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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Summary: In 1936, archaeologists and adventurers of the U.S. government hired Indiana Jones to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis could obtain its extraordinary powers.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Lawrence Kasdan

, George Lucas

, Philip Kaufman

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Lucasfilm

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Indiana Jones

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 248,159,971

International: $ 141,766,000

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Summary: Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.

Release Date: May 15, 1981

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Director: Hugh Hudson

Writer: Colin Welland

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Enigma Productions, Allied Stars Ltd.

Distributor: Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 58,972,904

International: $ 344,472

The Howling (1981)

Summary: After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Release Date: April 10, 1981

Genre: Horror

Director: Joe Dante

Writers: Gary Brandner

, John Sayles

, Terence H. Winkless

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: AVCO Embassy Pictures, International Film Investors, Wescom Productions

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, Embassy Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, Scream Factory, Rialto Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,985,893

Time Bandits (1981)

Summary: A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Release Date: November 06, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Terry Gilliam

Writers: Michael Palin

, Terry Gilliam

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: HandMade Films

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS, Paramount Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 42,365,581

International: $ 2,444

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Summary: American college students David Kessler and Jack Goodman on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. Jack dies. David recovers in a hospital, where he has nightmares.

Release Date: August 21, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Director: John Landis

Writer: John Landis

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,565,292

International: $ 253,991

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Summary: Secret service agent James Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Release Date: June 26, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Director: John Glen

Writers: Richard Maibaum

, Michael G. Wilson

, Ian Fleming

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Eon Productions

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Video, Home Box Office (HBO), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: James Bond

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 54,812,802

International: $ 24,894

An Eye for an Eye (1981)

Summary: A SFPD undercover narcotics cop aims to avenge his partner's death and destroy a drug-smuggling ring operated by the Chinese Triads.

Release Date: August 14, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Steve Carver

Writers: James Bruner

, William Gray

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Adams Apple Film Company, Major Studio Partners, South Street Films

Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment, New Line Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, TBS

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,800,000

Escape from New York (1981)

Summary: In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

Release Date: July 10, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: John Carpenter

Writers: John Carpenter

, Nick Castle

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: AVCO Embassy Pictures, International Film Investors, Goldcrest Films International

Distributor: Nelson Entertainment, Embassy Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Image Entertainment, PolyGram Video, MGM Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,244,626

International: $ 31,180

History of the World: Part I (1981)

Summary: Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Musical, History

Director: Mel Brooks

Writer: Mel Brooks

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Brooksfilms

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,672,907

Possession (1981)

Summary: A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Release Date: May 27, 1981

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Andrzej Zulawski

Writers: Andrzej Zulawski

, Frederic Tuten

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: Gaumont, Oliane Productions, Marianne Productions, Soma Film Produktion

Distributor: Limelight International, Rugged Films, Vestron Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Bleeding Light Film Group, Metrograph Pictures, Mondo Vision

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: French

Domestic: $ 1,158,473

International: $ 6,023

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Summary: A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.

Release Date: February 13, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: George Mihalka

Writers: Stephen A. Miller

, John Beaird

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Famous Players, Secret Films

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Paramount Home Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Scream Factory

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,300,000

Domestic: $ 5,672,031

Excalibur (1981)

Summary: Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.

Release Date: April 10, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Director: John Boorman

Writers: Thomas Malory

, Rospo Pallenberg

, John Boorman

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Cinema '84, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 34,967,437

International: $ 3,699

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Summary: Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Director: Desmond Davis

Writer: Beverley Cross

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Charles H. Schneer Productions, Peerford Ltd.

Distributor: MGM/CBS Home Video, WGN, Disney Channel, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 41,092,328

My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Summary: Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

Release Date: October 11, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Louis Malle

Writers: Wallace Shawn

, Andre Gregory

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Saga Productions Inc., The Andre Company

Distributor: Fox Lorber Home Video, HBO Max, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,073

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Summary: The sensuous wife of a roadside diner proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordid, steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Release Date: March 20, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Bob Rafelson

Writers: David Mamet

, James M. Cain

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: CIP Filmproduktion GmbH, Lorimar Film Entertainment, Northstar International

Distributor: MGM/CBS Home Video, CBS/Fox, CBS, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Countries: United States, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,376,625

International: $ 6,791

Heavy Metal (1981)

Summary: A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.

Release Date: August 07, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

Directors: Gerald Potterton

, John Bruno

, John Halas

Writers: Daniel Goldberg

, Len Blum

, Dan O'Bannon

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Guardian Trust Company, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Potterton Productions

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, TBS Superstation

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,300,000

Domestic: $ 546,545

International: $ 1,015

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

Summary: A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.

Genres: Music, Documentary, History

Director: Penelope Spheeris

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Spheeris Films

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Media Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981)

Summary: Spider-Man battles crime in New York City with the help of Iceman and Firestar.

Release Date: September 12, 1981

Genres: Action, Comedy, Animation

Runtime: 0 h 22 min

MPAA: G

Production: DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE), Marvel Productions, Mihahn

Country: United States

Language: English

Thief (1981)

Summary: After years in prison, ace safe-cracker Frank owns a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, which are fronts for high-stakes jewelry heists. He wants to complete one last big heist for the Mob before he goes straight.

Release Date: March 27, 1981

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Michael Mann

Writers: Frank Hohimer

, Michael Mann

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mann/Caan Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 11,492,915

International: $ 1,897

The Road Warrior (1981)

Summary: In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.

Release Date: May 21, 1982

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: George Miller