41. Outland
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking, John Ratzenberger, Kika Markham
Plot: Futuristic "High Noon" in outer space. The marshal of an orbiting space colony must face hired gunslingers to rid miners from a bad mine boss.
42. My Bloody Valentine
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Mihalka
Actors: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Keith Knight, Helene Udy, Thomas Kovacs
Plot: A decades old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day, turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
43. Taxi to the Toilet ( Taxi zum Klo )
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Ripploh
Actors: Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Orpha Termin, Peter Fahrni, Dieter Godde, Klaus Schnee
44. Absence of Malice
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Wilford Brimley
Plot: Michael Colin Gallagher is the son of a long dead Mafia boss who is a simple liquor warehouse owner. Frustrated in his attempt to solve a murder of a union head, a prosecutor leaks a false story that Gallagher is a target of the investigation, hoping that he will tell them something for protection. As his life begins to unravel, others are hurt by the story. Megan Carter, the reporter, is in the clear under the Absence of Malice rule in slander and libel cases. Knowing nothing to trade to the prosecutors, Gallagher must regain control of his life on different ground.
45. Nighthawks
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Malmuth
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Rutger Hauer, Persis Khambatta, Nigel Davenport
Plot: Two New York cops are tracking an international terrorist, while he changes his target to those cops, who he sees as a nuisance to be dealt with.
46. Scanners
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Michael Ironside, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Robert A. Silverman
Plot: Scanners are powerful psychics able to control the minds of others - to the point of death if necessary. An underground group of scanners seeks control of the world, while a rival group seeks to destroy the movement by using a rogue scanner against his own.
47. Pixote ( Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco )
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hector Babenco
Actors: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino, Zenildo Oliveira Santos, Claudio Bernardo
48. Whose Life is It Anyway?
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Badham
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban, Kenneth McMillan, Kaki Hunter
49. Inglorious Bastards ( Quel maledetto treno blindato )
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Actors: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani, Jackie Basehart, Michel Constantin
Plot: Two officers (Bo Svenson, Ian Bannen) lead military misfits on a mission to steal a Nazi V-2 rocket gyroscope.
50. The French Lieutenant's Woman
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Karel Reisz
Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell, Lynsey Baxter
Plot: The lives and loves of an actor and actress echo that of a movie being filmed.
