Movies 1981 Page 42

Benjamin Britten's powerful opera Peter Grimes is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. In this famous production by Elijah...

Ratih is an innocent and honest village woman. She is married to Hartomo, who considers her not a woman of his choice, as he married her at the...

A young boy and his dog spend an afternoon trying to capture a playful frog at a nearby pond.

A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and...

Amador and Fidel are two small scammers operating in Torremolinos beach and surroundings with more misery than fortune.

An animated retelling of the legendary hero Sigurd of Norse folklore.

TV drama based on the story "A game of chess with live pieces" by Milorad Pavic.

Screen adaptation of two works by science fiction writers: “Noise Level” by Raymond Jones and “Shadow of the Past” by Ivan Efremov.

A man smuggles in an exotic animal, but discovers too late that it's infested with some rather nasty insects.

About a braggart bunny who thought that all things can be done hastily without much effort.

A film about the connection of workers and the bandoneon in the Ruhr region.

The transvestites of the Rio nights in testimony about their professional difficulties, moralism, repression and stardom

The film begins as a portrait of a man classified as "mentally ill." During filming, the dynamics shift, and the film becomes the story of a...

Based on the 1921 novella of the same name by one of China's most well-known modern writers, Lu Xun (Lu Hsun), the True Story of Ah Q is set during...

A musician from the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Focus" unexpectedly becomes the "fiancé" of the country's champion in sports ice dancing. However,...

Highlights from the "Snip & Snap" revues by René Sleeswijk, with the comedy duo Willy Walden and Piet Muyselaar. Featuring show ballet The Carden...

Take It or Leave It is an autobiographical account of the cult '80s British pop group Madness, with members of the group playing themselves, charting...

Compilation film by Jim Terry based on Daikyu Maru Gaiking "The most spectacular tale of space adventure ever told. Travel the cosmos and witness...

Filmmaker Bonnie Sherr Klein and former stripper Lindalee Tracy explore the pornography industry by visiting strip clubs, peep shows, and adult film...

This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.

A Christian woman wants a newspaper man to publish a story about a One World Foundation being set up whose only goal is to control the world. She...

A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secrets of the fellow performers.

Taiwanese movie

The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the...

16-year-old girl is in denial about her mother's drinking problem and refuses to join Ala-Teen.

Four guys who look and sound moderately like the Beatles play a plethora of Lennon/McCartney classics, while footage of memorable sixties events...

Oscar-wining director John Schlesinger orchestrated this filmed recording of composer Jacques Offenbach's final operetta as performed by the Royal...

Bill works in a flower shop. Brian comes in to buy something special, and wants it to be something exotic.

A TV special documentary made by CBS for the release of Super Trouper.

A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's murder after he is killed while running illegal...

The tuatara is the sole survivor of a reptile species that has been extinct for 135 million years. This nocturnal creature which once lived...

A comedic short using existing footage of a building demolition. A voice over is used to make it seem as if a film director is shouting instructions...

Directed by Judd Ne'eman.

Documentary film by François Reichenbach of the lucha libre in Mexico. A study of the wrestling mania, in which he also delivers a portrait of life,...

A film in two parts. In the first part, the narrator describes the events that led to his impulsive decision to rob his former employer. The camera...

Windows in the Kitchen is a film dance by Elaine Summers and a collaboration of four female New York artists: Originally part of an intermedia...