| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Absence of Malice |
Sydney Pollack |
Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Wilford Brimley |
Drama |
3 Oscar nominations |
| All Night Long |
Jean-Claude Tramont |
Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Dennis Quaid |
Comedy |
|
| ...All the Marbles |
Robert Aldrich |
Peter Falk |
Comedy, Drama |
Aldrich's final film |
| American Pop |
Ralph Bakshi |
Lisa Jane Persky, Ron Thompson |
Drama, Animated |
|
| An American Werewolf in London |
John Landis |
David Naughton, Griffin Dunne |
Horror, Comedy |
won Saturn Award |
| Amy |
Vincent McEveety |
Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman |
Family |
|
| Arthur |
Steve Gordon |
Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud |
Romantic comedy |
Oscar for Gielgud |
| Back Roads |
Martin Ritt |
Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones |
Romantic comedy |
|
| Blow Out |
Brian De Palma |
John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow |
Thriller |
|
| Body Heat |
Lawrence Kasdan |
William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, Mickey Rourke |
Suspense |
first film for Kasdan, Turner |
| Buddy Buddy |
Billy Wilder |
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski |
Comedy |
Wilder's final film |
| The Burning |
Tony Maylam |
Brian Matthews, Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander |
Horror |
|
| Bustin' Loose |
Oz Scott |
Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson |
Comedy |
|
| The Cannonball Run |
Hal Needham |
Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Roger Moore, Jackie Chan |
Comedy, Action |
20th Century Fox; followed by Cannonball Run II |
| Carbon Copy |
Michael Schultz |
George Segal, Susan Saint James, Denzel Washington |
Comedy |
|
| Cattle Annie and Little Britches (film) |
Lamont Johnson |
Burt Lancaster, Amanda Plummer, Diane Lane |
Drama |
|
| Caveman |
Carl Gottlieb |
Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long |
Comedy |
United Artists |
| Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen |
Clive Donner |
Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson |
Mystery |
|
| Chu Chu and the Philly Flash |
David Lowell Rich |
Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden |
Comedy |
|
| Clash of the Titans |
Desmond Davis |
Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Judi Bowker, Claire Bloom |
Fantasy |
remade in 2010 |
| Condorman |
Charles Jarrott |
Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera |
Adventure |
|
| Continental Divide |
Michael Apted |
John Belushi, Blair Brown |
Romantic comedy |
Belushi's next-to-last film |
| Cutter's Way |
Ivan Passer |
Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn |
Mystery, Drama |
aka Cutter and Bone |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Dead & Buried |
Gary Sherman |
Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson |
Horror |
|
| Deadly Blessing |
Wes Craven |
Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Susan Buckner |
Horror |
|
| Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story |
Gabrielle Beaumont |
Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Weitz, Robert Reed |
Biopic |
Made for TV |
| The Decline of Western Civilization |
Penelope Spheeris |
Black Flag, Circle Jerks, X |
Documentary |
|
| The Devil and Max Devlin |
Steven Hilliard Stern |
Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach |
Comedy |
|
| Dragonslayer |
Matthew Robbins |
Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson |
Fantasy, Adventure |
|
| Endless Love |
Franco Zeffirelli |
Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Don Murray, Shirley Knight, Richard Kiley, Beatrice Straight, Penelope Milford |
Drama |
From Scott Spencer novel; Nominated for 6 Razzie awards |
| Escape from New York |
John Carpenter |
Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes |
Action, Thriller |
Followed by Escape from L.A. |
| Escape to Victory |
John Huston |
Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow |
P.O.W. |
|
| The Evil Dead |
Sam Raimi |
Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss |
Horror |
Followed by 2 sequels |
| An Eye for an Eye |
Steve Carver |
Chuck Norris, Christopher Reeve, Richard Roundtree |
Action |
|
| Eye of the Needle |
Richard Marquand |
Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove |
Spy |
|
| Eyewitness |
Peter Yates |
William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, James Woods |
Mystery, Thriller |
Written by Steve Tesich |
| The Fan |
Edward Bianchi |
Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Maureen Stapleton |
Thriller |
|
| The Final Conflict |
Graham Baker |
Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon |
Horror |
Second sequel to The Omen |
| First Monday in October |
Ronald Neame |
Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes |
Drama |
Based on Broadway play |
| Fort Apache, the Bronx |
Daniel Petrie |
Paul Newman, Edward Asner, Pam Grier |
Drama |
|
| Four Friends |
Arthur Penn |
Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen |
Drama |
Written by Steve Tesich |
| The Four Seasons |
Alan Alda |
Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Rita Moreno |
Comedy, Drama |
1st film directed by Alda |
| The Fox and the Hound |
Richard Rich |
voices of Pearl Bailey, Mickey Rooney |
Animated film |
Walt Disney |
| Friday the 13th Part 2 |
Steve Miner |
Adrienne King, Amy Steel |
Horror |
Sequel to Friday the 13th |
| Full Moon High |
Larry Cohen |
Adam Arkin, Ed McMahon |
Comedy horror |
|
| The Funhouse |
Tobe Hooper |
Elizabeth Berridge, Jack McDermott |
Horror |
|
| Galaxy of Terror |
Bruce D. Clark |
Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston |
Sci-fi |
|
| Gangster Wars |
Richard C. Sarafian |
Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Madeleine Stowe |
Crime |
|
| Going Ape! |
Jeremy Joe Kronsberg |
Tony Danza, Jessica Walter, Danny DeVito |
Comedy |
|
| Ghost Story |
John Irvin |
Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas |
Drama, Horror |
Final film for Astaire, Douglas |
| The Great Muppet Caper |
Jim Henson |
Diana Rigg, Charles Grodin |
Comedy, Family |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Neighbors |
John G. Avildsen |
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty |
Comedy |
From Thomas Berger novel |
| The Nesting |
Armand Weston |
Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, John Carradine |
Horror |
|
| Nice Dreams |
Tommy Chong |
Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong |
Comedy |
|
| Nighthawks |
Bruce Malmuth |
Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams |
Crime drama |
Hauer's first U.S. film |
| Nobody's Perfekt |
Peter Bonerz |
Gabe Kaplan, Alex Karras, Susan Clark |
Comedy |
|
| On Golden Pond |
Mark Rydell |
Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman |
Drama |
10 Oscar nominations |
| On the Right Track |
Lee Philips |
Gary Coleman, Michael Lembeck, Lisa Eilbacher |
Comedy |
|
| Only When I Laugh |
Glenn Jordan |
Marsha Mason, Joan Hackett, James Coco |
Drama |
Based on Neil Simon play |
| Paternity |
David Steinberg |
Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo, Elizabeth Ashley |
Comedy |
|
| Pennies from Heaven |
Herbert Ross |
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper |
Musical, Drama |
Remake of 1978 BBC film |
| Piranha II: The Spawning |
James Cameron |
Tricia O'Neil, Lance Henriksen |
Horror |
sequel |
| Polyester |
John Waters |
Divine, Tab Hunter |
Comedy |
|
| The Postman Always Rings Twice |
Bob Rafelson |
Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, Michael Lerner, John P. Ryan, Anjelica Huston |
Crime drama |
based on James M. Cain novel, remake of 1946 film |
| Prince of the City |
Sidney Lumet |
Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Lindsay Crouse, Bob Balaban, James Tolkan, Lane Smith, Lance Henriksen, Carmine Caridi |
Crime drama |
Based on Robert Daley book; 3 Golden Globe nominations |
| The Prowler |
Joseph Zito |
Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman |
Horror |
|
| The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper |
Roger Spottiswoode |
Treat Williams, Robert Duvall, Kathryn Harrold |
True crime |
|
| Raggedy Man |
Jack Fisk |
Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard |
Drama |
|
| Ragtime |
Milos Forman |
Elizabeth McGovern, Howard Rollins, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Kenneth McMillan, Mary Steenburgen, James Olson, Mandy Patinkin, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Robert Joy, Norman Mailer |
Drama |
Based on E.L. Doctorow novel; 8 Oscar nominations |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Steven Spielberg |
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, Ronald Lacey, Alfred Molina |
Adventure |
First Indiana Jones adventure; 8 Oscar nominations |
| Reds |
Warren Beatty |
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Gene Hackman, Maureen Stapleton, Jerzy Kosinski, Edward Herrmann, Paul Sorvino, Jack Nicholson |
Epic, Biopic |
based on the life of John Reed; 12 Oscar nominations |
| Rich and Famous |
George Cukor |
Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Hart Bochner |
Drama |
|
| Rollover |
Alan J. Pakula |
Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn |
Thriller |
|
| Saturday the 14th |
Howard R. Cohen |
Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Severn Darden |
Comedy horror |
|
| Sharky's Machine |
Burt Reynolds |
Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Vittorio Gassman, Henry Silva, Charles Durning, Richard Libertini, Earl Holliman, Bernie Casey, Brian Keith |
Crime drama |
Based on William Diehl novel |
| Shock Treatment |
Jim Sharman |
Cliff DeYoung, Jessica Harper |
Musical |
|
| S.O.B. |
Blake Edwards |
Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Webber, Robert Vaughn, Craig Stevens, Loretta Swit |
Comedy |
nominated for 2 Razzie awards; Holden's final film |
| Southern Comfort |
Walter Hill |
Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote, Franklyn Seales, Alan Autry, T.K. Carter, Brion James |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox |
| Stripes |
Ivan Reitman |
Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, John Candy, Sean Young, P.J. Soles, Judge Reinhold, John Diehl, John Larroquette |
Comedy |
Columbia Pictures |
