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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Smurfs, The (TV Series) (1981-1990)- Originally the Belgian creation of Pierre " Peyo" Culliford, the little blue creatures became a worldwide hit in the 1980s with an…
Sorry! (TV Series) (1981)- Feat. Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott
- Ronnie Corbett, forty–something and with the world as his oyster, can't get a break in this memorable sitcom where his possessive mother (Lott)…
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…
Stripes (1981)- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates… - In a moment of weakness and despair, a slobbish Bill Murray enlists in the US Army and spends the rest of the movie humourously regretting the…
Survivor, The (1981)- Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten - Aussie horror following a pilot who is the only survivor of a crashed Boeing 747–200, and subsequently begins to experience strange…
Take a Letter Mr. Jones (TV Series) (1981)- Feat. John Inman, Rula Lenska, Miriam Margolyes
- British sitcom set in the office of a multinational corporation, where an exec juggles her hectic work life (and workplace sexual politics) with…
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Ben Gazzara - A whiskey–swilling, anarchist poet (Ben Gazzara) searches in vain for redemptive power and inspiration through his self–destructive…
Taps (1981)- Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott… - A surprise box–office smash about a group of cadets who take over their military college, which is on the brink of being closed down. Inspired…
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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