1981 Movies

After surviving a shipwreck in the Caribbean, a captain returns home burdened by guilt and haunted by the past. Given command a ship bound for Singapo...

After imprisonment, Vanék can only take the worst work on a small village brewery.

The widower Choi is impotent. He adopts the infants Mun and Su-ryun and raises them. Mun graduates from college in Seoul but he can’t adjust to Seoul...

Singh is a farmer and lives a poor lifestyle along with his wife, and two sons, Ram and Laksman. The region is drought stricken, while in contrast the...

Three poor students help Mr. Broto who is a victim of a hit and run accident. Apparently, Mr. Broto has a treasure map and this treasure quest makes t...

An aging village chief entrenched in traditional Cameroonian ways clashes with his daughter. She was educated in France to help support the family, b...

A film about the connection of workers and the bandoneon in the Ruhr region.

Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his best...

The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned...

Newlywed couple loses their moral compasses while hubby climbs the career ladder in a corrupt office.

Based on the diaries of Canadian doctor Ben Wheeler during his internment in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, this feature-length...

The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life...

Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she w...

Sirpa Lane is being abducted by some former film actors; these ask a high ransom from the (adult) film producers.

A divorced woman tries to restart her life.

Diplomafilm 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 a...

Lu Shao Fung and Seeman Chelsea start a sword duel over one of the men's wives. Lu pursues Seeman, but loses him. This leads him to spend time in Deat...

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

Young people talk to the camera about their ideas of marriage and plans for their future lives.

Two close friends go separate ways because of a perceived betrayal of trust.