Reds (1981)
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his…
Angel Guts: Red Porno (1981)
Kisapmata (1981)
A retired police sergeant has an unnatural stranglehold over his wife and daughter. His claustrophobically enclosed world is threatened when his daughter Mila finds herself pregnant and was forced to…
Hear the Wind Sing (1981)
Caligula and Messalina (1981)
When the deranged emperor Caligula falls for an insatiable gladiatrix, their reign launches a mind-bending bacchanal of torture, sodomy, incest, castration, and aroused livestock.
Quest for Fire (1981)
In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors…
Four Friends (1981)
A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.
Pennies from Heaven (1981)
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do…
Black Lizard (1981)
Young 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.
Fire on the Mountain (1981)
A young real estate developer returns to his hometown to make a land killing but soon takes up the cause of a crusty old-timer in his struggles with the government…
The Smacking Sea (1981)
The Smacking Sea is a film about the work of traditional seal hunters on the smacking Baltic Sea and their life in the coastal village.
The Girls of Grenoble (1981)
Skokie (1981)
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.
Burning an Illusion (1981)
A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.
Tree of Knowledge (1981)
Troilus & Cressida (1981)
The bitter Trojan War drags on – the Greeks blame Achilles’ apathy for low morale, while Troy’s hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after…
Willful Murder (1981)
The Orchard End Murder (1981)
Charthurst 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…
Quartet (1981)
When her husband’s arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
Rolling on the Road (1981)
Family Reunion (1981)
Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she’s traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group…
Body and Soul (1981)
A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.
Ticket to Heaven (1981)
The Wave (1981)
A teacher conducts an 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…
The Killing of Angel Street (1981)
Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father’s mysterious…
Circus Performers (1981)
A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
The Inquisitor (1981)
Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year’s Eve. What initially is a routine…
Raggedy Man (1981)
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave…