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Movies of 1981
60 movies from 1981. Includes Raiders of the Lost Ark, Das Boot, and The Decline of Western Civilization.
Common vibes here: Military · War Drama · Marriage & Divorce
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Das Boot
1981 · 150m
War DramaSubmarines & NavalJournalism & Media
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted.
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The Decline of Western Civilization
1981 · 100m
DocumentaryMusic
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film.
81
Max
My Dinner with Andre
1981 · 112m
DramaComedy
Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several…
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The Little Fox
1981 · 74m
Mythology & FolkloreAnimationFamily
A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.
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Davaro
1981 · 94m
Comedy
Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail.
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Mad Max 2
1981 · 96m
Dystopian Sci-FiDystopianAviation
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline.
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Tubi
Blow Out
1981 · 108m
Psychological ThrillerNeo-Noir & Film NoirWhodunit & Mystery
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river.
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Body Heat
1981 · 113m
Neo-Noir & Film NoirPrisonMarriage & Divorce
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
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Prince of the City
1981 · 167m
LegalDramaThriller
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice eliminate corruption in the police department, as…
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Tubi
Lion of the Desert
1981 · 173m
War DramaBiopicMilitary
Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II.
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Lola
1981 · 113m
Drama
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants…
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Max
The Pee-wee Herman Show
1981 · 58m
ComedyMade-for-TV
The original adult-oriented version of what would eventually become an award-winning children's classic.
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Prime
Quest for Fire
1981 · 100m
AdventureDramaFantasy
In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes.
77
Prime
On Golden Pond
1981 · 109m
DramaRomance
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution.
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Diva
1981 · 117m
Showbiz & Music DramaMusicAction
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises.
77
Max
Coup de Torchon
1981 · 128m
Romantic ComedyDark ComedyMarriage & Divorce
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
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Reds
1981 · 195m
War DramaBiopicMilitary
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his…
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Possession
1981 · 124m
Supernatural HorrorSlasherCreature Feature
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason.
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Prime
Thief
1981 · 123m
HeistMob / MafiaNeo-Noir & Film Noir
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists.
75
Max
Time Bandits
1981 · 116m
Time-Travel Sci-FiUrban FantasyMagic
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night.
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Chariots of Fire
1981 · 123m
BiopicSports DramaSports
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics.
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Gallipoli
1981 · 112m
War DramaMilitaryWar
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World…
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The Woman Next Door
1981 · 106m
Marriage & DivorceDramaRomance
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses.
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Polyester
1981 · 86m
Dark ComedyComedy
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the…
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
1981 · 107m
Coming-of-AgeComing of AgeComedy
Growing up in 1960s Sarajevo, a young man comes of age under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, but is attracted by the world of…
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The Killing of America
1981 · 95m
True CrimeSerial KillerDocumentary
A documentary of the decline of America, composed of archival material and exclusive footage, carnage, madness, and mayhem with an unapologetic…
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The Professional
1981 · 108m
Spy / EspionagePrisonEspionage
Josselin Beaumont, a French secret agent, is tasked with assassinating Njala, the president for life of Malawi in Africa.
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Prime
Cutter's Way
1981 · 109m
Neo-Noir & Film NoirRevenge ThrillerConspiracy & Political Thriller
Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a…
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Escape from New York
1981 · 99m
Dystopian Sci-FiCyberpunkMartial Arts
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free.
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Prime
An American Werewolf in London
1981 · 97m
Creature FeatureDark ComedyMedical
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors.
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Tubi
Arthur
1981 · 97m
ComedyDramaRomance
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
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The Great Muppet Caper
1981 · 97m
ComedyCrimeFamily
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is…
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Prime
Roadgames
1981 · 101m
SlasherSerial KillerMystery
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate…
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Ragtime
1981 · 155m
MusicPoliticalDrama
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other…
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The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
1981 · 79m
AnimationComedyFamily
Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.
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Disney+
The Fox and the Hound
1981 · 82m
Coming-of-AgeComing of AgeAdventure
When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper.
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Prime
Southern Comfort
1981 · 106m
Survival ThrillerWilderness & NatureSurvival
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by…
71
Tubi
Eye of the Needle
1981 · 108m
Spy / EspionageWar DramaPeriod & Historical Drama
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II.
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Tubi
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
1981 · 96m
SlasherPsychological ThrillerPsychological
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son.
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Beau Pere
1981 · 123m
Showbiz & Music DramaMusicComing of Age
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage.
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Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
1981 · 102m
ActionAdventureComedy
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II.
70
Tubi
Ms .45
1981 · 81m
Revenge ThrillerRevengeCrime
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.
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Dragonslayer
1981 · 108m
Epic FantasyUrban FantasyMagic
A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that…
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Prime
Absence of Malice
1981 · 116m
ProceduralLegal DramaTrue Crime
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 · 124m
DramaRomanceHistory
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective…
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Excalibur
1981 · 141m
Epic FantasyUrban FantasyMagic
Arthur fulfills his fate by bringing together the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot and unifying the country.
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Mobile Suit Gundam I
1981 · 139m
Military Sci-FiAnimeMilitary
In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon.
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Tubi
The Howling
1981 · 91m
SlasherSerial KillerWerewolves
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what…
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Prime
Knightriders
1981 · 147m
MagicActionDrama
A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and…
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Stripes
1981 · 106m
ActionComedy
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S.
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La Chèvre
1981 · 94m
ComedyCrimeAdventure
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private…
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Prime
Dead & Buried
1981 · 94m
Folk HorrorDark FantasySmall Town
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living…
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Max
Scanners
1981 · 103m
Body HorrorConspiracySupernatural
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from…
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Prime
Escape to Victory
1981 · 116m
War DramaMilitaryDrama
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of…
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Clash of the Titans
1981 · 118m
Creature FeatureEpic FantasyUrban Fantasy
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various…
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981 · 122m
Psychological ThrillerNeo-Noir & Film NoirConspiracy & Political Thriller
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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The Cabbage Soup
1981 · 98m
Alien InvasionAliensComedy
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
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Prime
For Your Eyes Only
1981 · 128m
Spy / EspionageHitman & AssassinsSubmarines & Naval
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device.