Movie Releases by Genre
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Dreamscape
August 17, 1984
A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.
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Tightrope
August 17, 1984
New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer but when he gets too close to the target the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.
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Cloak & Dagger
August 10, 1984
Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas) is an imaginative youngster who loves role-playing games, and who often enlists the aid of his best friend, an imaginary super-spy named Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman). One day he witnesses a real murder of an FBI agent who passes a videogame called "Cloak & Dagger" to him before he dies. When the police come, the body is gone, and no one will believe him, including his father, Col. Hal Osborne. Soon Davey finds himself up to his neck in hairbreadth escapes, real bullets, and slam-bang action as the hitmen close in. Can Jack save him before time runs out?
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The Philadelphia Experiment
August 3, 1984
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy invisibility experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.
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Streets of Fire
June 1, 1984
A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
June 1, 1984
Admiral Kirk and his crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.
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The Element of Crime
May 14, 1984
A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
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Firestarter
May 11, 1984
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child (Drew Barrymore) who is pyrokinetic.
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
April 13, 1984
After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake.
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Suburbia
April 13, 1984
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society.
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Children of the Corn
March 9, 1984
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believe everyone over the age of 18 must be killed.
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Against All Odds
March 2, 1984
Terry Brogan (Bridges), a football player who is fired from the team, is recruited by an old friend (Woods) to track down a girlfriend in Mexico.
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Lassiter
February 17, 1984
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
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Tenebrae
February 17, 1984
An American writer in Rome is stalked and harassed by a serial killer who is murdering everyone associated with his work on his latest book.
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El Norte
January 27, 1984
Mayan Indian peasants escape oppression in Guatemala and flee to the United States.
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The Keep
December 16, 1983
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
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Gorky Park
December 16, 1983
A Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.
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Uncommon Valor
December 16, 1983
With money from an oil tycoon (Stack), Col. Rhodes (Hackman) recruits marines to go back into the jungles to find his son, who he believes is being held as a POW in Laos.
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Silkwood
December 14, 1983
Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), a nuclear plant worker, strives to expose the safety violations at her workplace.
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Sudden Impact
December 9, 1983
The fourth of the Dirty Harry films starring Clint Eastwood, and the first of them to be directed by Eastwood. In it, a rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.
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Scarface
December 9, 1983
Cuban immigrant Tony Montana (Pacino) builds a Miami drug empire in the 1980s.
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The Dead Zone
October 21, 1983
After a car accident puts him into a coma for 5 years, teacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) wakes up to discover he can see people's futures after touching them.
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Never Say Never Again
October 7, 1983
A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
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Brainstorm
September 30, 1983
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added in, and you can literally jump into someone else's head and play back recordings of what he or she was thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., at the time of the recording, the applications for the project quickly spiral out of control. While Michael Brace uses the system to become close again to Karen Brace, his estranged wife who also works on the project, others start abusing it for intense sexual experiences and other logical but morally questionable purposes. The government tries to kick Michael and Lillian off the project once the vast military potential of the technology is discovered. It soon becomes obvious that the government is interested in more than just missile guidance systems. The lab starts producing mind torture recordings and other psychosis inducing material. When one of the researchers dies and tapes the experience of death, Michael is convinced that he must playback this tape to honor the memory of the researcher and to become enlightened. When another researcher dies during playback the tape is locked away and Michael has to fight against his former colleagues and the government lackeys that now run his lab in order to play back and confront the "scariest thing any of us will ever face" - death itself.
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Pieces
September 23, 1983
The co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.
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Revenge of the Ninja
September 16, 1983
After ninjas killed his family, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When his friend betrays him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle.
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Cujo
August 12, 1983
Cujo, a regular St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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The Star Chamber
August 5, 1983
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
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Jaws 3-D
July 22, 1983
The sons of police chief Brody must protect civilians at a SeaWorld theme park after a 35-foot shark becomes trapped in the park with them.
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
June 24, 1983
Four big name directors re-imagine classic stories from the Twilight Zone.
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Octopussy
June 10, 1983
A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed up by the mysterious Octopussy, used to disguise a nuclear attack on NATO forces.
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WarGames
June 3, 1983
At the height of the Cold War, an American teenager (Matthew Broderick) finds a back door into a military central computer (WOPR) in which reality is confused with game-playing, threatening to start World War III.
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Psycho II
June 3, 1983
After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.
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Chained Heat
May 27, 1983
Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
May 25, 1983
The Millennnium Falcon flashes through hyperspace and creatures from all over the galaxy defy the Galactic Empire. After rescuing Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Leia (Carrie Fisher) from certain doom at the hands of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, Luke (Mark Hamill) rejoins Yoda. Only by completing his Jedi training can he become a true Jedi Knight and defeat Darth Vader and the dark side of the Force.
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Breathless
May 13, 1983
When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate- but when will it end?
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Blue Thunder
May 13, 1983
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
April 29, 1983
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
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Lone Wolf McQuade
April 15, 1983
The classic renegade Texas Ranger goes to war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they each love.
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Liquid Sky
April 15, 1983
A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.
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Bad Boys
March 25, 1983
Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.
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10 to Midnight
March 11, 1983
A LAPD detective is on the trail of a very handsome young man who had been seducing and slashing many young women to death.
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The King of Comedy
February 18, 1983
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
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Videodrome
February 4, 1983
Sci-fi horror filmmaker David Cronenberg's diabolical invader is a television show that seduces and controls its viewers. Featuring rock star Deborah Harry (in her first major film) as a kinky hostess, James Woods as a cable programmer looking for the ultimate in viewing thrills, and special make-up effects by Oscar-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome is a pulsating science fiction nightmare about a world where video can control and alter human life. (Universal)
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The House on Sorority Row
January 21, 1983
After a seemingly innocent prank goes terribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters is stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a grad night party.
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48 Hrs.
December 8, 1982
Detective Jack Cates (Nolte) takes convict Reggie Hammond (Murphy) out of jail for forty-eight hours to solve a case.
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Alone in the Dark
November 12, 1982
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning
November 5, 1982
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.
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First Blood
October 22, 1982
John Rambo (Stallone) escapes from jail and utilizes the skills he learned in war to evade the sheriff who arrested him.
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Class of 1984
August 20, 1982
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.
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Friday the 13th Part III
August 13, 1982
Having recovered from his wound, Jason Voorhees holes up at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of young people arrive for their vacation, Jason continues his killing rampage. Presented in Reagan-Era 3D!
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The Secret of NIMH
July 16, 1982
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.
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Blade Runner
June 25, 1982
In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, detective Rick Deckard hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants—and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. [Warner Bros.]
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Firefox
June 18, 1982
A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
June 4, 1982
With the aide of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
May 21, 1982
Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut.
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The Road Warrior
May 21, 1982
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, Max (Mel Gibson), a cynical drifter, agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community fight a roving band of marauders. Originally titled Mad Max 2.
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Wrong Is Right
May 14, 1982
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.
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Diva
April 16, 1982
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).
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Silent Rage
April 2, 1982
A sheriff (Chuck Norris) tries to stop the killing spree of a mute maniacal murderer who, as the result of years of medical experimentation, has the ability to self-heal.
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The Long Good Friday
April 2, 1982
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
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Cat People
April 2, 1982
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.
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Deathtrap
March 19, 1982
Sidney Bruhl, a playwriter (Michael Caine) receives a play from a student (Christopher Reeve). With the help of his wife (Dyan Cannon), Sidney plans to murder the young man and take credit for the script.
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Missing
March 12, 1982
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
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Death Wish II
February 19, 1982
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.
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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
February 1, 1982
[Also known as "Night Warning"] An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs.
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The Seduction
January 29, 1982
A popular anchorwoman, Jaime Douglas, is stalked by a photographer who's obsessed with her and wants to win her affections at any cost.
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Absence of Malice
December 18, 1981
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.
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Sharky's Machine
December 18, 1981
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.
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Rollover
December 11, 1981
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
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Road Games
November 19, 1981
A truck driver (Stacy Keach) plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.
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The Prowler
November 6, 1981
An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
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Looker
October 30, 1981
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.
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Halloween II
October 30, 1981
Picking up precisely where its predecessor left off, Halloween II follows the same ill-fated characters as they encounter the knife-wielding maniac they left for dead in the first Halloween. It seems the inhuman Michael Myers is still very much alive and out for more revenge as he stalks the deserted halls of the hospital where his sister lays waiting. As he gets closer and closer to his terrified target, Dr. Loomis discovers the chilling mystery behind the crazed psychopath's savage actions. [Universal]
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The Watcher in the Woods
October 9, 1981
An American family moves into a spooky manor house located within a wooded area in the English countryside. Before long they start to see some odd things, like mirrors that don't reflect, and the ghost of a blindfolded girl. The new tenants learn that 30 years ago, a teenage girl, who bears an uncanny resemblance to their daughter Jan, disappeared nearby. Soon, the supernatural presence starts contacting both sisters.
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Enter the Ninja
October 2, 1981
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.
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Southern Comfort
September 25, 1981
During a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals.
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Hell Night
August 28, 1981
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are stalked by the monstrous survivor of a family massacre years earlier.
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Body Heat
August 28, 1981
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.)
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An Eye for an Eye
August 14, 1981
A SFPD undercover narcotics cop aims to avenge his partner's death and destroy a drug-smuggling ring operated by the Chinese Triads.
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Wolfen
July 24, 1981
A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.
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Blow Out
July 24, 1981
A movie sound recordist (John Travolta) accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually an intentional killing and consequently finds himself in jeopardy.
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Eye of the Needle
July 24, 1981
A ruthless German spy (Donald Sutherland), trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
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For Your Eyes Only
June 26, 1981
James Bond, Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
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Outland
May 22, 1981
In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.
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Death Hunt
May 21, 1981
In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness.
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Happy Birthday to Me
May 15, 1981
At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.
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Friday the 13th Part 2
May 1, 1981
Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant.
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Bloody Birthday
April 28, 1981
Three children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members.
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Ms. 45
April 24, 1981
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.
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The Hand
April 24, 1981
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
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Nighthawks
April 10, 1981
Conservative street cop Deke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone) reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva's "at-home" tactics are very much put to the challenge.
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Thief
March 27, 1981
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.
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Cutter's Way
March 20, 1981
[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).
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
March 20, 1981
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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Maniac
March 6, 1981
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?
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Eyewitness
February 13, 1981
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.
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My Bloody Valentine
February 11, 1981
A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
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Scanners
January 14, 1981
Scanners are telepathic and when one (Ironside) seeks to control the world, another (Lack) tries to stop him.
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New Year's Evil
December 26, 1980
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles DJ gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.
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