The Best Movies Of 1981

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secre...

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentar...

A janitor in New York and a big fan of a TV news reporter. Tony comes to cover the story when a rich man is murdered in Daryll's building. Tony pretended to know something about the crime in order to ...

Terrorists tried to abduct a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages ar...

A prostitution and drifter are bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

When a group of college students find a book and a recording in an old wilderness cabin, they unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.

During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in to a hotel room near the courthouse while his depressed next door neighbor contemplates taking his own life.

In a small village in Darjeeling, the merchant has built a web of corruption. Everyone from the local jeweler to the police inspector is a part of his intricate web. The father has created a position ...

After her father, Golden Rings, is killed by the Deadly Blade, the Moon Goddess sends out invitations to all the top fighters in the region to try and lure out the Deadly Blade and force him to kill h...

It is Valentine's Day and the hip feline has no love and no money except for seven cents. He goes to a messenger service for a job but messes his rehearsal up. He then buys a cassette player and pre-r...

The cast of the film is Babra Sharif, Shahid, Waheed Murad, Ibrahim Nafees, Nayyar Sultana, Farzana And Talish. The film was released on 15 May 1981.

A city cop is assigned to solve a violent set of murders where it is thought that the victims were killed by animals. He learns of an Indian legend about the spirits of wolves.

On April 6, 1980, the Canadian Farmworkers Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation...

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Kerry Von Erich gets his shot at the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship. But to become a champion "The Modern-Day Warrior" will need to topple NWA kingpin Harley Race.

A 1981 TV film by Hallström about a 35-year-old footballer (played by Swedish pop star Robert Broberg) looking back over his life.

Valuable jewels belonging to a japanese exporting company have vanished in Hong Kong. Three different criminal organizations are scurrying about trying to find them, but the only mysterious Suzie Mazu...

Thorn appeared to be a benign corporate benefactor when he helped rescue the world from a recession. When he becomes U.S. Ambassador to England, Damien fulfilled a prophecy. There is a chance that he ...

At the park seven years ago, Lopplc and Morina were playing. Suddenly, they felt an earthquake on the Koya Koya Planet. The planet was destroyed by the biggest earthquake in history. Everyone was forc...

After a near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

In Lino Brocka's 1981 melodrama, a man's juggling of three women—his wife, his girlfriend, and the wealthy married woman with whom he begins a torrid affair—leads to violent consequences.

Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nevosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-induced vomiting, because of her troubled ho...

A tribute to the spirit and humanity of people who are physically different from the average: very tall and very large men and women, a bearded woman and her long-time husband, Siamese twins joined at...

This film is a sequel to "The Heroic One" and begins with the platform fight scene which ended that film.

Several prehistoric eggs were accidentally brought up by drillers on an oil rig. A single egg becomes an unstoppable creature. They risk their lives to stop it.

Millionairess actress-singer Marie Coleby lives in a luxurious villa on a deserted beach. One afternoon after a TV commercial shoot at the villa, she tells Gordon Mason to kill someone. Mason's attemp...

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and interviews with Elvis, his fans and those close to h...

Tom Sharky, a police officer, gets busted for working vice, and ends up with a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. While Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met, his new mac...

A dissident playwright is awaiting trial for his activities against the political regime.

In 1981, Welles gave a 90-minute question-and-answer session at the University of Southern California after a screening of The Trial. He had his cinematographer Gary Graver film the session with a vie...

A group of POWs in a German prison camp play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during World War II.

A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her di...

1943. French POWs escape through Hungary towards the Balkan. Jacques and Gérard are caught and taken to an internment camp at Lake Balaton. Jacques meets Klári here, who was abandoned by her military ...

Mysterious and only superficially explored by generations of the native Aborigines, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's most extraordinary natural life systems. Twelve hundred miles l...

The true story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretakers, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster ...

A young woman learns that the building she bought was built over one of the entrances to Hell after a series of supernatural "accidents" in Louisiana.

The film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.

John Logan is a poor little rich boy. He learns to love from three nubile L.A. newcomers that will do anything to be introduced into the sizzling nightlife of the City of Angels. Portraying the Malibu...

An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.

Uuno's nose is so good that he can smell things on the other side of the store. Uuno was chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student because of his smell talent. Uuno's father-in-law, Tuura, thi...

There is a musical set in Busby Berkeley. It's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy sheet music in Chicago during the depression. He fell in love with Eileen when he met her in a m...

Film about enemy agents trying to infiltrate the Albanian military.