Best Drama movies of 1981

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 : Rakesh Roshan, Raju Shrestha, Bindiya Goswami, Ashok Kumar,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Factory worker with 4 sons marries middle aged woman with 2 sons and a daughter

Actors : Victor Rebengiuc, Petrica Gheorghiu, Mariana Mihut, Tora Vasilescu,
Directors : Lucian Pintilie,

A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is ...

Actors : Gundars Abolins, Olga Drege, Lilita Berzina, Romualds Ancans,
Directors : Janis Streics,

Another iconic Latvian film, known to be one of the best movies of director Janis Streics. When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car, which she cannot use herself, ...

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 : Dilip Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini,
Directors : Manoj Kumar,

This is the story of India's Freedom Struggle between the years of 1825&1875.

Actors : Carlo Giuffrè, Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Shûichi Ikeda,

After managing to survive attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits battle Zeon forces (Ramba Ral, Ma Kube, Tri-Stars, ...

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 : Mats Åhlfeldt, Carl Billquist, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Ewa Fröling,

Pelle is a cat who was born without a proper tail. He is taken care of by a family living in Uppsala. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cats, and especially ...

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 : Donald Pleasence, George Peppard, Lesley Ann Warren, Ken Wahl,
Directors : David Hemmings,

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from ww-ii. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter,...

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 : 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 : 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 : Sunny Johnson, Mark Hamill, Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

A small town stud wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes in jeopardy.

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

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

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 : Christos Kalavrouzos, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Anna Matzourani,
Directors : Thodoros Maragos,

In a small Greek village, short time after the collapse of the Junta regime, a memorial of those who died in the German occupation of Greece brings in the surface the political differences of a conservative teacher and his two sons.

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 »