1981 multilingual films

1981 film by Warren Beatty

1981 film by Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov

1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix

1981 film directed by Umberto Lenzi

1981 film directed by Lucio Fulci

1981 Merchant Ivory film directed by James Ivory

1981 film by Shūji Terayama

1981 film by Dušan Vukotić

1981 Italian horror film directed by Enzo G. Castellari

1981 film by Shakti Samanta

1981 live-action/animated film directed by Ion Popescu-Gopo

1981 film by Predrag Golubović

1981 Dutch film directed by Frans Weisz

Sankarlal is a 1981 Indian Tamil-language action film, written, directed and produced by T. N. Balu. It stars Kamal Haasan in dual lead roles as father and son. Balu died half-way during production, and the film was eventually completed with N. K. Viswanathan as director. The film was simultaneously shot in Telugu-language as Andagaadu () with Allu Rama Lingaiah and Rao Gopal Rao.

1981 Tamil film directed by K. Balachander

1980 Telugu action-drama film directed by O.S.R.

1981 Tamil film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao