Movies released in 1981

Mein Freund, der Pirat

76/100

This is a sensitive film about human solidarity filled with humor and poetry.

Jaka, der Rebell

63/100

Indonesia is a country in turmoil. The people are poor and oppressed by the Dutch Government. However one hope remains in the form of rebel leader Djaka Semboeng. His rebels and his famous ... See full summary »

Hochzeit vor dem Henker

73/100

Tenshi no harawata: Akai inga

57/100

Nami is a staff member at an exclusive department store. Her libido is chiefly satisfied alone, until a co-worker talks her into subbing on a porno modeling job. Her appearance in the magazine Red Porno has no end of complications for her.

Americana

66/100

In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.

Nudo di donna

66/100

Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. She's had enough of his moods, so... See full summary »

In the Shadow of the Sun

64/100

A collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.

The Kiss

68/100

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer Amado ... See full summary »

Summer Solstice

77/100

Ornella - Die Unwiderstehliche

55/100

Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.

Best of Times

58/100

This ABC pilot starred 7 teenagers in a 80's style Laugh-In. It told the light and dark side of teenage thoughts with dancing and singing added in for color. It would have done well in a ... See full summary »

Lifepod

53/100

The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. A handful of people are trapped onboard.

The Circus Casablanca

59/100

Film about a pair of traveling entertainers and con-men and their problems with jobs, money and women. We follow them in a period there it goes downhill with engagements. It's hard for them... See full summary »

The Territory

66/100

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, ... See full summary »

Love & Money

46/100

A billionaire businessman hires a man to influence a South American dictator. He winds up having an affair with the billionaire's wife.

Kirik Bir Ask Hikayesi

70/100

Fuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, to suicide, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results

Nelly, the Spy

45/100

Berlin, 1936. A Greek student, Nelly, abandons her studies and with the assistance of Jewish Vili Foster makes her debut as a cabaret singer. Soon becomes famous and reputation attracts the... See full summary »

The Mechanic Gavrilov's Beloved Woman

68/100

Bamse and the Two Horse Rides

69/100

Mera spored mera

77/100

Early 20th c. This is an era of seething passions, aspirations for freedom and national self-identification...

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

62/100

Biography focusing on the former first lady's years in D.C., from working as a newspaper's "Inquiring Camera Girl" to meeting and being courted by Rep. Jack Kennedy to life on the campaign trail and into the White House.

Der Winter unserer Träume

65/100

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... See full summary »

Silvestre

76/100

Langturschauffør

42/100

Danish film about a group of truck drivers and their difficulty in maintaining a family life when they are away most of the time. In addition, they are victims of an insurance scam devised ... See full summary »

Gehirnwäsche

63/100

A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.