Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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,…
Tenko (TV Series) (1981-1984)- Feat. Stephanie Cole, Jean Anderson
- Memorable British drama in which a group of English women, shipwrecked while fleeing the invasion of Singapore in 1941, are captured by the Japanese…
That's My Boy (TV Series) (1981)- Feat. Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake
- ARE YOU BEING SERVED?'s kooky Mollie Sugden broke ranks with this batty British sitcom, in which she played the hired housekeeper of a young married…
They Call Her...Cleopatra Wong (1981)- Dir. Bobby A. Suarez
Feat. Marrie Lee - Singapore's top policewoman, the deadly Miss Cleopatra Wong, teams up with her Filipino counterpart to bust a counterfeit operation in this…
Thief (1981)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. James Caan, Tuesday Weld - Exhilarating, distinctive portrait of a criminal professional, here a safecracker played with wired conviction by James Caan. A scorching…
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