1981 independent films

1981 film by Sam Raimi

1981 film directed by George Miller

1981 film directed by Terry Gilliam

1981 film by Brian De Palma

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.

1981 film by Uli Edel

1981 film by Joe Dante

1981 film directed by Andrzej Żuławski

1981 film by Walter Hill

1981 film by Michael Mann

1981 film by Peter Bogdanovich

1981 film by Joseph Zito

1981 film by J. Lee Thompson

1981 film by Tony Maylam

Knightriders is a 1981 American action drama film written and directed by George A. Romero and starring Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Tom Savini, Amy Ingersoll, Patricia Tallman, and Christine Forrest. It was filmed entirely on location in the Pittsburgh metro area, including Fawn Township and Natrona during the summer of 1980.

1981 film by Noel Marshall

1981 film by Abel Ferrara

1981 film by John Waters

1981 film by Shūji Terayama

1981 American film by Gary Sherman

1981 film by Tom DeSimone

1982 film by Kathryn Bigelow

1981 film directed by Alan Myerson

Inseminoid (titled Horror Planet in the United States) is a 1981 British science fiction horror film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Judy Geeson, Robin Clarke and Stephanie Beacham, along with Victoria Tennant in one of her early film roles. The plot concerns a team of archaeologists and scientists who are excavating the ruins of an ancient civilisation on a distant planet. One of the women in the team (Geeson) is impregnated by an alien creature and taken over by a mysterious intelligence, driving her to murder her colleagues one by one and feed on them.

1981 film by Piotr Szulkin

1982 film by William Asher

1980 film by Roger Christian

1981 film by Herb Freed

1981 film directed by Ivan Hall

1982 film

1981 film by Jeff Lieberman

1981 film by Jerry Warren

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1981 short film directed by Shelley Levinson

1983 film by Norman Thaddeus Vane