Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.



For Your Eyes Only(1981)

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Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.



Mad Max 2(1981)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 38

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



Escape from New York(1981)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 38

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.



Nighthawks(1981)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Conservative street cop DaSilva reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva's "at-home" tactics are very much put to the challenge.



Thief(1981)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the Mafia, who have other plans for him.



The Cannonball Run(1981)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 34

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.



Scanners(1981)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 30

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



Clash of the Titans(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 25

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



Sharky's Machine(1981)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 44

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.



Knightriders(1981)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 44

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.



Outland(1981)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

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.



Dragonslayer(1981)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

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



Victory(1981)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 6

As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.



Southern Comfort(1981)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition ...



Condorman(1981)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.



Le professionnel(1981)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.



Zorro: The Gay Blade(1981)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the ...



Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro(1981)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 0

On a small pacific island, Alan and Charlie try to find a war treasure left behind by the Japanese army in World War II.



Death Hunt(1981)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 5

In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness.




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