Movie Releases by Genre

Still of the Night

Still of the Night

November 19, 1982 | PG
A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
Metascore:
43
User Score:
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Smithereens

Smithereens

November 19, 1982 | R
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
tbd
The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

November 19, 1982 | TV-14
A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil King who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
7.4
Five Days One Summer

Five Days One Summer

November 12, 1982 | PG
Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.
Metascore:
46
User Score:
tbd
Piranha Part Two: The Spawning

Piranha Part Two: The Spawning

November 5, 1982 | R
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Metascore:
15
User Score:
4.9
The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River

November 5, 1982 | PG
In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, Jim takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
tbd
First Blood

First Blood

October 22, 1982 | R
John Rambo (Stallone) escapes from jail and utilizes the skills he learned in war to evade the sheriff who arrested him.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
8.5
Stalker

Stalker

October 20, 1982 | Not Rated
A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
8.0
My Favorite Year

My Favorite Year

October 8, 1982 | PG
A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
7.0
Split Image

Split Image

October 3, 1982 | R
A young man is sucked into an unnamed religious cult by a beautiful girl, and gets increasingly under the mind control of the cult leader. After his parents fail in their efforts to talk him out of it, they hire a guy who kidnaps, and then de-programs him.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
tbd
Hammett

Hammett

September 17, 1982 | PG
Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
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Human Highway

Human Highway

September 1, 1982 | Not Rated
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizare characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
Metascore:
41
User Score:
tbd
Class of 1984

Class of 1984

August 20, 1982 | R
A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
5.8
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

August 13, 1982 | X
Amy Heckerling's chronicle of a year in life of a group of teenagers at a Southern Calfornia high school in the 1970s is based on Cameron Crowe's undercover experiences and has clearly set the bar for all teen comedies to shoot for.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
7.3
Tempest

Tempest

August 13, 1982 | PG
Unhappy middle-aged architect Philip Dimitrius leaves his wife Antonia and career for a spiritual awakening on a Greek island with his new girlfriend Aretha and teenage daughter, leading to extraordinary results for everyone around him.
Metascore:
40
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tbd
Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pink Floyd: The Wall

August 6, 1982 | TV-14
A confined but troubled rock star (Pink - Bob Geldof) descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation.
Metascore:
47
User Score:
8.3
The Last American Virgin

The Last American Virgin

July 30, 1982 | R
The bond of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
Metascore:
43
User Score:
6.4
Tex

Tex

July 30, 1982 | PG
After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
tbd
An Officer and a Gentleman

An Officer and a Gentleman

July 28, 1982 | R
Zack Mayo (Gere) joins the Navy to make a new life for himself. Along the way he gains respect from his drill instructor Sergeant Foley (Gossett Jr.) and falls in love with local girl Paula (Winger).
Metascore:
75
User Score:
7.7
The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp

July 23, 1982 | R
Based on the John Irving novel, a struggling young writer (Robin Williams) finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
6.6
The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH

July 16, 1982 | G
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
8.5
Six Pack

Six Pack

July 16, 1982 | PG
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local Sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues, who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the Sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant father figure. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the Sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income.
Metascore:
45
User Score:
7.2
Author! Author!

Author! Author!

June 18, 1982 | PG
While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
Metascore:
42
User Score:
tbd
Grease 2

Grease 2

June 11, 1982 | PG
An English student at a 1960s American high school has to prove himself to the leader of a girls' gang whose members can only date greasers.
Metascore:
52
User Score:
4.0
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

June 11, 1982 | PG
When an imaginative boy meets a lost alien, it is the beginning of one of cinema's most endearing friendships as Elliot (Henry Thomas) helps the marvelous creature he calls E.T. find his way back home before government agents can capture him.
Metascore:
92
User Score:
8.2
Chan Is Missing

Chan Is Missing

June 4, 1982 | Not Rated
Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
tbd
The Escape Artist

The Escape Artist

May 28, 1982 | PG
Teenager Danny Masters, the son of the late Harry Masters, considered the second best escape artist in history, wants to follow in his father's footsteps, he already a skilled but untested magician. As far as Danny knows, his father died in a dangerous escape routine. Escaping from under his grandmother's roof, Danny, in a step to achieve his goal as they have all his father's old professional paraphernalia, reunites with his Aunt Sibyl and Uncle Burke in the town of Harding where they have a mind-reading act, she who actually can read minds but which only impinges on the smoke and mirrors they've developed with the act itself. In his wanderings around Harding, Danny gets involved with corrupt Stu Quiñones, and indirectly with Stu's equally corrupt father, the town's mayor, Leon Quiñones. This father/son pair no longer associate with each other as although Stu aspires to be as corrupt as his father, Stu's activities are a little too brazen and public for a politician with which to deal. In those dealings, Danny devises what is largely seen as a publicity stunt in reality to get the one up on the Quiñoneses, but in which he will have to show his true mettle as a great escape artist. In the process, Danny may also provide some justice for his father, the true nature of his death which Danny learns along the way.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
tbd
Rocky III

Rocky III

May 28, 1982 | PG
As Rocky Balboa fights his way into the hearts of millions, life couldn't be better. He scores ten consecutive wins, lands lucrative endorsement contracts and becomes famous throughout the world. But when Clubber Lang KOs Rocky in a humiliating defeat, it becomes apparent that the "Italian Stallion" has lost his edge. Considering hanging up his gloves, Rocky receives encouragement from an unlikely ally: his old nemesis, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). With Creed's help, Rocky strives to regain the "eye of the tiger" before confronting Lang in a grueling rematch for the world heavyweight championship. [MGM]
Metascore:
57
User Score:
7.5
Wrong Is Right

Wrong Is Right

May 14, 1982 | R
A TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc.
Metascore:
50
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tbd
The Chosen

The Chosen

April 30, 1982 | PG
In 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant friction.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
tbd
Diva

Diva

April 16, 1982 | R
Jules (Frédéric Andréi) goes on the run from every conceivable pursuer - from drug dealers and music pirates to the cops - after obtaining a recording of the woman of his dreams, the never-recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez).
Metascore:
88
User Score:
tbd
Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire

April 9, 1982 | PG
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
6.9
The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday

April 2, 1982 | R
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
tbd
Cat People

Cat People

April 2, 1982 | R
In this erotic remake of the 1942 classic, a young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
7.7
Some Kind of Hero

Some Kind of Hero

April 2, 1982 | R
A Vietnam vet (Richard Pryor) returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
tbd
Out of the Blue (1980)

Out of the Blue (1980)

April 1, 1982 | R
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict biker and whose mother is a junkie has a difficult time coping with her parents' problems.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
tbd
Missing

Missing

March 12, 1982 | PG
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
7.6
Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun

March 5, 1982 | PG
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
6.7
The Loveless

The Loveless

March 5, 1982 | R
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
Metascore:
44
User Score:
tbd
Diner

Diner

March 5, 1982 | R
A group of 20-somethings work on what they should do in the future while hanging out at a Baltimore diner in 1959.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
8.3
Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon

February 19, 1982 | R
A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
tbd
Death Wish II

Death Wish II

February 19, 1982 | X
Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.
Metascore:
11
User Score:
5.9
Quest for Fire

Quest for Fire

February 12, 1982 | R
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
6.7
The Border

The Border

February 12, 1982 | R
A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
tbd
Cannery Row

Cannery Row

February 12, 1982 | PG
Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not move away even if they could. Probably the most upstanding citizen in the area is Doc, a marine biologist who earns a living primarily by collecting and selling marine specimens for research. He is a lost soul who is looking for his place in life. He is running away from his past, one where he is trying to make amends for what he considers a past wrong. But his current life isn't totally satisfying either. He believes that his recent collection of eight baby octopi will help him define that future in conducting research on their behavior. However, he is finding that research is not as easy as he had hoped, and that he is still feeling restless. Into the area comes drifter Suzy DeSoto. She too is a lost soul. With few job skills, she gets a job as what she calls a floozy in the local whorehouse, despite her openly headstrong demeanor not making her well suited to the work. Doc and Suzy are immediately attracted to each other, but theirs is a clash of personalities, despite each truly liking the other. The other residents of Cannery Row do their part for a Doc/Suzy coupling, not always with successful results. Doc and Suzy will first have to find their own lot in life before they can commit to someone else, be it the other or anyone else.
Metascore:
52
User Score:
tbd
Das Boot

Das Boot

February 10, 1982 | Unrated
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. Das Boot is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. (Sony Pictures)
Metascore:
85
User Score:
7.2
Personal Best

Personal Best

February 5, 1982 | R
The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
tbd
Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven

January 1, 1982 | TV-MA
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.8
Taps

Taps

December 25, 1981 | PG
Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local commercial development.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
5.7
Reds

Reds

December 25, 1981 | PG
A radical American journalist (Warren Beatty) becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
8.1
Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice

December 18, 1981 | PG
When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of an union head, the man's life begins to unravel.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
8.0
Sharky's Machine

Sharky's Machine

December 18, 1981 | R
Tom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
tbd
Rollover

Rollover

December 11, 1981 | R
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
Metascore:
36
User Score:
tbd
On Golden Pond

On Golden Pond

December 4, 1981 | TV-14
Originally a successful Broadway play, Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond, the film features Norman (Henry Fonda), a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda). At Golden Pond, he and his wife (Katharine Hepburn) nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend (Dabney Coleman), and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
7.4
Ragtime

Ragtime

November 20, 1981 | PG
Set in the early 1900s, an upper middle class family takes in a young African-American woman and her infant son. When the father of the child returns, everything changes.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
5.9
Looker

Looker

October 30, 1981 | PG
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Metascore:
20
User Score:
5.8
Quartet

Quartet

October 25, 1981 | R
Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
tbd
The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman

October 16, 1981 | R
A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her leave him after a short, but passionate affair. Anna and Mike, who play the characters of Sarah and Charles, go, during the shooting of the film, through a relationship that runs parallel to that of their characters.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.8
My Dinner with Andre

My Dinner with Andre

October 11, 1981 | PG
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
7.4
Rich and Famous

Rich and Famous

October 9, 1981 | R
Liz (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature.
Metascore:
52
User Score:
tbd
Enter the Ninja

Enter the Ninja

October 2, 1981 | R
After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also fight his rival.
Metascore:
35
User Score:
tbd
Mommie Dearest

Mommie Dearest

September 25, 1981 | PG
The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
7.0
True Confessions

True Confessions

September 25, 1981 | R
A worldly ambitious monsignor (Robert DeNiro) clashes with his older brother (Robert DuVall), a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
5.5
Raggedy Man

Raggedy Man

September 18, 1981 | PG
It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to be at the switchboard day and night. She was originally told by her boss Mr. Rigby that this job would only be a stepping-stone to a more lucrative job with regular working hours, which Mr. Rigby seems to be reneging on since he has now told her that her position is frozen due to the war. As such, Nita feels trapped by this situation. Nita lives in the telephone switchboard office building with her two sons, adolescent Harry and infant Henry. Because of her marital status, many of the townsfolk, especially the men, view Nita either with contempt or as a loose woman. One evening, Teddy Roebuck, a sailor on a four day furlough who is hitchhiking back to his home in Ardmore, Oklahoma, stops by to make a telephone call. When he learns that the reason for his trip home no longer exists, Teddy decides to stay in Gregory instead. Teddy strikes up a friendship with Nita and her two boys, which blossoms into love. The appearance of this stranger does not sit well with locals Calvin and Arnold, who had plans of having their way with loose Nita, who earlier rebuked their advances. The town's unidentified disfigured man, who Nita fears, may ultimately provide her with the ability to move on with her life.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
tbd
The Haunting of Julia

The Haunting of Julia

September 11, 1981 | R
After her daughter's death, wealthy American homemaker Julia Lofting moves to London to restart her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the ghosts of other children while mourning for her own.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
tbd
Gallipoli

Gallipoli

August 28, 1981 | PG
Two Australian sprinters (Gibson & Lee) leave their dreams of competing to sign up for World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they fight in vain against the larger Turkish army.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
6.9
Body Heat

Body Heat

August 28, 1981 | R
Body Heat, a sexy, haunting tale of desire and skullduggery that echoes 1940s film noirs but is charged with an energy and passion that could only flare in the '80s. Sit back and bask in this contemporary classic's wicked warmth. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
77
User Score:
8.5
Prince of the City

Prince of the City

August 21, 1981 | R
A New York City narcotics detective (Treat Williams) reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
tbd
Condorman

Condorman

August 7, 1981 | PG
Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
Metascore:
46
User Score:
tbd
Victory

Victory

July 31, 1981 | PG
As allied POWs 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.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
8.4
Tarzan the Ape Man

Tarzan the Ape Man

July 24, 1981 | R
“The Blue Lagoon” with elephants. - Roger Ebert. While on an African expedition with her father, Jane Parker (Bo Derek) meets Tarzan (Miles O'Keeffe), and the two become fascinated by each other.
Metascore:
24
User Score:
tbd
Endless Love

Endless Love

July 17, 1981 | R
A high school student's (Martin Hewitt) love for a 15-year-old girl (Brooke Shields) is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.
Metascore:
30
User Score:
6.3
The Fox and the Hound

The Fox and the Hound

July 10, 1981 | G
Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
7.9
S.O.B.

S.O.B.

July 1, 1981 | R
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
tbd
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

June 5, 1981 | PG
A small town stud (Dennis Quaid) wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister (Kristy McNichol) works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes in jeopardy.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
tbd
Bustin' Loose

Bustin' Loose

May 22, 1981 | R
Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old school bus and drive a group of Special kids to Ms. Perry's Washington Farm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give them a new home after The Clarmont Center for Children is shut down by the city. The kids have severe mental problems and Joe is not looking forward to the trip at all, but Joe later bonds with Vivian and the children, offering his support and love and changes his outlook on life. But Donald, the social worker and Vivian's lover who gave Joe his break is hot on their tail and wants Joe back in prison. Joe and Vivian must now prevent Donald from sending the children back to Philidelphia where they'll have no future.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
tbd
The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons

May 22, 1981 | PG
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
tbd
King of the Mountain

King of the Mountain

May 1, 1981 | PG
A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of "King of the Hill."
Metascore:
48
User Score:
tbd
Ms. 45

Ms. 45

April 24, 1981 | X
A shy, mute seamstress (Zoë Lund) falls victim to multiple unspeakable assaults, igniting her one-woman homicidal rampage against New York City’s entire male population.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
8.2
The Hand

The Hand

April 24, 1981 | R
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
Metascore:
59
User Score:
tbd
Excalibur

Excalibur

April 10, 1981 | R
The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in Excalibur. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morte Darthur are here: Arthur (Nigel Terry) removing the sword Excalibur from the stone; the Round Table's noble birth and tragic decline; the heroic attempts to recover the Holy Grail; and the shifting balance of power between wily wizard Merlin (Nicol Williamson) and evil sorceress Morgana (Helen Mirren). [Warner Bros.]
Metascore:
56
User Score:
7.7
Knightriders

Knightriders

April 10, 1981 | R
The members of a traveling Renaissance Faire, who saddle up on motorcycles instead of horses, ride from town to town to stage medieval jousting tournaments with combatants in suits of armor and wielding lances, battle-axes, maces and broadswords. The spectacle of this violent pageant soon garners national attention, much to the dismay of the current king of this Camelot. A challenger to his throne arises as they try to maintain their fairytale existence in a world wrought with corruption.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
tbd
Atlantic City

Atlantic City

April 3, 1981 | R
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
7.3
Thief

Thief

March 27, 1981 | R
Becoming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the mafia, who have other plans for him.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
8.5
Cutter's Way

Cutter's Way

March 20, 1981 | R
[Originally known as "Cutter and Bone," from a 1977 novel by Newton Thornburg] Richard (Jeff Bridges) spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter (John Heard).
Metascore:
70
User Score:
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The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

March 20, 1981 | R
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
8.2
Maniac

Maniac

March 6, 1981 | R
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?
Metascore:
22
User Score:
6.7
Permanent Vacation

Permanent Vacation

March 6, 1981 | Not Rated
A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
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American Pop

American Pop

February 13, 1981 | R
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
6.8
Eyewitness

Eyewitness

February 13, 1981 | R
Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
4.5
The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War

February 13, 1981 | R
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
Metascore:
56
User Score:
5.0
Fort Apache the Bronx

Fort Apache the Bronx

February 6, 1981 | R
In New York, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
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Inside Moves

Inside Moves

December 19, 1980 | TV-14
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?
Metascore:
63
User Score:
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The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer

December 19, 1980 | PG
The son of a Jewish Cantor (Neil Diamond) must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.
Metascore:
37
User Score:
tbd
Tess

Tess

December 12, 1980 | PG
A young strong-willed peasant girl, becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling into the arms of one.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
8.3
Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate

November 19, 1980 | R
A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
6.1
Raging Bull

Raging Bull

November 14, 1980 | R
Scorcese recounts the gritty life self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta (De Niro) who never backs down from a fight on his way to a middleweight title shot.
Metascore:
90
User Score:
7.1
The Idolmaker

The Idolmaker

November 14, 1980 | PG
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
tbd
Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

October 15, 1980 | PG
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
8.3
The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

October 10, 1980 | TV-PG
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
8.5
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