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    • Alan Alda and Carol Burnett in The Four Seasons (1981)

      1. The Four Seasons

      19811h 47mPG55Metascore
      6.8 (6.4K)
      Witty character study of three couples who vacation together each season. After one divorces, feelings of betrayal and more spawn criticisms of one another, but things that unite them are stronger than those which might pull them apart.
    • Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler, Ronald Lacey, and Terry Richards in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

      2. Raiders of the Lost Ark

      19811h 55mPG86Metascore
      8.4 (1.1M)
      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.
    • Possession (1981)

      3. Possession

      19812h 4mR75Metascore
      7.3 (50K)
      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.
    • Excalibur (1981)

      4. Excalibur

      19812h 20mPG56Metascore
      7.3 (70K)
      Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.
    • Bridget Hoffman in The Evil Dead (1981)

      5. The Evil Dead

      19811h 25mNC-1771Metascore
      7.4 (243K)
      Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
    • Bill Murray in Stripes (1981)

      6. Stripes

      19811h 46mR68Metascore
      6.8 (83K)
      Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
    • Das Boot (1981)

      7. Das Boot

      19812h 29m85Metascore
      8.4 (279K)
      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.
    • Adrienne Barbeau, Donald Pleasence, and Kurt Russell in Escape from New York (1981)

      8. Escape from New York

      19811h 39mR76Metascore
      7.1 (166K)
      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.
    • The Road Warrior (1981)

      9. The Road Warrior

      19811h 36mR77Metascore
      7.6 (208K)
      In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.
    • Porky's (1981)

      10. Porky's

      19811h 34mR40Metascore
      6.2 (47K)
      In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.
    • Griffin Dunne and David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London (1981)

      11. An American Werewolf in London

      19811h 37mR55Metascore
      7.5 (129K)
      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.
    • William Hurt and Kathleen Turner in Body Heat (1981)

      12. Body Heat

      19811h 53mR77Metascore
      7.4 (42K)
      During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
    • David Bowie and Natja Brunckhorst in Christiane F. (1981)

      13. Christiane F.

      19812h 18mR
      7.5 (32K)
      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.
    • Michael Ironside in Scanners (1981)

      14. Scanners

      19811h 43mR60Metascore
      6.7 (65K)
      A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
    • James Caan in Thief (1981)

      15. Thief

      19812h 3mR78Metascore
      7.4 (44K)
      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.
    • The Burning (1981)

      16. The Burning

      19811h 31mR42Metascore
      6.3 (24K)
      Abusive former summer camp caretaker Cropsy, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong five years earlier, lurks around upstate NY summer Camp Stonewater with garden shears and bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
    • John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Michael Palin, David Warner, Ralph Richardson, and Peter Vaughan in Time Bandits (1981)

      17. Time Bandits

      19811h 50mPG79Metascore
      6.9 (72K)
      A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
    • Ron Perlman, Rae Dawn Chong, Nicholas Kadi, and Everett McGill in Quest for Fire (1981)

      18. Quest for Fire

      19811h 40mR79Metascore
      7.3 (25K)
      This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
    • Adrienne Barbeau, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. in The Cannonball Run (1981)

      19. The Cannonball Run

      19811h 35mPG28Metascore
      6.2 (42K)
      A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.
    • Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, and John Wyman in For Your Eyes Only (1981)

      20. For Your Eyes Only

      19812h 7mPG54Metascore
      6.7 (112K)
      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.
    • History of the World: Part I (1981)

      21. History of the World: Part I

      19811h 32mR47Metascore
      6.8 (57K)
      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.
    • Heavy Metal (1981)

      22. Heavy Metal

      19811h 26mR51Metascore
      6.6 (40K)
      A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.
    • Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt in Endless Love (1981)

      23. Endless Love

      19811h 56mR30Metascore
      4.9 (10K)
      Parental disapproval of a passionate romance between teenagers Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod leads to arguments, circumstance, insanity and tragedy.
    • Brad Davis, Ben Cross, Yves Beneyton, Colin Bruce, Ian Charleson, Dennis Christopher, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Farrell, Daniel Gerroll, Stephen Mallatratt, Alan Polonsky, Struan Rodger, Edward Wiley, Benny Young, and David John in Chariots of Fire (1981)

      24. Chariots of Fire

      19812h 5mPG78Metascore
      7.1 (69K)
      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.
    • Harry Hamlin and Judi Bowker in Clash of the Titans (1981)

      25. Clash of the Titans

      19811h 58mPG59Metascore
      6.9 (49K)
      Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

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