Best Adventure movies of 1981

Actors : Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

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

Actors : Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

Actors : Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, John Cleese,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Actors : Cherie Lunghi, Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay,
Directors : John Boorman,

Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the round table of Camelot even as forces conspire to tear it apart

Actors : Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : John Glen,

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

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

Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies.

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 : 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.

Actors : Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz,
Directors : Jim Henson,

Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.

Actors : Richard Romanus, John Candy, Don Francks, Joe Flaherty,

A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Actors : Ron Perlman, Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Nicholas Kadi,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Miles O'Keeffe, Richard Harris, Bo Derek,
Directors : John Derek,

While on an African expedition with her father, Jane Parker meets Tarzan, and the two become fascinated by each other.

Actors : Danilo Mattei, Lorraine De Selle, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Zora Ulla Keslerová,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Actors : Michael Crawford, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

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

Actors : George Hamilton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman, Lauren Hutton,
Directors : Peter Medak,

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 ...

Actors : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Fujioka, Louise Bennett,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

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

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

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.