Year by Year - 1981 Ranked

By: Brad S.

1-3: Five Stars
4-16: Four Stars
17-35: Three Stars
36-39: Two Stars
40-43: One Star

• 01
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Steven Spielberg
• 02
  The Chosen
  Jeremy Kagan
• 03
  The Decline of Western Civilization
  Penelope Spheeris
• 04
  On Golden Pond
  Mark Rydell
• 05
  Stripes
  Ivan Reitman
• 06
  Mephisto
  István Szabó
• 07
  Blow Out
  Brian De Palma
• 08
  Body Heat
  Lawrence Kasdan
• 09
  Clash of the Titans
  Desmond Davis
• 10
  Thief
  Michael Mann
• 11
  They All Laughed
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 12
  An American Werewolf in London
  John Landis
• 13
  The Evil Dead
  Sam Raimi
• 14
  Scanners
  David Cronenberg
• 15
  The Aviator's Wife
  Éric Rohmer
• 16
  Time Bandits
  Terry Gilliam
• 17
  History of the World: Part I
  Mel Brooks
• 18
  Escape from New York
  John Carpenter
• 19
  Reds
  Warren Beatty
• 20
  Excalibur
  John Boorman
• 21
  Arthur
  Steve Gordon
• 22
  Chariots of Fire
  Hugh Hudson
• 23
  Neighbors
  John G. Avildsen
• 24
  The Howling
  Joe Dante
• 25
  Heavy Metal
  Gerald Potterton
• 26
  S.O.B.
  Blake Edwards
• 27
  Ghost Story
  John Irvin
• 28
  Student Bodies
  Mickey Rose
• 29
  Maxwell Street Blues
  Linda Williams
• 30
  For Your Eyes Only
  John Glen
• 31
  Possession
  Andrzej Żuławski
• 32
  Tree of Knowledge
  Nils Malmros
• 33
  Continental Divide
  Michael Apted
• 34
  First Monday in October
  Ronald Neame
• 35
  Looker
  Michael Crichton
• 36
  ...All the Marbles
  Robert Aldrich
• 37
  Modern Problems
  Ken Shapiro
• 38
  Paternity
  David Steinberg
• 39
  Bustin' Loose
  Oz Scott
• 40
  Saturday the 14th
  Howard R. Cohen
• 41
  The Devil and Max Devlin
  Steven Hilliard Stern
• 42
  Galaxy of Terror
  Bruce D. Clark
• 43
  The Legend of the Lone Ranger
  William A. Fraker