Best Drama movies of 1981

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Illiers, Arielle Dombasle, Pîtâ,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.

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 : Gundars Abolins, Olga Drege, Romualds Ancans, Lilita Berzina,
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 : Sabine Haudepin, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, 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 : 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 : Frederikke Borge, Leonard Frey, Bruce Dern, Maud Adams,
Directors : Bob Brooks,

A troubled tattoo artist has designs on a model.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.