Movies by Year - 1981 (677)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| ...All the MarblesSmall timer female wrestling team ""The California Dolls"" and their manager must face the hardship of their sport and life to suceed. | 1981 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 6.4 (2.4K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| 36 Chowringhee LaneAfter the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a tom cat for company. She is thrilled when a fo | 1981 | Aparna Sen | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (408 votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Absence of MaliceWhen a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel. | 1981 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (13.1K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| AbsurdA 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. | 1981 | Joe D'Amato | Horror | 5.4 (2.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Absurd aka Rosso sangueA 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. | 1981 | Joe D'Amato | Horror | 5.4 (2.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Ace [Asso]Asso, THE best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the 'final' game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search fo | 1981 | Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia | Comedy | 6.5 (1.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - The Hound of the Baskervilles, The [Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i doktora Vatsona - Sobaka Baskerviley]When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family. | 1981 | Igor Maslennikov | Adventure, Crime, Mystery | 8.6 (5.9K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - The Twentieth Century Approaches When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family. | 1981 | Igor Maslennikov | Adventure, Crime, Mystery | 8.6 (5.9K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Agatha and the Limitless Readings [Agatha et les lectures illimitées]A dialogue-driven drama about a woman and her brother who meet at a deserted seaside hotel to deal with their passionate incestuous feelings for each other and reminisce about their happy childhood. | 1981 | Marguerite Duras (*) | Drama | 6.8 (277 votes) | 90 | 20220723 |
| Aimed School, The [Nerawareta gakuen]Mitamura Yuka (Hiroko Yakushimaru) is a normal shy middle school student that has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show his skills, by stealing the student government election, Yuka and her friends vow | 1981 | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (310 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Alison's BirthdayA young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone. | 1981 | Ian Coughlan | Horror | 5.5 (590 votes) | 99 | 20220315 |
| All Night LongA middle-aged executive's lifestyle and values are turned upside down after he is demoted to chain-store night manager. | 1981 | Jean-Claude Tramont | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.5 (1.8K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Alligator ShoesFrench-Canadian adult brothers Mike and Bin still live with their parents in the working class neighborhood of Cabbagetown in Toronto, their parents who largely support them. Mike works a low paying nine to five job hoping to come ou | 1981 | Clay Borris | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (47 votes) | 99 | 20220414 |
| All's Well That Ends WellHelena loves Bertram but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram.... | 1981 | Elijah Moshinsky | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (163 votes) | 141 | 20240622 |
| Amanda by NightA police detective tries to help a top-class prostitute find out who is killing her fellow colleagues. | 1981 | Gary Graver | Adult, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (374 votes) | 95 | 20230619 |
| Amateur, TheA 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 web of deception underneath his wife's death. | 1981 | Charles Jarrott | Crime, Thriller | 5.8 (832 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Ambitious Kung Fu Girl [ShawBros]Spoiled Yuen Si Si, the daughter of an affluent merchant, lives her life dreaming of meeting her idol, the heroic Qin Ge. When her father decides to marry her off, she runs away in search of Qin Ge, with her fiancee in pursuit. | 1981 | Chun-Ku Lu | Action, Adventure | 6.3 (85 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| American PopThe story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century. | 1981 | Ralph Bakshi | Animation, Drama, History, Music | 7.2 (4.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| American Werewolf in LondonTwo American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. | 1981 | John Landis (*) | Comedy, Horror | 7.5 (102.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| AmericanaIn a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride. | 1981 | David Carradine | Drama | 6.3 (277 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Amin - The Rise and Fall [Rise and Fall of Idi Amin]The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979. | 1981 | Sharad Patel | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War | 6.0 (438 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| AmyA woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy. | 1981 | Vincent McEveety | Drama, Family | 6.5 (488 votes) | 100 | 20220723 |
| An Eye for an EyeA SFPD undercover narcotics cop aims to avenge his partner's death and destroy a drug-smuggling ring operated by the Chinese Triads. | 1981 | Steve Carver | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller | 5.6 (3.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| AndrinaMysterious young Andrina is the only friend of an old man. When she fails to visit him one day, he goes down to his seaside village to look for her but no one knows of such person there. Who is Andrina? | 1981 | Bill Forsyth (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.8 (27 votes) | 50 | 20231128 |
| Angel DustedJean Stapleton appears with her son John Putch in this story of an affluent working wife and mother whose well-behaved son suddenly falls into the trap of drug abuse. | 1981 | Dick Lowry | Drama | 6.3 (170 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Angel Guts: Red PornoNami is a staff member at an exclusive department store. Her libido is chiefly satisfied alone, until a co-worker talks her into subbing on a porno modeling job. Her appearance in the magazine Red Porno has no end of complications fo | 1981 | Toshiharu Ikeda | Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (269 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Angels of Iron [Engel aus Eisen]BERLIN, 1948. During the few days of the blockade, a teenager, a man, and a young woman constitute a gang. They profit from the fear, the disorder, and the black market, and commit many, many thefts. | 1981 | Thomas Brasch | Crime, Drama, History, War | 6.7 (106 votes) | 105 | 20241019 |
| Antony & CleopatraAfter the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octav... | 1981 | Jonathan Miller | Drama, History, Romance | 6.3 (159 votes) | 170 | 20240622 |
| Archer - Fugitive from the Empire, TheThe hero is given his mentor's bow (the Heartbow) which chooses its new owner when passed on. It fires arrows that blow up like grenades, but can only be wielded by the one chosen to wield her. The hero is a member of a nomadic tribe | 1981 | Nicholas Corea | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 5.5 (401 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Artemis 81The epic battle for the future of mankind is fought between an angel of light and an angel of death. | 1981 | Alastair Reid | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.9 (181 votes) | 185 | 20211228 |
| ArthurAlcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or mone | 1981 | Steve Gordon | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (27.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Asphalt [Asphalte]Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever. | 1981 | Denis Amar | Drama | 5.4 (131 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Assassination Attempt [Tegeran-43]Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943. | 1981 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Action, Drama, Crime, Romance, Thriller, War | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| At This Late Date, the Charleston [Chikagoro naze ka Charusuton]A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation. | 1981 | Kihachi Okamoto | Comedy | 6.9 (37 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Attack Force ZA group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II. | 1981 | Tim Burstall | Action, Drama, History, War | 5.5 (2.4K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Aviator's Wife, The [La Femme de l'aviateur]A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover. | 1981 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (4.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Bad BloodDuring World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country. | 1981 | Mike Newell (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (370 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Bald Dog [Kopaszkutya]A Hungarian band plays American rock & roll and blues hits with great enthusiasm and passion, but success seems to avoid them. TV and radio don't play their songs, sometimes even their crowd just sits and sips beer.\n\nSomething must b | 1981 | György Szomjas | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 7.4 (551 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Barcelona surObsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her... | 1981 | Jordi Cadena | Crime | 6.0 (88 votes) | 101 | 20240412 |
| Beau PereAfter her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy. | 1981 | Bertrand Blier | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (3K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Beau-PereAfter her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy. | 1981 | Bertrand Blier | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (3K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Being, TheA mutated creature is wreaking havoc in a small town in Idaho. A police chief and a government scientist team up to save their rural town from its menace. | 1981 | Jackie Kong | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.4 (1.7K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Beloved EnemyA corporation decides to outsource one of their contracts to the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. As they work with politicians on both sides of the table to keep the story out of the press, they also try to keep the contract. | 1981 | Alan Clarke | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (52 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Berlin kaputtStory of three partisans whose fates are determined by different encounters with women. | 1981 | Milivoje 'Mica' Milosevic | Drama, Romance, War | 6.3 (63 votes) | 85 | 20240316 |
| Berlin Tunnel 21In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend. | 1981 | Richard Michaels | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (304 votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Bewitched [Gu]While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the case also becomes possessed. A good monk helps fight the evil spirit. | 1981 | Chih-Hung Kuei | Crime, Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (427 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Beyond The UniverseA 21st-century scientist tries to save Earth after two atomic wars. | 1981 | Robert Emenegger | Sci-Fi | 3.9 (91 votes) | 93 | 20230715 |
| Beyond, The aka E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilàA young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell. | 1981 | Lucio Fulci (*) | Horror | 6.8 (22K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Birgit Haas Must Be Killed [Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas]"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. In this film, the agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is | 1981 | Laurent Heynemann | Drama | 6.6 (194 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Bitter HarvestA farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned | 1981 | Roger Young | Drama | 6.8 (276 votes) | 94 | 20220315 |
| Black Cat, The aka Gatto neroA professor with the psychic ability to communicate with the dead uses his powers on his pet cat in order to take vengeance upon his enemies. | 1981 | Lucio Fulci (*) | Horror | 5.9 (3.7K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| The Black LizardYoung swordsman Lung Fei encounters strange omens portending the death of his fiancee Ting Tzu-chu. His enquiries with the help of Chief Constable Tieh Hu reveal an astounding story. | 1981 | Yuen Chor | Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (98 votes) | 82 | 20220423 |
| Blazing Valiant, The [Moeru yusha]Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once the funeral was over, he missed the boat home, so he ends up staying in town | 1981 | Tooru Dobashi | Action, Drama | 6.0 (24 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Blind SpotElisabeth, a young German historian, goes to Lyon, France, to study the life of Flora Tristan, a feminist writer of the 19th century. | 1981 | Claudia von Alemann | Drama | 6.9 (10 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Blink of an Eye [Kisapmata]An crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema, a controlling patriarch loses it over his daughter's marriage and her attempts to escape from their incestuous household. | 1981 | Mike De Leon | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (216 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Blood Wedding [Bodas de sangre]A group of dancers puts Lorca's 'Blood Wedding' on stage, the tragic play about a married man who is still in love with his ex-girlfriend, and tries to reunite with her despite her planned wedding. | 1981 | Carlos Saura | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.5 (1.9K votes) | 67 | 20231001 |
| Bloody BirthdayThree children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members. | 1981 | Ed Hunt | Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (4.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Bloody MoonGirls are killed at a language-school in Spain. | 1981 | Jesús Franco | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.3 (2.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bloody ParrotAn expert swordsman is suspected of being the thief of a treasure sent to Emperor. The swordsman who has nothing to do with the theft investigates and is led on the trail of the supernatural "Bloody Parrot". | 1981 | Shan Hua | Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (187 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Bloody Sex [Sexo sangriento]A lesbian couple on vacation ends up staying with a sinister woman and her strange son in this Spanish giallo. | 1981 | Manuel Esteba | Horror | 4.4 (65 votes) | 82 | 20230715 |
| Blow OutA movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. | 1981 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (50.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Boat Is Full, The [Das Boot ist voll]During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German sold | 1981 | Markus Imhoof | Drama, War | 7.2 (599 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Body HeatIn the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband. | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (34.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Bolero [Les uns et les autres]Trough fabulous music, this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined t | 1981 | Claude Lelouch (*) | Drama, Music | 7.4 (2.5K votes) | 173 | 20211228 |
| Boogens, TheOtherworldly creatures are released from the bootleg tunnels underneath a small-town mining community, and begin chomping on the locals. | 1981 | James L. Conway | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.6 (2.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Boy Soldier, The [Allons z'enfants]This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors... | 1981 | Yves Boisset | Drama, War | 7.4 (374 votes) | 118 | 20240722 |
| Brave Archer 3, TheThe third installment of The Brave Archer series brings Guo Jing and Huang Rong closer together as they struggle to find a cure for the Iron Palm Clan's deadly blows. | 1981 | Cheh Chang | Action, Drama | 6.4 (188 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Brideshead RevisitedTwo young men meet at Oxford. Charles Ryder, though of no family or money, becomes friends with Sebastian Flyte when Sebastian throws up in his college room through an open window. He then invites Charles to lunch after his teddy bea | 1981 | Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Drama, Romance | 8.5 (7.1K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Brooklyn BridgeThis documentary chronicles the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The difficult construction process is described in interesting detail; later parts of the film interview current notables who describe the effects that th | 1981 | Ken Burns | Documentary, History | 7.5 (849 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Brugge, die stilleHugues cannot get over the untimely death of his wife Blanche, who made him happy for ten years. He lives alone in his house in Bruges, a city he would like to be dead like his wife. The sorrowful widower has transformed the place he | 1981 | Roland Verhavert | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (113 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Buddy BuddyDuring a high profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next-door neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems. | 1981 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy | 6.5 (4.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Buddy Goes WestTwo outlaws: "The doctor" (Bud Spencer) and the Indian Girolamo (Amidou) are helping villagers to fight a gang and a corrupt sheriff who has discovered gold under the village. | 1981 | Michele Lupo | Comedy, Western | 6.6 (3.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bunker, TheDramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins') last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city. | 1981 | George Schaefer | Drama, History, War | 6.9 (2.1K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Bürgschaft für ein Jahr Nina Kern is a divorced woman in her late twenties who will soon be fully deprived of her custody rights for her three children, who already reside in a home for the displaced, due to many years of willful neglect. Although she ha... | 1981 | Herrmann Zschoche | Drama | 6.6 (60 votes) | 93 | 20240803 |
| Burial Ground - The Nights of Terror aka Le notti del terroreAn archaeology professor discovers an ancient crypt which contains living dead corpses. The zombies go on a rampage and attack a group of people which the professor had invited to celebrate his discovery. | 1981 | Andrea Bianchi | Horror | 5.7 (5.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Burning, TheA former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement. | 1981 | Tony Maylam | Horror | 6.4 (18K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Bustin' LooseFailed parolee Joe Braxton has one last shot at redemption: by driving school kids from Philadelphia to Washington State. | 1981 | Oz Scott, Michael Schultz | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (3.7K votes) | 94 | 20240605 |
| Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker [Night Warning]An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs. | 1981 | William Asher | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (3.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| ButterflyIn 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine. | 1981 | Matt Cimber | Crime, Drama | 4.7 (1.4K votes) | 108 | 20220315 |
| By DesignA lesbian couple working as fashion designers in Canada ask their photographer to be the father of their child. | 1981 | Claude Jutra | Drama | 5.9 (124 votes) | 92 | 20220806 |
| C.O.D. [Snap!]Albert Zack is a struggling, bumbling, advertising salesman hired to save the Beaver Bra Company from impending doom. He is charged with signing five specific, world-famous, busty woman as endorsers for the bra line. Silly antics and | 1981 | Chuck Vincent, Sigi Krämer | Comedy | 5.4 (235 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Cabbage Soup, The [La Soupe aux Choux]2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup. | 1981 | Jean Girault | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (8.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Caligula and Messalina [Caligula et Messaline]Seductive Messalina will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome. | 1981 | Bruno Mattei, Antonio Passalia, Jean-Jacques Renon | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 3.6 (494 votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Callie & SonCallie was a teenage mother in trouble. Fresh out of the delivery room, her son was taken from her and sold on the black-market. Vowing to find him some day, this is her story. | 1981 | Waris Hussein | Drama | 5.4 (342 votes) | 142 | 20231030 |
| Cannibal FeroxThree friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe. | 1981 | Umberto Lenzi | Adventure, Horror | 5.2 (9.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Cannonball Run, TheA wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks. | 1981 | Hal Needham | Action, Comedy, Sport | 6.3 (35.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Carbon CopyWhen a rich white corporate executive finds out that he has an illegitimate black son, things start falling apart for him at home, at work, and in his social circles. | 1981 | Michael Schultz | Comedy, Drama | 5.6 (2.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Carnival Scenes [De ce trag clopotele, Mitica]A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is Cracanel's lover. One letter starts the ball | 1981 | Lucian Pintilie | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (882 votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| CavemanA caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman. | 1981 | Carl Gottlieb | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (7.9K votes) | 91 | 20220806 |
| CentrespreadThe Story of a photographer's struggle in the glamorous world of nude modeling. | 1981 | Tony Paterson | Drama, Sci-Fi | 4.4 (181 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| ChakraAmma lives in Bijapur with her husband and son, Benwa. When a man attempts to sexually molest her, he is killed by her husband, the trio flee, but the husband is shot dead by the police. Amma re-locates to a shanty slum near Dharavi, | 1981 | Rabindra Dharmaraj | Action | 7.0 (157 votes) | 140 | 20220414 |
| Challenge of the Gamesters [Qian wang dou qian ba]A forerunner to the new wave gambling films, this is one of Wong Jing's first hits--before he would go on to dominate Hong Kong cinema for the next two decades. Although rife with Japanese spies, Shanghai tycoons, beautiful starlets, | 1981 | Jing Wong | Action, Drama | 6.8 (52 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Chanel SolitaireThis movie tells the story of the early life and rise to fame and fortune of French fashion designer Gabrielle ""Coco"" Chanel (Marie-France Pisier), beginning with her upbringing in an orphanage and training as a milliner, but conc... | 1981 | George Kaczender | Biography, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (323 votes) | 107 | 20231001 |
| Chariots of FireTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience. | 1981 | Hugh Hudson | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.2 (58.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon QueenDetective Charlie Chan helps SFPD solve the many bizarre murders. His clumsy grandson Lee, who's getting married, "helps" him. Is the Dragon Queen behind this? | 1981 | Clive Donner | Comedy, Mystery | 4.1 (1.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Cheerful Wind [Feng er ti ta cai]A romance develops between a blind man and a photographer. | 1981 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (160 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Choice of Arms [Le choix des armes]The powerful story of a reformed underworld kingpin whose stable lifestyle is turned upside-down when a desperate, escaped killer hides out at his rural estate. | 1981 | Alain Corneau | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Chosen, TheIn 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant fric | 1981 | Jeremy Kagan | Drama | 7.2 (2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Christiane F.A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute. | 1981 | Uli Edel | Biography, Drama | 7.6 (24.1K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Chu Chu and the Philly FlashFlash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still | 1981 | David Lowell Rich | Comedy | 4.3 (317 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Circle of Deceit [Die Fälschung]A German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can't handle the truth. | 1981 | Volker Schlöndorff | Drama, War | 7.1 (881 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Circle of PowerA group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually. | 1981 | Bobby Roth | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (227 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Clash of the TitansPerseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda. | 1981 | Desmond Davis | Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.9 (43.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Coldest Winter in Peking, The [Huang tian hou tu]A US educated scientist returns to China and suffers during the years of the Cultural Revolution. | 1981 | Ching-Jui Pai | Drama | 7.4 (55 votes) | 120 | 20230328 |
| Comin at YaTragedy strikes as two ruthless brothers kidnap a bride during her wedding. Hurt and angry, H.H. begins his quest to find the love he lost, and take vengeance upon the wicked. Comin' at Ya. | 1981 | Ferdinando Baldi | Western | 5.2 (568 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| CondormanCartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West. | 1981 | Charles Jarrott | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 5.7 (4.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Conquest of Paradise, The [La conquista del paraíso]Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expectin... | 1981 | Eliseo Subiela | Drama | 6.5 (49 votes) | 103 | 20221116 |
| Continental DivideA hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher. | 1981 | Michael Apted | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Corpse ManiaA necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel. | 1981 | Chih-Hung Kuei | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (362 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Coup de torchonA pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so. | 1981 | Bertrand Tavernier | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.5 (5.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Crack, The [El crack]Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, it leads him to the dark underbelly of Madrid where he finds that | 1981 | José Luis Garci | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 131 | 20220315 |
| Crazed Fruit [Kurutta kajitsu]A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems. | 1981 | Kichitaro Negishi | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (102 votes) | 85 | 20220414 |
| Crazy Horse, Intelligent Monkey [Dian ma ling hou]Guards of a casino beat Hou Hsian-Shan because he was caught cheating. Fortunately, kung fu expert Ma Ta rescues him. | 1981 | Shi Chen, Chun-Ku Lu | Action | 6.2 (39 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Cream Horn [Cornetti alla crema]Edwige Fenech and Lino Banfi stars in this Italian sex-comedy from Sergio Martino. Mariana (Fenech) and Domenico (Banfi) are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player. | 1981 | Sergio Martino | Comedy | 6.1 (522 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Creature Wasn't Nice, TheWhen the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On board, lifeform expands into an oozing perso | 1981 | Bruce Kimmel | Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi | 3.5 (1.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Crema, cioccolata e pa... prikaProfessor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife. | 1981 | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Comedy | 5.5 (57 votes) | 91 | 20230328 |
| Crime at the Chinese Restaurant [Delitto al ristorante ciThe officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out. | 1981 | Bruno Corbucci | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (423 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Cukrová boudaIn the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's ... | 1981 | Karel Kachyna | Drama, War | 7.0 (25 votes) | 85 | 20240407 |
| Cutter's WayRichard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter. | 1981 | Ivan Passer | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (6.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Da qiao ying xiong zhuanA hero helps a young student vanquish a cunning, malicious gambling tycoon who's out to take over the family business. | 1981 | Pei-Chuan Li | Comedy | 5.5 (130 votes) | 91 | 20240930 |
| Dangerous Davies - The Last DetectiveWhen D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15 year old cold case. | 1981 | Val Guest | Comedy, Crime, Family | 7.1 (309 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous Love [Porno lui erotica lei]Marina cuts gigolo husband Roberto off from her wealth and when she finds he is seeing a wealthy countess she and the countess plan to teach Roberto a lesson. | 1981 | Mario Siciliano | Comedy, Drama | 5.0 (72 votes) | 87 | 20220723 |
| Dark End of the Street, TheIf a teen couple doesn't confess what they know about a friend's death, an innocent man might hang for a death he didn't cause. | 1981 | Jan Egleson | Drama | 4.6 (130 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Dark Night of the ScarecrowIn a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one. | 1981 | Frank De Felitta | Horror | 6.7 (6.1K votes) | 96 | 20220315 |
| Das Boot [The Boat]The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen (*) | Drama, War | 8.3 (244.3K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Day After Trinity, TheScientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible inventi | 1981 | Jon Else | Documentary, Biography | 7.9 (513 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Day Dream [Hakujitsumu]The young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetics, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in w... | 1981 | Tetsuji Takechi | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Adult | 4.6 (132 votes) | 110 | 20231101 |
| Day of Judgment, AIn the 1920s, a man in black rides into a small Southern town to visit retribution upon the citizens who have strayed from the path of righteousness and religion. He does this, of course, by killing them in various bloody ways. | 1981 | Charles Reynolds | Action, Horror, Drama | 3.8 (196 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Day of the Idiots [Tag der Idioten]Story of a mentally unstable woman who goes into an institution. | 1981 | Werner Schroeter | Drama, Fantasy | 6.3 (238 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Day Of The TriffidsWhen a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over. | 1981 | Ken Hannam | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.3 (2.2K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Dead & BuriedA suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life. | 1981 | Gary Sherman | Horror, Mystery | 6.6 (12K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Deadly BlessingAfter her husband dies under mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her. | 1981 | Wes Craven (*) | Horror, Thriller | 5.6 (5.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Deadly VengeanceA woman sets out to take revenge on the mobster who murdered her boyfriend over a gambling debt. | 1981 | Amin Q. Chaudhri | Action | 4.9 (60 votes) | 84 | 20231001 |
| Death HuntIn 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness. | 1981 | Peter R. Hunt | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Western | 7.0 (7.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Death in VeniceGustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. | 1981 | Tony Palmer | Drama, Music | 6.1 (59 votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Death of a Centerfold - The Dorothy Stratten StoryThe life and death of the ""Playboy"" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten. | 1981 | Gabrielle Beaumont | Biography, Drama | 5.6 (627 votes) | 100 | 20221116 |
| Death ShockSex and black magic in the Norwich countryside | 1981 | Ben Dover, Frank Thring | Horror | 3.0 (145 votes) | 47 | 20240709 |
| Decline of Western Civilization, TheA look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time. | 1981 | Penelope Spheeris | Documentary, History, Music | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Deep Water [Eaux profondes]Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed. | 1981 | Michel Deville | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (797 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Deer of Nine Colors, A [Jiu Se Lu]A fairy deer is betrayed by people that he saved before. | 1981 | Jiajun Qian, Dai Tielang | Animation, Short, Fantasy | 7.6 (227 votes) | 30 | 20231130 |
| Deliverance [Sadgati]Untouchable shoemender Dukhi comes to the Brahmin's and asks him to arrange his daughter's engagement. The Brahmin belongs to a higher caste. He wants Dukhi to work for him (and for free) before agreeing... A plea against the indian | 1981 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Action, Drama | 8.1 (503 votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
| Delusion [The House Where Death Lives]A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered. | 1981 | Alan Beattie | Horror | 4.3 (267 votes) | 82 | 20230619 |
| Demonoid- Messenger of DeathSpouses looking for silver in Mexico find a 300 year old severed hand driven by a demon. | 1981 | Alfredo Zacarías | Horror | 4.4 (1.2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Der Subjektive FaktorAt the end of the 1960s a young woman lays the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a detailed picture is drawn of society, which establishes the women's motivation. | 1981 | Helke Sander | Drama | 7.4 (23 votes) | 183 | 20211228 |
| Desirable Teacher [Pierino contro tutti]Pierino is a precocious but mischievous boy who often plays pranks and makes jokes at school. His enemy is his old teacher. One day Pierino pulls a dirty trick on her, making her break an arm. | 1981 | Marino Girolami | Comedy | 5.0 (457 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Dessert pour Constance, UnIn the 70's, Bokolo and Mamadou sweepers in the city of Paris, looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades | 1981 | Sarah Maldoror | Unknown | 7.8 (23 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Devil and Max Devlin, TheMax, a dead corrupt businessman, makes a Faustian pact with Satan's henchman to drive three people to Hell in exchange for longer life. Soon Max realizes that there still may be good in him. | 1981 | Steven Hilliard Stern | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 5.1 (1.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Devil Woman [Sundelbolong]Sundelbolong is about a Javanese prostitute ghost from Indonesian mythology that is a vengeful spirit looking to haunt some high school students. | 1981 | Sisworo Gautama Putra | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.5 (88 votes) | 102 | 20221228 |
| Devil, The [Xie mo]A hideously ugly witch casts spells on her victims which turns their insides into snakes and worms. | 1981 | Jen-Chieh Chang | Horror, Mystery | 5.4 (173 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Devil's Game, The [I giochi del diavolo]A story about the devil's influence on five people's lives in 20th-century Venice. | 1981 | Lamberto Bava, Mario Bava, Marcello Aliprandi, Giovanna Gagliardo, Piero Nelli | Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 (39 votes) | 0 | 20240709 |
| Dial M for MurderA London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money. | 1981 | Boris Sagal | Thriller | 6.4 (214 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dina e Djangonan | 1981 | Solveig Nordlund | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (25 votes) | 90 | 20240511 |
| Dinner Date, A [Maowid ala ashaa]Maowid ala Ashaa is a 1981 Egyptian romance film, starring Soad Hosni and Ahmed Zaki. The life story of a beautiful and pure woman, interested of the very little things with a great sensibility. | 1981 | Mohamed Khan | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (457 votes) | 103 | 20230328 |
| DiplomafilmDiplomafilm is a short film that Béla Tarr made to graduate from Art School, in 1981. It is the predecessor of The Prefab People, with the same plot and the same actors, but with some changes in the plot. | 1981 | Béla Tarr (*) | Drama, Short | nan | 0 | 20240206 |
| Distant Thunder [Enrai]Urban sprawl and corrupt materialism have a devastating effect on farming families near Tokyo. | 1981 | Kichitaro Negishi | Drama | 7.0 (106 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| DivaTwo tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller. | 1981 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (12.8K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Do You Remember Dolly Bell [Sjecas li se, Dolly Bell]A young man's personality is shaped, involving some weird happenings around. | 1981 | Emir Kusturica (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (6.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| DocumenteurA young French woman, separated from her lover, tries to find a lodging in L.A. for herself and her son. | 1981 | Agnès Varda (*) | Drama | 7.0 (920 votes) | 65 | 20220723 |
| Don't Go in the WoodsA maniacal murderer kills tourists in the woods. | 1981 | James Bryan | Horror, Thriller | 3.8 (3.1K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Dottoressa preferisce i marinai, LaPaola Senatore plays a doctor in a hotel where a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with Paola | 1981 | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Comedy | 3.9 (155 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| DragonslayerA young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom. | 1981 | Matthew Robbins | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.7 (17.6K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| DreadnaughtA short-tempered, violent criminal named "White Tiger" is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe for disguise, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill seve | 1981 | Woo-Ping Yuen | Action, Comedy, Horror | 7.3 (759 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Duel Of The Century, TheLiu Yung and Sun Chien (the Korean kicking The Five Venom from Chang Cheh's internationally popular series) team up to investigate the martial-art murders of a supposedly mortally wounded swordsman, only to find deception, death, dou | 1981 | Yuen Chor | Action, Mystery | 6.0 (116 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| E nachtlang FüürlandA Radio commentator in Zürich, Switzerland, breaks the bonds of his dreary existence for one night in the company of a young woman only to realise at daybreak that he lacks the courage to go through with it. | 1981 | Clemens Klopfenstein, Remo Legnazzi | Unknown | 6.4 (81 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Eagle Fist, TheCaptain Lau Si Chung (Chi Kuan Chun), realizes his kung fu isn't that good when he gets beaten by a weird old man (Cheng Kei Ying). He goes off to a temple to learn from the old man. Once he becomes proficient, the old man tells him | 1981 | Kei-Ying Cheng | Action, Comedy | 6.6 (41 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Early WarningA Christian woman (Delana Michaels) wants a newspaper man (Greg Wynne) to publish a story about a One World Foundation being set up whose only goal is to control the world. She wants him to warn people that this is coming and expl... | 1981 | David R. Elliott | Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (182 votes) | 85 | 20240329 |
| EarthboundA family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out. | 1981 | James L. Conway | Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy | 4.6 (180 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| East of EdenScreen adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel which begins in the years after the American Civil War and, through the story of the Trask family, brings to light a struggle and conflict inherent in the human condition. | 1981 | Harvey Hart | Drama | 7.4 (802 votes) | 1 | 20231001 |
| Edo Porn [Hokusai manga]The 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. | 1981 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 6.5 (386 votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Electric Angel [Ilektrikos angelos]Pivoting around the eternal dipole of man/woman, masculinity/femininity, Thanasis Rentzis' typically experimental film delves deep into the realm of sexuality and eroticism. | 1981 | Thanasis Rentzis | Romance | 6.6 (60 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Elvis and the Beauty QueenAfter separating from his wife Priscilla in February 1972, Elvis Presley begins a love affair with Linda Thompson, a young beauty pageant contestant who became his live-in girlfriend and travelling companion for four of the last five | 1981 | Gus Trikonis | Drama, Musical | 4.4 (147 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Emmanuelle in SohoEmanuelle lives in London where almost everything in the realm of erotic is available. Her friend Kate becomes a nude revue show to help her husband pay the bills. | 1981 | David Hughes, Ray Selfe | Drama | 3.9 (147 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Emperor and His Brother, TheIt's Ti Lung versus Lo Lieh in the period piece action movie The Emperor And His Brother that features some marvellous sets and rudimentary special effects that delightfully gives Ti Lung's character's secret "peacock fist" technique | 1981 | Yuen Chor | Action | 6.2 (106 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Empire of Kids [Gaki teikoku]nan | 1981 | Kazuyuki Izutsu | Action, Drama | 6.1 (24 votes) | 115 | 20220315 |
| Enchanted JourneyA young chipmunk in the city undertakes a journey to return to the forest. | 1981 | Hideo Nishimaki | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 6.6 (136 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Endless LoveDavid and Jade are high-school sweethearts and happy in love. But when Jades grades starts to drop her father forbid the young couple to see each other. Mad with frustration and desire David tries to reverse the decision, with cat... | 1981 | Franco Zeffirelli | Drama, Romance | 4.9 (8.6K votes) | 116 | 20220806 |
| Energy and How to Get ItThe energy czar (Burroughs) gets wind of a scientist's newly discovered secret to free energy. As sung by DrJohn""free juice"", Camera :Gary Leon Hill. | 1981 | Robert Frank | Short | 6.1 (28 votes) | 30 | 20240519 |
| Enter The NinjaAfter passing a ninja master test in Japan, Cole visits a war buddy in the Philippines. He helps him fight men, who want his buddy's plantation. | 1981 | Menahem Golan | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (4.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Erotic Escape [Fuga scabrosamente pericolosa]The daughter of a rich farmer is kidnapped by a fugitive. She is raped and brutalized but finally gets her revenge. | 1981 | Nello Rossati | Action, Adventure | 5.7 (56 votes) | 85 | 20231001 |
| Escape from DS-3Framed for a serious crime, a man attempts to escape from a maximum security satellite prison... | 1981 | Robert Emenegger, Allan Sandler | Crime, Sci-Fi | 4.0 (103 votes) | 90 | 20230619 |
| Escape from Galaxy 3 [StarCrash II]The crew of a space ship confronts an evil galactic ruler out to rule the universe. | 1981 | Bitto Albertini, Luigi Cozzi | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 3.2 (451 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Escape From New YorkIn 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him. | 1981 | John Carpenter (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (137.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Escapees, The [Les paumées du petit matin]Two young women escape from an insane asylum and are taken in by a travelling erotic dance troupe. When the travelling show is raided by the police they are out on the lamb again. | 1981 | Jean Rollin | Adventure, Drama | 5.3 (362 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Evil Dead, TheFive friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. | 1981 | Sam Raimi (*) | Horror | 7.5 (200.1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Evil Stalks This HouseThis is a story about an old dark house and a family curse. | 1981 | Gordon Hessler | Horror, Thriller | 6.3 (70 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| EvilspeakAn outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer. | 1981 | Eric Weston | Horror | 5.7 (4.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| ExcaliburMerlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart. | 1981 | John Boorman (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.4 (60.6K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Exit - Dead End [La patria del rata]El Rata"" is released from prison after having served a sentence for ""political"" crimes during Franco's dictatorship. Now, on the street and with very few opportunities to work, he decides to commit a crime again. | 1981 | Francisco Lara Polop | Action | 6.4 (81 votes) | 87 | 20230619 |
| Eye of the NeedleA ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband. | 1981 | Richard Marquand | Romance, Thriller, War | 7.1 (10.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Eyes of a StrangerA reporter suspects a creepy neighbor, who lives in the high-rise building across from hers, is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area. | 1981 | Ken Wiederhorn | Horror, Thriller | 6.0 (2.7K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| EyewitnessA janitor who claims he's seen a murder becomes romantically involved with the glamorous TV reporter covering the story. | 1981 | Peter Yates | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.0 (4.9K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Fall of Italy, The [Pad Italije]A partisan commander must shoot one of his comrades because he had neglected the struggle and turned to a life of lust and vice. When Italy capitulates in September of 1943 and the war seems over for many Partisans, the commander fol | 1981 | Lordan Zafranovic | Drama, History, Romance, War | 6.7 (292 votes) | 114 | 20220315 |
| Family ReunionElizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher and matriarch of a problematic family who desperately tries to keep her family together, after many years they separated from each other. While she's traveling through the country and meeting h | 1981 | Fielder Cook | Drama | 8.3 (571 votes) | 200 | 20211228 |
| Fan, TheDouglas, a record salesman, is an obsessive fan of actress Sally Ross. When his letters are rejected, he strikes out at her and her loved ones. | 1981 | Ed Bianchi | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.8 (2.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Fangs [Anyab]nan | 1981 | Mohammed Shebl | Horror, Musical | 5.8 (72 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Fantastic Adventures of Unico, The [Unico]When Unico, a young unicorn, is taken from his family by evil gods, his powers of joy and happiness are put to the test. Can Unico's power triumph the darkness? | 1981 | Toshio Hirata, Osamu Tezuka | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7.5 (808 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Fast, Fast [Deprisa, deprisa]Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers. | 1981 | Carlos Saura | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Father and Son [Foo ji ching]A young man dreamed of a career in comics and movies. But his father would rather gave up all he had in order to let him receive formal education. | 1981 | Allen Fong | Drama | 6.8 (106 votes) | 97 | 20220723 |
| Fear No EvilHigh school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on. | 1981 | Frank LaLoggia | Horror | 4.6 (1.4K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Female Teacher - Dirty Afternoon [Onna kyôshi_ Yogoreta hôkago]A schoolteacher gets a phone call regarding one of her female students. It seems that the young girl has been accused of prostitution and requested help from her teacher. The young girl's situation brings to mind some dark inciden... | 1981 | Kichitarô Negishi | Drama | 6.0 (102 votes) | 66 | 20240116 |
| Fever [Goraczka - Dzieje jednego pocisku]The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at t | 1981 | Agnieszka Holland | Drama, History | 6.5 (222 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Final ExamA psycho killer shows up on college campus to slash up pretty co-eds and dumb jocks. | 1981 | Jimmy Huston | Horror, Thriller | 4.7 (3.8K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Fire on the MountainThe story of one man's defiance of the United States government. The hero, John Vogelin, is an old rancher whose property adjoins the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. When the U.S. Air Force tries to take the possession of th | 1981 | Donald Wrye | Drama | 6.7 (131 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| FirecrackerFemme fatale martial arts expert teaches the mafia a lesson. | 1981 | Cirio H. Santiago | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (656 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| First Monday in OctoberFor the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate. | 1981 | Ronald Neame | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (1.6K votes) | 98 | 20230728 |
| First Time, TheA young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor. | 1981 | Charlie Loventhal | Comedy | 4.9 (156 votes) | 96 | 20230424 |
| First WinterWith the father away, an Irish immigrant family struggle to survive their first winter in the Canadian wild. | 1981 | John N. Smith | Short, Drama, History | 6.7 (140 votes) | 27 | 20231213 |
| Flames of Blood [Hono-o no gotoku]The story of a drunken fighter (Sugawara) and an ailing, blind singer (Baisho) amid the power struggle between the Shogunate government and the Emperor in mid-19th century Japan. | 1981 | Tai Katô | Action, Crime | 6.5 (30 votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Foolish Love, A [Oi apenanti]On a hot Athenian July, a reclusive Astronomy student spots a disillusioned woman with his telescope, and his dull existence takes on a new meaning. They coexist in time and space; but, they are so far apart. Will they ever become on | 1981 | Giorgos Panousopoulos | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (388 votes) | 121 | 20220414 |
| For a Cop's Hide [Pour la peau d'un flic]Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town. | 1981 | Alain Delon | Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (1.8K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| For Your Eyes OnlyJames Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel, equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. | 1981 | John Glen | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.7 (98.6K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| For Your Height OnlyMr. Giant has kidnapped the brilliant Dr. Van Kohler and is planning to use the Doctor's invention, the N-bomb, to hold the world hostage. The only one who can foil Mr. Giant's evil scheme is Agent 00, a 3-foot-tall filipino martial | 1981 | Eddie Nicart | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 5.7 (1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Force - FiveA martial-arts expert leads a team of fellow martial artists to rescue a senator's daughter from an island ruled by the evil leader of a fanatical religious cult. | 1981 | Robert Clouse | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5.0 (532 votes) | 96 | 20231013 |
| Fort Apache the BronxIn New York City, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost. | 1981 | Daniel Petrie | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (6.2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Four FriendsA group of four friends form strong bonds while in high school in the early 1960s, then desperately cling to that love during the turbulent counterculture movement and social upheavals that marked the end of the decade. | 1981 | Arthur Penn (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (1.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Four Seasons, TheThree couples vacation together every season. After one divorces, feelings of betrayal and more spawn criticisms of each other. But the things that keep them together are stronger than those which otherwise might pull them apart. | 1981 | Alan Alda | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (4.6K votes) | 107 | 20220414 |
| Fox and the Hound, TheA little fox named Tod, and Copper, a hound puppy, vow to be best buddies forever. But as Copper grows into a hunting dog, their unlikely friendship faces the ultimate test. | 1981 | Ted Berman, Richard Rich, Art Stevens, David Hand, Wolfgang Reitherman | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.3 (90.2K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Fox, The [Srigala]nan | 1981 | Sisworo Gautama Putra | Horror, Thriller | 4.5 (56 votes) | 87 | 20230424 |
| Från och med herr Gunnar PapphammarA collection of comedy skits that depicts the misadventures of the timid and clumsy Gunnar Papphammar. Based on the TV series from 1980. | 1981 | Gösta Ekman | Comedy | 6.4 (449 votes) | 47 | 20240930 |
| Frankenstein IslandWhen a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons. | 1981 | Jerry Warren | Horror, Sci-Fi | 2.1 (1.2K votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Freak OrlandoIn the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story of | 1981 | Ulrike Ottinger | Comedy, Fantasy | 5.9 (274 votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Freddie of the Jungle [Gorilas a todo ritmo]An enterprising woman reporter enlists the help of a hardened African explorer to try to locate a missing showbiz man who disappeared some time ago. | 1981 | Josi W. Konski | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 4.9 (30 votes) | 82 | 20220531 |
| FreedomTeenager Libby Bellow begins soul-searching after becoming legally emancipated by her family and begins working on the road with a travelling carnival, in which Libby begins to think that happiness is at home, despite her personal co | 1981 | Joseph Sargent | Drama | 8.2 (100 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| French Lieutenant's Woman, TheAnna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged. | 1981 | Karel Reisz | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (13.7K votes) | 124 | 20220806 |
| Friday the 13th Part IIFive years after the events of the first film, a summer camp next to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is preparing to open, but the legend of Jason is weighing heavy on the proceedings. | 1981 | Steve Miner | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (65.6K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| From a Far CountryThe film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Thirteen years later, Nazi Germany attacks Poland, starting World War II and invades the | 1981 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Biography, Drama | 5.5 (195 votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Fruits of Passion [Les fruits de la passion]A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him. | 1981 | Shûji Terayama | Drama | 5.4 (1.2K votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| Full Moon HighA popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality. | 1981 | Larry Cohen | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 4.8 (1.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Funhouse, TheFour teenagers visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement. They soon discover, however, that there is nothing innocent or amusing there at all. | 1981 | Tobe Hooper (*) | Horror | 5.9 (13.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Galaxy of TerrorScience fiction suspense thriller, in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations. | 1981 | Bruce D. Clark | Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.1 (7.6K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| GallipoliTwo Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I. | 1981 | Peter Weir (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.4 (38.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Games of Countess Dolingen, The [Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz]In Paris, a young woman, Louise visits her old friend, Nena in a psychiatric clinic, who tells her that she has just finished a novel about a girl who committed suicide. She begins to read, and the events of the novel are bizarrely i | 1981 | Catherine Binet | Drama | 6.3 (148 votes) | 114 | 20220414 |
| Gangster WarsThree poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York City grow up to become feared gangsters. | 1981 | Richard C. Sarafian | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.5 (217 votes) | 121 | 20230328 |
| Gate of Youth, The [Seishun no mon]The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. | 1981 | Kinji Fukasaku, Koreyoshi Kurahara | Drama | 6.7 (47 votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Gentleman Bandit, TheBased on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was fingered by a witness as a holdup man. During a lineup, several other witnesses confirm this. | 1981 | Jonathan Kaplan | Drama | 5.9 (58 votes) | 96 | 20230328 |
| Ghost Keeper [Ghostkeeper]Three friends on a New Year's Eve snowmobiling excursion find themselves stranded at an abandoned lodge where the elderly female innkeeper is concealing a sinister secret. | 1981 | Jim Makichuk | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.1 (1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Ghost Money [Ngein pak phi]It's a belief that the coins which are put into a dead man's mouth will be used in their next life. When that money is stolen, the dead will get it back and the thieves will face consequences from beyond the grave. | 1981 | Chana Krapayun | Horror | 4.4 (18 votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Ghost of Love [Fantasma d'amore]Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover. | 1981 | Dino Risi | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.7 (623 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Ghost StoryTwo generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story. | 1981 | John Irvin | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.3 (8.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Gin Game, TheWeller Martin challenges his new friend Fonsia Dorsey to a game of Gin. But is suddenly in for more than he wagers. | 1981 | Terry Hughes | Drama | 8.0 (117 votes) | 83 | 20231129 |
| Goat, The [La Chevre]A daughter of a millionaire, distinguish by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant - to send after her an equally unlucky person. | 1981 | Francis Veber | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 7.3 (8.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| God of Killers [Woo Yuet dik goo si ]Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand, he meets a beautiful woman who travels with him. | 1981 | Ann Hui | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (240 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Goin' All the Way!Arnie is a typical teenager who wants to lose his virginity, only his girlfriend won't put out. Maybe he can with the help of his wiseguy best friend. | 1981 | Robert Freeman | Comedy | 4.2 (285 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Goliath AwaitsA team of scientists discover a secret underwater community within the wreck of an ocean liner that sank during World War II. | 1981 | Kevin Connor | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Graduation DayA masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race. | 1981 | Herb Freed | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.9 (3.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Great Muppet Caper, TheKermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy. | 1981 | Jim Henson | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical, Mystery | 7.2 (15.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Great White aka L'ultimo squaloJames Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area. | 1981 | Enzo G. Castellari | Horror | 4.3 (2.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Green IceA down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate. | 1981 | Ernest Day | Adventure, Romance | 5.5 (994 votes) | 110 | 20240127 |
| Grilling, The [Garde a vue]A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours. | 1981 | Claude Miller | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (4.6K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Gun for a Cop, A [Il carabiniere]nan | 1981 | Silvio Amadio | Crime, Drama | 3.2 (32 votes) | 85 | 20220723 |
| Gun in the House, AEmily Cates is left at home alone when a stranger breaks in and holds her hostage. | 1981 | Ivan Nagy | Drama | 5.5 (144 votes) | 100 | 20240709 |
| Half Piece of Map [Yonghoui sachondeul]A woman has half of a map that will lead her to a treasure trove of gold ingots that she and and her brother want to deliver to the Korean Independence Army. However, several other factions are searching for the gold and all are expe | 1981 | Hyeok-su Lee | Action, Fantasy | 4.6 (18 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Halloween 2While Dr. Loomis hunts for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and The Shape is not far behind her. | 1981 | Rick Rosenthal | Horror | 6.5 (86.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Hand, TheA comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own. | 1981 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.5 (6K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Hands Up! [Rece do góry]Censored by the Polish authorities, this movie was re-edited and new footage added. It begins with a science fiction motif: abstract images and electronic music take the viewer from ruins of Lebanon to the set of Voelker Schloendorf | 1981 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Drama | 6.6 (338 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Happening [Les soumises]Carolyn Grace has an older husband who insists she wear very old-fashioned night clothes and is obviously unexciting in bed. She has lots of fantasies, triggered by chance events and encounters. | 1981 | Alan Vydra | Adult | 6.1 (63 votes) | 77 | 20230126 |
| Happy Birthday to MeAt the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday. | 1981 | J. Lee Thompson | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (9.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Hard CountryAmbitious young Jodie wants more out of life than the small Texas country town she lives in has to offer. Jodie realizes that in order to pursue her dreams she will have to leave Texas and move to the big city. However, her shiftless | 1981 | David Greene | Drama | 5.8 (728 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island, TheThe staff of the island resort need the aid of the Harlem Globetrotters to keep their island from a greedy millionaire. | 1981 | Peter Baldwin | Adventure, Comedy, Sport | 4.2 (734 votes) | 120 | 20240622 |
| Harry's WarAfter his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause. | 1981 | Kieth Merrill | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (335 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Hawk and the Dove, The [Il falco e la colomba]Fabio Testi is a politician who finds himself descending into a world of drugs and crime when he encounters Lara Wendel. | 1981 | Fabrizio Lori | Drama | 5.7 (73 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| HeartachesA young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the y... | 1981 | Donald Shebib | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (204 votes) | 92 | 20240416 |
| HeartbeepsTwo household robots run away and try to start a family. | 1981 | Allan Arkush | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 4.3 (1.5K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Heat of Desire [Plein sud]In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Se | 1981 | Luc Béraud | Drama | 5.9 (173 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Heat-Haze Theatre [Kagerô-za]A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife. | 1981 | Seijun Suzuki (*) | Fantasy, Romance, Thriller | 7.0 (640 votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Heavy MetalA glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. | 1981 | Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, John Halas, Julian Harris, Jimmy T. Murakami | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (34K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Hedda GablerHedda Gabler (Dame Diana Rigg) is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman (Denis Lill). Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg (Philip Bond), turns up on the scene with tragic results. | 1981 | David Cunliffe | Drama | 6.7 (60 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Hell NightFour college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are stalked by the monstrous survivor of a family massacre years earlier. | 1981 | Tom DeSimone | Horror, Thriller | 5.6 (7.5K votes) | 101 | 20220423 |
| Heute spielen wir den Boß [Wo geht's denn hier zum Film]Konrad Reichenstein and Fritz Paulig have one thing in common: their great love for film. You dream of stepping into the spotlight. Because they are extras, small actors who somehow muddle through from film to film and yet never get | 1981 | Peer Raben | Comedy | 4.5 (34 votes) | 82 | 20220414 |
| High Country, TheJim is a convicted marijuana dealer, who is being pressured by the system to turn State's Evidence. He is accidentally freed from custody by a car crash, is shot & on the run. Kathy is running as well. Her severe learning disability | 1981 | Harvey Hart | Adventure | 5.4 (124 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| High RiskFour naive Americans, in need of easy cash, decide to fly to Colombia and raid the safe of a notorious drug lord with connections to the corrupt military regime. | 1981 | Stewart Raffill | Action, Comedy, Crime | 5.7 (1.2K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| History Man, TheArdently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk (Antony Sher) subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university. | 1981 | Robert Knights | Drama | 8.4 (107 votes) | 0 | 20240121 |
| History of the World - Part 1Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes. | 1981 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy, History, Musical | 6.9 (48.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Hitman In The Hand Of BuddhaA country bumpkin arrives to help his brother's rice business. Things get out of hand while a rival company becomes corrupt. The bumpkin, an ace martial artist, fights off the rivals with the aid of some Buddhist guidence... | 1981 | Jang-Lee Hwang, Yun-Kyo Park | Action | 6.4 (163 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Hollywood High Part IIIt's another year at Hollywood High and the students are upholding the standards of their school. It's the end of the semester and finals are near, but that doesn't stop the girls of Hollywood High from having fun. From the pool t... | 1981 | Caruth C. Byrd, Lee Thornburg | Comedy | 2.4 (369 votes) | 85 | 20230328 |
| Home Sweet HomeAn escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful... | 1981 | Nettie Peña | Horror | 3.6 (744 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Honey [Miele di donna]Young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night--without knowing that it's the particular kind of hotel that serves more than breakfast. Curiously she walks around and watches the maids doing their jobs. She's especially fascina | 1981 | Gianfranco Angelucci | Drama | 5.0 (264 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Honky Tonk FreewayA satire of American progression in which a mayor tries to bribe an official to ensure a ramp connects Ticlaw to an up-and-coming intrastate. When his plan fails, the town residents are forced to take matters into their own hands. | 1981 | John Schlesinger (*) | Action, Comedy | 5.3 (1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Horror Planet [Inseminoid]A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one. | 1981 | Norman J. Warren | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.0 (3.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Hot Bubblegum [Shifshuf Naim]Momo and Yudale take turns mounting Bentzi's foreign buxom cousin, but Yudale and her get stuck together. Momo raises the bar even further by proving the rumors of an accepting older buxom piano tutor, Fritzi. Bentzi looks for love. | 1981 | Boaz Davidson | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (1.9K votes) | 90 | 20230830 |
| Hot Touch, TheA master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII | 1981 | Roger Vadim (*) | Crime, Drama | 5.0 (141 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Hotel America [Hôtel des Amériques]Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. | 1981 | André Téchiné | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (967 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| House by the Cemetery aka Quella villa accanto al cimiteroA New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement. | 1981 | Lucio Fulci (*) | Horror | 6.2 (14K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| The HowlingAfter a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem. | 1981 | Joe Dante | Horror | 6.5 (35K votes) | 91 | 20220423 |
| Hut, The [Pimak]An attractive young woman has been called on to help rid a haunted family of its demons - the male heirs all die young, and one is now in a coma - she has to clear the environment where several exorcists have failed before her. | 1981 | Lee Doo-yong | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.5 (28 votes) | 93 | 20230424 |
| I Love You [Eu Te Amo]Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness. | 1981 | Arnaldo Jabor | Drama | 6.3 (607 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Ideal Landscape, The [Ideaalmaastik]In post-World War II Estonia, Mait Kukemeri, an activist of the Young Communist League arrives to the Metsa collective farm in the back of a travelling cinema truck. As a commissary of the spring sowing, he has orders to usher all th | 1981 | Peeter Simm | Drama | 6.7 (132 votes) | 91 | 20220315 |
| If I Were for Real [Jia ru wo shi zhen de]Taiwanese film about the dark days of the Cultural Revolution and the young people who were destroyed by it, centered on a group of students who perform Nikolai Gogol's play The Inspector General. | 1981 | Toon Wang | Drama | 7.5 (95 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| If You Go Down in the Woods TodayEric Sykes plays a scoutmaster who takes eight scouts camping in peaceful Tangle Woods. When he and one of the cubs become lost, their hilarious adventures are monitored by the Police, Army, Navy, Air Force, MI5 and a bunch of crooks | 1981 | Eric Sykes | Comedy | 5.7 (48 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Il Marchese del GrilloA mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious troubles when a practical joke endangers the Pope. | 1981 | Mario Monicelli | Comedy, History | 7.8 (3.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Image of the BeastThird and best known entry in the Mark IV series of fundamentalist apocalypse films. Fundamentalist Christian guerrilla David helps condemned dissidents escape, attempts to subvert the computerized Mark of the Beast, and generally tr | 1981 | Donald W. Thompson | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.8 (331 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Imp, The [Xiong bang]Ging-Keung encounters sinister turns of fate where he works, and he becomes frightened enough to consult with a Taoist priest. The priest informs him that his workplace had been the site of murdering. | 1981 | Dennis Yu | Horror | 6.3 (249 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Imperial Navy, The [Rengo kantai]A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War. | 1981 | Shûe Matsubayashi | Drama, War | 6.6 (76 votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Improper ChannelsA couple fights for justice to get their injured daughter out of a foster care center. | 1981 | Eric Till | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (158 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| In Search of Famine [Akaler Sandhane]A film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. | 1981 | Mrinal Sen | Drama | 7.5 (284 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| In the Shadow of the SunA collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle. | 1981 | Derek Jarman (*) | Fantasy | 6.6 (258 votes) | 51 | 20220414 |
| InchonDuring the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950. | 1981 | Terence Young | Drama, History, War | 2.7 (770 votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Incredible Shrinking Woman, TheA housewife grows smaller and smaller in reaction to chemicals found in cosmetics and household products. | 1981 | Joel Schumacher | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 5.5 (4.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Incubus, TheA small town's doctor takes matters into his own hands after a series of gruesome and bizarre rape crimes perplex the clueless authorities. | 1981 | John Hough | Horror, Thriller | 5.5 (2.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Inferiority Complex [Mindrák]A humorous criminal story about a dog that knew how to read, appreciated classical music and spoke a foreign language. His primitive master hates his dog's superiority and tries to liquidate it physically. | 1981 | Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Milos Macourek | Animation, Short | 7.1 (22 votes) | 10 | 20231130 |
| Inmate [Carcerato]nan | 1981 | Alfonso Brescia | Drama, Musical | 5.9 (51 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Inner EyeThe life & works of a famous bengali artist named Benode Behari Mukherjee, who lost his eyesight completely, though he was one the pioneers of British Indian modern art. | 1981 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Documentary, Short | 7.8 (164 votes) | 22 | 20211228 |
| Intruder Within, TheDrillers on an oil rig near Antarctica discover that they have accidentally brought up several prehistoric eggs. One egg hatches and becomes an unstoppable creature. Chad Everett and Jennifer Warren risk their lives to stop it. | 1981 | Peter Carter | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.7 (540 votes) | 91 | 20240727 |
| Invincible from Hell, TheAfter cleaning Shanghai of criminals and mafiosi, the hero Lee Sung-sun moves to Tianjin at the request of a friend to help in the fight against the mafia. | 1981 | Sin Wee Kyun | Action | 4.2 (6 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Island of the Evil Spirits [Akuryo-To]About and ex-hippies memories of the death of John Lennon and the strange encounter with the murder mystery of a woman turning schizophrenic of grief. | 1981 | Masahiro Shinoda | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.6 (66 votes) | 131 | 20220315 |
| Jailhouse Wardress [Les gardiennes du pénitencier]After the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries. There they created special laboratories to crate beautiful women for satisfaction of their guards' sexual desires. The main warden in this | 1981 | Alain Deruelle, Jesús Franco | Drama | 3.0 (160 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Jaws of SatanA preacher whose ancestors were cursed by Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake. | 1981 | Bob Claver | Horror | 4.0 (799 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry, The [Jönssonligan & DynamitHarry]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 and Rocky come to welcome him when he's released. But he doesn't t | 1981 | Jonas Cornell | Comedy, Crime | 6.3 (3.9K votes) | 89 | 20220414 |
| Just Before DawnFive young people venture into the backwoods of Oregon to claim a property, and find themselves being stalked by a hulking, machete-wielding psychopath. | 1981 | Jeff Lieberman | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 (6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Kamilla [Løperjenten]A young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father's adultery and mother's deep depression, as she befriends a boy. This endangers her. | 1981 | Vibeke Løkkeberg | Drama | 6.5 (150 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Karate vs Mafia [Kárate contra mafia]In Hong Kong, sailor Lai Chao finds himself wrongfully suspected in a fishy diamond trade. Wanted by the police, harassed by the local godfather and his hooded henchmen, Lai Chao will have to fight for his life and prove his innoc... | 1981 | Ramón Saldías | Action | 4.0 (39 votes) | 82 | 20240515 |
| Kent StateBased on the true story of the student protests at Kent State University in Ohio. This film focuses on the four students who were killed when the National Guard attempted to quell the riots that began on May 4, 1970, after President | 1981 | James Goldstone | Drama, History | 7.3 (195 votes) | 180 | 20220414 |
| Kill and Kill AgainWhen Dr. Horatio Kane is kidnapped and is forced to create an army of martial artists his daughter Kandy Kane is the only one who can help. She enlists the help of Steve Chase to save her father and the day. | 1981 | Ivan Hall | Action, Drama | 5.0 (669 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| KilljoyStory of a young woman's murder and the people who become involved with it. | 1981 | John Llewellyn Moxey | Mystery, Thriller | 5.9 (424 votes) | 96 | 20220414 |
| King of the MountainA group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of ""King of the Hill."" | 1981 | Noel Nosseck | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport | 5.4 (516 votes) | 90 | 20230715 |
| Kingfisher the Killer [Singjâaopá-yák]A violent nightclub owner wants his partner disposed, in order to have complete control of the club. Willing to fight for power, the two engage in a series of action packed arguments. | 1981 | Pasan Leung, Wisan Suntisucha | Action | 4.9 (22 votes) | 109 | 20240524 |
| Kiss Daddy GoodbyeTwo children who have psychic powers use them to avenge the death of their father, who was murdered by a biker gang. | 1981 | Patrick Regan | Horror | 3.7 (310 votes) | 92 | 20221116 |
| KnightridersA medieval reenactment troupe find it increasingly difficult to keep their family-like group together, with pressure from local law enforcement, interest from entertainment agents and a growing sense of delusion from their leader. | 1981 | George A. Romero (*) | Action, Drama | 6.3 (4.9K votes) | 146 | 20220806 |
| KopfstandChristoph Waltz plays the role of Markus Dorn, a young man clearly unhappy in his home life. His mother has a boyfriend he does not like, and she has chosen her paramour over her son's happiness. Markus comes in late one evening, and | 1981 | Ernst Josef Lauscher | Drama | 7.5 (104 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Kraljevski vozIt is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him... | 1981 | Aleksandar Djordjevic | War | 6.4 (166 votes) | 91 | 20240303 |
| Kung Fu Executioner [Shou zhi ao chu]Li, a martial artist, returns home to find out that his father is being harassed by a crime syndicate. Together with an American kung fu champion he vows revenge when the syndicate kills his father. | 1981 | Chan-Wei Lin | Action, Drama | 6.3 (75 votes) | 90 | 20231013 |
| Kung Fu ZombieA criminal comes to town in order to kill Billy Chong over a past dispute. But instead of getting his own hands dirty, he hires a Taoist wizard to animate some zombies to do the job for him. The plan goes horribly awry, and the bad g | 1981 | Shan Hua | Action, Comedy, Horror | 5.2 (435 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Lacrime napulitanenan | 1981 | Ciro Ippolito | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 4.6 (34 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Lady Chatterleys LoverAfter a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs. | 1981 | Just Jaeckin | Drama, Romance | 5.2 (2.8K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Lady of the Camelias [La storia vera della signora dalle camelie]A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm. | 1981 | Mauro Bolognini | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (635 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Lady Stay DeadA Young woman is looking after her sister's house, unaware that her sister and neighbor have been murdered by their handyman who also happens to be a serial killer. | 1981 | Terry Bourke | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (400 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Lady Street FighterExotic Eastern European beauty, Linda Allen, flies in to Los Angeles to track down the evil mobsters who tortured and murdered her sister. Meanwhile, the mobsters are trying to find a tape with information that would be incriminating | 1981 | James Bryan | Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance | 3.4 (287 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| L'amour nuAn educated woman ,with good prospects falls in love with an oceanographer .But breast cancer strikes : will she remain a true woman ,in spite of a mastectomy? | 1981 | Yannick Bellon | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (93 votes) | 100 | 20231001 |
| L'assistente sociale tutto pepeNadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star. When she falls for one of the residents in question, a smal | 1981 | Nando Cicero | Comedy | 4.9 (55 votes) | 86 | 20220414 |
| Last Chase, TheIn a future United States, the only transport available to an individual is public transportation. Predicated on an assertion that "the oil has run out", an increasingly totalitarian central government has ordered all personal vehicl | 1981 | Martyn Burke | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 4.5 (1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Last Harem [L'ultimo harem]Laura, a beautiful, famous and expensive photographic model, arrives in Cannes to pose for a series of photos by a well-known photographer. There she meets Almalarik, oil minister of an emirate in the Middle East. They falls in love | 1981 | Sergio Garrone | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (93 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Last Hole, The [Das letzte Loch]Comedy shot without a script on Super-8mm as a silent film, with intertitles later inserted between scenes. What unfolds is a familiar Achternbusch tale in which the protagonist (here his alter-ego, Hick) is driven by a mad longing a | 1981 | Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | 7.4 (52 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Last Summer [Dernier été]1980. Gilbert and his friends feel that they will not live like their parents and their future is uncertain. | 1981 | Robert Guédiguian, Frank Le Wita | Drama | 7.3 (66 votes) | 85 | 20240306 |
| Leave 'em LaughingMickey Rooney plays real-life clown Jack Thum. Thum and his wife cared for dozens of unwanted children. When Thum realizes he has terminal cancer, he falls apart and his wife must help him regain his innerstrength and deal with re... | 1981 | Jackie Cooper | Drama | 6.9 (63 votes) | 98 | 20240622 |
| Legend of the Lone Ranger, TheThe sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. | 1981 | William A. Fraker | Action, Adventure, Western | 5.1 (2.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Lenin in Paris [Lenin v Parizhe]1910 lernen sich Lenin und Inès Armand in Paris kennen. Inès Armand war dorthin aus der Verbannung (Archangelsk) geflohen und gründete mit Lenin die Parteischule von Longjumeau. In Jutkevitchs Film bildet die fiktive Liebesgeschichte | 1981 | Leonid Ejdlin, Sergei Yutkevich | Drama | 4.9 (142 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Liar, The [Valehtelija]Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses. | 1981 | Mika Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (561 votes) | 53 | 20211228 |
| Life After Life [Zai sheng ren]Puppets are brought to life and terrorize a rural area in medieval China. | 1981 | Wai-Chuen Yung | Horror | 5.7 (64 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| LifepodThe first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. A handful of people are trapped onboard. | 1981 | Bruce Bryant | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 4.8 (259 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Light Years Away [Les années lumière]A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds. | 1981 | Alain Tanner | Drama | 7.2 (503 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Lili MarleenIn 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top. | 1981 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama, Music, Romance, War | 7.1 (3.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Lion vs. LionThe traditional lion dance never looked so good as in Lion vs. Lion which captures the most impressive sequences of lion dancing on film. Lo Mang teams up with Wong Yu, as they inadvertently turn from vagabond kung-fu school operator | 1981 | Yuet-Sang Chin, Hsia Hsu | Action, Drama | 5.6 (144 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Liten IdaLittle Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enoug... | 1981 | Laila Mikkelsen | Drama | 6.6 (128 votes) | 87 | 20231013 |
| Living Sword, TheThis movie is a story written by Ku Lung, about a young swordsman who is plunged into a deep depression after his father is poisoned to death. The next morning he discovers the revival of his dead father and suspects that his father | 1981 | Chia Li | Action, Fantasy, Mystery | 5.0 (22 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| LolaA seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything-and everyone-is for sale. | 1981 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (5.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| L'ombre rougeIn April 1937, in Spain, the Republicans lacked arms. A network orchestrated by the Soviet secret services is being set up all over Europe. Anton, an agent of Stalin, controls the Parisian sector. He was arrested one night by the ... | 1981 | Jean-Louis Comolli | Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (54 votes) | 112 | 20230424 |
| Lonely Heart [Kôfuku]There is a shooting at a small bookstore in town. When the police arrive they find three victims two of whom have already died. One of the dead uttered something strange before dying. The criminal has fled the scene. Coincidentally, | 1981 | Kon Ichikawa (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.9 (69 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| LookerThree of four models, who had plastic surgery done by Larry after a computed list, are dead. Neither the cops nor Larry believe they're suicides. Larry investigates and stays with the fourth model. Who's behind the lists and murders? | 1981 | Michael Crichton | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.1 (5.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Looks and SmilesMick and Alan, two friends who have just left school, are full of dreams for the future. But against the background of Thatcher's Britain, the two soon wake up to reality. From acclaimed Director Ken Loach. | 1981 | Ken Loach (*) | Drama | 6.9 (439 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny MovieBugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Toon shorts. | 1981 | Friz Freleng | Animation, Comedy, Crime, Family, Music, Western | 7.2 (2.3K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| LoopholeWhen architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults. | 1981 | John Quested | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (746 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Love & MoneyA billionaire businessman hires a man to influence a South American dictator. He winds up having an affair with the billionaire's wife. | 1981 | James Toback | Drama, Romance | 4.3 (281 votes) | 90 | 20231030 |
| Love And Lies [Vam i ne snilos]A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of t | 1981 | Ilya Frez | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (1.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Love Letter [Rabu retâ]Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others. | 1981 | Yôichi Higashi | Romance | 5.9 (56 votes) | 83 | 20220723 |
| Love Massacre [Ai sha]The story of a young co-ed whose boyfriend turns into a demented stalker after the suicide of his sister. | 1981 | Patrick Tam | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.8 (166 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Loveless, TheTrouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona. | 1981 | Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery | Drama | 6.1 (2.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Lovely But DeadlyA cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked. | 1981 | David Sheldon | Action, Drama, Thriller | 4.3 (310 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| LugerChris Luger, a fascistic psychopath from The Hague, kidnaps the simple-minded daughter of a millionaire. Her dad refuses to pay the ransom. | 1981 | Theo van Gogh | Crime, Thriller | 5.8 (89 votes) | 85 | 20240504 |
| Lunch WagonThree women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from their competitor Mr. Schmeckler: their presence is interfering with some sort of illegal activity he's involved in. While Schmeckler busies himself trying... | 1981 | Ernest Pintoff | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 4.7 (278 votes) | 88 | 20231001 |
| L'uomo della sabbianan | 1981 | Giulio Questi | Fantasy, Horror | 6.3 (16 votes) | 77 | 20220414 |
| Ma première brasseIn ""My First Breast Stroke"" the director whimsically describes his learning to finally swim at an advanced age as ""the most important event since man walked on the Moon."" | 1981 | Luc Moullet | Short | 6.8 (35 votes) | 43 | 20220824 |
| Mad Foxes [Los violadores]A man seeks revenge after a biker gang murders his family. | 1981 | Paul Grau | Action, Thriller | 5.3 (810 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Mad Max 2 - The Road WarriorIn the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits. | 1981 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (175.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Madame Caligula [Lady Caligula in Tokyo; Tôkyô Karigyura fujin]A housewife leaves her husband after he has been cheating on her. She meets an old girlfriend from school, a promiscuous woman who introduces her to a world of sexual survival by first letting her kidnapped, bound and sexually exploi | 1981 | Kôyû Ohara | Drama | 5.6 (51 votes) | 60 | 20220315 |
| Madame Claude 2A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny. She knows too much about the dissolute mores of the French po... | 1981 | François Mimet | Drama | 4.3 (125 votes) | 100 | 20230328 |
| Madame in ManhattanWayland Flowers and his infamous Madame - who describes herself as an ""alcoholic sex fiend"" - are our escorts on an unforgettable, often risque tour of the Big Apple. Dressed in lavish wardrobe, Madame sings, cackles and hoots her... | 1981 | Thomas V. Grasso | Comedy | 7.9 (35 votes) | 60 | 20231231 |
| Madame Olga's Pupils [Las alumnas de madame Olga]Madame Olga is the owner of a luxurious brothel in London. When one of her girls dies while with a client, a young man, Rafael, girl's friend comes and asks about her death. But soon he starts to work for Olga as a pimp. When he meet | 1981 | José Ramón Larraz | Drama | 4.6 (94 votes) | 83 | 20220315 |
| Madame Wang'sThe story about a sadomasochistic East German who comes to L.A. looking for Jane Fonda to help lead the revolution. | 1981 | Paul Morrissey (*) | Drama | 6.2 (77 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Madame XThrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defen | 1981 | Robert Ellis Miller | Drama | 7.0 (114 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Made in China [Ninja in the Claws of the CIA; Sha shou ying]Kung fu champ John is given the chance to train CIA agents in martial arts by using self-hypnosis. But when he discovers the reason he escapes and the CIA go after him. John must fight for his life all over Europe as he flees the ... | 1981 | John Liu | Action | 4.4 (144 votes) | 75 | 20230806 |
| Madhouse [There Was a Little Girl]A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday. | 1981 | Ovidio G. Assonitis | Horror | 5.6 (2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Madly in Love [Innamorato pazzo]Barnaba, a rude bus driver who enjoys the attention of women, one day meets Principessa Cristina, the princess of a local principality. | 1981 | Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (3.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| MadmanA legendary psychopathic murderer stalks a summer camp. | 1981 | Joe Giannone | Horror, Thriller | 5.2 (5.6K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| MaeveMaeve (Mary Jackson) returns to Belfast after being away for several years, and she stays in the family home with her sister and father. | 1981 | Pat Murphy | Drama | 6.8 (121 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Maître d'école, LeAfter having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher. | 1981 | Claude Berri | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (1.1K votes) | 95 | 20231001 |
| MalevilA group of ordinary French survived a nuclear war and found themselves in the face of what was left of civilization. | 1981 | Christian de Chalonge | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.6 (774 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| MalouMalou feels that the difficulties she is experiencing in her relationships lie in her past and so she searches out information about her mother. Her mother, a nightclub singer who lived in Germany, France and Argentina, becomes the f | 1981 | Jeanine Meerapfel | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (46 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Man of Iron [Czlowiek z zelaza]A few years after the events of Czlowiek z marmuru (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike. | 1981 | Andrzej Wajda (*) | Drama, History | 7.4 (3.3K votes) | 156 | 20211228 |
| Man on the Brink [Bin yuen yan]An undercover cop goes deep undercover to inside one of Hong Kong's most notorious Triad gangs only to find him getting consumed by a life of crime and seediness. | 1981 | Kwok-Ming Cheung | Crime, Drama | 7.2 (116 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| MandalaA story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea. | 1981 | Kwon-taek Im | Drama | 7.4 (324 votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| ManonThe story of the rise and fall of a young courtesan. | 1981 | Yôichi Higashi | Drama | 7.4 (29 votes) | 108 | 20220531 |
| Margin for MurderAfter his best friend is killed in a car crash, detective Mike Hammer starts an investigation of his own. He soon discovers that Joey was already dead before the crash, but powerful people are willing to do anything to stop him. | 1981 | Daniel Haller | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.1 (56 votes) | 98 | 20231001 |
| Maria, MirabellaTwo little girls - Maria and Mirabella - go to the woods for a walk and encounter several magical characters, among them a frog with his feet frozen in ice, a fireworm whose shoes keep catching fire, and a butterfly who's afraid of f | 1981 | Ion Popescu-Gopo | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.5 (636 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Marianne & Juliane [Die bleierne Zeit]Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live. | 1981 | Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | 7.3 (2.5K votes) | 106 | 20231030 |
| Marianne and Juliane [Die Bleierne Zeit]Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live. | 1981 | Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | 7.4 (2.3K votes) | 106 | 20220414 |
| Martial ClubWong Fei-Hong and his once-rival, now friend, find themselves and their martial arts schools pitted against a rival school which uses a Kung Fu expert from the North to do their dirty work. | 1981 | Chia-Liang Liu | Action, Drama | 7.1 (484 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| MasadaAfter the destruction of the Second Temple, nine hundred Jewish zealots hold out against a five thousand man Roman legion on the mountaintop fortress of Masada. | 1981 | Boris Sagal | Action, Drama, History | 7.8 (2.4K votes) | 2 | 20231013 |
| Masked Avengers, The [Cha shou]Philip Kwok (Lizard venom) plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers (incl Chiang Sheng, venom student) come to the town to catch the killers, | 1981 | Cheh Chang | Action, Drama | 7.1 (717 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| MegalomediaA satirical enquiry into the origins of media, their distribution and their effects on the way we behave. Those familiar with cartoonist Bruce Petty's award winning film Leisure will enjoy the same sharp wit brought to bear on ano... | 1981 | Bruce Petty | Short, Comedy | nan | 29 | 20231013 |
| Mémoire courte, LaSee what movies and TV series you can watch for free today, and visit IMDb Freedive for even more. Select any poster below to play the movie! | 1981 | Georges Paumier | Comedy | nan | 105 | 20211228 |
| Memoirs of a SurvivorSet in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion. | 1981 | David Gladwell | Sci-Fi | 5.4 (328 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| MephistoIn early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor finds himself before a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of succe | 1981 | István Szabó | Drama | 7.8 (10.3K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Midnight OfferingsVivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discover... | 1981 | Rod Holcomb | Horror | 5.8 (628 votes) | 100 | 20230424 |
| A Midsummer Night's DreamThe adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with fairies come to light in a moonlit forest. | 1981 | Elijah Moshinsky | Comedy | 6.7 (338 votes) | 112 | 20240622 |
| Minestrone, ILRome,1960.Four different people meet each other on Olympic games.They follow games and become friends talking about their sad lifes. | 1981 | Sergio Citti | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (240 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| ModelIn my entry on ""Juvenile Court"", I discussed the metaphorical use of a documentary subject. Should a subject reflect only itself, or can it be used to reflect a broader context?The issue of using events in documentary films to focus on broader events could be discussed further using Wiseman's film ""Model"" as an example. This film has been criticized for lacking the ""edge"" of Wiseman's earlier films, and indeed, there at first don't appear to be any stand out scenes that leap out at the viewer. One would have thought that with a subject such as the fashion industry, Wiseman would have a lot to say concerning class and culture. Upon closer inspection however, one can see details that reflect subtle comments about the subjects. The detachment from the subject could be a reflection of the coldness of the atmosphere.There are many examples of this. In his essay ""Wiseman's 'Model' and the Documentary Project"", Dan Armstrong writes: ""In sequence after sequence he shows us models at work, presenting themselves to the camera after being suitably dressed, painted combed, brushed, placed into a context, and moved about. They are, in effect, so many props, inanimate objects, mannequins to display the clothing and project 'personality.' In one revealing sequence, three French models get the pose 'right' only after following directions to 'ignore one another. Pretend you're mannequins in a Bloomingdale window.'""Armstrong goes on to talk of a scene where male models stand in the corner of a room during a party, in frozen mannequin poses, sometimes framing them between some of the 'beautiful' party-goers. Armstrong also mentions Wiseman's repeated use of mannequins, ""employing them as symbols of the commodified self, the individual as object and product of the market."" What should we make of Wiseman's detached view?Perhaps ultimately we should all judge for ourselves. Wiseman makes his films to try to bring a point across, but not force it. As Wiseman in a 2000 interview with ""Film Maker"" magazine put it: ""The notion that [my films] could be objective ? I don't know how to deal with that. Every aspect of filmmaking represents a choice, whether it's the choice of subject matter, the way it's shot the way it's edited, the length of the film, or the duration and order of the sequences?. So I've never been able to get involved in this objectivity business. But at the same time, the word I substitute for 'objective' is 'fair.' And again, that's totally subjective. But I mean fair in the sense that I try to be open to the experience I have in making the film?. I try not to impose my preconceived ideas onto the material.""We have here an example of a filmmaker whom although makes films with a certain goal, there is enough in them to suggest that he is aware of other opinions and regards them as well. As for whether his films are exploitative, it could be said that what a person brings to the film, his or her opinion about what they have seen, is entirely their own, and has nothing to do with Wiseman. Ultimately, it could be said that he just makes films, and despite what believes about what he has filmed, what is ethical, or what is unethical, is only what we agree, or disagree with. | 1981 | Frederick Wiseman (*) | Documentary | 7.1 (149 votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Modern ProblemsJealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little re... | 1981 | Ken Shapiro | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 5.0 (5.6K votes) | 93 | 20221228 |
| Modern RomanceAlbert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend. | 1981 | Albert Brooks (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (3.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Mommie DearestThe abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted. | 1981 | Frank Perry | Biography, Drama | 6.7 (15.8K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Monster Club, TheA writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs. | 1981 | Roy Ward Baker | Comedy, Horror, Musical | 5.9 (3.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Monstrous Corpse, A [Goeshi]The newly installed radio transmitter using ultra sonic wavelengths has caused all the corpses in the local cemetaries to rise up. The zombies go on a rampage in a endless search for blood. | 1981 | Beom-gu Kang | Fantasy, Horror | 5.1 (82 votes) | 85 | 20240605 |
| MontenegroA bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle. | 1981 | Dusan Makavejev | Drama, Comedy | 6.6 (2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Moto perpetuoShows an absurd picture of our never ending changing culture and history. | 1981 | Béla Vajda | Animation, Short | 7.2 (49 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
| Ms.45A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol. | 1981 | Abel Ferrara | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (10.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Muddy River [Doro no kawa]In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty. | 1981 | Kôhei Oguri | Drama | 7.8 (864 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Mulher ObjetoRegina is a woman from a poor family and married with and former secretary of the wealthy Hélio. Regina has a block with Hélio and can not have sex with him, in spite of fantasizing kinky sex with every man she meets. She goes to ... | 1981 | Silvio de Abreu | Drama | 5.3 (225 votes) | 125 | 20240228 |
| Munsters' Revenge, TheWhen a wax museum owner attempts to frame the Munsters for pulling a jewelry heist, they must both prove their innocence and find out the true thieves. | 1981 | Don Weis | Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (951 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Murder in TexasStory of Texas heiress Joan Robinson, who married plastic surgeon John Hill. Her father, Ash, is suspicious of Hill, thinking that he married Joan for money, which he used to buy a house and indulges in some odd hobbies. He eventuall | 1981 | William Hale | Drama | 7.0 (366 votes) | 200 | 20220414 |
| Murder Syndrome [Murder Obsession]Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent | 1981 | Riccardo Freda | Horror, Mystery | 5.3 (772 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Muscle Market, TheDanny Duggan's rough-house business methods and lifestyle owe more to early influences than the CBI. But with the bottom falling out of the building game playing at gangster is only fun on the winning side. | 1981 | Alan Dossor | Comedy, Drama | 8.7 (45 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| My Bloody ValentineA decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead. | 1981 | George Mihalka | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (20.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| My Dinner with AndreTwo old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews. | 1981 | Louis Malle (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| My Wife Goes Back to School [Mia moglie torna a scuola]Aristide Buratti is a wealthy grocer married to attractive Valentina. Although they seem to have a happy marriage, Valentina feels herself culturally inferior because she is a high school dropout. Despite her husband's objections, sh | 1981 | Giuliano Carnimeo | Comedy | 4.9 (163 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| My Young Auntie [Zhang bei]Cheng Tai-Nan (Kara Hui) is an honest and faithful servant of a dying patriarch who wants nothing more than to protect his vast wealth from his selfish, conniving nephew, Yung-Sheng. Tai-Nan is young enough to be his granddaughter, b | 1981 | Chia-Liang Liu | Action, Comedy | 6.8 (717 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Mysterious Castle In The Carpathians, The [Tajemství hradu v Karpatech]In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. | 1981 | Oldrich Lipský (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (1.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Mystery of the Third Planet, The [Tayna tretey planety]A group of peaceful space explorers find out a trail of a mysterious plot. | 1981 | Roman Kachanov | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (2.8K votes) | 48 | 20211228 |
| Mystery on Monster Island [Misterio en la isla de los monstruos]A young man and his traveling buddy embark on a global journey onboard their ship, only to be shipwrecked on a desolate island teeming with prehistoric creatures and gold-hunting bandits. | 1981 | Juan Piquer Simón | Adventure, Comedy, Horror | 3.7 (934 votes) | 100 | 20220423 |
| Mystics in Bali [Leák]A woman researches a book that takes her to the black magic cult of Leák in Bali. She meets an evil witch who promises to train her dark arts. But she is tricked and turned into a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from h... | 1981 | H. Tjut Djalil | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (1.3K votes) | 86 | 20220806 |
| Napoli, Palermo, New York - Il triangolo della camorraA Neapolitan camorra boss has retired from business but when his wife gets killed he gets back into action, and goes to the States to get his revenge. | 1981 | Alfonso Brescia | Crime, Drama | 5.4 (46 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Narrow Street [Xiao Jie]The film is a powerful condemnation of the political radicalism of the Cultural Revolution and shows how ordinary people were victimized during a decade of turmoil. | 1981 | Yanjin Yang | Drama | 7.7 (30 votes) | 100 | 20220731 |
| National Mummy, The [La momia nacional]The mummy of an Egyptian princess arrives in Spain, brought by the members of a scientific expedition. Her powers soon start to take hold. | 1981 | José Ramón Larraz | Comedy, Horror | 3.8 (56 votes) | 85 | 20230328 |
| NeighborsA quiet man's peaceful suburban lifestyle is threatened by the new, obnoxious couple that moves in next door. | 1981 | John G. Avildsen (*) | Comedy | 5.6 (7.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Nesting, TheA writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes. | 1981 | Armand Weston | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.9 (1.6K votes) | 103 | 20240319 |
| Nevera po slovensky [Infidelity the Slovak Way]A comedy about three flirtatious woodcutters realistically capturing Slovak village life and criticizing insincerity, hypocrisy and male pride. | 1981 | Juraj Jakubisko | Comedy | 6.9 (228 votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Nice DreamsDisguised as ice cream vendors, Cheech and Chong make--and subsequently lose--millions of dollars selling a batch of marijuana with an unusual side effect. | 1981 | Tommy Chong | Comedy, Crime | 6.2 (7.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Night of HorrorFour friends are stranded on what was once an old civil war battle ground and are haunted by the souls of those who died there. | 1981 | Tony Malanowski | Horror | 1.4 (413 votes) | 76 | 20231109 |
| Night of the Werewolf [El retorno del Hombre Lobo]An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood. | 1981 | Paul Naschy | Horror | 6.0 (810 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Night Riders [Nocní jazdci]Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax in the closing shoot-out. Instead of the Wild West, the gunshots go off on the Slov | 1981 | Martin Hollý | Drama | 7.2 (53 votes) | 93 | 20220315 |
| Night SchoolWho's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled. | 1981 | Ken Hughes | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.6 (2.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, TheA small-town stud wants to go to Nashville to be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister works as his manager. Their dream hits jeopardy when they cross paths with a small-town sheriff. | 1981 | Ron Maxwell | Drama, Music | 6.0 (996 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| NighthawksWhen one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary. | 1981 | Bruce Malmuth, Gary Nelson | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.4 (19.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| NightmareA mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution. | 1981 | Romano Scavolini | Horror | 5.7 (3.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Nightmare Man, TheA lonely Scottish island is stalked by a brutal killer who may be from another world... | 1981 | Douglas Camfield | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.7 (185 votes) | 0 | 20221228 |
| Ninja in the Deadly Trap [Shu shi shen chuan]3 men trained in separate styles by the same teacher are located to stop an assassination attempt by marauding ninjas. | 1981 | Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok | Action, Drama | 6.5 (171 votes) | 92 | 20231231 |
| No Mercy, No Future [Die Berührte]Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a ... | 1981 | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Drama | 6.3 (124 votes) | 110 | 20230328 |
| No Place to HideAmy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help ... | 1981 | John Llewellyn Moxey | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (348 votes) | 100 | 20220912 |
| Nobody's PerfektThe story of a group of misfits living in Miami, and their revenge against government bureaucracy. After the city refuses to pay for the damage to their car caused by a pothole, the three friends, including one with constant short-te | 1981 | Peter Bonerz | Comedy | 4.6 (220 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Notorious Eight [Chin mun bat jeung]Old style kung fu films always had brothel, restaurant, and of course gambling scenes. Gambling films became popular in the early 80s, so it made sense to have an intense poker game standoff between early good guy, kung fu star Chen Kuan Tai, and early villain, kung fu star Lo Lieh. The fists and cards really fly in ""Notorious Eight"" as Chen proves once again that ""flushing"" out the bad guys makes great box office sense. | 1981 | Chung Sun | Action, Crime, Adventure | 5.8 (33 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Notturno con gridaWhen a member of a group of occultists is violently slain, the rest repair to the woods, where they are haunted by an apparently supernatural force. | 1981 | Ernesto Gastaldi, Vittorio Salerno | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.0 (50 votes) | 75 | 20231114 |
| Nuclear Shelter [Abrigo Nuclear]Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After... | 1981 | Roberto Pires | Sci-Fi | 6.6 (80 votes) | 86 | 20230328 |
| Nude Body Case in Tokyo, The [Woman Revenger; Nu xing de fu chou]Learning of childhood friend Meihua's death, Lingling goes to Japan to find Meihua's sister, Meifeng. Brutal gangsters demand Lingling return an item Meihua stole, and hold Meifeng hostage. Old friends help Lingling confront the g... | 1981 | Yang-Ming Tsai | Crime, Thriller | 6.0 (45 votes) | 81 | 20231213 |
| Obscene - The Case of Peter Herzl [Obszön - Der Fall Peter Herzl]A West German man, mistaken by the police for a left wing terrorist, hides in Vienna with a prostitute and her incestuous teen daughter. They become both a threesome and a happy surrogate family, but nothing lasts forever. | 1981 | Hans-Christof Stenzel | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (113 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Obsession [Circle of Two]The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a sixty-year-old painter. | 1981 | Jules Dassin | Drama | 5.7 (676 votes) | 106 | 20231001 |
| Of Mice and MenA TV adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel. George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled f... | 1981 | Reza Badiyi | Drama | 7.2 (557 votes) | 150 | 20240419 |
| Oficio de tinieblasSet in 1934 and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. On ... | 1981 | Archibaldo Burns, José Luis Urquieta | Drama | 6.6 (25 votes) | 105 | 20231001 |
| Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians, The [Pruncul, petrolul si Ardelenii]The three Brad brothers want to return to Romania, but one of them gets married and they buy a farm. Unfortunately for them, the neighbors are Hungarian, and they become enemies. | 1981 | Dan Pita | Comedy, Western | 7.6 (444 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Olsen-banden over alle bjerge!Egon Olsen has a plan. After several plans/attempts at the gang getting the red bag with compromising documents on illegal int'l arms deals, will they succeed in Paris? | 1981 | Erik Balling | Comedy, Crime, Family | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Olsen-bandens flugt - over plankeværketMoney's needed for Kjeld's silver wedding and Egon Olsen has an ingenious plan - steal a red bag with DKK5000000 from the crooked VP of Denmark's largest insurance company. Will Egon survive it? | 1981 | Erik Balling | Comedy, Crime, Family | 6.8 (1.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Omen 3 - The Final ConflictThe now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him. | 1981 | Graham Baker | Horror | 5.6 (19.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| On Golden PondNorman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms. | 1981 | Mark Rydell | Drama | 7.6 (30.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| On The Right TrackLester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, though, everyone wants a piece of the action | 1981 | Lee Philips | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 (528 votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| One Armed Executioner, TheThis is the story of an Interpol agent turned restaurateur, out for revenge against the gangsters that cut off his arm and killed his bride. This tragedy left him deeply depressed, and his battle with depression has to be won firs... | 1981 | Bobby A. Suarez | Action, Drama | 5.9 (273 votes) | 95 | 20230328 |
| One from the HeartA couple has a fight after living together 5 years in Las Vegas. They go out and celebrate 4th of July, each with a new partner. Breakup? | 1981 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| One Way Only [Dan cheng lu]A motorbike workshop owner, although injured during an illegal motorcycle race, continues to race regardless of the physical consequences and the law. | 1981 | Danny Lee, Ngai Choi Lam | Adventure, Drama | 6.0 (24 votes) | 98 | 20240530 |
| Only When I LaughA 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 of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and i... | 1981 | Glenn Jordan | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (1.6K votes) | 120 | 20230424 |
| Orchard End Murder, TheCharthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway halt, where she is first entertained to tea | 1981 | Christian Marnham | Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (160 votes) | 48 | 20211228 |
| Orion's Loop [Petlya Oriona]A strange phenomenon has been noticed on the outskirts of our Solar system that quickly approaches the Earth. It's called "Orion's Loop." A spaceship with a crew of people and androids identical to them is sent to intercept the anoma | 1981 | Vasili Levin | Sci-Fi | 4.9 (157 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| OthelloGeneral Othello (Sir Anthony Hopkins) becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair, even though there is no evidence. | 1981 | Jonathan Miller | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (448 votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| OthelloGeneral Othello (Sir Anthony Hopkins) becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair, even though there is no evidence. | 1981 | Jonathan Miller | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (488 votes) | 195 | 20240622 |
| Other Hell, The [L'altro inferno]Nuns become possessed by the Devil and lust after the abbot! | 1981 | Bruno Mattei | Horror, Thriller | 4.7 (931 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Other One, The [Conversa Acabada]The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa | 1981 | João Botelho | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (100 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| OutlandA federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy. He gets no help from the workers or authorities when he finds himself marked for murder. | 1981 | Peter Hyams | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western | 6.6 (29.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Outlaw - The Saga of Gisli [Útlaginn]From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland. | 1981 | Ágúst Guðmundsson | Biography, Drama | 6.5 (320 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Outsider, The [Szabadgyalog]Portrait of a young unstable man, unable to find happiness with a woman. Once a factory worker and nurse. Plays the violin, get kicked out of music school. Becomes a disc jockey. | 1981 | Béla Tarr (*) | Drama | 6.4 (520 votes) | 122 | 20230424 |
| Passion of Love [Passione d'amore]In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local d | 1981 | Ettore Scola | Drama, History, Romance | 7.2 (888 votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| PaternityA single man searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached. | 1981 | David Steinberg | Comedy, Romance | 5.0 (1.1K votes) | 94 | 20240727 |
| Patricia Neal Story, TheThis is the story of Patricia Neal who was a famous Hollywood actress and her marriage to Roald Dahl the author. Patricia had three massive strokes and was unable to walk or talk leaving Roald to look after their children and care fo | 1981 | Anthony Harvey, Anthony Page | Biography, Drama | 7.0 (190 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Pehla Adhyaynan | 1981 | Vishnu Mathur | Drama | 8.0 (8 votes) | 130 | 20220414 |
| Pennies From HeavenDuring the Great Depression, a sheet-music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher. | 1981 | Herbert Ross | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (5.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Peter and PaulPeter the Fisherman and Paul of Tarsus assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Jesus Christ and their own personal conflicts. | 1981 | Robert Day | Biography, Drama, History | 7.6 (650 votes) | 198 | 20231101 |
| Phantom Killer [Fen ku lou]nan | 1981 | Stanley Sui-Fan Fung | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (30 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Pick-Up Girls [La chica de las bragas transparentes]A private investigator gets mixed up in a splitting couple's mutual aggression, but after receiving a lot of abuse himself, gets the help of two whores. But with so many women around him, the end of the case seems far - as Mexico is. | 1981 | Jesús Franco | Comedy, Crime | 3.4 (213 votes) | 99 | 20220723 |
| Pig-Chicken Suicide [Tonkei shinjû]Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife and surrealism to tell the story of two Koreans living in Japan who's love is destroyed due to overwhelming racial dis | 1981 | Yoshihiko Matsui | Drama, Horror | 6.2 (105 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| PikooA day in the life of a six year old child Pikoo in Calcutta. | 1981 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Unknown | 7.7 (297 votes) | 26 | 20211228 |
| Pippin - His Life and TimesAt the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples life's pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life. | 1981 | David Sheehan | Comedy, History, Musical, Romance, War | 7.4 (530 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Pit, TheA solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest. | 1981 | Lew Lehman | Horror, Mystery | 5.8 (2.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Play it, Boogie-Woogie [Slow na boogie ni shitekure]A young cat burglar begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and her on-again-off-again bonehead biker boyfriend. | 1981 | Toshiya Fujita | Drama | 6.3 (54 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Plouffe Family, The [Les Plouffe]The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II. | 1981 | Gilles Carle | Drama | 7.9 (475 votes) | 227 | 20231126 |
| Policewoman in New York [La poliziotta a New York], AA Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman. | 1981 | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Comedy | 4.8 (237 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| PolyesterA suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's fee | 1981 | John Waters (*) | Comedy | 7.1 (7.9K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Pont Du Nord, LeYoung unhinged female ex-con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to. | 1981 | Jacques Rivette (*) | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 6.9 (1.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| PorkysIn 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them. | 1981 | Bob Clark | Comedy | 6.2 (41.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Pornô! Collection of erotic stories that includes The Gazelles, The Pleasure of Virtue and The Grasshopper. | 1981 | David Cardoso, Luiz Castellini, John Doo | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 5.3 (366 votes) | 83 | 20240803 |
| Portrait of a Nude Woman [Nudo di donna]Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. She's had enough of his moods, so they separate so he can sort out his mind. | 1981 | Nino Manfredi, Alberto Lattuada | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 (280 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| PossessionA woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister. | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | Drama, Horror | 7.4 (29.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Postman Always Rings Twice, TheThe sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband. | 1981 | Bob Rafelson (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.6 (23.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Present LaughterAn aging and self-obsessed actor finds himself in a situation bordering on farce when he is besieged by the demands of his estranged wife, women who want to seduce him, and a crazed playwright. | 1981 | Rick Gardner, Alan Strachan | Comedy, Romance | 8.0 (37 votes) | 147 | 20230424 |
| Pride of Jesse Hallam, TheJesse Hallam, an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky, moves to Cincinnati so that his daughter may receive spinal surgery. Determined to support his family in the city, he decides he must learn how to read and write as an adult, and | 1981 | Gary Nelson | Drama | 6.5 (317 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Priest of LoveFollowing the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to | 1981 | Christopher Miles | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (373 votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Prince of the CityA New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted. | 1981 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (8.1K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| A Princesinha das RosasNaíde, a girl born from the union between a fisherman and a mermaid, adopted by monarchs of a country with no heirs, but to whom the call of the waters will inevitably attract. | 1981 | Noémia Delgado | Fantasy | 6.7 (11 votes) | 55 | 20240403 |
| Private History of a Campaign That Failed, TheMark Twain tale of cowardly Confederate soldiers. | 1981 | Peter H. Hunt | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (49 votes) | 89 | 20230619 |
| Private LessonsAn immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love. | 1981 | Alan Myerson | Comedy | 5.2 (3.7K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Prodigal Daughter, The [La fille prodigue]A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction. | 1981 | Jacques Doillon | Drama | 5.9 (182 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Prodigal Son, The [Bai ga jai]A young man discovers that his reputation as a fearsome martial artist is manufactured by his rich father, after meeting a real martial arts master, who's also a master thespian, and is determined to apprentice under him to learn kun | 1981 | Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Action, Comedy | 7.4 (3.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Professional, The [Le Professionel]Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts. | 1981 | Georges Lautner | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (15.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Programmed for Pleasure [La femme-objet]A science-fiction writer creates a sexy robot-girl. | 1981 | Claude Mulot | Adult, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (216 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Promising Boy, The [Decko koji obecava]A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to do rebellious acts. | 1981 | Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.9 (1.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Prowler, TheAn unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance. | 1981 | Joseph Zito | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (10.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| PsyMarc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses. | 1981 | Philippe de Broca | Comedy | 6.1 (162 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Puberty BluesThe mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney. | 1981 | Bruce Beresford | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (1.5K votes) | 87 | 20220414 |
| QuartetFinding herself penniless after her art-dealer husband Stephan is convicted of theft, Marya Zelli accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who let her live in their home. | 1981 | James Ivory (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (1.8K votes) | 101 | 20240303 |
| Queen of Black Magic [Ratu ilmu hitam]A woman is accused of being a witch and thrown to her death over a cliff. A strange man rescues her, nurses her back to health, and is told that she must master black magic in order to exact vengeance on her tormentors. | 1981 | Liliek Sudjio | Drama, Horror | 6.2 (575 votes) | 90 | 20240524 |
| Quest for FireThis story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source. | 1981 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Adventure, Drama, History | 7.4 (21.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Raggedy ManA divorcee with two sons has an affair with a young sailor passing through her Texas town in 1944. | 1981 | Jack Fisk | Drama | 6.8 (1.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| RagtimeA young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. | 1981 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 7.3 (9.5K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Raiders of the Lost ArkIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. | 1981 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Adventure | 8.4 (932.2K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Rasmus and the VagabondRasmus lives at an orphanage. He's OK, but wants a mom and a dad, and from time to time some comes to find a child, but they always chose little girls curls. Rasmus realizes he has to run away and find parents himself. | 1981 | Olle Hellbom | Adventure, Drama, Family | 6.8 (2.6K votes) | 105 | 20240930 |
| Rasputin [Agoniya]Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination. | 1981 | Elem Klimov (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.1 (1.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| RebornA man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) and tries to keep her out of the hands of a greedy TV preacher who plans to exp | 1981 | Bigas Luna | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | 4.7 (220 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| RedsA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. | 1981 | Warren Beatty (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.3 (22.4K votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| Reisender KriegerThis is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlors. | 1981 | Christian Schocher | Unknown | 7.5 (64 votes) | 195 | 20220414 |
| Return of the Sentimental SwordsmanMany feel that this, one of the Shaw Studio's biggest moneymakers, is one of those rare sequels which superior to its original. In any case, the charming title hero is back in action, facing the Money Clan Chief for the fate of the " | 1981 | Yuen Chor | Action, Drama | 6.6 (176 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Revenge of the Corpse [Flying Corpse; Fei shi]An unfaithful wife frames had her husband framed for murder, and eventually poisons him. However, he returns from beyond the grave to take his revenge against those who wronged him. | 1981 | Chung Sun | Action, Horror | 4.8 (36 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Revenge of the Mysterons from MarsCaptain Scarlet and the other members of the spectrum organization battle the Mysterons from Mars who are trying to establish a base on the moon. | 1981 | Brian Burgess, Robert Lynn, Ken Turner | Action, Family, Sci-Fi | 4.2 (96 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Rhythm of a Crime [Ritam zlocina]After moving to a new neighborhood, a mysterious man starts introducing his landlord to the hobby of collecting crime statistics. | 1981 | Zoran Tadic | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.7 (556 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Rich and FamousLiz and Merry become BFFs in college. A decade later, Liz is a serious writer with writer's block, whereas Merry's a housewife/mom. She's written a novel. Other bestsellers, riches and fame follow. | 1981 | George Cukor (*) | Drama | 5.9 (1.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Riding HighA young motorcycle messenger begins training to take part in a major competition. | 1981 | Ross Cramer | Action, Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.1 (106 votes) | 96 | 20240930 |
| Road GamesA laid-back American truck driver in south Australia starts to suspect a man driving a green van of killing young women along his route, and proceeds to play a cat-and-mouse game in order to catch him red-handed. | 1981 | Richard Franklin | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (6.4K votes) | 101 | 20220414 |
| RoarA naturalist living with big cats in East Africa expects a visit by his family of four from Chicago. A mix-up leaves him searching for his family, who have been left in the clutches of wild lions. | 1981 | Noel Marshall | Adventure, Comedy, Thriller | 6.2 (3.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Roaring Fire [Hoero tekken]Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. He travels to find his brother and finds he has been murdered in mysterious circumstances. While staying with his sister he overhears h... | 1981 | Norifumi Suzuki | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.5 (247 votes) | 95 | 20231213 |
| RolloverThe wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collapse. | 1981 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.4 (1.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Rubber Tarzan [Gummi-Tarzan]A weak, dyslexic boy is bullied in school. His Tarzan obsessed dad calls him Rubber Tarzan. He makes a friend in crane driver Ole, who tells him: There's always something, you're good at. You just have to know what it is. | 1981 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Drama, Family | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 98 | 20230619 |
| Rubberface [Introducing... Janet]This film was shot in Canada and released there as, ""Introducing...Janet."" Janet is an overweight girl who has a knack for making the other children in school laugh...by making fun of her own weight. In seeing the other kids' reac... | 1981 | Glen Salzman, Rebecca Yates | Comedy, Drama | 3.4 (942 votes) | 48 | 20230619 |
| Run, Waiter, Run! [Vrchní, prchni!]A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners. | 1981 | Ladislav Smoljak | Comedy | 7.9 (2.1K votes) | 88 | 20230328 |
| S O BA movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off. | 1981 | Blake Edwards (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (6K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| SadomaniaA newly-wed couple in love finds a seemingly desolate place to park the car and make love. Soon, they will face the fearsome warden Magda Urtado's cruel reality. | 1981 | Jesús Franco | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.8 (1.1K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Sailor Suit and Machine Gun [Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû]A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan. | 1981 | Shinji Sômai | Action, Romance | 6.3 (555 votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Salamander, TheAn Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize | 1981 | Peter Zinner | Thriller | 5.6 (909 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Samurai Reincarnation [Makai tenshô]The villain is called Amakusa Shiro Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown' (actual spelling) | 1981 | Kinji Fukasaku | Action, Fantasy, Horror | 6.5 (892 votes) | 122 | 20220315 |
| San-Antonio ne pense qu'à çaWalter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would like to recover at all costs. | 1981 | Joël Séria | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy | 4.0 (47 votes) | 90 | 20220315 |
| Saturday the 14thA family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangerous 'Book of Evil' that has all the monsters of the world trapped inside it. | 1981 | Howard R. Cohen | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.7 (4.2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| ScannersA scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning", to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners. | 1981 | David Cronenberg (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.8 (53.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| ScreamA group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer. | 1981 | Byron Quisenberry | Horror, Mystery | 2.9 (798 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Secrets of the Satin Blues [Les folies d'Élodie]Tells the tale of sexual encounters of one woman and several friends, family members and acquaintances, as seen (and told) from the perspective of a pair of satin blue panties. | 1981 | André Génovès | Comedy | 4.8 (108 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Security Unlimited [Mo deng bao biao]Chou Sai-Cheong. a bitter supervisor of a Hong Kong private security company, teaches unusual guard tactics to new recruits such as electric mats, parachuting off burning buildings and counter-attacking gunfire. He was secretly obser | 1981 | Michael Hui | Comedy | 7.0 (428 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| See China and DieA maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China. | 1981 | Larry Cohen | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (64 votes) | 60 | 20220315 |
| Senior TripThe adventures of Midwestern high-school students visiting New York City to celebrate their impending graduation. | 1981 | Kenneth Johnson | Comedy, Drama | 4.6 (159 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Sense and SensibilityTwo sisters of opposing temperaments find love and some heartbreak in Jane Austen's 18th century classic. | 1981 | Rodney Bennett | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (946 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Sense Of Freedom, AThe life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle. | 1981 | John Mackenzie | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (524 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Separate WaysA wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair. | 1981 | Howard Avedis | Drama | 4.6 (237 votes) | 92 | 20230424 |
| SeulsJean, 35, stumbles across a photo of a young woman in a photo booth that looks like her mother, who died shortly after birth. Troubled by this picture, he begins to fantasize about the identity of this unknown and makes unusual en... | 1981 | Francis Reusser | Drama | 6.6 (27 votes) | 100 | 20230715 |
| Seven Dials MysteryLady Eileen "Bundle" Brent is a pert, aggressive young aristocrat that insinuates herself into a series of murders, stolen state secrets, and a mysterious secret society. | 1981 | Tony Wharmby | Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.6 (691 votes) | 132 | 20220414 |
| Sex Is Crazy [El sexo está loco]Bizarre comedy from Jess, the story revolves around a stage show that has aliens kidnapping Earth women and making them pregnant so that they can give birth to 600 babies an hour! However some real aliens see the show and decide that | 1981 | Jesús Franco | Comedy | 4.7 (142 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Sex Sense, The [El sexo sentido]About a nymphomaniac and an artist that constantly spies on her. | 1981 | Rogelio A. González | Comedy, Romance | 4.8 (108 votes) | 95 | 20241012 |
| Sex, Your Only Weapon [Sexo, Sua Única Arma][spoiler alert] When Marta was a child, her father killed himself after his partner Humberto ruined their wine business. 20 years later, Marta pretends to be blind and befriends Humberto, who invites her to spend a few days with h... | 1981 | Geraldo Vietri | Drama | 5.4 (68 votes) | 93 | 20231001 |
| Sexual HeightsThree divorced buddies get together to hatch a scheme to get back at the nubile young babysitter who cost one of them his marriage. | 1981 | Carlos Tobalina | Adult | 5.6 (68 votes) | 75 | 20231101 |
| Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman [Aberraciones sexuales de una mujer casada]nan | 1981 | Jesús Franco | Adult | 5.9 (100 votes) | 98 | 20231126 |
| Shaolin Temple Strikes BackA Ming princess and her faithful bodyguard are chased to Shaolin Temple by the Ching army. | 1981 | Joseph Kuo | Action, Adventure | 6.1 (43 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Sharky's MachineTom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government. | 1981 | Burt Reynolds | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (6K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| She's in the Army NowAkin to Private Benjamin, this comedy deals with the tough life of female army recruits going through basic training. Through their training they come to realize that there is more to being tough than having muscles. | 1981 | Hy Averback | Comedy | 4.5 (364 votes) | 97 | 20220531 |
| Shinobi Ninja, TheFighters hired to steal back a secret document that if public could destroy all democracy. | 1981 | Yasuhiro Shikamura | Action | 6.3 (45 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Shivers [Dreszcze]A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts. | 1981 | Wojciech Marczewski | Drama, History | 6.9 (455 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Shock TreatmentJanet and Brad become contestants on a game show... but wind up as captives instead. | 1981 | Jim Sharman | Comedy, Musical | 5.7 (4.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Shortcuts [Postriziny]An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery. | 1981 | Jirí Menzel | Comedy | 7.7 (2.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| ShuffleHiroshi Kobayashi is on the run, both away from the police who want him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi, and towards the yakuza Kimura, from whom he wants to exact revenge for getting her hooked on drugs. The whole film is one | 1981 | Gakuryû Ishii | Short | 7.1 (242 votes) | 34 | 20211228 |
| Side ShowA teenage boy runs away from home. He joins the circus but finds out that it's not all what it's cracked up to be. But then the boy becomes a witness to a murder, and he must try to stay out of the killer's way. | 1981 | William Conrad | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (54 votes) | 98 | 20241012 |
| Sikkim-The-DocumenteryAn educational and controversial look into the Kingdom of Sikkim through the eyes of the greatest film maker from the Indian Sub-Continent, Satyajit Ray | 1981 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Documentary | 7.3 (213 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Silence of the NorthBased on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving under rugged pioneer conditions in northern Alberta Canada from the early 190... | 1981 | Allan King | Drama | 6.4 (255 votes) | 94 | 20221116 |
| SilvestreThe daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save | 1981 | João César Monteiro | Drama | 7.4 (296 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Skin, The [La pelle]After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive. | 1981 | Liliana Cavani | Drama, War | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 131 | 20220731 |
| SkokieA dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominately Jewish community of Skokie. | 1981 | Herbert Wise | Drama | 7.2 (382 votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Smash PalaceAfter the break-up of his marriage, a racing driver sets out to get back his daughter - at any cost. | 1981 | Roger Donaldson | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Snake Poison [Hadí jed]A young woman travels to a remote mining settlement to deliver a final message from her dead mother to a mysterious alcoholic man who is employed there. | 1981 | Frantisek Vlácil | Drama | 7.0 (72 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Snow [Neige]An illustration of the more or less weird people in the nightlife of the revel region of a French town. In the center of the (almost non-existing) plot are barmaid Anita and a reverend. Anita cares for the Caribbean dealer Bobby like | 1981 | Juliet Berto, Jean-Henri Roger | Drama | 6.2 (135 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| So FineWhile 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: bottomless pants. | 1981 | Andrew Bergman | Comedy | 5.1 (1.1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Solar Task Force Sunvulcan - The Movie [Taiyô sentai San Barukan - Za Mubi]Black Magma decides to separate Hiba from his teammates while plotting to blow up Tokyo with hidden bombs. | 1981 | Shohei Tôjô | Sci-Fi, Short, Adventure, Action | 5.9 (18 votes) | 29 | 20220315 |
| Some Other Woman [Neka druga zena]The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open. | 1981 | Miomir 'Miki' Stamenkovic | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.6 (158 votes) | 95 | 20231001 |
| Something Like It [No yohna mono]In a film about Rakugo, which is a traditional Japanese sit-down comedy, a man living in Tokyo is a young comic practitioner starting out. On his birthday he visits a Soapland (sexually themed bath house) for the first time. He me... | 1981 | Yoshimitsu Morita | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (97 votes) | 103 | 20240407 |
| Son of the White Mare [Fehérlófia]In this dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom. | 1981 | Marcell Jankovics | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 7.9 (2K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Southern ComfortDuring a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals. | 1981 | Walter Hill | Action, Thriller | 7.2 (19.1K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Space Warriors Baldios [Uchû senshi Baldios]From a polluted and destroyed planet called S-1 arrives an invasion on earth, Marin one of the people of S-1 helps the earthlings fighting the invaders with his super ship Baldios. After polluting their own planet beyond repair, a ra | 1981 | Shûichi Hirokawa, Hisayuki Toriumi | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (75 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Spaghetti at Midnight [Spaghetti A Mezzanotte]Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is org | 1981 | Sergio Martino | Comedy | 6.4 (506 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| SphinxEgyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse. | 1981 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller | 5.2 (1.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Splendor in the GrassTwo teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day. | 1981 | Richard C. Sarafian | Drama | 5.8 (186 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Stand by Your ManThe rags-to-riches tale of country western queen, Tammy Wynette, follows her life from her impoverished childhood to country's First Lady and her two rocky marriages to fellow superstar George Jones. | 1981 | Jerry Jameson | Biography, Drama, Music | 6.8 (183 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Station [Eki]Constantly put to the test and faced with tragedy wherever he turns, can a man finally find solace and a modicum of love or rest with what is left of his hometown, his family, love or himself? | 1981 | Yasuo Furuhata | Drama | 6.5 (242 votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Stefan LuchianAn insight into the life and tragic destiny of one of Romania's greatest painters | 1981 | Nicolae Margineanu | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (107 votes) | 93 | 20220315 |
| Story of Linda, TheBetsy Norman is a happy assistant at a luxurious Spanish hotel. Shiela, the hotel owner, caters for all wishes of her clientele with another lucrative business, the brothel "Rio Amore" where clients from all over the world come to re | 1981 | Jesús Franco | Adventure, Crime, Romance | 4.8 (368 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire]Louis Coline assists the head of advertising of a department store in decline. He has little to do, but seems content with his marriage to Nina, his visits to his mother and grandmother, and poker games with friends. When new boss Be | 1981 | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Drama | 6.8 (531 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Strange BehaviorA scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers. | 1981 | Michael Laughlin | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.6 (1.9K votes) | 87 | 20220423 |
| Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne [Docteur Jekyll et les femmes]In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery. | 1981 | Walerian Borowczyk | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (1.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Street MusicA singer (Elizabeth Daily) and her bus-driver boyfriend (Larry Breeding) try to help elderly tenants save their San Francisco hotel. | 1981 | Jenny Bowen | Drama | 7.0 (50 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Strike Back [Kalt wie Eis]Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes | 1981 | Carl Schenkel | Crime, Drama | 6.3 (90 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| StripesTwo friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun. | 1981 | Ivan Reitman (*) | Comedy, War | 6.9 (71.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Stubborn Mule, The [Der Bockerer]A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war. | 1981 | Franz Antel | Drama, History | 8.1 (977 votes) | 104 | 20230328 |
| Student BodiesA serial killer with his signature heavy breathing proceeds to systematically kill the students and teachers of Lamab high school. | 1981 | Mickey Rose, Michael Ritchie | Comedy, Horror, Mystery | 5.5 (4.7K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Student Gerber [Der Schüler Gerber]Kurt Gerber is attending his final class and gets into trouble with the math professor, a frustrated self-assured petty bourgeois sadist. The duel ends in catastrophe. | 1981 | Wolfgang Glück | Drama | 7.4 (113 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Suddenly in Dark Night [Gipeun bam gabjagi]A wife starts to suspect her husband's infidelity after the arrival of their new, young housekeeper, who carries a mysterious wooden doll with herself. | 1981 | Young Nam Ko | Horror | 6.6 (309 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Suddenly in the Dark [Gipeun bam gabjagi]A wife starts to suspect her husband's infidelity after the arrival of their new, young housekeeper, who carries a mysterious wooden doll with herself. | 1981 | Young Nam Ko | Horror | 6.6 (349 votes) | 95 | 20220723 |
| Summer of Evilnan | 1981 | Yukio Ninagawa | Crime, Drama, Horror | 4.5 (23 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Summer Solstice50 years after their mariage a couple look back on when they first met. Through flashbacks we se them fall in love. | 1981 | Ralph Rosenblum | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (260 votes) | 75 | 20220414 |
| Supernatural [Sobrenatural]It has been 13 years since the last time I saw this film. | 1981 | Eugenio Martín | Horror | 5.4 (55 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Survivor, TheWhen a pilot becomes the sole survivor of an airliner crash that kills over 300 people, he works with a psychic and a priest to determine who is responsible for the incident and pacify the vengeful souls of the victims. | 1981 | David Hemmings | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.1 (1.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Swimmer, The [Motsurave]A family of swimmers distinguish themselves in sport but run into trouble with Stalin's police, in this period portrait of how even the light side of life was poisoned by terror. | 1981 | Irakli Kvirikadze | Drama | 7.1 (101 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Sword Stained With Royal Blood"Godfather of the kung-fu film", Chang Cheh, made this treasured and beloved adventure featuring a sword, training manual, treasure map and a secret message. The kung-fu which ensues is as impressive as it is glorious. | 1981 | Cheh Chang | Action, Drama | 6.7 (236 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Take This Job and Shove ItFrank is sent to his native town, Millsborough, to increase the local brewery production. He meets old school mates and his former girlfriend, Jane. They quickly fall in love again. Frank is torn between his job. | 1981 | Gus Trikonis | Comedy | 5.0 (827 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Tales of Ordinary Madness [Storie di ordinaria follia]Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity. | 1981 | Marco Ferreri | Drama | 6.8 (2.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Tarzan, the Ape ManWhile on an African expedition with her father, Jane Parker meets Tarzan, and the two become fascinated by each other. | 1981 | John Derek | Adventure, Drama | 3.4 (5.7K votes) | 115 | 20220423 |
| TattooUnbalanced tattoo artist Karl Kinsky grows obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he's hired for a photo shoot. As Karl's obsession grows, he determines that Maddy should bear his mark forever. | 1981 | Bob Brooks | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.2 (782 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Teddy Bear [Mis]The main character is the manager of a sport club, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a tournament - somebody has torn out a few pages from h | 1981 | Stanislaw Bareja | Comedy | 8.2 (5.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Territory, TheA small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and | 1981 | Raúl Ruiz | Drama, Horror | 6.4 (245 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Terror Among UsA police sergeant and a parole officer endeavor to stop a rapist-on-parole before he can follow through his threats on five women whom testifed against him years earlier. | 1981 | Paul Krasny | Action, Thriller | 6.1 (124 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Teste di quoioA group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage. | 1981 | Giorgio Capitani | Comedy | 4.8 (48 votes) | 87 | 20230830 |
| They All LaughedA mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women. | 1981 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (2.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| They Don't Wear Black Tie [Eles Não Usam Black-Tie]Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism. | 1981 | Leon Hirszman | Drama | 8.2 (1.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| ThiefAn ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight. | 1981 | Michael Mann (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (29.5K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| This House PossessedAfter having a nervous breakdown, a rock singer has to spend some time in hospital. A private nurse is hired, and with her he buys a new house, a fantastic house in the country. The nurse, Sheila, can't remember the first years of he | 1981 | William Wiard | Horror, Thriller | 5.5 (437 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Three Brothers [Tre fratelli]Three men face their mother's death. | 1981 | Francesco Rosi (*) | Drama | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| ThresholdIn this gripping sci-fi drama, a celebrated heart surgeon (Donald Sutherland, "The Hunger Games") collaborates with an offbeat scientist (Jeff Goldblum, "Jurassic Park") to perform the first artificial heart transplant. | 1981 | Richard Pearce | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.0 (483 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Thrilling Bloody Sword [Shen jian dong shan he]A princess living in the woods falls in love with a sword-wielding prince. | 1981 | Hsin-Yi Chang | Action, Fantasy, Adventure | 6.8 (97 votes) | 86 | 20221116 |
| Ticket to HeavenDavid is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, min | 1981 | Ralph L. Thomas | Drama | 6.9 (802 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Time BanditsA young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. | 1981 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (62.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Time for Revenge [Tiempo de revancha]Two coworkers fake an accident to blackmail the company they work for for a sum of money. However, the plan goes awry and one of them dies. The surviving employee demands a compensation, but the company refuses to pay him. | 1981 | Adolfo Aristarain | Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (1.2K votes) | 112 | 20221116 |
| Time WarpAfter a long space journey, an astronaut returns home to his family--only to discover that he has somehow gone through a "time warp" and is now one year into the future, rendering him invisible to all those around him. | 1981 | Robert Emenegger, Allan Sandler | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 4.2 (103 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Timon of AthensTimon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his ""friends"" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit. | 1981 | Jonathan Miller | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (140 votes) | 128 | 20240622 |
| To the Stars by Hard Ways [Cherez ternii k zvyozdam]A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers. | 1981 | Richard Viktorov, Nikolay Viktorov | Sci-Fi | 6.0 (1.3K votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Too Early-Too Late [Trop tôt-Trop tard]A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers. | 1981 | Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Documentary | 5.7 (567 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Tora-san's Love in Osaka [Tora's Many-Splintered Love; Otoko wa tsurai yo - Naniwa no koi no Torajirô]After the usual family fight, Tora leaves Shibamata and falls in love with a geisha from Osaka, who is struggling with her own problems. Tora tries to help her. | 1981 | Yôji Yamada | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (85 votes) | 104 | 20221212 |
| Tora-san's Promise [Otoko wa tsurai yo - Torajiro kamifusen]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 Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year... | 1981 | Yôji Yamada | Comedy | 6.6 (71 votes) | 101 | 20221212 |
| Town Like Alice, ASet against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades. From the steamy jungles of Malaya to the dusty and desol... | 1981 | David Stevens | Drama, Romance, War | 8.3 (1K votes) | 0 | 20231013 |
| TrackingFour teenage girls are terrorized by the ghost of a sex-mad American soldier who wants to rape them. | 1981 | Pierre B. Reinhard | Horror | 5.6 (59 votes) | 79 | 20221212 |
| Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man [La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo]An Italian businessman decides whether to pay a ransom for his abducted son or not. | 1981 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.5 (940 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Treasure Hunters, TheThis movie is both one of the best-loved action comedies ever, and Alexander Fu Sheng's comeback film after breaking both his legs. It left no doubt that he was truly back in action, taking on cops, monks, and bad guys galore! | 1981 | Chia-Yung Liu | Action, Comedy | 6.4 (199 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Treasure of the Yankee Zepjyr [Race for the Yankee Zephyr]A drunken deer hunter, his pilot colleague and his daughter compete with a villainous treasure hunter to reach a lake nestled among the mountains of New Zealand, where a WWII-era plane wreck carrying a fortune in gold is submerged. | 1981 | David Hemmings | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5.7 (960 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Tree of Knowledge [Kundskabens træ]We follow the Danish students in a class at Århus Katedralskole late 1950s, from age 13 till 16. | 1981 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 7.2 (1.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Troilus & CressidaDuring the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek. | 1981 | Jonathan Miller | Drama | 6.5 (150 votes) | 190 | 20240622 |
| Trolls and the Christmas Express, TheA group of trolls infiltrates Santa's workshop to attempt to sabotage Christmas. | 1981 | John R. Gaug | Animation, Family | 7.2 (44 votes) | 30 | 20231128 |
| True ConfessionsA worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute. | 1981 | Ulu Grosbard | Crime, Drama | 6.3 (8K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| TulipsLeland is suicidal, so he hires a hitman called Avocado to kill him. Code word for the hit will be ""tulips"". However, that's when Leland meets his suicidal soulmate Rutanya and changes his mind. Now they must try to stop Avocado. | 1981 | Rex Bromfield, Mark Warren, Al Waxman | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 4.0 (61 votes) | 93 | 20230619 |
| Two Queens and One Consort [Twee vorstinnen en een vorst]At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta. | 1981 | Otto Jongerius | Drama | 5.9 (202 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Tyrant's Heart, The [A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon]A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death. | 1981 | Miklós Jancsó (*) | Drama, History | 6.8 (150 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Un étrange voyageA man walks a length of railroad track, looking for his elderly mother whom he believes fell from the train at some point. He brings his daughter along. | 1981 | Alain Cavalier | Drama | 6.9 (133 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Una vacanza del cactusOn IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1981 | Mariano Laurenti | Comedy | 5.3 (66 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Under the RainbowA visiting dignitary, a CIA agent, a Nazi spy, Japanese tourists, an assassin and a group of "midget" actors from The Wizard of Oz (1939) all check into an elite Los Angeles hotel called Under the Rainbow. | 1981 | Steve Rash | Comedy | 5.4 (2.7K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Underground AcesThe escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants. | 1981 | Robert Butler | Comedy | 4.3 (297 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| VabankSet in Warsaw in 1930's. After six years in jail, framed for bank robbery by an accomplice, the legendary Kwinto has only revenge on his mind. He is a safecracker in the old style, a thief with a sense of pride and loyalty. Upon leav | 1981 | Juliusz Machulski (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.9 (4.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| VanitiesFilmed theatrical production of hit Broadway play. | 1981 | Gary Halvorson | Music | 9.1 (88 votes) | 0 | 20220822 |
| VenomTerrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake. | 1981 | Piers Haggard, Tobe Hooper | Horror, Thriller | 5.8 (2.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Vernon, FloridaA documentary on the eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. | 1981 | Errol Morris (*) | Documentary | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| VictoryAs allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape. | 1981 | John Huston (*) | Drama, Sport, War | 6.7 (29.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Violence and Flesh [Violência na Carne]Three criminals escape from prison and break in a seaside house to wait for the getaway boat. They subdue four aspirant actresses and three men and rape and torture them. One of the escapees is an idealistic political prisoner tha... | 1981 | Alfredo Sternheim | Crime, Horror | 4.4 (174 votes) | 93 | 20240210 |
| Virgin ApocalypseThree women captured and imprisoned by a gang of white slavers lead a bloody rebellion, aided by a detective investigating the gang. | 1981 | Pasan Leung | Action, Drama | 4.5 (75 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy [Gosti iz galaksije]A science fiction writer is gifted with the ability to materialize his thoughts and inadvertently brings a group of aliens to Earth. | 1981 | Dusan Vukotic | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.0 (379 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Vulture, The [Ha-Ayit]Boaz, a reserve soldier returns from the battlefield and becomes involved in editing a memorial album dedicated to a friend who was killed before his eyes. He becomes increasingly involved in the lucrative business of producing memor | 1981 | Yaky Yosha | Drama | 6.8 (37 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Vultures Over the City [Buitres sobre la ciudad]Maurizio Merli plays the part of an journalist investigating the Mafia, and Hugo Stiglitz is his photographer sidekick. Despite a number of fights, car chases and explosions, for the first half of the film the action is not at the us | 1981 | Gianni Siragusa | Action, Crime | 5.7 (57 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| WagnerA huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria, to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Richard Wagner's radical mu | 1981 | Tony Palmer | Biography, Drama, History, Music | 7.8 (554 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| War of the Worlds - Next Century, The [Wojna swiatów - nastepne stulecie]Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telli | 1981 | Piotr Szulkin | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (601 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| War Story, AA Canadian doctor interned at a Japanese POW Camp during WWII must tend to his fellow British prisoners who are being worked to death in a mine. | 1981 | Anne Wheeler | Drama, War | 7.9 (67 votes) | 82 | 20240625 |
| Warp SpeedA ship is found adrift in space with no trace of its crew, or any signs of life at all. A psychic is brought into to try to "join" her mind with the memories lingering in the spacecraft so she can find out what happened to the crew a | 1981 | Allan Sandler | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.6 (138 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Warrior, The [Jaka Sembung]Jaka Sembung is the leader of the rebel and a famous fighter that inspires people to fight the Dutch Colonial Government. The Dutch representative in Java offers a reward for his death and employs another mighty warrior to go after h | 1981 | Sisworo Gautama Putra | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | 6.3 (234 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Wave, TheAn experiment in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story. | 1981 | Alexander Grasshoff | Drama | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 44 | 20231207 |
| Way Home, The [Gza shinisaken]Explore popular action and adventure titles available to stream with Prime Video. | 1981 | Aleksandre Rekhviashvili | Drama, History | 8.2 (80 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Wet JobTen years after leaving the S.I.S., former agent/assassin David Callan is living a quiet life as the owner/operator of a militaria shop. He is forced out of retirement to participate in one final assignment. | 1981 | Shaun O'Riordan | Drama | 6.4 (76 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| What Price Honesty [Mu wu wang fa]3 Idealistic officers, He Zhong Heng (Piao), Luo Zhnag (Chien) and Ying Hao (Sau-Yin), find corruption and deceit rule the department, magistrate and jailers. Will they succumb to corruption? What cost must be paid to stay true to id | 1981 | Hao-Chuan Yuan | Action, Adventure | 6.8 (67 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| White, Red and Green [Bianco Rosso e Verdone]On Election Day, three Italians travel to their hometowns to vote. | 1981 | Carlo Verdone | Comedy | 7.4 (3.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Who Finds A Friend Finds A TreasureOn a small pacific island, Alan and Charlie try to find a war treasure left behind by the Japanese army in World War II. | 1981 | Sergio Corbucci | Adventure, Comedy, Action | 7.2 (11.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Who Pulled the Plug [Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen]To get an order for 1,000 yachts from a middle-east sheik, two boat companies have to race 'Göta kanal', a canal through Sweden, east to west. There are no rules in this game and the winner gets the order. | 1981 | Hans Iveberg | Comedy | 5.8 (4.3K votes) | 99 | 20240127 |
| Whose Life Is It AnywayRichard Dreyfuss stars in this black comedy as a sculptor who becomesparalyzed after an auto accident and fights the hospital administrationfor the right to die. | 1981 | John Badham (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (2.8K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Why Not [Eijanaika]Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura. | 1981 | Shohei Imamura (*) | Drama | 6.9 (567 votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| Willful Murder [Nihon no atsui hibi bôsatsu - Shimoyama jiken]In 1949, Mr. Shimoyama, governor of Japan National Railroads, was found dead, run by train, after a mysterious disappearance. Officially it was considered suicide, but many suspected he was killed for some political conspiracy. | 1981 | Kei Kumai | Drama | 8.0 (35 votes) | 132 | 20230328 |
| Wings of the Dove, The [Les ailes de la colombe]A mature lady approaches a young actor and offers him a great amount of money to get acquainted with her lonely daughter, who suffers of an incurable illness. Eventually a true romance emerges, as mother has secret feelings for th... | 1981 | Benoît Jacquot | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (269 votes) | 95 | 20231126 |
| Winter of Our DreamsWhen a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of his former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friends diary, she discovers she's repeating her mi | 1981 | John Duigan | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (320 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| The Winter's TaleKing Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an inf... | 1981 | Jane Howell | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (162 votes) | 173 | 20240622 |
| Witch Hunt, The [Forfølgelsen]The year is 1630. A young woman in Laupstad comes to a small mountain village. She witnesses a woman being hunted and captured. | 1981 | Anja Breien | Drama | 6.4 (59 votes) | 93 | 20230328 |
| WolfenA New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks. | 1981 | Michael Wadleigh | Horror, Thriller | 6.3 (10.2K votes) | 115 | 20220723 |
| Woman Next Door, The [La femme d'à côté]Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue. | 1981 | François Truffaut (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (7.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| X-Ray [Hospital Massacre]While receiving a routine check-up, a woman finds herself stranded on the hospital's eighth floor, while someone dressed as a doctor is intent on her never leaving, even if it means killing any staff member who comes into contact wit | 1981 | Boaz Davidson | Horror, Thriller | 5.0 (2.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Years of The BeastA fast-moving, feature-length, dramatic film that portrays the events in the book of Revelation. | 1981 | D. Paul Thomas | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (220 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Yo ho hoThis is a sensitive film about human solidarity filled with humor and poetry. | 1981 | Zako Heskiya | Adventure, Drama | 8.0 (248 votes) | 98 | 20221212 |
| Yokohama BJ Blues [Yokohama BJ burûsu]BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective. | 1981 | Eiichi Kudô | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.9 (50 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| You Are Not IA young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister's house by a rescue volunteer. Then the real story begins... | 1981 | Sara Driver | Drama | 6.8 (315 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| You Love Only Once [Samo jednom se ljubi]Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and h | 1981 | Rajko Grlic | Drama, War | 7.2 (436 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Yuki & NinaSet in feudal Japan, the film focuses on Yuki, an adolescent goddess whose task is to clean up the Earth, both by ridding it of oppressive authorities and by covering it with a blanket of snow. | 1981 | Tadashi Imai | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7.3 (58 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Zombie LakeIn a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back. | 1981 | Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna | Horror | 3.1 (3.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Zoot SuitWhen barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their free | 1981 | Luis Valdez | Drama, Musical | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Zorro - The Gay BladeZorro, the legendary swordsman, has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, R... | 1981 | Peter Medak | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western | 6.2 (4.7K votes) | 93 | 20231114 |