Best movies of 1981

Actors : Ronny Cox, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott, Sean Penn,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Actors : Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Hal Needham,

A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.

Actors : John Gielgud, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Directors : Steve Gordon,

Arthur he does as he pleases. All of his life, his master's toys. Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy.

Actors : Zoë Lund, Bogey, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.

Actors : Harold Hopkins, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Mel Gibson,
Directors : Peter Weir,

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Actors : Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines, Edward James Olmos,

A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.

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 : Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King,
Directors : Steve Miner,

Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Raul Julia, Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Fanny leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship....

Actors : Howard E. Rollins Jr., James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Milos Forman,

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Desmond Davis,

Perseus must battle both Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

Actors : Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Brian Keith, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Tom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Actors : Doug McKeon, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.

Actors : Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Amy Ingersoll, Tom Savini,
Directors : George A. Romero,

A medieval reenactment troupe find it increasingly difficult to keep their family-like group together, with pressure from local law enforcement, interest from entertainment agents and a growing sense of delusion from their leader.

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Kurt Russell, Mickey Rooney,

Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies.

Actors : Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace,
Directors : Joe Dante,

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Actors : John Marshall, Melanie Griffith, Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren,
Directors : Noel Marshall,

A family goes to Africa to meet their father who lives with wild lions.

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 : Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, Caitlin Clarke, John Hallam,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.