Best Movies of 1981

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Top 25 films of 1981, ranked by real audience scores.

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1
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
Action, Adventure - 667 TMDB votes
92%
2
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Adventure, Action - 13,451 TMDB votes
91%
3
Escape from New York
Science Fiction, Action - 3,456 TMDB votes
91%
4
An American Werewolf in London
Comedy, Horror - 2,653 TMDB votes
91%
5
Das Boot
Drama, History - 2,461 TMDB votes
90%
6
Scanners
Science Fiction, Horror - 1,324 TMDB votes
89%
7
Bianco, rosso e Verdone
Comedy - 738 TMDB votes
89%
8
The Cannonball Run
Action, Comedy - 684 TMDB votes
89%
9
The Fox and the Hound
Adventure, Animation - 3,438 TMDB votes
88%
10
For Your Eyes Only
Adventure, Action - 2,038 TMDB votes
88%
11
Christiane F.
Drama - 1,417 TMDB votes
88%
12
La Chèvre
Comedy, Crime - 693 TMDB votes
88%
13
The Cabbage Soup
Comedy, Science Fiction - 931 TMDB votes
87%
14
The Professional
Action, Adventure - 577 TMDB votes
87%
15
I'm Starting from Three
Comedy - 696 TMDB votes
86%
16
The Beyond
Horror - 654 TMDB votes
86%
17
The Evil Dead
Horror - 4,390 TMDB votes
85%
18
Friday the 13th Part 2
Horror, Thriller - 1,876 TMDB votes
85%
19
Time Bandits
Family, Fantasy - 1,128 TMDB votes
85%
20
Gallipoli
War, History - 526 TMDB votes
85%
21
On Golden Pond
Drama, Romance - 505 TMDB votes
85%
22
Possession
Horror - 1,286 TMDB votes
83%
23
Quest for Fire
Adventure, Drama - 566 TMDB votes
83%
24
Halloween II
Horror, Thriller - 2,212 TMDB votes
82%
25
Excalibur
Adventure, Fantasy - 1,122 TMDB votes
82%
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