Best movies of 1981

Actors : Eve Arden, Carrie Fisher, Chevy Chase, Joseph Maher,
Directors : Steve Rash,

A visiting dignitary, a CIA agent, a Nazi spy, Japanese tourists, an assassin and a group of "midget" actors from The Wizard of Oz (1939) all check into an elite Los Angeles hotel called Under the Rainbow.

Actors : James P. Hayden, Angie Brown, Nick Cleland, Mary Gail Artz,
Directors : James Bryan,

A maniacal murderer kills tourists in the woods.

Actors : Dick Martin, Jack Warden, Susan Saint James, George Segal,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

When a rich white corporate executive finds out that he has an illegitimate black son, things start falling apart for him at home, at work and in his social circles.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Maurice Ronet, Geneviève Mnich, Ariel Besse,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Ann Mitchell, Nicholas Clay,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her ...

Actors : Jennifer Ashley, Steven Grives, Robin Clarke, Stephanie Beacham,
Directors : Norman J. Warren,

A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.

Actors : Rajinikanth, Thengai Srinivasan, Showkar Janaki, Madhavi,
Directors : K. Balachander,

Ayyampettai Arivudainambi Kaliyaperumal Chandran is a hip graduate who gets a job through his family doctor. The employer, Sri Ramachandramurthy has some frivolous notions about character, ...

Actors : Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Sammy Snyders, Laura Hollingsworth,
Directors : Lew Lehman,

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Actors : Nick Mancuso, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek,
Directors : Ralph L. Thomas,

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles ...

Actors : Richard Hatch, Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson, Lee Grant,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also ...

Actors : Stan Freberg, Ralph James, June Foray, Mel Blanc,
Directors : Friz Freleng,

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Toon shorts.

Actors : Mariangela Melato, Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Richard Kiel,
Directors : Andrew Bergman,

While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.

Actors : Vsevolod Larionov, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Volyntsev, Olga Gromova,
Directors : Roman Kachanov,

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zeleny go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to ...

Actors : Jirí Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrusínský, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Klaus Kinski, Nicol Williamson, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.

Actors : Tanya Lopert, Ornella Muti, Ben Gazzara, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

Actors : Mumtaz Begum, Vikas Anand, Zeenat Aman, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Left in the care of an alcoholic Gangu Ganpat (Shreeram Lagoo), young Heera, who named himself after a stray dog, wrestles with life in his young age. Years later, now a young man (Amitabh ...

Actors : Deepti Naval, Farooq Shaikh, Saeed Jaffrey, Rakesh Bedi,
Directors : Sai Paranjape,

Two womanizing slackers, Omi and Jai (Rakesh Bedi and Ravi Baswani respectively) attempt to woo the new girl in the neighbourhood, and fail - miserably. Their third room-mate, shy, and a ...

Actors : Marco Messeri, Massimo Troisi, Fiorenza Marchegiani, Lello Arena,
Directors : Massimo Troisi,

Gaetano, giovane napoletano, decide di lasciare casa, lavoro ed amici, per cercare altri momenti di vita e conoscere altre persone. Arriva a Firenze, a casa della zia. In un ambulatorio, ...