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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

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

American Pop (1981)

Summary: The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.

Release Date: February 13, 1981

Genres: Drama, Animation, History

Director: Ralph Bakshi

Writer: Ronni Kern

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bakshi Productions, Aspen Productions (I), Columbia Pictures, Polyc International BV

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

La Soupe Aux Choux (1981)

Summary: 2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Release Date: December 02, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Jean Girault

Writers: René Fallet

, Louis de Funès

, Jean Halain

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

Production: Films A2, Les Films Christian Fechner

Country: France

Language: French

Mephisto (1981)

Summary: In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?

Release Date: March 22, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: István Szabó

Writers: Péter Dobai

, István Szabó

, Klaus Mann

Runtime: 2 h 26 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Mafilm, Objektív Film, Manfred Durniok Filmproduktion, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Distributor: Analysis Film Releasing Corporation, Nox Film

Countries: Hungary, Austria, West Germany

Language: German

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

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

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

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

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

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