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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

Quartet (1981)

Summary: Finding herself penniless after her art-dealer husband Stephan is convicted of theft, Marya Zelli accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who let her live in their home.

Release Date: October 25, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: James Ivory

Writers: Jean Rhys

, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

, Michel Maingois

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Merchant Ivory Productions, Lyric International, National Film Trustee Company

Distributor: Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), The Criterion Collection, Cohen Media Group, Cohen Film Collection, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 12,042

The Hand (1981)

Summary: A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.

Release Date: April 24, 1981

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Horror

Director: Oliver Stone

Writers: Marc Brandel

, Oliver Stone

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, Scream Factory

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 2,447,576

The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)

Summary: The sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.

Release Date: May 22, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Western

Director: William A. Fraker

Writers: Ivan Goff

, Ben Roberts

, Michael Kane

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Eaves Movie Ranch, Incorporated Television Company (ITC), Wrather Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Associated Film Distribution (AFD), CBS/Fox, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, NBC Universal Television Distribution, Timeless Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,617,845

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

Modern Romance (1981)

Summary: Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.

Release Date: March 13, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Albert Brooks

Writers: Albert Brooks

, Monica Mcgowan Johnson

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,863,642

International: $ 582

Modern Problems (1981)

Summary: Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little re...

Release Date: December 25, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Director: Ken Shapiro

Writers: Ken Shapiro

, Tom Sherohman

, Arthur Sellers

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, Anchor Bay Entertainment, CBS/Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,154,211

Sphinx (1981)

Summary: Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

Release Date: February 11, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writers: John Byrum

, Robin Cook

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Orion Pictures, S & L Films

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

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,022,771

King of the Mountain (1981)

Summary: A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of "King of the Mountain."

Release Date: May 01, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Noel Nosseck

Writers: David Barry

, Leigh Chapman

, H.R. Christian

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: PolyGram Pictures

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Embassy Home Entertainment, CBS, King Features Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,791,147

Dragonslayer (1981)

Summary: A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.

Release Date: June 26, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Matthew Robbins

Writers: Hal Barwood

, Matthew Robbins

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, Disney Channel, Paramount Home Entertainment, Pioneer, RCA (II), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,110,013

This Is Elvis (1981)

Summary: The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and d...

Release Date: April 10, 1981

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Directors: Malcolm Leo

, Andrew Solt

Writers: Malcolm Leo

, Andrew Solt

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: David L. Wolper Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,028,612

Reds (1981)

Summary: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Release Date: December 25, 1981

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Warren Beatty

Writers: Warren Beatty

, Trevor Griffiths

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance, JRS Productions

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 32,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,382,659

International: $ 129

Roar (1981)

Summary: A naturalist living with big cats in East Africa expects a visit by his family of four from Chicago. A mix-up leaves him searching for his family, who have been left in the clutches of wild lions.

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Thriller

Director: Noel Marshall

Writers: Noel Marshall

, Ted Cassidy

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Film Consortium, American Filmworks

Distributor: Olive Films, Drafthouse Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 110,048

International: $ 401

The Pit (1981)

Summary: A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Release Date: October 23, 1981

Genres: Horror, Mystery

Director: Lew Lehman

Writer: Ian A. Stuart

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Amulet Pictures

Distributor: New World Pictures, Embassy Home Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Nelson Entertainment

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 560

Silence of the North (1981)

Summary: Based on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving under rugged pioneer conditions in northern Alberta Canada from the early 190...

Release Date: October 23, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: Allan King

Writers: Olive Frederickson

, Ben East

, Patricia Louisianna Knop

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Productions Canada

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,400,000

Domestic: $ 1,622,898

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

Summary: D.B. Cooper parachutes with his stolen money and proceeds to contact his wife. Meanwhile, his former army sergeant, who now works as an insurance investigator, manages to identify him and decides to track him down.

Release Date: November 13, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Directors: Roger Spottiswoode

, Buzz Kulik

Writers: J.D. Reed

, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

, Ron Shelton

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: PolyGram Pictures

Distributor: CBS, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, King Features Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Live Home Video, MCA Videocassette, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,702,028

The Final Conflict (1981)

Summary: The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.

Release Date: March 20, 1981

Genre: Horror

Director: Graham Baker

Writers: David Seltzer

, Andrew Birkin

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Harvey Bernhard Productions, Mace Neufeld Productions, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: CBS, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox, Scream Factory

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Omen

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 20,471,382

Stations of the Elevated (1981)

Summary: Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of graffiti- covered elevated subway ...

Release Date: September 28, 2000

Genre: Documentary

Director: Manfred Kirchheimer

Runtime: 0 h 46 min

Production: Streetwise Films

Distributor: Oscilloscope, Topic

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 28,516

Diva (1981)

Summary: Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.

Release Date: March 11, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Music

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Writers: Daniel Odier

, Jean-Jacques Beineix

, Jean Van Hamme

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: G

Production: Les Films Galaxie, Greenwich Film Productions, Antenne 2 (A2)

Distributor: United Artists Classics, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Rialto Pictures, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, Kino Lorber, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 183,425

The Beyond (1981)

Summary: A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Release Date: November 11, 1983

Genre: Horror

Director: Lucio Fulci