1981 Movies
T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven (1981)

T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven (1981)

T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven (1981)
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8

An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.

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What Price Honesty? (1981)

What Price Honesty? (1981)

What Price Honesty? (1981)
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89

Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates...

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Genre: Action
Senior Trip (1981)

Senior Trip (1981)

Senior Trip (1981)
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96

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 include: Roger Ellis,...

Artemis '81 (1981)

Artemis '81 (1981)

Artemis '81 (1981)
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185

Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael....

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Incident at Crestridge (1981)

Incident at Crestridge (1981)

Incident at Crestridge (1981)
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92

A woman campaigns for and wins election as sheriff in a crusade against the ineptitude and outright corruption of the local law enforcement in a small town in the West.

Genre: Crime, Drama, TV Movie
Tora-san's Promise (1981)

Tora-san's Promise (1981)

Tora-san's Promise (1981)
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101

Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In...

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Genre: Comedy
Reds (1981)

Reds (1981)

Reds (1981)
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195

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed (1887-1920), who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia,...

Modern Problems (1981)

Modern Problems (1981)

Modern Problems (1981)
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89

Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses to not...

Mad Max 2 (1981)

Mad Max 2 (1981)

Mad Max 2 (1981)
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96

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly...

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The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold (1981)

The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold (1981)

The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold (1981)
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24

The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold Sent in search of a Christmas tree, cabin boy Dinty Doyl lands on a mysterious, uncharted Irish island where he accidentally releases a bad-tempered banshee from...

Mahjong Heroes (1981)

Mahjong Heroes (1981)

Mahjong Heroes (1981)
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91

In America, there's such "game" movies as The Sting. But in Asia, it's often about the fascinating game of mahjong, and this is one of the best. Teen idol Nicholas...

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Genre: Action
Taps (1981)

Taps (1981)

Taps (1981)
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126

Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Genre: Drama
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
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112

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Hear the Wind Sing (1981)

Hear the Wind Sing (1981)

Hear the Wind Sing (1981)
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98

A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a mysterious...

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Genre: Drama
Ghost Story (1981)

Ghost Story (1981)

Ghost Story (1981)
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110

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins...

Who Pulled the Plug? (1981)

Who Pulled the Plug? (1981)

Who Pulled the Plug? (1981)
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99

To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small...

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Genre: Comedy
Neighbors (1981)

Neighbors (1981)

Neighbors (1981)
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94

One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it is obvious...

Genre: Comedy
Heartbeeps (1981)

Heartbeeps (1981)

Heartbeeps (1981)
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79

Domestic robots fall in love and run off together.

Sharky's Machine (1981)

Sharky's Machine (1981)

Sharky's Machine (1981)
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122

Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in...

Madly in Love (1981)

Madly in Love (1981)

Madly in Love (1981)
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Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start...

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Genre: Comedy
Caligula and Messalina (1981)

Caligula and Messalina (1981)

Caligula and Messalina (1981)
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111

Messalina (played by gorgeous Betty Roland) is a power-hungry nymphomaniac who will stop at nothing to become Empress of Rome. She brings herself to the attention of Caligula by battling...

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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! (1981)

Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! (1981)

Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! (1981)
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81

Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free...

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Genre: Comedy
Quest for Fire (1981)

Quest for Fire (1981)

Quest for Fire (1981)
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In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors...

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Deep Water (1981)

Deep Water (1981)

Deep Water (1981)
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On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older...

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)

A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)

A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)
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30

Alvin learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Genre: Animation, Family
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
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112

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the...

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Rasmus and the Vagabond (1981)

Rasmus and the Vagabond (1981)

Rasmus and the Vagabond (1981)
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9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. Oskar makes the Rasmus...

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Buddy Buddy (1981)

Buddy Buddy (1981)

Buddy Buddy (1981)
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96

During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital...

Genre: Comedy
Pennies from Heaven (1981)

Pennies from Heaven (1981)

Pennies from Heaven (1981)
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108

A musical set in the great Busby Berkeley style. In Chicago during the depression, sheet music salesman, Arthur Parker, is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to...

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Four Friends (1981)

Four Friends (1981)

Four Friends (1981)
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115

A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Amateur (1981)

The Amateur (1981)

The Amateur (1981)
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112

A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a...

Dawn of the Mummy (1981)

Dawn of the Mummy (1981)

Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
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93

A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of...

Genre: Horror
The Little Fox (1981)

The Little Fox (1981)

The Little Fox (1981)
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74

A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.

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Genre: Animation, Family
Puberty Blues (1981)

Puberty Blues (1981)

Puberty Blues (1981)
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The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney. Meet Sue, an Australian teenager in the late 70s, whose life mainly consists of doing what...

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
La Chèvre (1981)

La Chèvre (1981)

La Chèvre (1981)
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When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he...

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Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)
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Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try...

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Beware of the Jönsson Gang (1981)

Beware of the Jönsson Gang (1981)

Beware of the Jönsson Gang (1981)
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89

The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months in jail, Vanheden...

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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Around the World with Dot (1981)

Around the World with Dot (1981)

Around the World with Dot (1981)
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In this magical film Dot joins up with Santa Claus in order to help her friend the mother kangaroo find her lost baby. The pair take off into the air...

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Ek Aur Ek Gyarah (1981)

Ek Aur Ek Gyarah (1981)

Ek Aur Ek Gyarah (1981)
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153

Ek Aur Ek Gyarah is an action thriller, released in the year 1981. The film was directed by Ashok Rao and produced by Ram Pratap Sharma. The lyrics were written...

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Genre: Action, Thriller
Francisca (1981)

Francisca (1981)

Francisca (1981)
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166

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

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Genre: Drama, Romance