Director:
Gregory Hoblit Christian I. Nyby II David Anspaugh

Casting:
Daniel J. Travanti,
Taurean Blacque,
Bruce Weitz,

USA, 1981

Hill Street Blues
Drama
Director:
Steven Spielberg

Casting:
Harrison Ford,
Karen Allen,
Paul Freeman,

USA, 1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Action , Adventure
Director:
Daniel Haller Hollingsworth Morse Bruce Bilson

Casting:
Lee Majors,
Douglas Barr,
Heather Thomas,

USA, 1981

The Fall Guy
Action , Adventure
Director:
Alexander Singer James Frawley Reza Badiyi

Casting:
Tyne Daly,
Al Waxman,
John Karlen,

USA, 1981

Cagney & Lacey
Crime , Drama , Mystery
Director:
Michael Mackenroth Michael Kreindl Peter Adam

Casting:
Claus Theo Gärtner,
Renate Kohn,
Paul Frielinghaus,

West Germany, 1981

A Case for Two
Crime , Thriller
Director:
Bob Rafelson

Casting:
Jack Nicholson,
Jessica Lange,
John Colicos,

USA, West Germany, 1981

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Crime , Drama , Thriller
Director:
James L. Conway

Casting:
Rebecca Balding,
Fred McCarren,
Anne-Marie Martin,

USA, 1981

The Boogens
Horror
Director:
Oliver Stone

Casting:
Michael Caine,
Andrea Marcovicci,
Annie McEnroe,

USA, 1981

The Hand
Drama , Horror , Thriller
Director:
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Casting:
Everett McGill,
Ron Perlman,
Nicholas Kadi,

Canada, France, USA, 1981

Quest for Fire
Adventure , Drama , History
Director:
Chi Wong

Casting:
Dennis Chan,
Philip Chan,
Roy Chiao,

Hong Kong, 1981

Chuang ban shen tan dian zi gui
Director:
Mamoru Oshii Kazuo Yamazaki Iku Suzuki

Casting:
Fumi Hirano,
Toshio Furukawa,
Saeko Shimazu,

Japan, 1981

Urusei yatsura
Animation , Comedy , Sci-Fi
Director:
Ted Berman Richard Rich Art Stevens

Casting:
Mickey Rooney,
Kurt Russell,
Pearl Bailey,

USA, 1981

The Fox and the Hound
Animation , Adventure , Drama
Director:
Robert Tronson Michael Rolfe Robert Young

Casting:
John Nettles,
Terence Alexander,
Sean Arnold,

UK, Australia, 1981

Bergerac
Crime , Drama , Mystery
Director:
Jean-Loup Hubert

Casting:
Isabelle Adjani,
Thierry Lhermitte,
Bernard Crombey,

France, 1981

Next Year If All Goes Well
Comedy
Director:
Ryôji Fujiwara Yoshiyuki Tomino

Casting:
Tôru Furuya,
Hirotaka Suzuoki,
Shôzô Iizuka,

Japan, 1981

Kidô senshi Gandamu
Animation , Action , Drama
Director:
John Badham

Casting:
Richard Dreyfuss,
John Cassavetes,
Christine Lahti,

USA, 1981

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Drama
Director:
John Boorman

Casting:
Nigel Terry,
Helen Mirren,
Nicholas Clay,

USA, UK, 1981

Excalibur
Adventure , Drama , Fantasy
Director:
David Steinberg

Casting:
Burt Reynolds,
Beverly D'Angelo,
Norman Fell,

USA, 1981

Paternity
Comedy , Romance
Director:
David Greene

Casting:
Jan-Michael Vincent,
Kim Basinger,
Michael Parks,

USA, 1981

Hard Country
Drama , Western
Director:
Peter Yates

Casting:
William Hurt,
Sigourney Weaver,
Christopher Plummer,

USA, 1981

Eyewitness
Thriller
Director:
Hugh Hudson

Casting:
Nicholas Farrell,
Nigel Havers,
Ian Charleson,

UK, 1981

Chariots of Fire
Drama , History , Sport
Director:
John Landis

Casting:
Joe Belcher,
David Naughton,
Griffin Dunne,

UK, USA, 1981

An American Werewolf in London
Horror
Director:
Manmohan Desai

Casting:
Amitabh Bachchan,
Shatrughan Sinha,
Rishi Kapoor,

India, 1981

Naseeb
Action , Musical , Romance
Director:
Richard Pearce

Casting:
Donald Sutherland,
John Marley,
Sharon Acker,

Canada, 1981

Threshold
Drama , Sci-Fi
Director:
Peter Hyams

Casting:
Sean Connery,
Peter Boyle,
Frances Sternhagen,

UK, 1981

Outland
Action , Crime , Sci-Fi
Director:
John Huston

Casting:
Sylvester Stallone,
Michael Caine,
Pelé,

USA, 1981

Victory
Action , Drama , Sport
Director:
Albert Brooks

Casting:
Albert Brooks,
Kathryn Harrold,
Tyann Means,

USA, 1981

Modern Romance
Comedy , Romance
Director:
Prakash Mehra

Casting:
Zeenat Aman,
Vikas Anand,
Amitabh Bachchan,

India, 1981

Laawaris
Drama , Action , Musical
Director:
Muzaffar Ali

Casting:
Rekha,
Farooq Shaikh,
Naseeruddin Shah,

India, 1981

Umrao Jaan
Drama , Musical
Director:
Howard Avedis

Casting:
Karen Black,
Tony Lo Bianco,
Arlene Golonka,

USA, 1981

Separate Ways
Drama
Director:
Alan J. Pakula

Casting:
Jane Fonda,
Kris Kristofferson,
Hume Cronyn,

USA, 1981

Rollover
Drama , Mystery , Romance
Director:
Martin Ritt

Casting:
Sally Field,
Tommy Lee Jones,
David Keith,

USA, 1981

Back Roads
Adventure , Comedy , Romance
Director:
Terry Gilliam

Casting:
John Cleese,
Sean Connery,
Shelley Duvall,

UK, 1981

Time Bandits
Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy
Director:
Ovidio G. Assonitis

Casting:
Trish Everly,
Michael MacRae,
Dennis Robertson,

Italy, 1981

And When She Was Bad
Horror
Director:
Richard Franklin

Casting:
Stacy Keach,
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Marion Edward,

Australia, 1981

Road Games
Drama , Thriller
Director:
Ray Patterson Carl Urbano Rudy Zamora

Casting:
Don Messick,
Danny Goldman,
Lucille Bliss,

USA, Belgium, 1981

Smurfs
Animation , Family , Fantasy
Director:
Mark Stouffer

Casting:
John Denver,
James Galway,
Itzhak Perlman,

USA, 1981

John Denver: Music and the Mountains
Music
Director:
Graeme Muir Don Clayton

Casting:
Mollie Sugden,
Christopher Blake,
Jennifer Lonsdale,

UK, 1981

That's My Boy
Comedy
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen

Casting:
Jürgen Prochnow,
Herbert Grönemeyer,
Klaus Wennemann,

West Germany, 1981

Das Boot
Action , Adventure , Drama
Director:
John Quested

Casting:
Albert Finney,
Martin Sheen,
Susannah York,

UK, 1981

Loophole
Adventure , Crime , Drama
Director:


Casting:

USA, 1981

The Tale of Tiffany Lust
Adult , Comedy
Director:
Bruno Pischiutta

Casting:
Gianfranco Molaro,
Richard Coleman,
Liliana Tari,

Italy, 1981

The Comoedia
Drama
Director:
John Derek

Casting:
Peter Hooten,
Bo Derek,
Anna Alexiadis,

USA, 1981

Fantasies
Drama
Director:
Percival Rubens

Casting:
Jennifer Holmes,
Cameron Mitchell,
Craig Gardner,

South Africa, Netherlands, 1981

The Demon
Horror
Director:
Robert Aldrich

Casting:
Peter Falk,
Vicki Frederick,
Laurene Landon,

USA, 1981

...All the Marbles
Action , Comedy , Drama
Director:
André Téchiné

Casting:
Catherine Deneuve,
Patrick Dewaere,
Etienne Chicot,

France, 1981

Hotel America
Drama , Romance
Director:
Lee Philips

Casting:
Gary Coleman,
Maureen Stapleton,
Norman Fell,

USA, 1981

On the Right Track
Comedy , Romance
Director:
Bruce Beresford

Casting:
Nell Schofield,
Jad Capelja,
Geoff Rhoe,

Australia, 1981

Puberty Blues
Comedy , Drama
Director:
Frank Arnold Di Drew Julian Pringle

Casting:
Ivar Kants,
Peter Gwynne,
Geoffrey Rush,

Australia, 1981

Menotti
Drama
Director:
Aldo Lado

Casting:
Stefania Sandrelli,
Teresa Ann Savoy,
Mario Adorf,

Italy, France, 1981

La disubbidienza
Drama
Director:
Michael Herz Lloyd Kaufman

Casting:
Jim Harris,
Carol Drake,
Carol Bevar,

USA, 1981

Waitress!
Comedy
Director:
Ferdinando Baldi

Casting:
Tony Anthony,
Gene Quintano,
Victoria Abril,

Italy, Spain, USA, 1981

Comin' at Ya!
Western
Director:
Joel Schumacher

Casting:
Lily Tomlin,
Charles Grodin,
Ned Beatty,

USA, 1981

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Sci-Fi , Comedy , Fantasy
Director:
Mark Rydell

Casting:
Katharine Hepburn,
Henry Fonda,
Jane Fonda,

UK, USA, 1981

On Golden Pond
Drama
Director:
Patrice Leconte

Casting:
Michel Blanc,
Bernard Giraudeau,
Thérèse Liotard,

France, 1981

Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine
Comedy
Director:
Jesús Franco

Casting:
Katja Bienert,
Ursula Buchfellner,
Raquel Evans,

Spain, West Germany, 1981

The Story of Linda
Adventure , Crime
Director:
David Gladwell

Casting:
Julie Christie,
Christopher Guard,
Leonie Mellinger,

UK, 1981

Memoirs of a Survivor
Sci-Fi
Director:
Hal Needham

Casting:
Burt Reynolds,
Roger Moore,
Farrah Fawcett,

USA, Hong Kong, 1981

The Cannonball Run
Action , Comedy
Director:
Kinji Fukasaku

Casting:
Shin'ichi Chiba,
Kenji Sawada,
Akiko Kana,

Japan, 1981

Samurai Reincarnation
Action , Fantasy , Horror
Director:
Burt Reynolds

Casting:
Burt Reynolds,
Vittorio Gassman,
Brian Keith,

USA, 1981

Sharky's Machine
Action , Crime , Drama
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