Best Sci-Fi movies of 1981

Actors : Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef,
Directors : John Carpenter,

In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

Actors : Michael Preston, Max Phipps, Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence,
Directors : George Miller,

In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Stephen Lack, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.

Actors : Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.

Actors : Shelley Long, Jack Gilford, Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Carl Gottlieb,

A cave-man seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cave-woman.

Actors : Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-Young,
Directors : Michael Crichton,

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts ...

Actors : Henry Gibson, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

When an ordinary woman is exposed to a unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically shrink.

Actors : Jean Carmet, Claude Gensac, Louis de Funès, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Jean Girault,

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Actors : Patti D'Arbanville, Dabney Coleman, Mary Kay Place, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Ken Shapiro,

Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.

Actors : Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Michael Laughlin,

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

Actors : Jennifer Ashley, Steven Grives, Robin Clarke, Stephanie Beacham,
Directors : Norman J. Warren,

A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.

Actors : Vsevolod Larionov, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Volyntsev, Olga Gromova,
Directors : Roman Kachanov,

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zeleny go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to ...

Actors : Bernadette Peters, Andy Kaufman, Kenneth McMillan, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Allan Arkush,

Two household robots run away and try to start a family.

Actors : Milos Kopecký, Vlastimil Brodský, Evelyna Steimarová, Michal Docolomanský,
Directors : Oldrich Lipský,

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.

Actors : Yelena Fadeyeva, Vadim Ledogorov, Uldis Lieldidz, Yelena Metyolkina,

A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Lee Majors, Alexandra Stewart, Chris Makepeace,
Directors : Martyn Burke,

In a future United States, the only transport available to an individual is public transportation. Predicated on an assertion that "the oil has run out", an increasingly totalitarian ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Steve Brodie, Robert Christopher, Robert Clarke,
Directors : Jerry Warren,

When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.

Actors : Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Piotr Szulkin,

Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Robert Dhéry, Michel Serrault, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Christian de Chalonge,

In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his...

Actors : Shoshana Ascher, Ryan Hilliard, Ron Armstrong, Jamie Gillis,
Directors : Joel M. Reed,

Investigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA ...