Movies Released in 1981

Mad Max 2

📅 Release: December 24, 1981

📖 Synopsis: Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismati...

Porky's

📅 Release: November 13, 1981

📖 Synopsis: In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When the club's owner and his sheriff brother swindle them out of their money and embarrass them, the boys plan revenge....

The Professional

📅 Release: October 21, 1981

📖 Synopsis: Josselin Beaumont, a French secret agent, is tasked with assassinating Njala, the president for life of Malawi in Africa. A shift in French policy means that assassinating Njala is no longer an option. But instead of recalling their agent, high-ranking officials deliberately sacr...

The Evil Dead

📅 Release: October 15, 1981

📖 Synopsis: In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

Das Boot

📅 Release: September 17, 1981

📖 Synopsis: A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits....

Beau Pere

📅 Release: September 16, 1981

📖 Synopsis: Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard...

Bosco D'amore

📅 Release: September 8, 1981

📖 Synopsis: The time is the mid-14th century --- the Pope is now residing at Avignon, the Black Death is killing millions across Europe, and civil wars are adding to the turmoil and chaos. In this story adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a young teenage couple is sent to live in a...

Powerless King

📅 Release: August 29, 1981

📖 Synopsis: Set in the neon heartbeat of Yokohama, this film ignites an outrageously erotic 17-hour odyssey of desire that unleashes from a lazy Sunday afternoon to a feverish Monday dawn. A sultry fertile female college student meets a band of insatiable young men, sparking a frenzy of scin...

Body Heat

📅 Release: August 28, 1981

📖 Synopsis: During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

The Fox And The Hound

📅 Release: July 10, 1981

📖 Synopsis: 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. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on his role as a hunting dog -- and the object of his search is his...

For Your Eyes Only

📅 Release: June 24, 1981

📖 Synopsis: A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.

Morning Moon Is Cruel

📅 Release: June 21, 1981

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

📅 Release: June 12, 1981

🎭 Genre: ActionAdventure

⭐ Rating: PG

🎬 Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Alfred Molina

📖 Synopsis:

The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcu...