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The Fox and the Hound
1981 animated film directed by Art Stevens, Ted Berman and Richard Rich
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Chariots of Fire
1981 film by Hugh Hudson
For Your Eyes Only
1981 film by John Glen
The Evil Dead
1981 film by Sam Raimi
Escape from New York
1981 film by John Carpenter
Mad Max 2
1981 film directed by George Miller
An American Werewolf in London
1981 film directed by John Landis
Friday the 13th Part 2
1981 film directed by Steve Miner
Reds
1981 film by Warren Beatty
On Golden Pond
1981 film by Mark Rydell
The Cannonball Run
1981 film by Hal Needham
Excalibur
1981 film by John Boorman
Escape to Victory
1981 film by John Huston
Halloween II
1981 film by Rick Rosenthal
Time Bandits
1981 film directed by Terry Gilliam
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981 film by Bob Rafelson
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 film directed by Karel Reisz
Clash of the Titans
1981 film by Desmond Davis
Arthur
1981 film directed by Steve Gordon
Gallipoli
1981 Australian film by Peter Weir
Outland
1981 film by Peter Hyams
Body Heat
1981 film by Lawrence Kasdan
Blow Out
1981 film by Brian De Palma
Scanners
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.
Lion of the Desert
1980 film by Moustapha Akkad
The Howling
1981 film by Joe Dante
Diva
1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
History of the World, Part I
1981 film by Mel Brooks
Endless Love
1981 film by Franco Zeffirelli
Stripes
1981 film by Ivan Reitman
Absence of Malice
1981 film by Sydney Pollack
Heavy Metal
1981 Canadian adult animated sci-fi-fantasy anthology film
The Beyond
1981 film directed by Lucio Fulci
Porky's
'''''Porky's''''' is a 1981 sex comedy film written and directed by Bob Clark about the escapades of teenagers in 1954 at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida. The film stars Kim Cattrall, Scott Colomby, Kaki Hunter, Nancy Parsons, Alex Karras, and Susan Clark.
Possession
1981 film directed by Andrzej Żuławski
Southern Comfort
1981 film by Walter Hill
Ragtime
1981 film by Miloš Forman
Thief
1981 film by Michael Mann
Dragonslayer
1981 film by Matthew Robbins
Taps
1981 film directed by Harold Becker
Inchon
1981 film directed by Terence Young
Nighthawks
1981 film directed by Bruce Malmuth
My Dinner with Andre
1981 film directed by Louis Malle
An Eye for an Eye
1981 film directed by Steve Carver
My Bloody Valentine
1981 film directed by George Mihalka
Buddy Buddy
1981 film by Billy Wilder
Fort Apache, The Bronx
1981 film by Daniel Petrie
The Great Muppet Caper
1981 film by Jim Henson
They All Laughed
1981 film by Peter Bogdanovich
Mommie Dearest
1981 film by Frank Perry
Omen III: The Final Conflict
1981 film by Graham Baker
Enter the Ninja
1981 film directed by Menahem Golan
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981 film by John Badham
S.O.B.
1981 film directed by Blake Edwards
The Prowler
1981 film by Joseph Zito
Happy Birthday to Me
1981 film by J. Lee Thompson
Prince of the City
1981 film directed by Sidney Lumet
True Confessions
1981 film directed by Ulu Grosbard
Eyewitness
1981 film directed by Peter Yates