Movies 1981 Page 33

A film about rural blacksmiths.

The heroes of the story, which takes place in the present, are young people about to graduate. After prom, the fourth-graders escape to a private...

Dhanya is a 1981 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Fazil and produced by Boban Kunchacko. The film stars Srividya, Mohanlal, Jagathy Sreekumar and...

A boy tries to tame a horse in a large forest clearing covered with snow.

A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of reality, or unreality, that overlap within facets...

In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the...

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....

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Two assistants to an S&M photographer decide to practise their master's art on their own. They convince a young woman to pose for them and subject...

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and...

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

After being released from a mental asylum, a disfigured man becomes obsessed with a student at his sister’s boarding school while grappling with...

Scratched film stock that reminds us that film remains in a state of birth, a shocking poem of physical suffering and the danger of organized...

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.

It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome Rikiishi's death and decides to make a...

Based on the text written by Vijaydan Detha and Kamal Kothari, the film is set in the arid desert of Rajasthan, a setting similar to Duvidha, where...

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and...

A teacher comes to a village and an old man asks her to tutor his sickly grandson. The teacher becomes curious about the old man and the boy. She...

A raw documentary of New York "language poets" in their milieu.

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...

A visit with a master of the Oldest Art In The World: tattooing. Disabled by arthritis since the age of four, confined to a wheelchair, his growth...

Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling...

Shot in a single day, POSERS captures a thriving subculture in Kings Road, London: the style, music, and expression of the New Romantics.

Mr and Mrs Stafford decide to run an "open" marriage, which, of course, relies on complete honesty.

Three British soldiers are caught and interrogated by terrorists, unaware that they're in fact being put through mind-unhinging training as part of a...

Former Disney child star Hayley Mills returns to the Walt Disney Studio for a look at the techniques of animated film production, with various...

Christopher Robin gives Winnie the Pooh a calendar, and Pooh uses it to learn about the seasons.

Hunters set out to catch the legendary Scottish monster that has defied explanation and eluded capture since the 1940s.

We see John swinging on a swing he built in his studio. He shot the film by himself with the camera placed many feet away, so that while swinging, he...

Orphaned child hitchhikes to Mexico City to look for a family member, falls in with gang of juvenile pickpockets.

Designed for class instruction and career education, and to prove that space exploration isn’t just for the boys. The film interviews women...

Novak is a police inspector to whom any means is fair in getting evidence on criminals - especially drug dealers. He is after a drug ring that...

Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack...

A singer and a mysterious foreigner plan an abduction.

"Beauty and the Beast" - In order to save her father's life, the gentle Beauty must live in a castle of the ugly Beast. Though the Beast is kind, and...

Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting...

Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team...

A sensitive portrait of love, uniting two disillusioned misfits running away from the societies that are trying to tame them.

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced...