1981 films

1981 film by Carl Gottlieb

1981 film by Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia

1981 film by Burt Reynolds

1981 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1981 film by Carlos Saura

1981 film by Ivan Passer

1980 film by Jiří Menzel

1981 film by Tobe Hooper

1981 American film by Gary Sherman

1981 film by Shūji Terayama

1981 film by Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia

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1981 Merchant Ivory film directed by James Ivory

1981 film by Nikita Mikhalkov

1981 film by John Irvin

1981 film by Michele Lupo

1981 film by George Cukor

1981 film by Alexandre Zarkhi

1981 film by Michael Wadleigh

1981 film by John Waters

1981 American adventure film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

1981 film by Mario Monicelli

1981 Nigerian film by Sharad Patel

1981 film by K. Balachander

1975 film by Elem Klimov

1981 feature film directed by Peter Medak

1981 film directed by Alan Alda

1981 film by Volker Schlöndorff

1981 film by Alain Tanner

1981 Indian film by Rabindra Dharmaraj

Muzhiki! () is a 1981 Soviet drama film directed by Iskra Babich. It was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won an Honourable Mention.

1981 film by Dušan Vukotić

1981 film by Tatyana Lioznova

1981 film by Claude Berri

1981 film by Bertrand Blier

1981 film by Penelope Spheeris

1981 film directed by Bill Forsyth

1981 film by Ilya Frez

1981 film directed by Christian de Chalonge

1981 film by Joe D'Amato, Bruno Mattei

1981 film by Herbert Ross

1981 film by Andrew Bergman

1981 film directed by Jean-Claude Tramont

1981 film by Tom DeSimone

1981 film directed by Richard Viktorov

Roadgames (stylised as Road Games) is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Richard Franklin and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film follows a truck driver travelling across Australia who, with the help of a hitchhiker, seeks to track down a serial killer who is butchering women and dumping their dismembered bodies along desolate highways.

1981 Spanish musical film directed by Carlos Saura

1981 film by Ettore Scola

1981 Swiss film directed by Markus Imhoof

1981 film by Joel Schumacher

1980 film by Frank Ripploh

1981 film directed by John G. Avildsen

Looker is a 1981 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, and Leigh Taylor-Young. It follows a series of mysterious deaths plaguing female models who have had cosmetic surgery done by a renowned Los Angeles physician. The film explores media, advertising and television's impact on the public in creating a ridiculous standard of beauty.

1981 film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre

1981 film by Tobe Hooper

1981 film by Jim Sharman

Khan Asparuh () is a 1981 three-part Bulgarian historical action drama film directed by Ludmil Staikov. It tells the story of Khan Asparuh and the events around the founding of the medieval Bulgarian state in 681 AD. Shot and released on the occasion of the 1300th anniversary of Bulgaria, the film received acclaim and was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

1981 film

1981 animated feature film directed by Friz Freleng

1982 film by Samvel Gasparov