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| 1 |  | Body Heat (1981) |  3.1220 32 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$8.68
| Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by ...more about Body Heat starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner |
| 2 |  | Outland (1981) | 2.9065 28 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Crime | N/A | Marshal W.T. O'Niel is assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. During his tenure ...more about Outland starring Sean Connery and Peter Boyle |
| 3 |  | Thief (1981) | 2.8994 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$9.72
| Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specializing in high-profile diamond jobs. After ...more about Thief starring James Caan and Tuesday Weld |
| 4 |  | Ms. 45 (1981) |  2.6885 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime | N/A | A mute woman gets raped twice coming home from work and decides to take matters into her own hands. ...more about Ms. 45 starring Albert Sinkys and Darlene Stuto |
| 5 |  | Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1981) | 2.4650 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance |
$4.49
| This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a ...more about Postman Always Rings Twice starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange |
| 6 |  | Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, The (1981) |  2.0866 1 reviews | G | Western, Crime, Comedy, Family, Animation, Music | N/A | This is the second feature-length film containing classic Warner Brothers cartoons linked together ...more about Looney starring Stan Freberg and June Foray |
| 7 |  | Amateur, The (1981) | 1.8765 3 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime |
$6.06
| A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to ...more about Amateur starring Christopher Plummer and Marthe Keller |
| 8 |  | Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) |  1.6756 7 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime |
$1.96
| From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. ...more about Fort Apache the Bronx starring Edward Asner and Ken Wahl |
| 9 |  | True Confessions (1981) | 1.6695 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime |
$5.69
| De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after ...more about True Confessions starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall |
| 10 |  | Eye for an Eye, An (1981) | 1.4549 18 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime |
$4.02
| Sean Kane (Chuck Norris) is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics ...more about Eye for an Eye starring Christopher Lee and Richard Roundtree |
| 11 |  | High Risk (1981) |  1.0204 5 reviews | NA | Action, Crime, Comedy |
$3.95
| Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South ...more about High Risk starring James Brolin and Anthony Quinn |
| 12 |  | Lunch Wagon (1981) |  No Score 1 reviews | NA | Crime, Comedy | N/A | Three women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from their competitor Mr. ...more about Lunch Wagon starring Pamela Jean Bryant and Rosanne Katon |
| 13 | | Gangster Wars (1981) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | History, Biography, Crime | N/A | ...more about Gangster Wars starring Brian Benben and Joe Penny |
| 14 | | Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective (1981) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Crime, Comedy, Family | N/A | Det. Const. "Dangerous" Davies is not known for his finesse, but often finds himself on the ...more about Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective starring Bernard Cribbins and Joss Ackland |
| 15 |  | Loophole (1981) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Crime |
$3.99
| ...more about Loophole starring Albert Finney and Martin Sheen |
| 16 | | Hoodwink (1981) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Crime, Romance | N/A | ...more about Hoodwink starring John Hargreaves and Judy Davis |
| 17 | | Home Sweet Home (1981) | No Score 3 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery | N/A | ...more about Home Sweet Home starring Jake Steinfeld and Vinessa Shaw |
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