Movies 1981 Page 49

Frank, a dedicated schoolteacher, embraces the sexual freedoms of the city’s underground scene—navigating a double life in public restrooms,...

Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootlegging tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their...

After taking her successful Broadway show to Las Vegas, Lily Tomlin is faced with a tough decision: soften her act for mass appeal, or keep her...

In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which...

Karimpoocha is a 1981 Indian Malayalam film directed and produced by Baby. The film stars Jagathy Sreekumar, Jose Prakash, Ratheesh and Meena in lead...

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...

"Oursler’s thematic concerns betray classic Freudian anxieties about sex and death. In Grand Mal, the hero takes a convoluted odyssey through a...

A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leading to a deadly dare and revelation of shared...

Mongolian girl Alima is assigned to accomplish an important mission by CCP. During the mission, her father and fellows are killed by the enemy in a...

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

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the...

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 young woman has been murdered in one of the apartments. Prosecutor Babaev goes to the scene of the crime. He must find the killer, Nargiz, and...

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of...

70s Glam Rock star Gary Glitter joins Gerry Cottle's Circus

Rina and Hassan love each other. Their relationship began to crack when Rina wanted to continue her career as a singer and film actress. Hassan got a...

A comedy-porn film depicting the antics of Yuka—a female college student forced into a men-free girls' dormitory attached to a convent after her...

A group of children in the East End of London belong to a police sponsored scheme called '4D Special Agents'.

A short documentary about singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle made by animator Caroline Leaf.

Serio-comic road movie about a feisty girl who sets out for California and hitches a ride for herself and her house trailer with a runaway farm boy...

“One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

Recorded live at Nihon Seinen-kan, Tokyo, Japan, 05/02/1981.

The much-loved February 1981 concert at North London’s legendary Rainbow Theatre.

A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little...

An interview with actress Ingrid Bergman at London's National Film Theatre in 1981.

A 21st-century scientist tries to save Earth after two atomic wars.

A short film to warn children of sexual predators.

A former journalist begins to experience distressing flashbacks, to the alarm of people close to him.

The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350...

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A...

The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.

Patchwork movie edited from episodes from the TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977).

It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour...

An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law – a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years...

Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central...