Movies released in 1981

Die heidnische Madonna

77/100

This funny crime/comedy was the beginning of the Csöpi&Kardos-films (starring István Bujtor and András Kern).

Love and Lies

80/100

A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates ... See full summary »

Only When I Laugh

65/100

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ... See full summary »

Tree of Knowledge

73/100

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast...

Rasputin

71/100

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Quartet

65/100

Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.

Kaalia

69/100

A simple man is forced to join the criminal world.

The Devil and Max Devlin

50/100

Max, a dead corrupt businessman, makes a Faustian pact with Satan's henchman to drive three people to Hell in exchange for longer life. Soon Max realizes that there still may be good in him.

Sphinx

53/100

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

Son of the White Mare

79/100

A dethroned goddess-turned-horse gives birth to three superpowered sons who set out to save three princesses from three ancient dragons and reclaim their parents' lost kingdom from the underworld.

Three Brothers

74/100

Three men face their mother's death.

Full Moon High

48/100

A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.

To the Stars by Hard Ways

52/100

A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.

Fear No Evil

41/100

High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.

This Is Elvis

75/100

The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and death.

Assassination Attempt

72/100

Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.

Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine

63/100

Rollover

53/100

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

41/100

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 ... See full summary »

Puberty Blues - Scharf aufs erste Mal

58/100

The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney.

Downtown 81

72/100

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets ... See full summary »

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

76/100

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.

Madhouse

55/100

A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.

Zoot Suit

68/100

A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped ... See full summary »

Rubber Tarzan

65/100

Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As... See full summary »