1981 Movies

A fast talking, money stealing, gambling, womanizing low level yakuza bum takes advantage of a bar owner’s virgin daughter. But even after he does the...

A young hunchbacked girl who sells newspapers and sings in the street is discovered by a music producer.

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

Taniguchi was appointed captain of the weak Sumiya Junior High School baseball team, and with his natural fighting spirit, he helped the team grow to...

Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with...

A young woman Egle is forced to marry the king of serpents, her brothers seek to avenge their sister.

Translating his seminal semiotic work on the classic American cinema to video, Raymond Bellour, in collaboration with Philippe Venault, produced l'Ima...

" Now I'll never be Director-General of the BBC - what rotten luck! ... Maybe I should take up squash or join the Young Conservatives. It's good to ha...

Pepita a Flemish nun of Mexican descent decides to go to Mexico just as her godmother Clara did years before.

Abdul Rauf is a novelist. On his journey to find inspiration in the war-torn Vietnam, Rauf loses a friend in a battle. He feels the destruction of hum...

The Yamada family lives in Tokyo's Higashi Edogawa Ward. Noboru, the second son and high school student, dreams of becoming a professional baseball pl...

Based on a tall tale, The Liar Hunter by Hovhannes Tumanyan.

In 1930's Shanghai, Wu Sunpu, chief executive of the Shanghai Yuhua Silk Company, faces many struggles: with plant workers, with strikers, others in h...

World War II is over and Heinrich, a young German boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act according to Communist principles in a small German v...

Eirini and Stella are two old maids and sisters who have grown up in the provinces and now live in Athens, in an apartment that looks out onto an open...