Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5567 Films to Buy & Rent
All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
- Dir. Elijah Moshinsky
Feat. Ian Charleson, Angela Down, Sir Michael Hordern…
- Adaptation of the Shakespeare play about a low–born daughter of a doctor who falls in love with the son of a countess, and attempts to cure the…
Arthur (1981)
- Dir. Steve Gordon
Feat. Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli
- Dudley, as likeable millionaire drunk, falls in love with Liza.
Aviator's Wife, The (La femme de l'aviateur) (1981)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Philippe Marlaud, Marie Riviere
- A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and…
Billy Connolly - Bites Yer Bum (1981)
- Feat. Billy Connolly
- Selected highlights from the end of Connelly's 1980–1981 tour, live at the Apollo Victoria, London. The Scots comedian is in fine lunatic form.
Britannia Hospital (1981)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright…
- Political allegory dressed as raucous Blighty comedy going all out, but it hasn't quite the magic of cult predecessors IF... and O LUCKY MAN!
Bustin' Loose (1981)
- Dir. Oz Scott
Feat. Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson
- Comedian Richard Pryor produced, wrote and starred in this mad 80's comedy involving a criminal forced to help out the director of a school for…
Cannonball Run (1981)
- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett…
- Packed with an absurd combination of stars, this trans–continental car race yarn is largely a vehicle for Burt Reynolds wisecracks and some…
Caveman (1981)
- Dir. Carl Gottlieb
Feat. Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long…
- Stone Age spoof in which a hairy Starr cavorts with various other grunting stars in a distant past ruled by dinosaurs. High quality production and…
Condorman (Condor Man) (1981)
- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera
- An odd, but likeable superhero–spy yarn from Disney, in which a cartoonist (Crawford) turns himself into a living version of one of his own…
Continental Divide (1981)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield…
- Neglected Belushi outing is a gentle comedy with a hard–nosed journalist falling for an eagle researcher high in the mountains of Colorado.