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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

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

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

On Golden Pond (1981)

Summary: Curmudgeon Norman is estranged from his daughter Chelsea. Nevertheless, at Golden Pond he and his wife agree to look after Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.

Release Date: February 12, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: Mark Rydell

Writer: Ernest Thompson

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,500,000

Domestic: $ 119,285,432

International: $ 378

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

Summary: Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.

Release Date: October 16, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Karel Reisz

Writers: John Fowles

, Harold Pinter

, Karel Reisz

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: Juniper Films

Distributor: United Artists, CBS/Fox, WGN, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 20th Century Fox Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,890,068

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

Writers: Terry Hayes

, George Miller

, Brian Hannant

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Kennedy Miller Productions

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

Country: Australia

Language: English

Franchise: Mad Max

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,667,907

International: $ 2,946

The Aviator's Wife (1981)

Summary: A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover.

Release Date: March 04, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Éric Rohmer

Writer: Éric Rohmer

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Les Films du Losange

Distributor: Les Films du Losange, New Yorker Films, Fox Lorber

Country: France

Language: French

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

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

Victory (1981)

Summary: As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.

Release Date: July 31, 1981

Genres: Drama, Sport, War

Director: John Huston

Writers: Yabo Yablonsky

, Djordje Milicevic

, Jeff Maguire

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Lorimar Film Entertainment, Victory Company, New Gold Entertainment

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, HBO Max, MGM/CBS Home Video, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,853,418

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

Body Heat (1981)

Summary: During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

Release Date: August 28, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Writer: Lawrence Kasdan

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Ladd Company

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, RCA (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 24,058,838

Christiane F. (1981)

Summary: A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

Release Date: April 02, 1981

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Uli Edel

Writers: Herman Weigel

, Kai Hermann

, Horst Rieck

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: R

Production: Solaris Film, Maran Film, Popular Filmproduktion

Distributor: Image Entertainment

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

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

Lili Marleen (1981)

Summary: In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.

Release Date: January 14, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Manfred Purzer

, Joshua Sinclair

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), CIP Filmproduktion GmbH, Rialto Film, Roxy Films, Roxy-Film GmbH & Co. KG

Distributor: United Artists Classics

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 10,500,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

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

The Fox and the Hound (1981)

Summary: A fox named Tod and a hound named Copper vow to be best friends forever. But as Copper grows into a hunting dog, their unlikely friendship faces the ultimate test.

Release Date: July 10, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Animation

Directors: Ted Berman

, Richard Rich

, Art Stevens

Writers: Daniel P. Mannix

, Larry Clemmons

, Ted Berman

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Distribution Company, Disney+, Disney Channel, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 63,456,988

Beau-père (1981)

Summary: After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy.

Release Date: October 11, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Bertrand Blier

Writer: Bertrand Blier

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: Sara Films, France 2 (FR2)

Distributor: New Line Cinema

Country: France

Language: French

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

Summary: Five years after the events of the first film, a summer camp next to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is preparing to open, but the legend of Jason is weighing heavy on the proceedings.

Release Date: May 01, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Steve Miner