Best Drama movies of 1981

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo, Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

The 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 him.

Actors : Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Jennifer Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal,
Directors : Aparna Sen,

After 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 ...

Actors : Lucélia Santos, José Lewgoy, Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Wilson Grey,
Directors : Haroldo Marinho Barbosa,

Engraçadinha is a sexy teenager, with whom every man wants to get involved, except her cousin Sílvio, the only man she loves. On Sílvio's engagement day, she seduces him at the party and ...

Actors : Judy Davis, Bryan Brown, Cathy Downes, Baz Luhrmann,
Directors : John Duigan,

When 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...

Actors : Vladislava Milosavljevic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mladen Budiscak, Zijah Sokolovic,
Directors : Rajko Grlic,

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...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Lisa Kreuzer, Bernard Le Coq, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Laurent Heynemann,

"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...

Actors : William T. Hicks, Deborah Bloodworth, Susan Bloodworth, Harris Bloodworth,
Directors : Christopher Reynolds,

In 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.

Actors : Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

Censored by the Polish authorities, this film was reedited and new footage added. It begins with a sci-fi motif: abstract images and electronic music take the viewer from ruins of Lebanon ...

Actors : Tamás Major, Dorottya Udvaros, Dezsö Garas, András Kern,
Directors : Pál Sándor,

Actors : Ava Gardner, Ian McKellen, Penelope Keith, Janet Suzman,
Directors : Christopher Miles,

Following 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 ...

Actors : Levent Dönmez, Kadir Inanir, Müjde Ar, Hakan Tanfer,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Y.G. Mahendran, Madhavi, L.V. Prasad,
Directors : Singeetham Srinivasa Rao,

The story is about a blind violinist who falls in love with a rich girl and ends up facing many difficulties.

Actors : Perry Lang, Nikki Swasey Seaton, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy,
Directors : George Bowers,

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.

Actors : Mihai Mereuta, Marioara Sterian, Stela Furcovici, Adrian Pintea,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

Actors : Mahmut Cevher, Talat Bulut, Aliye Rona, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Türkan Soray,

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Daria Nicolodi, Franco Citti, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Sergio Citti,

Rome,1960.Four different people meet each other on Olympic games.They follow games and become friends talking about their sad lifes.

Actors : Rekha, Nazneen, Shabana Azmi, Jeetendra,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Sadhana (Rekha) and Ramkumar (Jeetendra) are a married couple. Their marriage gets into troubled waters when Sadhana starts to suspect that Ramkumar is having an affair. Sadhana does not ...

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Tien Hsiang Lung, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Hsueh-Erh Wen,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

"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.

Actors : Tim Beekman, Huib Broos, Eric Clerckx, Kitty Courbois,
Directors : Otto Jongerius,

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.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Yann Andréa,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

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.