Movies Produced by United States and Released in 1981
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The list below includes all films produced by United States production companies, including international co-productions.
Note: Since we are still actively researching production countries, we consider this chart to be in beta mode.
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| Movie | Co-Producing
Countries | Genre | Production
Budget | Worldwide
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| Raiders of the Lost Ark |
United States |
Adventure |
$20,000,000 |
$367,451,914 |
|
| Superman II |
United Kingdom,
United States |
Adventure |
$54,000,000 |
$190,400,000 |
|
| On Golden Pond |
United States |
Drama |
|
$119,285,432 |
|
| Stripes |
United States |
Comedy |
$10,000,000 |
$85,300,000 |
|
| Arthur |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$81,464,486 |
|
| Fort Apache, The Bronx |
United States |
|
|
$65,200,000 |
|
| An American Werewolf in London |
United Kingdom,
United States |
Horror |
|
$61,968,388 |
|
| The Cannonball Run |
Hong Kong,
United States |
Action |
|
$57,498,710 |
|
| Reds |
United States |
Drama |
$33,500,000 |
$50,000,130 |
|
| Clash of the Titans |
United Kingdom,
United States |
Adventure |
$15,000,000 |
$44,400,000 |
|
| The Postman Always Rings Twice |
United States |
Drama |
$12,000,000 |
$44,200,000 |
|
| The Fox and the Hound |
United States |
Adventure |
|
$43,899,231 |
|
| The Four Seasons |
United States |
Comedy |
$6,500,000 |
$42,488,161 |
|
| Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$37,000,000 |
|
| Tarzan, The Ape Man |
United States |
Adventure |
|
$36,565,000 |
|
| Taps |
United States |
Drama |
$14,000,000 |
$35,856,053 |
|
| Excalibur |
United States |
Adventure |
|
$34,200,000 |
|
| Absence of Malice |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$33,312,129 |
|
| Endless Love |
United States |
Drama |
|
$33,000,000 |
|
| Sharky's Machine |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$32,984,898 |
|
| History of the World: Part I |
United States |
Comedy |
$11,000,000 |
$31,672,000 |
|
| Bustin' Loose |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$31,261,000 |
|
| The Great Muppet Caper |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$31,206,251 |
|
| Neighbors |
United States |
Black Comedy |
|
$29,916,207 |
|
| Victory |
United States |
Action |
|
$27,453,000 |
|
| The Jazz Singer |
United States |
|
|
$27,118,000 |
|
| Only When I Laugh |
United States |
|
|
$25,782,304 |
|
| Halloween II |
United States |
Horror |
$2,500,000 |
$25,533,818 |
|
| Escape from New York |
United States |
Action |
$6,000,000 |
$25,276,350 |
|
| Mommie Dearest |
United States |
Drama |
$5,000,000 |
$25,032,000 |
|
| Modern Problems |
United States |
Comedy |
$8,000,000 |
$24,474,312 |
|
| Body Heat |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$24,058,000 |
|
| Graduation Day |
United States |
Horror |
$250,000 |
$23,894,000 |
|
| The French Lieutenant's Woman |
United States |
Drama |
|
$22,600,000 |
|
| Friday the 13th Part 2 |
United States |
Horror |
$1,250,000 |
$21,722,776 |
|
| The Final Conflict |
United Kingdom,
United States |
Horror |
|
$20,471,000 |
|
| The Incredible Shrinking Woman |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$20,259,000 |
|
| Nighthawks |
United States |
Action |
$5,000,000 |
$19,600,000 |
|
| Heavy Metal |
Canada,
United States |
Adventure |
$9,300,000 |
$19,571,091 |
|
| Paternity |
United States |
|
|
$18,838,000 |
|
| Under the Rainbow |
United States |
Comedy |
$20,000,000 |
$18,826,490 |
|
| Private Lessons |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$18,066,774 |
|
| The Private Eyes |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$18,000,000 |
|
| The Howling |
United States |
Horror |
$1,000,000 |
$17,985,130 |
|
| Take This Job and Shove It |
United States |
|
|
$17,569,000 |
|
| Ragtime |
United Kingdom,
United States |
Drama |
|
$17,468,158 |
|
| Ghost Story |
United States |
Horror |
|
$16,202,210 |
|
| The Devil and Max Devlin |
United States |
|
|
$16,000,000 |
|
| Caveman |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$15,965,000 |
|
| Continental Divide |
United States |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$15,578,000 |
|
| S.O.B. |
United States |
Black Comedy |
|
$14,867,086 |
|
| The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia |
United States |
|
|
$14,000,000 |
|
| Blow Out |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
$18,000,000 |
$13,747,988 |
|
| The Legend of the Lone Ranger |
United States |
Western |
$18,000,000 |
$13,400,000 |
|
| On the Right Track |
United States |
|
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| Rich and Famous |
United States |
|
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| True Confessions |
United States |
|
|
$12,200,000 |
|
| First Monday in October |
United States |
|
|
$12,000,000 |
|
| Back Roads |
United States |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$11,809,387 |
|
| Sphinx |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
$10,000,000 |
$11,400,000 |
|
| Wolfen |
United States |
Horror |
|
$11,000,000 |
|
| Raggedy Man |
United States |
Drama |
|
$11,000,000 |
|
| Rollover |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$10,217,873 |
|
| So Fine |
United States |
|
|
$10,000,000 |
|
| Zorro, The Gay Blade |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$10,000,000 |
|
| Prince of the City |
United States |
Drama |
|
$9,000,000 |
|
| Carbon Copy |
United Kingdom,
United States |
Comedy |
|
$8,400,000 |
|
| Force: Five |
United States |
|
|
$8,000,000 |
|
| All Night Long |
United States |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$7,800,000 |
|
| An Eye for an Eye |
United States |
Action |
|
$7,496,681 |
|
| The Funhouse |
United States |
Horror |
|
$7,000,141 |
|
| Comin' at Ya! |
Italy,
Spain,
United States |
|
|
$6,704,127 |
|
| Eyewitness |
United States |
|
|
$6,400,000 |
|
| Pennies from Heaven |
United States |
Musical |
|
$6,200,000 |
|
| Whose Life is it Anyway? |
United States |
Drama |
|
$6,100,000 |
|
| Dragonslayer |
United States |
Action |
$18,000,000 |
$6,000,000 |
|
| Heartbeeps |
United States |
Comedy |
$10,000,000 |
$6,000,000 |
|
| American Pop |
United States |
Musical |
|
$6,000,000 |
|
| Buddy Buddy |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$5,299,037 |
|
| Death Hunt |
United States |
|
|
$5,000,000 |
|
| Thief |
United States |
Action |
|
$4,301,338 |
|
| All the Marbles |
United States |
|
|
$4,300,000 |
|
| Looker |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$3,281,232 |
|
| Southern Comfort |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$2,939,174 |
|
| Deadly Blessing |
United States |
|
|
$2,800,000 |
|
| Hell Night |
United States |
Horror |
|
$2,300,000 |
|
| Roar |
United States |
Adventure |
$17,000,000 |
$2,110,050 |
|
| The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper |
United States |
Adventure |
$12,000,000 |
$2,104,164 |
|
| The Hand |
United States |
Horror |
|
$2,000,000 |
|
| Student Bodies |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$1,582,148 |
|
| King of the Mountain |
United States |
Drama |
|
$958,637 |
|
| Honky Tonk Freeway |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$939,423 |
|
| Tattoo |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$860,472 |
|
| Beyond the Reef |
United States |
|
|
$547,525 |
|
| Eyes of a Stranger |
United States |
Horror |
|
$546,724 |
|
| This is Elvis |
United States |
Documentary |
|
$429,146 |
|
| Zoot Suit |
United States |
Drama |
|
$380,302 |
|
| Chu Chu and the Philly Flash |
United States |
|
|
$221,898 |
|
| Dead & Buried |
United States |
Horror |
|
$216,166 |
|
| Cattle Annie and Little Britches |
United States |
Western |
|
$115,679 |
|
| Modern Romance |
United States |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$29,137 |
|
| Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$19,225 |
|
| My Dinner with Andre |
United States |
Comedy |
$475,000 |
$15,063 |
|
| The Wobblies |
United States |
Documentary |
|
$12,232 |
|
| Nobody's Perfekt |
United States |
|
|
$995 |
|
| Glen or Glenda |
United States |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Second-Hand Hearts |
United States |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Enter the Ninja |
United States |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
United States |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Shoot the Sun Down |
United States |
Western |
|
$0 |
|
| Knightriders |
United States |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Final Exam |
United States |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Evilspeak |
United States |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Demonoid |
Mexico,
United States |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| St. Helens |
United States |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| The Sea Wolves |
Switzerland,
United Kingdom,
United States |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie |
United States |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Full Moon High |
United States |
|
|
$0 |
|
| The Jericho Mile |
United States |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Saturday The 14th |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Galaxy of Terror |
United States |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Polyester |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Fear No Evil |
United States |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Fan |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Subway Riders |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Shock Treatment |
United States |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Just Before Dawn |
United States |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Scream |
United States |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Ms. 45 |
United States |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
