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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a action film-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford....
 Paramount $209,562,121
2.On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond (1981 film)

On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
 Universal $119,285,432
3. Superman II
Superman II

Superman II is the 1980 sequel to the 1978 superhero film Superman . It was the only Superman film to be filmed by two directors. For this reason the film is surrounded with controversy since original director Richard Donner had completed, by his estimation, roughly 75Percentage of the movie in 1977 before being taken off the project....
 Warner Brothers $108,185,706
4. Arthur
Arthur (film)

Arthur is a 1981 film set in New York City which tells the story of drunken playboy millionaire Arthur Bach , who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress, Susan Johnson ....
 Warner Brothers $95,461,682
5. Stripes
Stripes (film)

Stripes is a 1981 in film United States comedy film film starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, and P.J. Soles. The film director was Ivan Reitman....
 Columbia $85,297,000
6. The Cannonball Run 20th Century Fox $72,179,579
7. Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire is a United Kingdom film released in 1981 in film. Written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson, it is based on the true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics....
 Columbia $58,972,904
8. For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (film)

For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 MGM $54,812,802
9. The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons (film)

The Four Seasons is a 1981 in film romantic comedy film starring Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston and Bess Armstrong....
 Universal $50,427,646
10. Time Bandits
Time Bandits

Time Bandits is a 1981 in film fantasy film, produced and directed by Terry Gilliam.Gilliam wrote the screenplay with fellow Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin, who appears with Shelley Duvall in the small, recurring roles of Vincent and Pansy....
 20th Century Fox $42,365,581
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1981&p=.htm

> Golden Globe Awards
39th Golden Globe Awards

The 39th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1981, were held on January 30, 1982....
:

Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond (1981 film)

On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
 - The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 in film film directed by Karel Reisz and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter. It is based on the The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles....


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Arthur
Arthur (film)

Arthur is a 1981 film set in New York City which tells the story of drunken playboy millionaire Arthur Bach , who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress, Susan Johnson ....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, comedian and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the hugely popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook....
 - Arthur
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters is an United States actress and singer from New York City. Over the course of a career that has already spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings....
 - Pennies from Heaven
Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)

Pennies from Heaven is the 1981 film adaptation of the Pennies From Heaven . Dennis Potter, the writer of the original British series, adapted his own screenplay for American audiences....


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Warren Beatty - Reds
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Chariots of Fire, United Kingdom


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Man of Iron
Man of Iron

Man of Iron is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union....
 (Czlowiek z zelaza), directed by Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda is a Poland film director. Recipient of an honorary Academy Awards, he is one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School....
, Poland


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival):
Marianne and Juliane
Marianne and Juliane

Marianne and Juliane is a 1981 in film film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Its original German language title is Die bleierne Zeit, which can be translated as "the heavy times"....
 (Die Bleierne Zeit), directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director and a member of the New German Cinema movement.The illegitimate child of Elisabeth von Trotta and painter Alfred Roloff, she relocated to Paris in the 1960s, where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films....
, W.






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Events

  • January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists
    United Artists

    United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
    . UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate
    Heaven's Gate (film)

    Heaven's Gate is a 1981 in film western movie depicting the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s....
    , a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica
    Transamerica Corporation

    Transamerica Corporation is a holding company for various life insurance companies and investment firms doing business primarily in the United States....
     to sell it.
  • November 29 - Off Santa Catalina Island
    Santa Catalina Island, California

    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California....
    , 43-year old actress Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood

    Natalie Wood was an American actress.Following her film debut at the age of four, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street ....
     drowns during a boating accident.
  • Tom Cruise
    Tom Cruise

    Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
     makes his acting debut.
  • June 12 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Raiders of the Lost Ark is a action film-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford....
     is released, it set the standard for action-adventure films.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a action film-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford....
 Paramount $209,562,121
2.On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond (1981 film)

On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
 Universal $119,285,432
3. Superman II
Superman II

Superman II is the 1980 sequel to the 1978 superhero film Superman . It was the only Superman film to be filmed by two directors. For this reason the film is surrounded with controversy since original director Richard Donner had completed, by his estimation, roughly 75Percentage of the movie in 1977 before being taken off the project....
 Warner Brothers $108,185,706
4. Arthur
Arthur (film)

Arthur is a 1981 film set in New York City which tells the story of drunken playboy millionaire Arthur Bach , who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress, Susan Johnson ....
 Warner Brothers $95,461,682
5. Stripes
Stripes (film)

Stripes is a 1981 in film United States comedy film film starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, and P.J. Soles. The film director was Ivan Reitman....
 Columbia $85,297,000
6. The Cannonball Run 20th Century Fox $72,179,579
7. Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire is a United Kingdom film released in 1981 in film. Written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson, it is based on the true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics....
 Columbia $58,972,904
8. For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (film)

For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 MGM $54,812,802
9. The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons (film)

The Four Seasons is a 1981 in film romantic comedy film starring Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston and Bess Armstrong....
 Universal $50,427,646
10. Time Bandits
Time Bandits

Time Bandits is a 1981 in film fantasy film, produced and directed by Terry Gilliam.Gilliam wrote the screenplay with fellow Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin, who appears with Shelley Duvall in the small, recurring roles of Vincent and Pansy....
 20th Century Fox $42,365,581
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1981&p=.htm

Awards


Academy Awards
54th Academy Awards

The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson....
:

Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire is a United Kingdom film released in 1981 in film. Written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson, it is based on the true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics....
 - Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros.
Best Director: Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
 - Reds
Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
 - On Golden Pond
Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
 - On Golden Pond
Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: John Gielgud
John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, Order of Merit , Companion of Honour was an England actor and singer, particularly known for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk"....
 - Arthur
Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton

Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
 - Reds
Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: Mephisto
Mephisto (1981 film)

Mephisto is the title of a 1981 in film film adaptation of Klaus Mann's Mephisto , directed by Istv?n Szab?, and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik H?fgen....
, directed by Istvan Szabo
István Szabó

Istv?n Szab? is both the best-known and one of the most critically acclaimed Hungarian film directors of the 20th and 21st centuries....
, Hungary
Golden Globe Awards
39th Golden Globe Awards

The 39th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1981, were held on January 30, 1982....
:

Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond (1981 film)

On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
 - The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 in film film directed by Karel Reisz and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter. It is based on the The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles....


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Arthur
Arthur (film)

Arthur is a 1981 film set in New York City which tells the story of drunken playboy millionaire Arthur Bach , who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress, Susan Johnson ....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, comedian and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the hugely popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook....
 - Arthur
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters is an United States actress and singer from New York City. Over the course of a career that has already spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings....
 - Pennies from Heaven
Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)

Pennies from Heaven is the 1981 film adaptation of the Pennies From Heaven . Dennis Potter, the writer of the original British series, adapted his own screenplay for American audiences....


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Warren Beatty - Reds
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Chariots of Fire, United Kingdom


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Man of Iron
Man of Iron

Man of Iron is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union....
 (Czlowiek z zelaza), directed by Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda is a Poland film director. Recipient of an honorary Academy Awards, he is one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School....
, Poland


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival):
Marianne and Juliane
Marianne and Juliane

Marianne and Juliane is a 1981 in film film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Its original German language title is Die bleierne Zeit, which can be translated as "the heavy times"....
 (Die Bleierne Zeit), directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director and a member of the New German Cinema movement.The illegitimate child of Elisabeth von Trotta and painter Alfred Roloff, she relocated to Paris in the 1960s, where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films....
, W. Germany


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Faster, Faster (Deprisa, deprisa / Vivre vite), directed by Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura

Carlos Saura is a Spanish people film director....
, Spain / France


Films released in 1981

  • Absence of Malice
    Absence of Malice

    Absence of Malice is a 1981 film which tells the story of Michael Gallagher , the son of a dead Mafia boss who discovers that he has become a front-page story in the local Miami newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated for a murder he didn't commit....
    , directed by Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Pollack

    Sydney Irwin Pollack was an United States film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting....
    , starring Paul Newman
    Paul Newman

    Paul Leonard Newman was an United States actor, film director, entrepreneur, Humanitarianism, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a...
    , Sally Field
    Sally Field

    Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
     and Melinda Dillon
    Melinda Dillon

    Melinda Rose Dillon is an United States actress....
  • American Pop
    American pop

    American pop is a vague and nebulous term, applied generally to whatever form of music is most popular among mainstream United States adolescent audiences....
  • An American Werewolf in London
    An American Werewolf in London

    An American Werewolf in London is a Cinema of the United States-Cinema of the United Kingdom comedy film/horror film, screenwriter and film director by John Landis....
    , directed by John Landis
    John Landis

    John David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and Film producer. He is widely known for his influential Comedy film and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson; Landis has also done many Horror film projects....
    , starring David Naughton
    David Naughton

    David Naughton may refer to:* David Naughton * David Naughton ...
    , Griffin Dunne
    Griffin Dunne

    Thomas Griffin Dunne is an United States actor and film director....
     and Jenny Agutter
    Jenny Agutter

    Jenny Agutter is a BAFTA Awards- and Emmy Awards award-winning England actor best known in recent years for her role as Tessa Phillips in the United Kingdom TV drama series Spooks....
  • Amy
    Amy (film)

    Amy is a 1981 in film live-action film from Walt Disney Pictures starring Jenny Agutter from Logan's Run ....
  • Arthur
    Arthur (film)

    Arthur is a 1981 film set in New York City which tells the story of drunken playboy millionaire Arthur Bach , who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress, Susan Johnson ....
    , starring Dudley Moore
    Dudley Moore

    Dudley Stuart John Moore Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, comedian and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the hugely popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook....
    , Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli

    Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
     and John Gielgud
    John Gielgud

    Sir Arthur John Gielgud, Order of Merit , Companion of Honour was an England actor and singer, particularly known for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk"....
  • Berlin Tunnel 21, starring Richard Thomas
    Richard Thomas (actor)

    Richard Earl Thomas is an United States actor, best known as budding author "John-Boy" in the CBS Television Series The Waltons...
     and Horst Buchholz
    Horst Buchholz

    Horst Werner Buchholz was a Germany actor, best remembered for his part in The Magnificent Seven. He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952-2002....
  • Blow Out
    Blow Out

    Blow Out is a 1981 in film Thriller film, screenplay and film director by Brian De Palma. The title and themes derive from and are an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup....
    , directed by Brian De Palma
    Brian De Palma

    Brian De Palma is an US film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie , Dressed to Kill , Scarface , The Untouchables , and Mission: Impossible ....
    , starring John Travolta
    John Travolta

    John Joseph Travolta is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States actor, dancer and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction ....
    , Nancy Allen
    Nancy Allen

    Nancy Allen may refer to:* Nancy Allen * Nancy Allen See also* Nancy Allan, Manitoban politician...
     and John Lithgow
    John Lithgow

    John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dr. Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun....
  • The Boat Is Full
    The Boat Is Full

    The Boat Is Full is a 1981 in film German-language film directed by Markus Imhoof. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as a Cinema of Switzerland submission....
  • Body Heat
    Body Heat

    Body Heat is a 1981 neo-noir film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It stars William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A....
  • Bustin' Loose
    Bustin' Loose

    This is about the movie. For the TV series of the same name, see Bustin' Loose .Bustin' Loose is a film released by Universal Pictures in 1981 in film starring Richard Pryor as an ex-con who gets a second chance after violating his probation....
  • The Cannonball Run
    The Cannonball Run (film)

    The Cannonball Run is a Camp y, slapstick Film released in 1981 that starred Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dom DeLuise and Farrah Fawcett. Hal Needham was the director and had an uncredited role as an emergency medical technician....
  • Clash of the Titans
    Clash of the Titans

    For the metal concert tour by the same name, see Clash of the Titans Clash of the Titans is a 1981 in film fantasy and mythology film based on the myth of Perseus....
    , starring Harry Hamlin
    Harry Hamlin

    'Harry Robinson Hamlin' is an United States film and television actor, known for his role as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans, and as Michael Kuzak in the acclaimed legal drama series L.A....
    , Laurence Olivier
    Laurence Olivier

    Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
     and Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith

    Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
  • Condorman
    Condorman

    Condorman is a 1981 in film comedy/adventure film from Walt Disney Pictures starring Michael Crawford.Inspired by Robert Sheckley's The Game of X, Condorman follows comic book illustrator Woodrow Wilkins' attempts to assist in the defection of a female Soviet Union KGB agent....
  • Come on, Granpa's!
  • Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire is a United Kingdom film released in 1981 in film. Written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson, it is based on the true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics....
    , directed by Hugh Hudson
    Hugh Hudson

    Hugh Hudson is an Academy Awards nominated film director....
    , starring Ben Cross
    Ben Cross

    Ben Cross is an United Kingdom actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Jewish Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire....
  • Das Boot
    Das Boot

    Das Boot is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same name by Lothar-G?nther Buchheim. Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on Unterseeboot 219, served as a consultant, as did Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the captain of the real Unterseeboot 96 ....
     (1982 US release)
  • Dead & Buried
    Dead & Buried

    Dead & Buried is a 1981 in film horror film movie directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson and James Farentino. The screenplay was written by Dan O'Bannon....
  • Deadly Blessing
    Deadly Blessing

    Deadly Blessing is a horror movie directed by Wes Craven, released in the USA on August 14, 1981....
     starring Sharon Stone
    Sharon Stone

    Sharon Yvonne Stone is an United Statesn actress, film producer and former Model . She first acheived international recognition for her performance in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct....
  • Deprisa, Deprisa
    Deprisa, Deprisa

    Deprisa, Deprisa is a 1981 in film Cinema of Spain by Carlos Saura. In the English-speaking world, it has been released under the titles Faster, Faster and Fast, Fast....
    , Golden Bear winner
  • The Devil and Max Devlin
    The Devil and Max Devlin

    The Devil and Max Devlin is a motion picture from Walt Disney studios released in early 1981 starring Elliott Gould and Bill Cosby. Gould praised this film in interviews as the finest he ever did....
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer

    Dragonslayer is a 1981 in film live action fantasy film set in a fictional Middle Ages country. It follows a young Wizard who experiences danger and opposition as he attempts to defeat a European dragon....
  • Endless Love
    Endless Love (film)

    Endless Love is a 1981 in film United States romance film film director by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt . The screenplay by Judith Rascoe was adapted from the novel by Scott Spencer ....
    , directed by Franco Zeffirelli
    Franco Zeffirelli

    Franco Zeffirelli, Order of the British Empire , is an Italy film director. He is also an theatre director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television....
    , starring Brooke Shields
    Brooke Shields

    Brooke Christa Camille Shields is an American actor and supermodel. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon as well as tv shows such as Suddenly Susan and Lipstick Jungle ....
  • Escape from New York
    Escape from New York

    Escape from New York is a 1981 in film science fiction film/action film film director and Film score by John Carpenter. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Castle....
    , starring Kurt Russell
    Kurt Russell

    'Kurt Vogel Russell' is an United States actor and celebrity. He started acting as a child in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has continued appearing in a wide variety of films since, including The Thing , Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Silkwood, Stargate , Backdraft , Tombstone , Vanilla...
  • Excalibur
    Excalibur (film)

    Excalibur is a 1981 in film fantasy film which retells the legend of King Arthur. It grossed $34,967,437 United States dollar, and was the 18th most successful film of that year....
  • The Evil Dead
    The Evil Dead

    The Evil Dead is a 1981 in film cult film horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss and Betsy Baker ....
  • Eyewitness
  • The Fan
    The Fan (1981 film)

    The Fan is a 1981 Thriller about a stalking menacing a movie star. It stars Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn, James Garner and Maureen Stapleton....
  • For Your Eyes Only
    For Your Eyes Only (film)

    For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  • Fort Apache the Bronx
  • The Four Seasons
    The Four Seasons (film)

    The Four Seasons is a 1981 in film romantic comedy film starring Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston and Bess Armstrong....
    , starring Alan Alda
    Alan Alda

    Alan Alda is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy award-winning United States actor, television director and screenwriter. He is well known for his role as "Hawkeye Pierce" in the television series M*A*S*H ....
     and Carol Burnett
    Carol Burnett

    Carol Creighton Burnett is an United States actress, comedienne, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway theatre, she debuted on television....
  • The Fox and the Hound
    The Fox and the Hound (film)

    The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions, first released to movie theatres in the United States on July 10, 1981....
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
    The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)

    The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 in film film directed by Karel Reisz and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter. It is based on the The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles....
    , starring Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
     and Jeremy Irons
    Jeremy Irons

    Jeremy John Irons is an England film, television and stage actor. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards....
  • Friday the 13th Part 2
    Friday the 13th Part 2

    Friday the 13th Part 2 is a slasher film directed by Steve Miner. A sequel to Friday the 13th , it is the second film in the Friday the 13th ....
  • Full Moon High
    Full Moon High

    Full Moon High is a 1981 in film List of comedy horror films film written and directed by Larry Cohen....
  • Gallipoli
    Gallipoli (film)

    Gallipoli has been the title of two films:*Gallipoli , a 1981 film by Peter Weir about the Battle of Gallipoli*Gallipoli , a 2005 film by Tolga ?rnek, also about the Battle of Gallipoli...
    , directed by Peter Weir
    Peter Weir

    Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
    , starring Mel Gibson
    Mel Gibson

    Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Officer of the Order of Australia is an Australian-American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
  • Gangster Wars
    Gangster Wars

    Gangster Wars is a 1981 crime drama directed by Richard Sarafian...
  • The German Sisters, Golden Lion winner
  • The Great Muppet Caper
    The Great Muppet Caper

    The Great Muppet Caper is the second of a series of live-action musical film feature films, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. This film was produced by Henson Associates, ITC Entertainment and Universal Pictures, and originally released in movie theatres in 1981 in film....
  • Halloween II
    Halloween II

    Halloween II is a 1981 in film horror film and the sequel to the influential film Halloween . Directed by Rick Rosenthal, the film stars Donald Pleasence as Samuel J....
    , starring Jamie Lee Curtis
    Jamie Lee Curtis

    Jamie Lee Curtis is an American film actress and author of children's literature. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career such as Halloween , The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genr...
  • The Hand
    The Hand (film)

    The Hand is a 1981 in film horror film written and directed by Oliver Stone, based on the novel The Lizard's Tail by Marc Brandell and a remake of the 1946 in film The Beast with Five Fingers....
    , starring Michael Caine
    Michael Caine

    Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
    , directed by Oliver Stone
    Oliver Stone

    William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
  • Happy Birthday to Me
    Happy Birthday to Me

    Happy Birthday to Me is a 1981 in film Canadian slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson and written by John C.W. Saxton. It was released May 15th, 1981....
  • Hardly Working
    Hardly Working

    Hardly Working is a comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It was filmed in 1979, and released in the United States on April 3, 1981 by 20th Century Fox....
    , starring Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis

    Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  • Heavy Metal
    Heavy Metal (film)

    Heavy Metal is a Canada animated film from executive producer Leonard Mogel, who was also the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine. With Ivan Reitman producing and Gerald Potterton directing, the work was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments, including Cin?Groupe and Atkinson Film-Ar...
  • History of the World: Part I
  • The Howling
    The Howling (film)

    The Howling is a 1981 horror film directed by Joe Dante. Based on the novel The Howling by Gary Brandner, the screenplay is written by John Sayles and Terence H....
    , directed by Joe Dante
    Joe Dante

    Joseph James "Joe" Dante is an United States film director and Film producer of films generally with humorous and scifi content.His films include Piranha and The Howling , both from scripts by John Sayles; Segment 3 of Twilight Zone: The Movie ; Gremlins , his first major hit, and its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch...
    , starring Dee Wallace Stone
  • Inseminoid
    Inseminoid

    Inseminoid is a low budget United Kingdom science fiction film/horror film, film director by Norman J. Warren and released in 1981....
  • The Killing Of Angel Street
    The Killing of Angel Street

    The Killing of Angel Street is a 1981 Australian thriller film based on the real life disappearance of Juanita Nielson, an activist against mass development in Sydney in the late 1970s....
  • The Land of Hunger
  • The Last Chase
    The Last Chase

    The Last Chase is an action/adventure film, featuring Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith and Chris Makepeace and directed by Martyn Burke. It was produced by Argosy Films...
  • The Legend of the Lone Ranger
  • Lola, a German
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
     film
  • Looker
    Looker

    Looker is a 1981 science fiction film screenwriter and film director by Michael Crichton. It starred Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn and featured former NFL linebacker Tim Rossovich as the villain's main henchman....
  • Mad Max 2 , starring Mel Gibson
    Mel Gibson

    Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Officer of the Order of Australia is an Australian-American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
  • Man of Iron
    Man of Iron

    Man of Iron is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union....
    , Palme d'Or winner
  • Mephisto
    Mephisto (1981 film)

    Mephisto is the title of a 1981 in film film adaptation of Klaus Mann's Mephisto , directed by Istv?n Szab?, and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik H?fgen....
  • Modern Romance
    Modern Romance

    Modern Romance is a 1981 film written and directed by Albert Brooks....
  • Mommie Dearest
    Mommie Dearest (film)

    Mommie Dearest is a 1981 in film Cinema of the United States biographical film drama film about Joan Crawford, starring Faye Dunaway. The film was film director by Frank Perry....
    , starring Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway

    Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
    , Diana Scarwid
    Diana Scarwid

    Diana Scarwid is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor. Scarwid has done work in film, television and theater....
     and Steve Forrest
  • My Bloody Valentine
    My Bloody Valentine (film)

    My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 in film Canada slasher film released in the wake of the popularity of the slasher film that had overtaken the 1970s....
  • My Dinner with Andre
    My Dinner with Andre

    My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 in film film starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, written by Gregory and Shawn, and directed by Louis Malle....
  • Neighbors
    Neighbors (film)

    Neighbors is a 1981 in film film based on Neighbors by Thomas Berger . It was released through Columbia Pictures, directed by John G. Avildsen and stars John Belushi as Earl, Dan Aykroyd as Vic , Cathy Moriarty as Ramona, Kathryn Walker as Enid, and Lauren-Marie Taylor as Elaine....
  • Nice Dreams
    Nice Dreams

    Nice Dreams was Cheech & Chong's third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Columbia Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Stacy Keach, Evelyn Guerrero and Timothy Leary....
  • Night Crossing
    Night Crossing

    Night Crossing is a Walt Disney Company film made in 1981 starring John Hurt and Beau Bridges. The film is based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, who on September 16, 1979 escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon during the days of the Berlin Wall when emigration to West Germany was st...
  • Nighthawks
    Nighthawks (film)

    Nighthawks is a 1981 in film thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta, Nigel Davenport and Rutger Hauer....
  • Nobody's Perfekt
    Nobody's Perfekt

    Nobody's Perfekt is a 1981 in film comedy film, adapted from Tony Kenrick's novel Two For the Price of One; Kenrick wrote the screenplay for this film....
  • Omen III: The Final Conflict
    Omen III: The Final Conflict

    Omen III: The Final Conflict is the 1981 in film film in third installment in a cycle of horror movies documenting the rise and eventual fall of the Antichrist....
    , starring Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi
  • On Golden Pond
    On Golden Pond (1981 film)

    On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
    , starring Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
    , Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda

    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
    , and Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
  • Only When I Laugh
    Only When I Laugh (film)

    Only When I Laugh is a 1981 film based on Neil Simon's play The Gingerbread Lady.The story is about an alcoholic Broadway theatre actress who tries to stay sober while dealing with the problems of her teenaged daughter and her friends: an overly vain woman who fears the loss of her looks and a gay actor relegated to small roles in...
    , starring Marsha Mason
    Marsha Mason

    Marsha Mason is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress and television director....
    , Kristy McNichol
    Kristy McNichol

    Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol is a American actress who has since retired from the industry. She is best known for her roles as Leticia 'Buddy' Lawrence on the TV drama Family and as Barbara Weston on the sitcom Empty Nest ....
    , James Coco
    James Coco

    James Coco was an United States character actor....
     and Joan Hackett
    Joan Hackett

    Joan Hackett was an American actor who appeared on stage, in films, and on television....
  • Outland
    Outland (film)

    Outland is a 1981 in film science fiction film written and directed by Peter Hyams.Set on Jupiter's moon Io , it has been described as a space Western, that is, a Western set in the future, and indeed bears obvious thematic resemblances to High Noon....
  • Pacific Banana
  • Pennies From Heaven
    Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)

    Pennies from Heaven is the 1981 film adaptation of the Pennies From Heaven . Dennis Potter, the writer of the original British series, adapted his own screenplay for American audiences....
    , starring Steve Martin
    Steve Martin

    Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor, comedian, writer, playwright, Film producer, musician, and composer....
    , based on the 1978 BBC Television
    BBC Television

    BBC Television is a service of the BBC which began in 1932. The British Broadcasting Corporation has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927....
     serial by Dennis Potter
    Dennis Potter

    Dennis Christopher George Potter was an England dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social....
    .
  • Pixote
    Pixote

    Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco , is a Brazilian drama film film directed by Hector Babenco. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Jorge Dur?n, based on the book A inf?ncia dos mortos by Jos? Louzeiro....
  • Prince of the City
    Prince of the City

    Prince of the City is a 1981 Crime film-drama film about an NYPD officer who chooses to expose corruption. It stars Treat Williams and Jerry Orbach and was directed by Sidney Lumet....
    , directed by Sidney Lumet
    Sidney Lumet

    Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
    , starring Treat Williams
    Treat Williams

    Treat Williams is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage and television over the course of his prolific career. From 2002 to 2006, he was the star of the popular television series Everwood....
  • The Private Eyes
  • Quest for Fire
    Quest for Fire

    Quest for Fire is a 1911 French novel by "J.-H. Rosny", the pseudonym of two brothers; the author was likely the elder of the two, Joseph Henri Honor? Boex ....
     also called La Guerre du feu
  • Raggedy Man
    Raggedy Man

    Raggedy Man is a 1981 film starring Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek. Itwas filmed in Lockhart, Texas.The story is about people in the small Texas town of Gregory during World War II....
  • Ragtime
    Ragtime (film)

    Ragtime is a 1981 film based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. The action takes place in and around New York City in the 1900?1909, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time....
    , directed by Milos Forman, starring James Cagney
    James Cagney

    James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film star. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guy"s....
    , Howard E. Rollins, Jr. and Elizabeth McGovern
    Elizabeth McGovern

    Elizabeth McGovern is an Academy Award-nominated United States film and theater actress, who later became a singer songwriter. In 1992, she married English producer and director Simon Curtis, with whom she lives in Chiswick, London, together with their two daughters....
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Raiders of the Lost Ark is a action film-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford....
    , directed by Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg

    Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
    , starring Harrison Ford
    Harrison Ford

    Harrison Ford is an United Statesn actor. Ford is best known for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy, and as the Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones franchise#Films film series....
     and Karen Allen
    Karen Allen

    'Karen Jane Allen' is an American actress, best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark . Allen has also had roles in the films National Lampoon's Animal House , The Wanderers , Split Image , Starman , Scrooged , The Sandlot , Poster Boy , and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the C...
  • Reds, starring Warren Beatty
    Warren Beatty

    Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
    , Diane Keaton
    Diane Keaton

    Diane Keaton is an United Statesn Cinema of the United States actress, film director and film producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970....
    , Jack Nicholson
    Jack Nicholson

    John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an United States actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter, Movie star for his often dark-themed portrayals of Neurosis Fictional character....
     and Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton

    Lois Maureen Stapleton was an United States Academy Awards-, Emmy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winning actor in film, theatre and television....
  • Rich And Famous
    Rich and Famous (1981 film)

    Rich and Famous is a 1981 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Gerald Ayres is based on the 1941 play Old Acquaintance by John Van Druten, which was filmed with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in 1943 under Old Acquaintance....
  • Roadgames
    Roadgames

    Roadgames is a 1981 Australia film directed by Richard Franklin . The film stars Stacy Keach as a truck driver, and Jamie Lee Curtis as a hitchhiker....
  • Saturday the 14th
    Saturday the 14th

    Saturday the 14th is an United States Horror film-comedy film released in 1981. The film was followed by Saturday the 14th Strikes Back in 1988....
  • Sogni d'oro
  • Southern Comfort
    Southern Comfort

    Southern Comfort is a fruit, spice, and whiskey flavored liqueur produced since 1874. It is made from a blend of whiskey, mango, Orange , grape, vanilla, sugar, and cinnamon flavors....
  • Strange Behavior
    Strange Behavior

    Strange Behavior was a 1981 horror spoof directed by Michael Laughlin and written by Bill Condon, poking fun at pulp horror films of the 1950s....
  • Stripes
    Stripes (film)

    Stripes is a 1981 in film United States comedy film film starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, and P.J. Soles. The film director was Ivan Reitman....
    , starring Bill Murray
    Bill Murray

    'William James' "'Bill'" 'Murray' is an Academy Award-nominated United States comedian and actor. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, following that with roles in films such as Stripes , Caddyshack, The Razor's Edge , Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day , Space Jam, Rushmore and What Abo...
  • Superman II
    Superman II

    Superman II is the 1980 sequel to the 1978 superhero film Superman . It was the only Superman film to be filmed by two directors. For this reason the film is surrounded with controversy since original director Richard Donner had completed, by his estimation, roughly 75Percentage of the movie in 1977 before being taken off the project....
  • Sweet & Sour Cops
  • The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
    The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

    Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie is a 1981 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animation bridging sequences produced by Friz Freleng, hosted by Bugs Bunny....
  • The Tale of Today, Tomorrow, and the Day After
  • Taps
    Taps (film)

    Taps is a 1981 in film dramatic film, starring Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, Ronny Cox and George C. Scott, directed by Harold Becker....
     starring George C. Scott
    George C. Scott

    George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, film director, and Film producer. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of General George S....
     and Timothy Hutton
    Timothy Hutton

    Timothy T. Hutton is an United States actor. He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People ....
  • Tarzan, the Ape Man
  • Taxi zum Klo
    Taxi zum Klo

    Taxi zum Klo is a 1981 in film film written by, directed by, and starring Frank Ripploh. The story of a schoolteacher and the contrasts between his public and private lives, the film documents gay culture in West Berlin in the period in which it was made....
  • They All Laughed
    They All Laughed

    For the 1937 song by George and Ira Gershwin see They All Laughed They All Laughed is a 1981 in film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. It is based on a screenplay by Bogdanovich and Blaine Novak....
  • They Don't Wear Black Tie
  • Thief
    Thief (film)

    Thief is a 1981 film noir crime drama written and directed by Michael Mann , based on the novel The Home Invaders by "Frank Hohimer" . The film's cast includes James Caan, Tuesday Weld, James Belushi, Robert Prosky and Willie Nelson....
  • This is Elvis
    This Is Elvis

    This Is Elvis is a 1981 in film documentary film based on the life of singer, musician and actor Elvis Presley. The film combined archival footage with reenactments, and narration by pop singer and Elvis-soundalike Ral Donner....
  • Time Bandits
    Time Bandits

    Time Bandits is a 1981 in film fantasy film, produced and directed by Terry Gilliam.Gilliam wrote the screenplay with fellow Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin, who appears with Shelley Duvall in the small, recurring roles of Vincent and Pansy....
  • True Confessions
    True Confessions

    True Confessions is a confession magazine targeted at young women readers. It wasoriginally published by Fawcett Publications, beginning in 1922....
  • Utilities, directed by Harvey Hart, starring Robert Hays
    Robert Hays

    Robert Hays is an United States actor, well known for his role in Airplane!...
    , Brooke Adams and John Marley
    John Marley

    John Marley was an United States actor who was known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz— the movie mogul who finds his horse's head in his bed—in The Godfather ....
  • Will
    Will: G. Gordon Liddy

    The United States made for television movie Will: G. Gordon Liddy first aired on NBC in January 1982. The film depicts the rise and fall of Watergate scandal co-conspirator G....
  • Wolfen
    Wolfen (film)

    Wolfen is the title of a 1981 in film horror film starring Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines and Edward James Olmos based on Whitley Strieber's 1978 novel The Wolfen....
    , starring Albert Finney
    Albert Finney

    Albert Finney, Jr. is a British people actor. Hailed as a "second Laurence Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s....
    , Diane Venora
    Diane Venora

    Diane Venora is an United States stage, television, and film actor....
     and Gregory Hines
    Gregory Hines

    Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer....
  • Women We Salute You!
  • Zoot Suit
    Zoot Suit (film)

    Zoot Suit is a 1981 in film filmed version of the Broadway theatre play Zoot Suit . Both the play and film were written and directed by Luis Valdez....
    , starring Edward James Olmos
    Edward James Olmos

    Edward James "Eddie" Olmos is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States actor and director. Some of his most memorable roles are Characters in Blade Runner#Gaff in Blade Runner, Lieutenant Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, William Adama in the Battlestar Galactica re-i...


Births

  • January 28 – Elijah Wood
    Elijah Wood

    Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor. Making his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II , he landed a succession of subsequent larger roles and became a critically acclaimed child actor by age 13....
    , actor
  • April 19 - Hayden Christensen
    Hayden Christensen

    Hayden Christensen is a Golden Globe Award-nominated Canada actor. He appeared in Canadian content when he was young, then diversified into American television in the late 1990s....
     , actor
  • April 28 - Jessica Alba
    Jessica Alba

    Jessica Marie Alba is an United States television and film actor. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack ....
    , actress
  • June 9 - Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman

    Natalie Portman is an Israeli United Statesn actor. Portman began her career in the early 1990s, turning down the opportunity to become a child model in favor of acting....
     (Natalie Hershlag), actress
  • September 12 - Jennifer Hudson
    Jennifer Hudson

    Jennifer Kate Hudson is an United States pop music and R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She is one of the few actors to have won all four major screen acting awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as a Grammy Award and more than twenty other prizes....
    , singer and actress


Deaths

  • January 1 - Beulah Bondi
    Beulah Bondi

    Beulah Bondi was an American actress.Bondi began her acting career as a young child in theatre, and after establishing herself as a stage actress, reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version....
    , actress
  • January 10 - Richard Boone
    Richard Boone

    Richard Allen Boone was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns. He was best known as the star of the TV series Have Gun ? Will Travel....
    , actor
  • January 16 - Bernard Lee
    Bernard Lee

    Bernard Lee was an England actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films....
    , actor
  • February 1 - Wanda Hendrix
    Wanda Hendrix

    Wanda Hendrix was an United States film and television actor....
    , actress
  • July 27 - William Wyler
    William Wyler

    William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
    , director
  • August 1 - Paddy Chayefsky
    Paddy Chayefsky

    Sidney Aaron Chayefski known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the Golden Age of Television in the 1950s to a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter....
    , screenwriter
  • August 4 - Melvyn Douglas
    Melvyn Douglas

    Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg , better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor. He won all three of the entertainment industry's highest awards, two Academy Awards, one Tony Award and an Emmy Award....
    , actor
  • August 18 - Anita Loos
    Anita Loos

    Anita Loos , was an acclaimed United States screenwriter, playwright and author. On pronouncing her name, "The family has always used the correct French pronunciation which is lohse....
    , writer
  • September 27 - Robert Montgomery
    Robert Montgomery (actor)

    Robert Montgomery was an United States actor and director.Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed and Henry Montgomery, Sr....
    , actor
  • October 24 - Edith Head
    Edith Head

    Edith Head was an United Statesn costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered eight Academy Awards?more than any other woman in history....
    , costume designer
  • November 12 - William Holden
    William Holden

    William Holden was an Academy Award-winning United States film actor. One of the top stars of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 stars of the year" six times and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years......
    , actor
  • November 27 - Lotte Lenya
    Lotte Lenya

    Lotte Lenya was an Austrian singer and actress. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill....
    , actress
  • November 29 - Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood

    Natalie Wood was an American actress.Following her film debut at the age of four, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street ....
    , actress
  • December 28 - Allan Dwan
    Allan Dwan

    Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canada-born American film film director, producer and screenwriter....
    , pioneer film director