What's everyones top movies of 1981?

[HarryCanyon1982]

Since the year 1981 has turned 35 this year and all that which was a nice year for movies as MTV was born that year as well.

My top 25 of 1981:

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark.
2. The Road Warrior: Mad Max 2.
3. An American Werewolf in London.
4. The Fox and The Hound.
5. Heavy Metal.
6. Das Boot.
7. American Pop.
8. Excalibur.
9. Time Bandits.
10. Escape from New York.
11. Evil Dead.
12. Stripes.
13. House by The Cemetery.
14. The Beyond aka 7 Doors of Death.
15. Thief.
16. The Burning.
17. History of the World part 1.
18. Clash of the Titans.
19. Outland.
20. The Howling.
21. The Great Muppet Caper.
22. Scanners.
23. Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams.
24. Dragonslayer.
25. The Adventures of Unico (one of my childhood fave animes).

Honarable mentions:
Body Heat.
Halloween 2.
Arthur.
For your Eyes Only.
Ghost Story.
Taps.
Possession.
Madman.
Dead and Buried.
Southern Comfort.
Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
Nightahawks.
My Bloody Valentine.
Mystery of the Third Planet.
The Boogens.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow.
Dead and Buried.
The Funhouse.
Friday The 13th part 2.
The Prowler.

Guilty pleasures:
Nightmare aka Nightmare in a Damaged Brain.
Venom.
Burial Ground The Nights of Terror.
Just Before Dawn.
Cannibal Ferox.
The Pit.
Student Bodies.
Omen III.
Enter the Ninja.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Lots of good movies that year. I really liked Outland, Excalibur, The Road Warrior and Stripes.

 

[Random_Spock]

1 The Fox and the Hound
2 On Golden Pond

 

[RandyS]

Let's see, I was only 11 then, so this might take a few minutes memory-wise.

In no particular order:

1. Superman II
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. For your Eyes Only
4. Outland
5. Clash of the Titans
6. Time Bandits

That's all I can think of.

 

[Greg Cox]

That was a good year. I was in college and saw a lot of those movies with my college SF club.

Raiders is probably head and shoulders above the rest, but honorable mentions to The Howling, American Werewolf, and Excalibur, which I also saw multiple times.

(I thought I remembered the Cat People remake coming out around the same time as well, but I see that was 1982.)

 

[od0_ital]

I was only three that year, so my favorites are all movies I had to catch up on later in life, most released that year I haven't seen. But my favorites would include

Escape from New York
For Your Eyes Only
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Stripes

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Definitely a good year for movies! A couple of my favorites are up there too!

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Road Warrior
Stripes
The Evil Dead
Heavy Metal

 

[HarryCanyon1982]

Superman II is actually a 1980 movie, not 1981 movie as it's copyrighted 1980 as it was released in Europe in a few countries in late 1980 then came to the US in the summer of 1981

 

[LJones41]

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. Absence of Malice
4. Chariots of Fire
5. Excalibur
6. Stripes
7. Eye of the Needle
8. Body Heat
9. Arthur

 

[John Clark]

Going off FilmDates.co.uk (for UK Cinema releases) and in no particular order:-

Time Bandits
Superman 2
Raiders
Gallipoli
For Your Eyes only
Blues Brothers

It doesn't list Stripes, but that would be on my list. With regards seeing them at the cinema, then Superman 2 may have been the only one.

 

[auntiehill]

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark--my favorite movie, always and forever.
..and then there's the rest:
Chariots of Fire
The Road Warrior
Gallipoli
Time Bandits
Das Boot
Outland
Excalibur
Dragonslayer
An American Werewolf in London

 

[Starbreaker]

Friday the 13th Part II
Raiders of the Lost Ark
An American Werewolf in London
Das Boot