Best movies of 1981

Actors : Piera Degli Esposti, Nanni Moretti, Remo Remotti, Laura Morante,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

Nuovamente nei panni del suo alter-ego Michele Apicella, Nanni Moretti scrive la sua commedia apparentemente più ilare ma anche surreale ed inquietante... See full synopsis »

Actors : A.K. Hangal, Amol Palekar, Swaroop Sampat, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

An impoverished employee tries to prevent his superiors and employers from marrying his sweetheart.

Actors : Alfred Böhm, Marte Harell, Karl Merkatz, Hans Holt,
Directors : Franz Antel,

A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.

Actors : Yôko Asagami, Keiko Takeshita, Tarô Shigaki, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kimio Yabuki,

A prince falls in love with a princess cursed to change into a swan by day, but their love is threatened by the sorcerer who keeps her imprisoned.

Actors : Stoyko Peev, Vania Tzvetkova, Antony Genov, Vassil Mihajlov,
Directors : Ludmil Staikov,

This is an epic screen presentation showing the creation, the consolidation and the power of First Bulgarian Kingdom and the first Bulgarian ruler Khan Asparuh.

Actors : Fernanda Montenegro, Bete Mendes, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Carlos Alberto Riccelli,
Directors : Leon Hirszman,

Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.

Actors : W.D. Mochtar, Sofia W.D., Ilona Agathe Bastian, Yos Santo,
Directors : H. Tjut Djalil,

Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a ...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he...

Actors : Tony Danza, Danny DeVito, Stacey Nelkin, Jessica Walter,
Directors : Jeremy Joe Kronsberg,

When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Foster inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the orangutans or ...

Actors : Miguel Rellán, Alfredo Landa, Manuel Tejada, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, that leads him to the ...

Actors : Loes Luca, Peter Tuinman, Renée Soutendijk, Johan Leysen,
Directors : Ben Verbong,

The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

Actors : Dragan Nikolic, Franco Nero, Sanja Vejnovic, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Vatroslav Mimica,

In late 14th century medieval Serbia becomes the target of Ottoman invaders. One of their renegade gangs burns the castle and takes young wife of Banovic Strahinja, respected Serbian noble....

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Sabine Haudepin, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : André Téchiné,

Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a ...

Actors : Dara Calenic, Marko Todorovic, Jelena Zigon, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra,
Directors : Zoran Calic,

Mary and Bob continuing his love spend the summer in the voluntary youth but their parents affect the foolish. The peak occurs when the life Zika, after a brief flirtation with Marys mother implicate two German girls Elza and Giza.

Actors : Raj Babbar, Farooq Shaikh, Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah,
Directors : Muzaffar Ali,

In Faizabad, British India, Daroga Dilawar is sentenced to several years in prison after Amiran's dad testifies against him. After his discharge around 1840, he extracts his vengeance by ...

Actors : Haydée Padilla, Federico Luppi, Julio De Grazia, Ulises Dumont,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the friend dies, but ...

Actors : Berta Socuéllamos, José María Hervás Roldán, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González, Jesús Arias,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante, Ugo Tognazzi, Victor Cavallo,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Akiko Kana, Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

The villain is called Amakusa SHIRO Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown' (actual spelling)

Actors : Magnus Härenstam, Lill Andersson, Ellionor Bille, Åsa Bjerkerot,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

1944. Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women staff can work more efficiently. When first arriving he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the ...