1981 science fiction films

1981 film by John Carpenter

1981 film directed by George Miller

1981 film by Peter Hyams

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 Canadian adult animated sci-fi-fantasy anthology film

1981 film by Jean Girault

1981 American sci-fi action film by Bruce D. Clark

1981 film by Dušan Vukotić

1981 film directed by Christian de Chalonge

1981 film by Joel Schumacher

1981 film directed by Richard Viktorov

1981 film by Joe D'Amato, Bruno Mattei

Looker is a 1981 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, and Leigh Taylor-Young. It follows a series of mysterious deaths plaguing female models who have had cosmetic surgery done by a renowned Los Angeles physician. The film explores media, advertising and television's impact on the public in creating a ridiculous standard of beauty.

Heartbeeps is a 1981 American science fiction romantic comedy film about two robots who fall in love and decide to strike out on their own. The film was directed by Allan Arkush, written by John Hill, and stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as the robots alongside Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, and the "voice" of Jerry Garcia, who used guitar effects for a robot. It was Kaufman's final performance in a theatrical film. Universal Pictures released the film in the United States on December 18, 1981.

1981 film by Joe D'Amato

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.

1980 film by Roy Ward Baker

1981 film by Piotr Szulkin

1980 film directed by Vasili Levin

1981 film directed by Lew Lehman

1983 film by Jackie Kong

1981 television film directed by Don Weis

1981 film by Bitto Albertini

1981 film by Martyn Burke

Nightdreams is a 1981 pornographic film with strong horror elements, directed by Francis Delia and written by Jerry Stahl and Stephen Sayadian (credited as "Herbert W. Day" and "Rinse Dream", respectively).

1981 film by David Gladwell