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1981
 
     
Raiders of the Lost Ark launches an ongoing series for director Steven Spielberg and actor Harrison Ford        
1981
 
 
Chariots of Fire, directed by Hugh Hudson, dramatizes the rivalry between two British athletes at the 1924 Summer Olympics    
1982
 
    
Steven Spielberg directs E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which an alien is stranded on earth and is befriended by a young boy       
1982
 
    
Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie, plays a man who becomes a star in the persona of an actress       
1982
 
 
British director Richard Attenborough creates an epic film, Gandhi, from the life of the pacifist Indian leader    
1982
 
   
US fillm actress Grace Kelly is killed in a car accident in Monte Carlo      
1984
 
     
Milos Forman directs the screen version of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus        
1984
 
    
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the title role, that of an almost silent killing machine, in The Terminator       
1984
 
 
Roland Joffé directs The Killing Fields, set among the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia    
1986
 
 
Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu star in Jean De Florette, adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol