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Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to st... more |
Steven Spielberg |
Lawrence Kasdan, Philip Kaufman |
Harrison Ford, Alfred Molina, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman |
Action, Adventure, Thriller |
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Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior (1981)
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Roaming the highways of post-apocalyptic Australia, years after he avenged his wife and son and his partner who were murdered by the motorcycle gang led by... more |
George Miller |
Terry Hayes |
Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Michael Preston, Kjell Nilsson, Emil Minty, Max Phipps, Virginia Hey |
Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure |
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Le Professionnel aka The Professional (1981)
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French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation... more |
Georges Lautner |
Jacques Audiard, Patrick Alexander |
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Elisabeth Margoni, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Cyrielle Clair, Jean Desailly, Pierre Saintons |
Action, Thriller |
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Das Boot (1981)
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It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better ... more |
Wolfgang Petersen |
Lothar G. Buchheim |
Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Herbert Grönemeyer |
Drama, War |
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
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The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.... more |
Bob Rafelson |
James M. Cain |
Jack Nicholson, Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Michael Lerner, John Colicos |
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller |
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Escape from New York (1981)
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John Carpenter |
Nick Castle |
Kurt Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes |
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
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Excalibur (1981)
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John Boorman |
Thomas Malory |
Nigel Terry |
Adventure, Fantasy |
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James Bond 007: For your eyes only (1981)
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John Glen |
Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum |
Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet |
Action, Adventure, Thriller |
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Private Lessons (1981)
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Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sitter t... more |
Alan Myerson |
Dan Greenburg |
Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown |
Comedy |
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Taps aka The Siege at Bunker Hill: T.A.P.S (1981)
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Harold Becker |
Devery Freeman |
Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, George C. Scott |
Drama |
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La guerre du feu aka Quest for Fire (1981)
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80,000 years ago, fire meant power. When a tribe is attacked by another aggressive tribe and their source of fire is stolen, three tribesmen travels in a q... more |
Jean-Jacques Annaud |
Gérard Brach, J.H. Rosny Sr. |
Ron Perlman, Rae Dawn Chong, Everett McGill, Nicholas Kadi |
Adventure, Drama |
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Chariots of Fire (1981)
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The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics.... more |
Hugh Hudson |
Colin Welland |
Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Alice Krige, Daniel Gerroll, Nicholas Farrell, Ben Cross, Dennis Christopher |
Drama, History, Sport |
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Blow Out (1981)
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A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.... more |
Brian De Palma |
Brian De Palma |
John Travolta, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Nancy Allen |
Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
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Body Heat (1981)
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Lawrence Kasdan |
Lawrence Kasdan |
Mickey Rourke, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Ted Danson, Thom Sharp |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Ljubi, ljubi, al' glavu ne gubi (1981)
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Zoran Calic |
Zoran Calic |
Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanic, Dara Calenic |
Comedy, Drama, Romance |
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The Cannonball Run (1981)
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Hal Needham |
Brock Yates |
Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett |
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance |
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Endless Love (1981)
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Franco Zeffirelli |
Judith Rascoe, Scott Spencer |
Tom Cruise, James Spader, Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Penelope Milford |
Drama, Romance |
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Scanners (1981)
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Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychi... more |
David Cronenberg |
David Cronenberg |
Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack |
Horror, Sci-Fi |
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Stripes (1981)
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Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.... more |
Ivan Reitman |
Len Blum, Daniel Goldberg |
Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Judge Reinhold, Sean Young, John Larroquette, Warren Oates, Antone Pagan |
Comedy, War |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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John Landis |
John Landis |
Jenny Agutter, David Naughton |
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller |
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