| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Absence of Malice |
Sydney Pollack |
Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Wilford Brimley |
Drama |
3 Oscar nominations |
| All Night Long |
Jean-Claude Tramont |
Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid |
Comedy |
Universal |
| ...All the Marbles |
Robert Aldrich |
Peter Falk |
Comedy, Drama |
Aldrich's final film |
| The Amateur |
Charles Jarrott |
John Savage, Christopher Plummer |
Spy |
20th Century Fox |
| American Pop |
Ralph Bakshi |
Lisa Jane Persky, Ron Thompson |
Drama, Animated |
Columbia |
| 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, Geraldine Fitzgerald |
Romantic comedy |
Oscar for Gielgud |
| Back Roads |
Martin Ritt |
Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones |
Romantic comedy |
Warner Bros. |
| Blow Out |
Brian De Palma |
John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz |
Thriller |
Filmways |
| Body Heat |
Lawrence Kasdan |
William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, Mickey Rourke |
Suspense |
first film for Kasdan, Turner |
| Body and Soul |
George Bowers |
Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy, Michael V. Gazzo |
Sports drama |
remake of 1947 film |
| 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 |
RKO |
| Cattle Annie and Little Britches |
Lamont Johnson |
Burt Lancaster, Amanda Plummer, Diane Lane |
Drama |
Universal |
| 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 |
|
| The Chosen |
Jeremy Kagan |
Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
| Circle of Two |
Jules Dassin |
Richard Burton, Tatum O'Neal |
Drama |
Troma |
| Chu Chu and the Philly Flash |
David Lowell Rich |
Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
| 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 |
Disney |
| 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 |
Avco Embassy |
| 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 |
Biography |
made for TV |
| Death Hunt |
Peter R. Hunt |
Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Ed Lauter |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox |
| 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 |
Disney |
| Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder |
Peter Werner |
Dennis Christopher, Susan Saint James |
Drama |
|
| Dragonslayer |
Matthew Robbins |
Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson |
Fantasy |
Paramount, Disney |
| Endless Love |
Franco Zeffirelli |
Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Don Murray, Shirley Knight, Richard Kiley, Beatrice Straight, Penelope Milford, James Spader, Tom Cruise |
Drama |
from Scott Spencer novel; 6 Razzie nominations |
| Enter the Ninja |
Menahem Golan |
Franco Nero, Susan George, Sho Kosugi, Christopher George |
Action |
|
| Escape from New York |
John Carpenter |
Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Adrienne Barbeau, Isaac Hayes, Ernest Borgnine |
Thriller |
followed by Escape from L.A. |
| Escape to Victory |
John Huston |
Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow |
P.O.W. |
aka Victory |
| 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 |
Embassy |
| Eye of the Needle |
Richard Marquand |
Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove |
Spy film |
from Ken Follett novel |
| Eyewitness |
Peter Yates |
William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, James Woods, Christopher Plummer |
Mystery, Thriller |
written by Steve Tesich |
| The Fan |
Edward Bianchi |
Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Biehn, Hector Elizondo |
Thriller |
Paramount |
| Fantasies |
John Derek |
Bo Derek |
Drama |
filmed in 1973 |
| The Final Conflict |
Graham Baker |
Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon |
Horror |
2nd sequel to The Omen |
| First Monday in October |
Ronald Neame |
Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes |
Drama |
based on play; 2 Golden Globe nominations |
| Fort Apache, the Bronx |
Daniel Petrie |
Paul Newman, Edward Asner, Ken Wahl, Pam Grier |
Crime drama |
20th Century Fox |
| Four Friends |
Arthur Penn |
Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen |
Drama |
written by Steve Tesich |
| The Four Seasons |
Alan Alda |
Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Rita Moreno, Len Cariou, Jack Weston, Sandy Dennis, Bess Armstrong |
Comedy, Drama |
1st film directed by Alda; 4 Golden Globe nominations |
| The Fox and the Hound |
Richard Rich |
voices of Pearl Bailey, Mickey Rooney |
Animated film |
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 |
Science-fiction |
New World Pictures |
| Gangster Wars |
Richard C. Sarafian |
Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Madeleine Stowe |
Crime |
|
| Ghost Story |
John Irvin |
Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas |
Horror |
final film for Astaire, Douglas |
| Going Ape! |
Jeremy Joe Kronsberg |
Tony Danza, Jessica Walter, Danny DeVito |
Comedy |
Paramount |
| Graduation Day |
Herb Freed |
Christopher George, Michael Pataki |
Horror |
|
| The Great Muppet Caper |
Jim Henson |
Diana Rigg, Charles Grodin |
Comedy, Family |
Universal |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Halloween II |
Rick Rosenthal |
Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence |
Horror |
sequel to Halloween |
| The Hand |
Oliver Stone |
Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci |
Horror |
Stone's second film |
| Hard Country |
David Greene |
Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks |
Drama |
ITC |
| Hardly Working |
Jerry Lewis |
Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Deanna Lund |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
| Harry's War |
Kieth Merrill |
Edward Herrmann, Geraldine Page, Karen Grassle |
Comedy |
|
| Heartbeeps |
Allan Arkush |
Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid |
Sci-fi comedy |
Universal |
| Heavy Metal |
Gerald Potterton |
Voices of John Candy, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis |
Animated |
Columbia |
| Hell Night |
Tom DeSimone |
Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton |
Horror |
Blair Razzie-nominated |
| History of the World: Part I |
Mel Brooks |
Mel Brooks, Gregory Hines, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Pamela Stephenson, Mary-Margaret Humes, Sid Caesar, Dom DeLuise, Ron Carey, Shecky Greene, Orson Welles |
Comedy, Anthology |
20th Century Fox |
| Honky Tonk Freeway |
John Schlesinger |
Beverly D'Angelo, Beau Bridges, William Devane |
Comedy |
EMI Films |
| The Howling |
Joe Dante |
Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski |
Horror |
from Gary Brandner novel |
| The Incredible Shrinking Woman |
Joel Schumacher |
Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson |
Comedy |
spoof of 1957 film |
| Knightriders |
George A. Romero |
Ed Harris |
Action |
|
| Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains |
Lou Adler |
Diane Lane, Laura Dern, Ray Winstone |
Comedy |
Paramount |
| The Last Chase |
Martyn Burke |
Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith |
Sci-fi |
|
| The Legend of the Lone Ranger |
William A. Fraker |
Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Jason Robards |
Western |
won 3 Razzie awards |
| Lion of the Desert |
Moustapha Akkad |
Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud |
Biography, War |
story of Omar Mukhtar |
| Looker |
Michael Crichton |
Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey |
Sci-fi |
Warner Bros. |
| The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie |
Friz Freleng |
Mel Blanc, June Foray |
Animation |
Compilation |
| The Man Who Saw Tomorrow |
Robert Guenette |
Orson Welles |
Documentary |
about Nostradamus |
| Modern Problems |
Ken Shapiro |
Chevy Chase, Dabney Coleman, Nell Carter |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
| Modern Romance |
Albert Brooks |
Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold, Bruno Kirby |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| Mommie Dearest |
Frank Perry |
Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Mara Hobel, Steve Forrest, Rutanya Alda, Howard Da Silva |
Biography |
Joan Crawford story; 5 Razzie awards |
| Ms. 45 |
Abel Ferrara |
Zoe Tamerlis Lund, Abel Ferrara |
Action |
|
| My Dinner with Andre |
Louis Malle |
Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn |
Documentary |
a two-man conversation |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Neighbors |
John G. Avildsen |
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty |
Comedy |
Columbia; based on Thomas Berger novel |
| The Nesting |
Armand Weston |
Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, John Carradine |
Horror |
|
| Nice Dreams |
Tommy Chong |
Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia |
Ronald F. Maxwell |
Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill |
Musical |
Embassy; based on 1973 song |
| Nighthawks |
Bruce Malmuth |
Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams |
Crime drama |
Universal; Hauer's first U.S. film |
| Nobody's Perfekt |
Peter Bonerz |
Gabe Kaplan, Alex Karras, Susan Clark |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| On Golden Pond |
Mark Rydell |
Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman, Doug McKeon |
Drama |
Oscars for H. Fonda, Hepburn, screenplay; 10 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, David Dukes, Kristy McNichol |
Drama |
Neil Simon play; 3 Oscar nominations |
| Paternity |
David Steinberg |
Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo, Elizabeth Ashley |
Comedy |
Paramount |
| Pennies from Heaven |
Herbert Ross |
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper |
Musical, Drama |
based on BBC series; 3 Oscar nominations |
| Piranha II: The Spawning |
James Cameron |
Tricia O'Neil, Lance Henriksen |
Horror |
sequel |
| Polyester |
John Waters |
Divine, Tab Hunter |
Comedy |
New Line Cinema |
| 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, Lee Richardson |
Crime drama |
based on Robert Daley book; 3 Golden Globe nominations |
| Private Lessons |
Alan Myerson |
Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Ed Begley, Jr. |
Comedy |
|
| 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 |
Universal |
| Raggedy Man |
Jack Fisk |
Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard |
Drama |
Universal |
| Ragtime |
Miloš Forman |
Elizabeth McGovern, Howard Rollins, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Kenneth McMillan, Mary Steenburgen, James Olson, Mandy Patinkin, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Robert Joy, Donald O'Connor, 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 |
1st Indiana Jones adventure; 8 Oscar nominations |
| Reds |
Warren Beatty |
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Gene Hackman, Maureen Stapleton, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, Jack Nicholson |
Epic, Biography |
story of John Reed; 12 Oscar nominations |
| Rich and Famous |
George Cukor |
Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Hart Bochner |
Drama |
Cukor's final film |
| Rollover |
Alan J. Pakula |
Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn |
Thriller |
Orion |
| Ruckus |
Max Kleven |
Dirk Benedict, Linda Blair, Richard Farnsworth |
Action comedy |
|
| S.O.B. |
Blake Edwards |
Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Webber, Robert Vaughn, Larry Hagman |
Comedy |
2 Razzie nominations; Holden's final film |
| The Salamander |
Peter Zinner |
Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Sybil Danning |
Thriller |
ITC |
| Saturday the 14th |
Howard R. Cohen |
Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Severn Darden |
Horror comedy |
New World |
| Second-Hand Hearts |
Hal Ashby |
Robert Blake, Barbara Harris |
Romance |
Paramount |
| Sharky's Machine |
Burt Reynolds |
Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Vittorio Gassman, Henry Silva, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman |
Crime drama |
based on William Diehl novel |
| Shock Treatment |
Jim Sharman |
Cliff DeYoung, Jessica Harper |
Musical |
20th Century Fox |
| Southern Comfort |
Walter Hill |
Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox |
| Sphinx |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
Frank Langella, Lesley-Anne Down, John Gielgud |
Adventure |
based on book by Robin Cook |
| Stripes |
Ivan Reitman |
Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, John Candy, Sean Young, P.J. Soles, John Larroquette |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| Student Bodies |
Mickey Rose |
Kristen Riter, Matt Goldsby |
Comedy |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Take This Job and Shove It |
Gus Trikonis |
Robert Hays, Art Carney, Barbara Hershey |
Comedy |
based on the song |
| Taps |
Harold Becker |
George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise |
Drama |
20th Century Fox; Penn's first film |
| Tarzan, the Ape Man |
John Derek |
Bo Derek, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law, Miles O'Keeffe |
Adventure |
Razzie for Bo Derek |
| Tattoo |
Bob Brooks |
Bruce Dern, Maud Adams, Leonard Frey |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox |
| They All Laughed |
Peter Bogdanovich |
Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Patti Hansen, Dorothy Stratten, John Ritter |
Romantic comedy |
final leading film role for Hepburn |
| Thief |
Michael Mann |
James Caan, Tuesday Weld, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Willie Nelson |
Crime drama |
United Artists; Mann's first film |
| This Is Elvis |
Malcolm Leo |
Elvis Presley |
Documentary |
|
| True Confessions |
Ulu Grosbard |
Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Kenneth McMillan, Cyril Cusack, Ed Flanders, Burgess Meredith |
Crime drama |
United Artists; based on John Gregory Dunne novel |
| Tuck Everlasting |
Frederick King Keller |
Margaret Chamberlain, Paul Fleesa |
Fantasy |
|
| Under the Rainbow |
Steve Rash |
Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden |
Comedy |
based on Wizard of Oz; 2 Razzie nominations |
| Vernon, Florida |
Errol Morris |
Snake Reynolds |
Documentary |
|
| Whose Life Is It Anyway? |
John Badham |
Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Thomas Carter, Kenneth McMillan |
Drama |
based on 1972 teleplay |
| Wolfen |
Michael Wadleigh |
Albert Finney, Gregory Hines |
Horror |
Orion |
| The Woman Inside |
Joseph Van Winkle |
Dane Clark, Joan Blondell |
Drama |
Blondell's final film |
| Zoot Suit |
Luis Valdez |
Edward James Olmos, Daniel Valdez, Tyne Daly |
Drama |
based on the play |
| Zorro, the Gay Blade |
Peter Medak |
George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton |
Comedy |
spoof of Zorro |
