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Longshot (1981)

Summary: Leif Garrett is a young foosball player who wants to earn the big dollars that will be used to play soccer in Europe by winning the foosball world championships.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sport

Director: E.W. Swackhamer

Writers: Barry Rosen

, Laura Greenwood

, Donald Paonessa

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Greentree

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,096,843

96 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
827405 votes

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

87 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
20609 votes

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

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6445 votes

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

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
76 votes

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

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
115822 votes

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

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
7178 votes

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

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5785 votes

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

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Only Fools and Horses (1981)

Summary: Comedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.

Release Date: September 08, 1981

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

84 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
203251 votes

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

84 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2930 votes

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

84 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2686 votes

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

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1257 votes

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

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1107 votes

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

82 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
11818 votes

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

82 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
9030 votes

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

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
60550 votes

History of the World: Part I (1981)

Summary: Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Musical, History

Director: Mel Brooks

Writer: Mel Brooks

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Brooksfilms

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,672,907

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
7330 votes

Thief (1981)

Summary: After years in prison, ace safe-cracker Frank owns a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, which are fronts for high-stakes jewelry heists. He wants to complete one last big heist for the Mob before he goes straight.

Release Date: March 27, 1981

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Michael Mann

Writers: Frank Hohimer

, Michael Mann

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mann/Caan Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 11,492,915

International: $ 1,897

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6780 votes

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

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1314 votes

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

Longshot (1981)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

On Golden Pond (1981)

Diva (1981)

This Is Elvis (1981)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Christiane F. (1981)

Only Fools and Horses (1981)

The Evil Dead (1981)

Mephisto (1981)

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

Clean Slate (1981)

The Aviator's Wife (1981)

Blow Out (1981)

Reds (1981)

History of the World: Part I (1981)

Thief (1981)

Polyester (1981)

Prince of the City (1981)

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