Search results for "1981"
The Wave (1981)

The Wave (1981)

The Wave (1981)
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A teacher plays a mental game with some of his students. Based on a true story.

Genre: Drama, Family
Documenteur (1981)

Documenteur (1981)

Documenteur (1981)
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After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son.

Genre: Drama
Zoot Suit (1981)

Zoot Suit (1981)

Zoot Suit (1981)
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Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez’s critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots…

Genre: Drama, Music
Paternity (1981)

Paternity (1981)

Paternity (1981)
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A single man searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached.

Genre: Comedy
Galaxy of Terror (1981)

Galaxy of Terror (1981)

Galaxy of Terror (1981)
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As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they…

The Killing of Angel Street (1981)

The Killing of Angel Street (1981)

The Killing of Angel Street (1981)
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Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father’s mysterious…

Stations of the Elevated (1981)

Stations of the Elevated (1981)

Stations of the Elevated (1981)
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Stations of the Elevated exposes viewers to an underground art scene- that is, one found exclusively on the sides of subways and train cars. A moving portrait of late-70’s NYC,…

Genre: Documentary
Absurd (1981)

Absurd (1981)

Absurd (1981)
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A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.

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Genre: Horror
Only When I Laugh (1981)

Only When I Laugh (1981)

Only When I Laugh (1981)
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A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
True Confessions (1981)

True Confessions (1981)

True Confessions (1981)
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A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute

Genre: Crime, Drama
So Fine (1981)

So Fine (1981)

So Fine (1981)
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90

While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success – the bottomless…

Genre: Comedy
The Boogens (1981)

The Boogens (1981)

The Boogens (1981)
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Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.

Genre: Horror
Shocking Asia (1981)

Shocking Asia (1981)

Shocking Asia (1981)
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High on shock and light on cultural relativism, this mondo collection of video strangeness features assorted dead (or dying) people, a sex change operation, inexplicable sex acts, and a bunch…

Genre: Documentary
Rich and Famous (1981)

Rich and Famous (1981)

Rich and Famous (1981)
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115

Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.

Genre: Drama
Southern Comfort (1981)

Southern Comfort (1981)

Southern Comfort (1981)
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A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Threshold (1981)

Threshold (1981)

Threshold (1981)
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Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform…

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Continental Divide (1981)

Continental Divide (1981)

Continental Divide (1981)
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103

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Raggedy Man (1981)

Raggedy Man (1981)

Raggedy Man (1981)
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Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave…

Genre: Drama
Mommie Dearest (1981)

Mommie Dearest (1981)

Mommie Dearest (1981)
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In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan’s attempts at romantic fulfillment go…

Genre: Drama
The Club (1981)

The Club (1981)

The Club (1981)
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Mainly the story of Sai, a rascal who works at a gang-operated nightclub, and his conflicts with a rival gang.

Genre: Action, Crime
Looks and Smiles (1981)

Looks and Smiles (1981)

Looks and Smiles (1981)
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Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens’ Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents,…

Genre: Drama
Edo Porn (1981)

Edo Porn (1981)

Edo Porn (1981)
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The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

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Genre: Drama, History
The Insatiable – Torment of the Flesh (1981)

The Insatiable – Torment of the Flesh (1981)

The Insatiable – Torment of the Flesh (1981)
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No overview

Genre: Drama
Lady Stay Dead (1981)

Lady Stay Dead (1981)

Lady Stay Dead (1981)
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Millionairess actress-singer Marie Coleby (Deborah Coulls) lives in a luxurious villa on a deserted beach. One afternoon following a TV commercial shoot at the villa she incites gardener Gordon Mason…

Genre: Horror
For a Cop’s Hide (1981)

For a Cop’s Hide (1981)

For a Cop’s Hide (1981)
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105

Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.

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The Killing of America (1981)

The Killing of America (1981)

The Killing of America (1981)
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90

A documentary of the decline of America. Featuring footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.

Don’t Go in the Woods (1981)

Don’t Go in the Woods (1981)

Don’t Go in the Woods (1981)
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Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who…or what…is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But…

Genre: Horror
The Rooster (1981)

The Rooster (1981)

The Rooster (1981)
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In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts…

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Genre: Comedy
St. Helens (1981)

St. Helens (1981)

St. Helens (1981)
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The movie begins with the volcano’s awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980

Genre: Action, Thriller
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)

Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)

Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
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Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living…

Genre: Sci-Fi
Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981)

Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981)

Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981)
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Documentary about the pornography industry and the apparent violent anti-woman slant much of it takes.

Don’t Go Near the Park (1981)

Don’t Go Near the Park (1981)

Don’t Go Near the Park (1981)
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In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the…

Genre: Horror
Body Heat (1981)

Body Heat (1981)

Body Heat (1981)
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In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Hell Night (1981)

Hell Night (1981)

Hell Night (1981)
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Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family…

Genre: Horror
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
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Chu Chu and the Philly Flash is a 1981 comedy film starring Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Ruth Buzzi, and Danny Aiello. It was released in 1981 by 20th…

Genre: Comedy
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)

The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)

The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
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In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Minister’s Wife (1981)

The Minister’s Wife (1981)

The Minister’s Wife (1981)
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Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Imagine the Sound (1981)

Imagine the Sound (1981)

Imagine the Sound (1981)
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An examination, shown through both interviews and performances, of the avant-garde free jazz movement which reigned during the 1960s.

Evilspeak (1981)

Evilspeak (1981)

Evilspeak (1981)
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93

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

Genre: Horror
Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)

Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)

Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
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Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into…

Genre: Action, Comedy