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Maeve (1981)

Summary: Maeve (Mary Jackson) returns to Belfast after being away for several years, and she stays in the family home with her sister and father.

Release Date: June 16, 1983

Genre: Drama

Directors: Pat Murphy

, John Davies

Writer: Pat Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: British Film Institute (BFI) Production Board

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Das Boot (1981)

Summary: A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Release Date: February 10, 1982

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Writers: Wolfgang Petersen

, Lothar G. Buchheim

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

Production: Bavaria Film, Twin Bros. Productions, Radiant Film GmbH, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: Producers Sales Organization (PSO), Triumph Films, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, RCA (II)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 32,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,487,676

International: $ 1,102

Hill Street Blues (1981)

Summary: The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct.

Release Date: January 15, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: MTM Enterprises, MTM Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

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

Son of the White Mare (1981)

Summary: In this dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.

Release Date: July 13, 1983

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

Director: Marcell Jankovics

Writers: László György

, Marcell Jankovics

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Pannónia Filmstúdió

Distributor: The Criterion Channel

Country: Hungary

Language: Hungarian

A Case for Two (1981)

Summary: German crime series centering around a succession of lawyers and a private investigator and former police officer, who typically team up to clear a client of the lawyer, who is usually an innocent suspect in a murder case.

Release Date: September 11, 1981

Genres: Crime, Thriller

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), ORF, ZDF

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Clean Slate (1981)

Summary: A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.

Release Date: November 04, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Writers: Jean Aurenche

, Bertrand Tavernier

, Jim Thompson

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Films de la Tour, Films A2, Little Bear

Distributor: Moreno Films, Quartet Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 11,527

Muddy River (1981)

Summary: In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty.

Release Date: January 30, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: Kôhei Oguri

Writers: Teru Miyamoto

, Takako Shigemori

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

Production: Kimura Productions, Toei Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Shuffle (1981)

Summary: A cop chases a punk who had a fight with his girlfriend through every kind of urban setting, going on so long the punk starts hallucinating.

Release Date: December 05, 1981

Genre: Short

Director: Gakuryû Ishii

Writers: Gakuryû Ishii

, Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Runtime: 0 h 34 min

Production: Dynamite Productions/ATG, Dynamite Productions, Art Theatre Guild (ATG)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

No Mercy, No Future (1981)

Summary: Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a ...

Release Date: November 18, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Writers: Rita G.

, Helma Sanders-Brahms

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: Helma Sanders Filmproduktion, Mainline

Country: West Germany

Language: German

The Evil Dead (1981)

Summary: Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

Release Date: May 26, 1983

Genre: Horror

Director: Sam Raimi

Writer: Sam Raimi

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: Renaissance Pictures

Distributor: Congress Video Group, USA Network, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Evil Dead

Movie budget: $ 350,000

Domestic: $ 2,400,000

International: $ 495,590

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

Quest for Fire (1981)

Summary: This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.

Release Date: February 12, 1982

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Writers: Gérard Brach

, J.H. Rosny Sr.

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: International Cinema Corporation (ICC), Ciné Trail, Belstar Productions, Stéphan Films, Gruskoff Film Organization, Royal Bank of Canada, Famous Players Limited

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: Canada, France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 12,500,000

Domestic: $ 20,959,585

International: $ 3,030

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

Zoot Suit (1981)

Summary: When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their f...

Release Date: January 01, 1982

Genres: Drama, Musical

Director: Luis Valdez

Writer: Luis Valdez

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,700,000

Domestic: $ 3,256,082

Blow Out (1981)

Summary: A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

Release Date: July 24, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Brian De Palma

Writers: Brian De Palma

, Bill Mesce Jr.

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Filmways Pictures, Geria Productions, Geria Productions, Cinema 77, Viscount Associates

Distributor: Filmways Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO), RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, Vestron Video, Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, GoodTimes Home Video, Image Entertainment, Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,000,000

International: $ 1,495

Gallipoli (1981)

Summary: Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Peter Weir

Writers: David Williamson

, Peter Weir

, Ernest Raymond

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: R&R Films, The Australian Film Commission

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,600,000

Domestic: $ 5,732,587

International: $ 4,442

Prince of the City (1981)

Summary: A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Release Date: August 26, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Jay Presson Allen

, Sidney Lumet

, Robert Daley

Runtime: 2 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,600,000

Domestic: $ 8,124,257

Ragtime (1981)

Summary: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Release Date: December 25, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: Milos Forman

Writers: E.L. Doctorow

, Michael Weller

, Heinrich von Kleist

Runtime: 2 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Sunley Productions Ltd.

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, WGN, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 14,920,781

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)

Summary: Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

Release Date: September 11, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: Marco Ferreri

Writers: Marco Ferreri

, Sergio Amidei

, Charles Bukowski

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Production: 23 Giugno, Ginis Films, Alpes International Paris

Distributor: Fred Baker Films, Image Entertainment, Koch Lorber Films, Films sans Frontières

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

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