1981 Movies

Three brothers smuggle arms and drugs from Mexico into the US.

A weather widow spends her life searching for her two missing sons to bestoy her fortune on. When she finally finds two young men, are they who they...

Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes and...

Tokiwa was the apartment complex where a group of stellar artists lived in 1953. Hiro Terada, Motoo Abiko and Hiroshi Fujimoto, Shotaro Ishinomori and...

A tough, macho, truck driver decides to make his soft son more manly by taking him hunting. They vacation and go to a honky tonk bar where the younger...

Gunawan moves his troubled family (including an adulterous wife) into a new Dutch home that comes complete with a hidden treasure and ghosts.

Marek Edelman, co-founder of the Jewish Combat Organization and one of the last surviving commanders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, recalls the time o...

On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across th...

A couple of delinquents doing small time con jobs steal the car of a local councilman. Inside the car they find a stuffed panda. Suddenly the two find...

With the support of her parents, an Arizona adolescent overcomes severe injuries to run in a 10K race.

The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents...

A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.

Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants t...

A young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father's adultery and mother's deep depression, as...

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused...

A 2-part epic film novel based on the historical life of Khatanbaatar Magsarjav, the legendary Mongolian military general who stood out in the struggl...

Birgit Cullberg's 1950 dance adaptation of Miss Julie was the breakthrough for modern dance in Sweden. 30 years later one of her sons plays the role o...

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK