1981 Movies

Five-year-old Anne Sachs was playing with her Treperenda doll in her room when she heard a scream from the next room. Someone had hurt her mother. Unb...

A family gathering in Greece devolves into deception, incest, and quite a lot of murder.

While the rest of the Hebrews bewail their fate, Samson alone trusts in God's promise of liberty. Abimelech, the Philistine satrap of Gaza, enters to...

Seven separate visions of Los Angeles, sprawling, fast-paced city of millions. Myron Emery teaches optical printing at the California Institute of the...

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

The story of a peasant girl of fifteen, Mariute, who comes down from the Carnia mountains to the Friulian plains with her mother at the beginning of t...

Pink film from Toei Central.

An ageing German filmmaker attempts to make a horror movie with an inept cast and crew.

To win a duel, a merchant makes a dangerous pact with an inscrutable spellcaster.

A short film depicting a young woman wandering around Warsaw Central Station while being observed and stalked by several men.

“What is stowed in a purse is often adduced as a reflection of, or synecdoche for, the personality of its owner; here Taubin manages to bare the trapp...

A gunfighter after killing the ones responsible for his brother's death, joins by mistake a gang of smugglers

A singer and a mysterious foreigner plan an abduction.

Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.

During the Great Depression, shrimp prices spiraled down. Fishermen began to organize, families chose sides, and violence erupted. The Cajun cast recr...

The research phase of the documentary "Dolmabahçe and Atatürk," made in 1981 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Atatürk's birth, took a year, and...

A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem,...

In 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 S...

The film illustrates individual episodes showing the life of Alexander Pushkin. The script is based on the testimonies of contemporaries, as well as o...