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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

Nighthawks (1981)

Summary: When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.

Release Date: April 10, 1981

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Directors: Bruce Malmuth

, Gary Nelson

, Sylvester Stallone

Writers: David Shaber

, Paul Sylbert

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Martin Poll Productions, The Production Company, Herb Nanas Productions, Layton Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, GoodTimes Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,905,359

International: $ 5,000,000

Nice Dreams (1981)

Summary: Disguised as ice cream vendors, Cheech and Chong make--and subsequently lose--millions of dollars selling a batch of marijuana with an unusual side effect.

Release Date: June 05, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Director: Tommy Chong

Writers: Tommy Chong

, Cheech Marin

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: C & C Brown Production, Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 33,982,504

International: $ 3,017,496

Endless Love (1981)

Summary: Parental disapproval of a passionate romance between teenagers Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod leads to arguments, circumstance, insanity and tragedy.

Release Date: July 17, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Writers: Scott Spencer

, Judith Rascoe

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO), MCA Videocassette, Vestron Video, CBS, King Features Entertainment, Video Treasures, Live Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), FilmRise, Shout! Factory, Lionsgate, HBO Max, Shout Select

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,700,000

Domestic: $ 31,184,024

International: $ 1,308,650

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

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

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

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

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

Cutter's Way (1981)

Summary: Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Release Date: February 10, 1982

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Ivan Passer

Writers: Newton Thornburg

, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Gurian Entertainment

Distributor: United Artists, United Artists Classics, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, Fun City Editions

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,729,274

International: $ 23,360

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)

Summary: On a small pacific island, Alan and Charlie try to find a war treasure left behind by the Japanese army in World War II.

Release Date: December 10, 1981

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Sergio Corbucci

Writers: Mario Amendola

, Sergio Corbucci

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

Production: El Pico S.A., Take 1 Productions

Countries: Italy, United States

Language: Italian

One from the Heart (1981)

Summary: A couple has a fight after living together 5 years in Las Vegas. They go out and celebrate 4th of July, each with a new partner. Breakup?

Release Date: November 12, 1982

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: Armyan Bernstein

, Francis Ford Coppola

, Luana Anders

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: G

Production: Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: American Zoetrope, Fantoma

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,000,000

Domestic: $ 697,872

International: $ 18,740

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

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

Polyester (1981)

Summary: A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's ...

Release Date: May 29, 1981

Genre: Comedy

Director: John Waters

Writer: John Waters

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema

Distributor: New Line Cinema, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 300,000

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

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

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

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