Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
Bad Timing |
Nicolas Roeg |
Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel |
Drama |
aka Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession |
The Baltimore Bullet |
Robert Ellis Miller |
James Coburn, Omar Sharif, Ronee Blakley |
Comedy |
Avco Embassy |
Battle Beyond the Stars |
Jimmy Murakami |
Robert Vaughn |
Sci-fi |
|
Below the Belt |
Robert Fowler |
Regina Baff, John C. Becher, Mildred Burke (as herself), Firesign Theatre |
Comedy, drama |
based on Rosalyn Drexler novel; actor Herb Voland's last film |
The Big Brawl |
Robert Clouse |
Jackie Chan |
Action |
Chan's first U.S.-based film |
The Big Red One |
Samuel Fuller |
Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine |
War |
Fuller's final war film |
The Black Marble |
Harold Becker |
Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton |
Crime comedy |
Avco Embassy |
The Blue Lagoon |
Randal Kleiser |
Christopher Atkins, Brooke Shields |
Adventure |
Razzie award for Shields |
The Blues Brothers |
John Landis |
Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Kathleen Freeman, Steve Lawrence, John Candy |
Musical comedy |
based on characters introduced on Saturday Night Live |
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) |
Phil Roman |
|
Animation |
Paramount |
The Boogeyman |
Ulli Lommel |
Ron James, Suzanna Love, Ron Jeremy |
Horror |
|
Borderline |
Jerrold Freedman |
Charles Bronson, Ed Harris |
Action |
ITC |
Bronco Billy |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. |
Brubaker |
Stuart Rosenberg |
Robert Redford, Jane Alexander, Yaphet Kotto |
Drama |
screenplay Oscar-nominated |
Caboblanco |
J. Lee Thompson |
Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda |
Action |
|
Caddyshack |
Harold Ramis |
Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Cindy Morgan |
Comedy |
first film directed by Ramis |
Can't Stop the Music |
Nancy Walker |
Valerie Perrine, Caitlyn Jenner (credited as Bruce Jenner),[lower-alpha 1] Village People |
Musical comedy |
first Razzie award winner |
Cardiac Arrest |
Murray Mintz |
Garry Goodrow |
Thriller |
|
Carny |
Robert Kaylor |
Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson |
Drama |
United Artists |
A Change of Seasons |
Stephen Frears |
Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek |
Romance |
Fox |
The Changeling |
Peter Medak |
George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere |
Horror |
Genie Award Best Canadian Film |
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie |
Tommy Chong |
Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin |
Comedy |
sequel to Up in Smoke |
The Children |
Max Kalmanowicz |
Gil Rogers |
Horror |
|
Christmas Evil |
Lewis Jackson |
Brandon Maggart |
Horror |
|
Circle of Two |
Jules Dassin |
Richard Burton, Tatum O'Neal |
Drama |
Dassin's final film |
Coal Miner's Daughter |
Michael Apted |
Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm |
Biography |
story of Loretta Lynn; Oscar for Spacek, 7 nominations |
Coast to Coast |
Joseph Sargent |
Robert Blake, Dyan Cannon |
Comedy |
Paramount |
The Competition |
Joel Oliansky |
Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick |
Drama |
2 Oscar nominations |
Cruising |
William Friedkin |
Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino |
Thriller |
3 Razzie nominations |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
Death Watch |
Bertrand Tavernier |
Harvey Keitel, Romy Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton |
Sci-fi |
filmed in Scotland |
Defiance |
John Flynn |
Art Carney, Jan-Michael Vincent |
Crime drama |
produced by Jerry Bruckheimer |
Delusion |
Alan Beattie |
Patricia Pearcy, David Hayward |
Mystery |
|
Die Laughing |
Jeff Werner |
Robby Benson, Charles Durning, Elsa Lanchester |
Comedy |
Orion |
Divine Madness! |
Michael Ritchie |
Bette Midler |
Documentary |
Midler in concert |
The Dogs of War |
John Irvin |
Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely |
War |
based on novel by Frederick Forsyth |
Don't Go in the Woods |
James Bryan |
Mary Gail Artz |
Horror |
|
Double Negative[citation needed] |
George Bloomfield |
John Candy, Anthony Perkins |
Thriller |
aka Deadly Companion |
Dressed to Kill |
Brian De Palma |
Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz |
Thriller |
Saturn Award for Dickinson; 3 Razzie nominations |
The Earthling |
Peter Collinson |
William Holden, Rick Schroder |
Adventure |
Australia; Collinson's last film |
The Elephant Man |
David Lynch |
Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft |
Drama, Biography |
8 Oscar nominations; story of Joseph Merrick |
The Exterminator |
James Glickenhaus |
Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar |
Thriller |
Avco Embassy |
Fade to Black |
Vernon Zimmerman |
Dennis Christopher |
Horror |
Golden Globe, Saturn Award nominee |
Fame |
Alan Parker |
Irene Cara, Debbie Allen, Maureen Teefy |
Drama, Musical |
6 Oscar nominations |
Fatso |
Anne Bancroft |
Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey |
Comedy, Drama |
also written by Bancroft |
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
Piers Haggard |
Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren |
Comedy |
final film for Sellers |
The Final Countdown |
Don Taylor |
Kirk Douglas, Katharine Ross, Martin Sheen |
Science fiction |
final film directed by Taylor |
The First Deadly Sin |
Brian G. Hutton |
Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, David Dukes |
Thriller |
based on Lawrence Sanders novel |
First Family |
Buck Henry |
Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner |
Comedy |
also written by Henry |
Flash Gordon |
Mike Hodges |
Timothy Dalton, Sam J. Jones, Max von Sydow |
Science fiction |
based on film serial |
The Fog |
John Carpenter |
Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh |
Horror |
remade in 2005 |
Foolin' Around |
Richard T. Heffron |
Gary Busey, Annette O'Toole, Cloris Leachman |
Romance |
|
The Formula |
John G. Avildsen |
George C. Scott, Marlon Brando |
Thriller |
from Steve Shagan novel; 4 Razzie nominations |
Foxes |
Adrian Lyne |
Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, Randy Quaid |
Drama |
PolyGram |
Friday the 13th |
Sean S. Cunningham |
Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon |
Horror |
led to 11 sequels |
Galaxina |
William Sachs |
Dorothy Stratten |
Sci-fi |
|
Gilda Live |
Mike Nichols |
Gilda Radner |
Concert film |
Warner Bros. |
Gloria |
John Cassavetes |
Gena Rowlands |
Crime drama |
remade in 1999 |
The Gong Show Movie |
Chuck Barris |
Chuck Barris |
Comedy |
based on TV game show |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
Hangar 18 |
James L. Conway |
Gary Collins, Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn |
Science fiction |
MST3K |
The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood |
Alan Roberts |
Martine Beswick, Chris Lemmon, Phil Silvers |
Sex comedy |
3rd Xaviera Hollander film |
He Knows You're Alone |
Armand Hamson |
Don Scardino |
Horror |
|
Health |
Robert Altman |
Carol Burnett, James Garner, Glenda Jackson |
Comedy |
Altman's 15th film |
Heart Beat |
John Byrum |
Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard |
Romance |
Orion |
Heaven's Gate |
Michael Cimino |
Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston |
Western |
5 Razzie nominations; wide release in 1981 |
Herbie Goes Bananas |
Vincent McEveety |
Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman |
Comedy |
3rd sequel to The Love Bug |
Hero at Large |
Martin Davidson |
Anne Archer, John Ritter |
Comedy |
MGM |
The Hollywood Knights |
Floyd Mutrux |
Tony Danza, Fran Drescher, Michelle Pfeiffer |
Comedy |
Columbia |
Home Movies |
Brian DePalma |
Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen, Vincent Gardenia |
Comedy |
|
Honeysuckle Rose |
Jerry Schatzberg |
Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
Hopscotch |
Ronald Neame |
Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston |
Mystery |
Embassy; based on Brian Garfield novel |
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living |
Robert Scheerer |
Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange |
Crime comedy |
MGM |
Humanoids from the Deep |
Barbara Peters |
Doug McClure, Vic Morrow, Ann Turkel |
Science fiction |
New World |
The Hunter |
Buzz Kulik |
Steve McQueen, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Eli Wallach |
Action, Thriller |
McQueen's final film |
The Idolmaker |
Taylor Hackford |
Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Joe Pantoliano |
Drama |
1st film for Gallagher, Pantoliano |
Image of the Beast |
Donald W. Thompson |
William Wellman, Jr. |
Thriller |
|
In God We Tru$t |
Marty Feldman |
Peter Boyle, Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor |
Comedy |
produced, co-written by Feldman |
Inside Moves |
Richard Donner |
David Morse, John Savage, Diana Scarwid, Harold Russell |
Drama |
ITC; Oscar nomination for Scarwid |
The Island |
Michael Ritchie |
Michael Caine, David Warner |
Thriller |
from Peter Benchley novel |
It's My Turn |
Claudia Weill |
Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin |
Romantic comedy |
Columbia |
Jane Austen in Manhattan |
James Ivory |
Anne Baxter, Robert Powell |
Romance |
|
The Jazz Singer |
Richard Fleischer |
Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz |
Drama, Musical |
remake of 1927 film; 5 Razzie nominations |
Just Tell Me What You Want |
Sidney Lumet |
Alan King, Ali MacGraw, Peter Weller, Myrna Loy |
Comedy |
Loy's final film |
The Kidnapping of the President |
George Mendeluk |
Ava Gardner, Van Johnson, William Shatner |
Thriller |
from Charles Templeton novel |
Kill or Be Killed |
Ivan Hall |
Charlotte Michelle, James Ryan |
Action |
|
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark |
Charles Jarrott |
Elliott Gould, Rick Schroder |
Adventure, Family |
Disney |
The Last Married Couple in America |
Gil Cates |
George Segal, Natalie Wood |
Comedy |
Wood's penultimate film |
The Lathe of Heaven |
David Loxton |
Kevin Conway, Bruce Davison |
Science fiction |
|
The Legend of Alfred Packer |
James W. Roberson |
Patrick Day |
Western |
|
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter |
Connie Field |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Documentary |
|
Little Darlings |
Ronald F. Maxwell |
Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Matt Dillon |
Comedy |
Paramount |
Little Miss Marker |
Walter Bernstein |
Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis |
Comedy |
based on 1934 film |
The Long Riders |
Walter Hill |
David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid, Stacy Keach, James Keach, Christopher Guest, Nicholas Guest |
Western |
stars 4 sets of brothers |
Loose Shoes |
Ira Miller |
Royce D. Applegate |
Comedy |
|
Loving Couples |
Jack Smight |
Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon |
Romance |
20th Century Fox |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
The Man with Bogart's Face |
Robert Day |
Robert Sacchi, Victor Buono, Misty Rowe |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
Maniac! |
William Lustig |
Caroline Munro, Joe Spinell |
Horror |
|
Melvin and Howard |
Jonathan Demme |
Jason Robards, Paul LeMat, Mary Steenburgen |
Comedy, Biography |
Oscar for Steenburgen |
Middle Age Crazy |
John Trent |
Bruce Dern, Ann-Margret |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
Midnight Madness |
Michael Nankin, David Wechter |
Michael J. Fox, David Naughton |
Comedy |
Disney |
The Mirror Crack'd |
Guy Hamilton |
Angela Lansbury, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Tony Curtis, Kim Novak |
Mystery |
from Agatha Christie story |
The Monster Club |
Roy Ward Baker |
Vincent Price |
Comedy |
ITC Entertainment |
Motel Hell |
Kevin Connor |
Rory Calhoun |
Horror |
|
Mother's Day |
Charles Kaufman |
Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce |
Horror |
Troma Entertainment |
The Mountain Men |
Richard Lang |
Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Seymour Cassel |
Adventure |
Columbia |
My Bodyguard |
Tony Bill |
Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Chris Makepeace |
Drama |
first film directed by Bill |
Night of the Demon |
James C. Wasson |
Joy Allen, Bob Collins |
Horror |
|
Nightkill |
Ted Post |
Robert Mitchum, Jaclyn Smith, James Franciscus |
Thriller |
|
Nijinsky |
Herbert Ross |
Alan Bates, George de la Peña, Leslie Browne |
Biography |
story of Vaslav Nijinsky |
Nine to Five |
Colin Higgins |
Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, Sterling Hayden |
Comedy |
became TV series, Broadway show; screen debut of Dolly Parton, hit song for Parton |
The Ninth Configuration |
William Peter Blatty |
Stacy Keach, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders |
Drama |
based on Blatty's novel |
The Nude Bomb |
Clive Donner |
Don Adams, Rhonda Fleming |
Comedy, Mystery |
based on Get Smart |
The Octagon |
Eric Karson |
Chuck Norris |
Action |
ACR |
Oh, God! Book II |
Gilbert Cates |
George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney |
Comedy |
sequel to Oh, God! |
Oh Heavenly Dog |
Joe Camp |
Chevy Chase, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif |
Comedy |
featuring Benji |
One Trick Pony |
Robert M. Young |
Paul Simon, Rip Torn, Blair Brown, Joan Hackett |
Musical, Drama |
written by Simon |
Ordinary People |
Robert Redford |
Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern |
Drama |
based on novel by Judith Guest; Oscars for Hutton, Best Picture |
Out of the Blue |
Dennis Hopper |
Dennis Hopper |
Drama |
Discovery Films |
Permanent Vacation |
Jim Jarmusch |
Richard Boes, Ruth Bolton |
Drama |
|
The Pilot |
Cliff Robertson |
Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker |
Drama |
Summit Films |
Popeye |
Robert Altman |
Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul Dooley |
Musical comedy |
Paramount and Disney; based on E. C. Segar character |
Pray TV |
Rick Friedberg |
Rosemary Alexander, Dabney Coleman |
Comedy |
|
Private Benjamin |
Howard Zieff |
Goldie Hawn, Armand Assante, Eileen Brennan, Albert Brooks |
Comedy |
3 Oscar nominations; became TV series |
The Private Eyes |
Lang Elliott |
Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Trisha Noble |
Comedy |
TriStar |
Prom Night |
Paul Lynch |
Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen |
Horror |
followed by 3 sequels |
The Psychotronic Man |
Jack M. Sell |
Peter Spelson |
Science fiction |
|
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
Raging Bull |
Martin Scorsese |
Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty |
Biography, Drama |
story of Jake LaMotta; Oscar for De Niro, 8 nominations |
Raise the Titanic |
Jerry Jameson |
Jason Robards, Alec Guinness, Anne Archer |
Action |
from Clive Cussler novel |
Resurrection |
Daniel Petrie |
Ellen Burstyn, Richard Farnsworth, Sam Shepard |
Drama |
2 Oscar nominations |
The Return of the King |
Jules Bass |
Orson Bean, John Huston, Roddy McDowall |
Animation |
from J. R. R. Tolkien story |
Return of the Secaucus Seven |
John Sayles |
Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, David Strathairn |
Drama |
Libra Films |
Roadie |
Alan Rudolph |
Art Carney, Meat Loaf |
Comedy, Musical |
United Artists |
Rockshow |
|
Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Wings |
Documentary, Musical |
Miramax |
Rough Cut |
Don Siegel |
Burt Reynolds, David Niven, Lesley-Anne Down |
Crime, Comedy |
Siegel's next-to-last film |
Running Scared |
Paul Glickler |
Judge Reinhold, Ken Wahl |
Action |
|
Saturn 3 |
Stanley Donen |
Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Harvey Keitel |
Science fiction |
Martin Amis script |
Schizoid |
David Paulsen |
Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson |
Horror |
|
Scruples |
Alan J. Levi |
Lindsay Wagner, Marie-France Pisier, Barry Bostwick, Kim Cattrall, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Nick Mancuso, Connie Stevens, Gene Tierney |
Drama |
TV mini-series; based on a novel by Judith Krantz |
The Sea Wolves |
Andrew V. McLaglen |
Roger Moore, Gregory Peck |
Action, War |
based on James Leasor book |
Seems Like Old Times |
Jay Sandrich |
Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Charles Grodin |
Comedy |
Neil Simon script |
Serial |
Bill Persky |
Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee |
Comedy |
from Cyra McFadden novel |
The Shining |
Stanley Kubrick |
Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Anne Jackson, Barry Nelson |
Horror |
from Stephen King novel; 4 Saturn Award nominations |
Silent Scream |
Denny Harris |
Cameron Mitchell, Yvonne De Carlo |
Horror |
|
Simon |
Marshall Brickman |
Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton |
Comedy |
Orion |
A Small Circle of Friends |
Rob Cohen |
Karen Allen, Brad Davis |
Drama |
United Artists |
Smokey and the Bandit II |
Hal Needham |
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Dom DeLuise |
Action, Comedy |
Smokey and the Bandit sequel |
Somewhere in Time |
Jeannot Szwarc |
Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour |
Fantasy, Romance |
from Richard Matheson novel; 3 Saturn Awards |
The Empire Strikes Back |
Irvin Kershner |
Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams, Alec Guinness |
Science fiction |
sequel to Star Wars; top-grossing 1980 film in U.S.; 3 Oscar nominations |
Stardust Memories |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper |
Comedy, Drama |
filmed in black-and-white |
Stir Crazy |
Sidney Poitier |
Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder |
Comedy |
Columbia |
The Stunt Man |
Richard Rush |
Barbara Hershey, Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback |
Comedy, Drama |
3 Oscar nominations |
Sunday Lovers |
Bryan Forbes |
Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Gene Wilder, Lynn Redgrave |
Comedy |
4 stories |
Super Fuzz |
Sergio Corbucci |
Michelle Smutny, Ernest Borgnine |
Action |
|
Superman II |
Richard Lester |
Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, Jack O'Halloran, Clifton James, Marc McClure, Valerie Perrine |
Action, Adventure |
sequel to Superman |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
Tell Me a Riddle |
Lee Grant |
Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Brooke Adams |
Drama |
based on Tillie Olsen stories |
Terror Train |
Roger Spottiswoode |
Hart Bochner, David Copperfield, Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis |
Horror |
Canada |
Those Lips, Those Eyes |
Michael Pressman |
Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce |
Comedy |
United Artists |
Times Square |
Allan Moyle |
Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado |
Drama, Musical |
EMI Films |
Tom Horn |
William Wiard |
Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth |
Western, Biography |
McQueen's next-to-last film |
The Unseen |
Danny Steinmann |
Stephen Furst, Barbara Bach |
Horror |
|
Up the Academy |
Robert Downey, Sr. |
Ralph Macchio, Barbara Bach |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. |
Urban Cowboy |
James Bridges |
John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn |
Drama |
based on Aaron Latham story |
Used Cars |
Robert Zemeckis |
Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham |
Comedy |
Warden in two roles |
The Watcher in the Woods |
John Hough, Vincent McEveety |
Carroll Baker, Bette Davis |
Fantasy, Thriller |
Walt Disney |
When Time Ran Out |
James Goldstone |
Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Barbara Carrera, Burgess Meredith |
Disaster film |
the last feature film produced by Irwin Allen |
Where the Buffalo Roam |
Art Linson |
Bill Murray, Peter Boyle, Bruno Kirby |
Comedy |
based on Hunter S. Thompson |
Wholly Moses |
Gary Weis |
Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, Jack Gilford |
Comedy |
Columbia |
Why Would I Lie? |
Larry Peerce |
Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn |
Comedy, drama |
MGM |
Willie & Phil |
Paul Mazursky |
Margot Kidder, Michael Ontkean, Ray Sharkey |
Comedy, drama |
20th Century Fox |
Windows |
Gordon Willis |
Joseph Cortese, Talia Shire |
Drama, Thriller |
5 Razzie nominations |
Witches' Brew |
Donna Ashbrook |
Teri Garr, Richard Benjamin, Lana Turner |
Comedy |
Turner's final film |
Xanadu |
Robert Greenwald |
Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, Gene Kelly |
Fantasy, Musical |
Kelly's final film; 6 Razzie nominations |