1981 Movies

A satirical enquiry into the origins of media, their distribution and their effects on the way we behave. Those familiar with cartoonist Bruce Petty’...

Women at work in the kitchen serve as the starting point for a film that does not seek to depict events in a conventional manner, but rather assembles...

Intrigue and fighting amidst the Japanese occupation of China.

Follows the fate of Colonel Dzandar's two sons, one joined the Bolsheviks, the other joined the counter-revolutionaries.

A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role...

A man becomes acquainted with the mystery of female hands during a trip.

Detective Kostenko is traveling between Moscow and Sukhumi trying to find the responsible for double homicide.

A highly controversial work that prompted Nagisa Ōshima to criticize its creator’s mentality, stating, “I think that the film is completely vulgar. It...

The cost of living sky rocketed. The government introduced an income ceiling. Private practice for doctors was abolished. It was the fate of Dr. Molad...

In this corner of the Vendée, the inhabitants still remember the troubled times of the Revolution of 1789. Today, the social classes clash in a very m...

A movie company secretly films the lives of two conmen.

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his fa...

A vendetta rages between two families. Neither ghosts nor snakes nor humans can escape the carnage.

Gordon Liu takes on the mantle of a ruthless kung fu emperor who has mastered the Buddhist style of kung fu and diagram pole fighting technique. Hopin...

A military academy graduate, Andrei Kartashov, receives an assignment to serve in his hometown. However, the hero is not happy about it and asks the h...

When his ex-wife cheated on him, Adham has a nervous breakdown. After getting treated in a mental institution, he goes to live with his sister and two...

A pioneer boy on the roof meets a blue crow, learns a certain magic word from her, after which he moves back to the Stone Age, then to the musketeers,...

Kishinchand is a Customs Officer based in Bombay. He has been assigned to infiltrate and expose a gang of smugglers and drug dealers headed by two gan...

Greedy characters attempt to use black magic to get their hands on a valuable estate. It works out about as well as you'd guess.

Details the impact of television on people and social institutions.