Movies 1981 Page 32

A dramatised impression of the events surrounding the Electrical Trades Union ballot rigging case of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

A cage is searching for a bird, but all its efforts fail. Without its help, a bird finds a way in. The cage closes its door and stands proudly on a...

This 1981 short film was a collaboration between Factrix and SF filmmaker Marc Huestis. Starring Erich Brogger.

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear,...

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent...

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny...

A young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father's adultery and mother's deep depression, as...

Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the...

A young man, the soldier and bachelor type, is looking for Anima - the eternal unattainable female who alternately appears as a virgin, harlot,...

Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

A forerunner to the new wave gambling films, this is one of Wong Jing's first hits--before he would go on to dominate Hong Kong cinema for the next...

Helmer is hunting moose in Trøndelag. He is suspected of manslaughter after a hunting team has discovered that a shot was fired with Helmer's rifle.

A man and a woman fall in love with each other; his mother does not approve of her as she is from a different religion and her brother is a gangster....

Directed by the photographer Maureen Bisilliat, the documentary portraits the everyday life in the indigenous village of Mehinaku, in Alto Xingu,...

Formed by Jesuit missions in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, between 1610 and 1767, it congregated about 150,000 indigenous people in almost...

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand, hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When word gets around, a gang of crooks turns...

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

About the making of a large commissioned mural painting of an aerial view. From the first drawing out of a circling, single-engine plane, then...

A New York-based bounty hunter who makes a living chasing and capturing bail jumpers matches wits with a heavily-armed drug dealer in this pilot to a...

Three buddies after 'Fast Money' try flying drugs into the U.S. from Mexico. When they meet with unexpected dangers, the trip turns turbulent.

Watch folks beat the bejesus out of mechanical moles. Will you be as frustrated as they are?

A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students...

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...

Mexican feature film

Noel enlists the help of neighbors in his city apartment building to supply homemade food to make his sidewalk lemonade stand a success.

David Letterman looks at potentially fun things to do, such as going to a video arcade, visiting a wax museum, fishing in the Los Angeles River, and...

Promotional film about pipe coatings in the fuel industry.

With film clips and photos, Eric Sykes gives a tongue-in-cheek account of his follies and fortunes as an actor, gag writer, and comedian in a long...

Femme fatale martial arts expert teaches the mafia a lesson.

As in La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962), in "Estación de Chamartin" the story is constructed from still images. Through the history of a former party...

Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west...

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...

A teen-age girl conceals her insecurity behind a barrage of jokes — until she meets an aspiring comedian who asks for her help with his new act....

After the Unveiling is a film about change. It is a personal documentary done in diary format of my mother's life immediately following my father's...

Robert Blake's second (of three) "Joe Dancer" movies has the hard-boiled private investigator teaming up with a chimp named Gregor, his trainer (who...

In this sequel to "Skyward" and pilot to a prospective series, Julie attempts a secret flight to bring her grandfather home for a Christmas reunion.