang - Screwball comedy fits like a glove in this kung fu farce concerning a family inheritance and the sexual tension between a side–kicking Aunt…
Night Hawks (1981)- Dir. Bruce Malmuth
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer… - Two undercover NYC cops are faced with the unenviable task of tracking down Europe's number one terrorist in this underrated 80's action flick.…
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)- Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence… - Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasance and George Peppard cavort on and over the South Island in search of a 'McGuffin'.
Sharky's Machine (1981)- Dir. Burt Reynolds
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith… - Burt Reynolds assumed directing duties for this sleazy cop–thriller about political corruption. Mixes exciting, gory action–scenes with…
Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)- Dir. Charles B Griffith
Feat. Jimmy McNichol, Janet Julian, Walter Barnes - Not in any way related to SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, this cheapie from Roger Corman factory is enjoyable on its own terms. Charting the rivalry between a…
Southern Comfort (1981)- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward… - A foolish National Guard unit encounter anything but Southern hospitality while on training manoeuvres in the Louisiana bayous. This allegory of the…
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)- Dir. John Derek
Feat. Bo Derek, Richard Harris, Miles O'Keefe - Famously atrocious 1980s retelling of the Tarzan story, with the lone distinction of featuring a semi–clothed Bo Derek. Playing the apeman,…
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