What's everyone's top movies of 1981?
 

My top 25:

1. The Road Warrior.
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark.
3. An American Werewolf in London.
4. The Fox and The Hound.
5. Das Boot.
6. Excalibur.
7. Time Bandits.
8. Escape from New York.
9. Clash of the Titans.
10. Heavy Metal.
11. American Pop.
12. Evil Dead.
13. Dragonslayer.
14. Stripes.
15. House by The Cemetery.
16. The Beyond aka 7 Doors of Death.
17. The Howling.
18. Theif.
19. Outland.
20. History of the World Part 1.
21. The Fantastic Adventures of Unico. (Excellent anime movie i grew up with)
22. Body Heat.
23. The Great Muppet Caper.
24. Scanners.
25. Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams.

Honorable mentions:
The Burning.
For Your Eyes Only.
Ghost Story.
Arthur.
Taps.
Southern Comfort.
Halloween II.
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
My Bloody Valentine.
The Boogens.
Possession.
Dead and Buried.
Nighthawks.
Mystery of the Third Planet.

Guilty pleasures:
The Funhouse.
Friday The 13th part 2.
Burial Ground.
Venom.
Nightmare aka Nightmare in a Damaged Brain.

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Raiders, without question.

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My top ten:


Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Blow Out
Arthur
Stripes
The Road Warrior
Taps
History Of The World Part I
Escape From New York
The Evil Dead
Nighthawks

Raiders of the Lost Ark
An American Werewolf in London
The Evil Dead
Arthur
Absence of Malice
Mommie Dearest
Stripes
Escape from New York
For Your Eyes Only
The Road Warrior

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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Excalibur
An American Werewolf in London
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Das Boot
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Road Warrior
Dragonslayer
Prince of the City
Reds
All Night Long
Eye of the Needle
Body Heat
Lili Marleen
Lola
Road Games
Ragtime
Arthur
Fort Apache, the Bronx
Gregory's Girl
American Pop
Chariots of Fire
Absence of Malice
The Chosen
History of the World - Part I
The Howling
The Four Seasons
This Is Elvis
Outland
Quest for Fire
On Golden Pond
Stripes
Thief
Southern Comfort
S.O.B.
Pennies from Heaven
Mephisto
Man of Iron
Knightriders
Unnamed Cult Films

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American Pop is underrated! i remembered seeing it on Cinemax when i was 11 during thanksgiving break thanks to seeing a local TV Guide in my city and it said "American Pop, animated drama and rated R" and sounds interesting. I dug it and i even bought it on video when i was 15 going on 16 and been one of my favorite animated movies.

No mention of Atlantic City here? That's just wrong.

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That was on the 1980 list. :)

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My Dinner With Andre
The Prodigal Son
Eijanaika
Blow Out
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Thief
The Howling
The Raiders of the Lost Ark
An American Werewolf in London
Das Boot

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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Superman II
S.O.B.
The Cannonball Run
Arthur
On Golden Pond
Zorro, The Gay Blade
History of the World, Part I
Time Bandits
Reds
Paternity
Saturday the 14th
Student Bodies

An American Werewolf in London (This really isn't my kind of movie, but it's a great movie, and it deserves to be mentioned here.)

1. Raider Of the Lost Ark
2. The Fox and The Hound
3. The History of the World: Part I
4. On Golden Pond
5. Excalibur

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1. History of the World: Part One
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2. Tango (Short film)
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3. An American Werewolf in London
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4. Blow Out
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5. My Dinner with Andre
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1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
2. Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross)
3. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
4. Blow Out (Brian DePalma)
5. Reds (Warren Beatty)
6. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
7. My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
8. Das Boot (Wolfgang Peterson)
9. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
10. Ragtime (Milos Forman)
11. The Road Warrior (George Miller)
12. Excalibur (John Boorman)
13. They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
14. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
15. Absence of Malice (Sydney Pollack)
16. Gallipoli (Tony Bill)
17. Arthur (Steve Gordon)
18. Whose Life is it Anyway? (John Badham)
19. Stripes (Ivan Reitman)
20. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)

OTHER FAVORITES (in no particular order): The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz), History of the World Part I (Mel Brooks), Road Games (Richard Franklin), Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier), Southern Comfort (Walter Hill), The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris), Thief (Michael Mann), On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell), Eye of the Needle (Richard Marquand), The Great Muppet Caper (Jim Henson), Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet), Escape from New York (John Carpenter), Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev), Dragonslayer (Matthew Robbins), Possession (Andrzej Zulawski), Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth), Outland (Peter Hyams), The Howling (Joe Dante)

GUILTY PLEASURES: High Risk (Stewart Raffill), Sharky's Machine (Burt Reynolds), Looker (Michael Crichton), Nighthawks (Bruce Malmuth), Venom (Piers Haggard), Roar (Noel Marshall), The Cannonball Run (Hal Needham), Victory (John Huston), Condorman (Charles Jarrott), Improper Channels (Eric Till), Lady Chatterly's Lover (Just Jaeckin), Private Lessons (Alan Myerson), Zorro: the Gay Blade (Peter Medak)

ALL THE REST I'VE SEEN (unless I missed something):All Night Long, ...All the Marbles, The Amateur, American Pop, Amy, Back Roads, Body & Soul, The Boogens, Buddy Buddy, Bustin' Loose, Carbon Copy, Cattle Annie & Little Britches, Caveman, Charlie Chan & the Dragon Queen, The Chosen, Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, Clash of the Titans, Continental Divide, Cutter's Way, Deadly Blessing, Death Hunt, The Devil & Max Devlin, Diva, Endless Love, The Evil Dead, Eye for an Eye, Eyewitness, The Fan, For Your Eyes Only, First Monday in October, Fort Apache the Bronx, Four Friends, The Four Seasons, The Fox and the Hound, Friday the 13th Part 2, Full Moon High, The Funhouse, Galaxy of Terror, Gas, Ghost Story, Going Ape!, Halloween II, The Hand, Happy Birthday to Me, Hardly Working, Harry's War, Heartbeeps, Heavy Metal, Hell Night, Honky Tonk Freeway, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Knightriders, Ladies & Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Last Chase, Legend of the Lone Ranger, Lion of the Desert, Lola, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, The Loveless, Man of Iron, Mephisto, Modern Problems, Mommie Dearest, Ms. 45, My Bloody Valentine, Neighbors, The Nesting, Nice Dreams, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, Nobody's Perfekt, The Omen: The Final Conflict, On the Right Track, One from the Heart, Only When I Laugh, Paternity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Polyester, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Quartet, Quest for Fire, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Raggedy Man, Rich & Famous, Rollover, S.O.B., The Salamander, Saturday the 14th, Scanners, Shock Treatment, So Fine, Soggy Bottom U.S.A., Sphinx, Strange Behavior, Student Bodies, Take This Job and Shove It, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Taps, Tarzan the Ape Man, Tattoo, Threshold, True Confessions, Under the Rainbow, Vernon Florida, Wolfen, Zoot Suit

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1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Escape From New York
3. Excalibur
4. The Evil Dead
5. Das Boot
6. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
7. Heavy Metal
8. Gallipoli
9. Time Bandits
10. Blow Out

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Ha! Nice call on Looker, Holden. I saw that a few months ago for the first time since the early 80s.

https://youtu.be/hb2TfhJuVvk
"She's a Looker, that's what they say
she's got it all, yeah, she's got it made..."

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I love and own Looker. I recently mentioned Road Games in a thread, and no one knew what it was. Very sad!

Tell me about it. I did a review and it got barely any +rep (but what else is new, huh).

TOP 10 OF 1981

1. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
2. Raiders of The Lost Ark
3. An American Werewolf In London
4. Gallipoli
5. Time Bandits
6. Escape From New York
7. Outland
8. The Evil Dead
9. Blow Out
10. Scanners

My two top favorites that come to mind An American Werewolf In London and The Evil Dead. No doubt. But there are plenty of others in '81 that I enjoyed as well. :D

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In no particular order except from best to worst:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Das Boot
The Road Warrior
Blow Out
Mandala

Mentions of Louis Malles' Atlantic City are HERE. Because it opened in Europe in 1980, some sources, including both the IMDb and Wikipedia, list it as a 1980 release. It didn't get a theatrical release in the U.S. until April of 1981, and was therefore eligible for the Oscars of that year, handed out at the March 1982 ceremony. Atlantic City was nominated for five of the big awards in Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay, though it won none of them.



No matter what you consider its release year and no matter how many Oscars it didn't win, it's a good movie. And not just because of the lemons.

10. Nighthawks
9. Mad Max 2
8. Possession
7. Escape from New York
6. Blow Out
5. Body Heat
4. Thief
3. Gallipoli
2. Das Boot
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Thief, I watch it at least once every 2 years or so.

Didn't realize how big of a year this was for me. Lots of incredible films to put into my list.

1. Francisca (de Oliveira)
2. Too Early / Too Late (Straub-Huillet)
3. Blow Out (De Palma)
4. One from the Heart (Coppola)
5. Silvestre (Monteiro)

6. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (Brakhage)
7. Modern Romance (Brooks)
8. Le Pont du Nord (Rivette)
9. Kagero-za (Suzuki)
10. Documenteur (Varda)

11. Love Massacre (Tam Kar Ming)
12. Thief (Mann)
13. "L'Homme Atlantique" (Duras)
14. Ms. 45 (Ferrara)
15. Hardly Working (Lewis)

16. Agatha and the Limitless Readings (Duras)
17. The Woman Next Door (Truffaut)
18. Escape from New York (Carpenter)
19. "Junkopia" (Marker, Simeone, Chapman)
20. Mur Murs (Varda)

21. In Search of Famine (Sen)
22. The Evil Dead (Raimi)
23. "Murder Psalm" (Brakhage)
24. The Decline of Western Civilization (Spheeris)
25. The Prodigal Daugher (Doillon)

My top 10 in no particular order:

The Evil Dead
The Howling
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Porky's
Clash of the Titans
Friday the 13th Part 2
Halloween 2
The Fox and the Hound
Raiders of the Lost Ark
An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London
Arthur
The Cannonball Run
Clash of the Titans
Excalibur
Friday the 13th Part 2
Halloween II
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Stripes
Taps

Das Boot (1981)

Excalibur (1981)

The Road Warrior (1981)

Re: What's everyone's top movies of 1981?
 

1) Blow Out
2) Excalibur
3) My Dinner with Andre
4) Raiders of the Lost Ark
5) Thief

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My Dinner With Andre
Thief
Beau-père
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