Comedy Drama Movies of 1981

Arthur

The ads for Arthur suggested that this was an obnoxious film about an obnoxious man, an eternally ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

Carbon Copy

George Segal plays rich and surly California executive Walter Whitney, who learns out-of-the-blue that he has a 17-year-old ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons follows the trials and tribulations of a group of middle-aged friends during a 12-month period. Alan Alda (who also directed) and Carol Burnett play a married couple who consider themselves paragons of ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

Rich and Famous

Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

First Monday in October

The election of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court rendered the premise of First Monday in October anachronistic before the picture was even ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

Take This Job and Shove It

Inspired by Johnny Paycheck's song of the same name, Take This Job and Shove It is a comedy/drama of ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

Back Roads

For his follow-up to 1979's Academy Award-winning Norma Rae, director Martin Ritt ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

M*A*S*H: Season 10

Its ninth season shortened to a mere 20 episodes thanks to a Hollywood writers' strike, M*A*S*H returned to a full 24-episode manifest for its tenth season, ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

My Dinner With Andre

A extended conversation between two old friends over dinner proves an unexpectedly fascinating subject for a film in the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

Flickers

An amiable Cockney rogue seeking out investors in a bid to break big in the silent-film industry finds that building a business out of make believe isn't as easy as he might have thought in this comic yarn about life in the British ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

Four Friends

Also known as Moritorium and Georgia's Friends, Four Friends ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

The Aviator's Wife

In this first film in Eric Rohmer's cycle of "Comédies et proverbes," François ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

Meantime

Colin (Tim Roth, making his screen debut) and his brother Mark (Phil Daniels, who starred in Quadrophenia) are down and out. They ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]

The Fall Guy

A has-been samurai movie star takes unfair advantage of ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 1981 ]