Movies 1981 Page 30

Philip Kwok plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers come...

After the Japanese occupation, the Indonesian people began fighting for independence, culminating with the 1 March 1949 general attack on the...

Today it's a symbol of strength and vitality. 135 years ago, it was a source of controversy. This documentary examines the great problems and...

After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th....

A dance troupe prepares for and completes a dress rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding," which is about a bride who runs...

A portrait of Arthur Erickson, a Vancouver-based architect internationally known for his unique style. Seated in his Vancouver home, Arthur Erickson...

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music...

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A young professor of sexology advantage to spend the honeymoon at hotel in Mallorca where he has a congress. There he meets colleagues of different...

A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.

A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate searcher who tries in vain to unravel the supposed...

Characters from the folk fantasy world empower the young leader of a small but prosperous town with a magical knife, an equally magical gun, and...

The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international...

Reluctantly-married young Irish travellers Michael and Angela head north of the border at the behest of Angela’s father, to smuggle electrical...

Michele is a young filmmaker frustrated by the lack of understanding his work receives and at odds with the film industry, especially a colleague...

Xiu Juan, a filial daughter and caring sister, trades her soul for money to look after her mother and her brother's studies. The unsung heroine meets...

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes...

A sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock star Parker Stevenson, who has had a nervous collapse,...

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.

Don Juan tired of using various disguises, is willing to revive its charm and maintain its reputation

Best friends compete for the title of "Miss Twirl" (similar to a Miss America contest with the primary category of competition being -- what else? --...

This ABC pilot starred seven teenagers in an '80s-style laugh-in. It told the light and dark side of teenage thoughts with dancing and singing added...

Sent in search of a Christmas tree, cabin boy Dinty Doyle lands on a mysterious, uncharted Irish island where he accidentally releases a bad-tempered...

As the lovable mutt prepares to perform the first SCUBA dive by an animal, a villain attempts to prevent it.

A lad finds himself magically sent back to ancient Egypt where he and the young King Tut team up to stop their evil and overly ambitious elders.

This political documentary illustrates the turbulent history of El Salvador from the 1920s-1970s, and the role of the U.S. government in that...

This work is the single-channel version of a multi-channel installation of the same name. The picture plane is divided into a left and a right half....

Intrigue and fighting amidst the Japanese occupation of China.

Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city...

The complex technology of modern rail track is shown, covering component manufacturers, current methods of laying track and its maintenance.

An aging motorcycle gang assembles for a 25-year reunion to help out former member Mary Beth, a widowed operator of a popular campground which is...

In turn-of-the-20th-century upstate New York, Winnie Foster, a 12-year-old girl, discovers a family living in the woods near her family's home who...

Mixing classroom dramatization with documentary material, interviews with former students who recall barbaric punishments in the name of learning,...

"For those who came of age in the 1960s and 70s, glamour received its highest expression in fashion magazines like Vogue, where the representation of...

On Christmas Eve, a nameless little girl reads 'The Monster's Christmas' storybook to her teddy bear, as something sneaks around in the trees outside...

A feminist view of how small businesses in London's Soho exploit working women.

An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.

Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 short film, written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin, based on the short story of the same name written by Hector...

A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her.

A short film to warn children of sexual predators.