1981 Movies

Two ex-convicts are hired by the Devil to manage a small town cemetery.

In 1981, David Wojnarowicz befriended twenty-one year-old Sophie Breer, an artist and co-worker at the Peppermint Lounge. David delighted Breer at the...

Blumenschein stages surreal, minimalist tableaux featuring herself and collaborators amid stark black‑and‑white visuals. Part of Infermental 1, a film...

A collection of vignettes animated by Ehrlich’s young students, with connecting segments by Ehrlich.

Dammbeck relocates the Leipzig-based artists' circle known as Herbstsalon to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland, which in 1929 was the venue of the legen...

A Czech animation.

A paper dove swaying over a cradle with a baby angers an annoying cat, who starts chasing the dove around the garden.

16mm. Colour. Sound. 8 minutes.

United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min

This evocative documentary examines the plight of the ranchers of Nevada and California, who find their grazing areas increasingly threatened by many...

This film was the first feature film about the Iran-Iraq war that was made and released.

Fighting Life is a remarkable film rejoicing the spirit of life. It is the dynamic tale of two brothers who overcome immense physical and emotional ha...

A South Bohemian cantorial romance about the search for human happiness.

At the beginning of the 60s in Athens, Nikos and Takis, two young poets, lead the life of bohemian artists of older times. At their heyday, all of a s...

"Melvin Goes Disco" is writer/director Mark Esposito's homage to MGM's popular "Pete Smith Specialties" of the 1940's. Famed character actor Irving Me...