Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Blow Out (1981)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow - A seemingly ordinary car–crash is found by sound–recordist John Travolta to have sinister overtones when he rewinds his chance taping of…
Body Heat (1981)- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. William Hurt, Kathleen Turner - Loose remake of DOUBLE INDEMNITY is a noir classic in itself. William Hurt and Kathleen Turner embark on a torrid affair and conspire to murder her…
Border, The (1981)- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine… - Rather underrated drama set along the Texas–Mexico borderlands, where a soiled but still–idealistic cop (Nicholson) becomes embroiled…
Brideshead Revisited (Mini-series) (1981)- Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick…
- Famous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel chronicles one Charles Ryder and his relationship with the Marchmain family in England between the wars.…
Britannia Hospital (1981)- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright… - Political allegory dressed as raucous Blighty comedy going all out, but it hasn't quite the magic of cult predecessors IF... and O LUCKY MAN!
Bunker, The (1981)- Dir. George Schaefer
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman… - Absorbing account of Hitler's last days spent hiding under Berlin with Hopkins giving one of his finest performances. Somber adaptation of James P.…
Burning, The (1981)- Dir. Tony Maylam
Feat. Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer… - A proficient slasher in the wake of FRIDAY THE 13TH in which a former summer camp caretaker plots bloody revenge on the teenagers who accidentally…
Bustin' Loose (1981)- Dir. Oz Scott
Feat. Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson - Comedian Richard Pryor produced, wrote and starred in this mad 80's comedy involving a criminal forced to help out the director of a school for…
Cannibal Ferox (Make Them Die Slowly, aka Woman From Deep River) (1981)- Dir. Umberto Lenzi
Feat. John Morghen, Lorraine De Selle, Bryan Redford… - Prime example of the notorious "Cannibal" subgenre of Italian horror films, that creates a dubious mythology of its own as it exploits our mythical…
Cannonball Run (1981)- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett… - Packed with an absurd combination of stars, this trans–continental car race yarn is largely a vehicle for Burt Reynolds wisecracks and some…
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