The best movies 1981 Pagina 12

In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some...

"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting...

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent...

It’s coming up to competition time for the pretty office girls of the Kara Cosmetics Company. Kei (Junko Asahina) and her co-workers are...

1981 TV movie

Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get...

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice eliminate corruption in the police department, as long...

Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.

Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind...

The filmmaker intersects the flow of traffic on narrow streets and on the canals of a European city.

At the turn of 1980/81, the peasants joined the workers' movement and they voiced their demands. As a result, they’ve registered the...

On a coffee plantation near Havana in the early 19th century, a slave’s impossible love for the owner’s daughter.

In WWII Netherlands, resistance-leader Arie is killed by Dutch SS-man Niels, leaving his comrades, who pledge to avenge him. 35 years later, one of...

An early stop motion animated short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With puppets by Marc Caro.

After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask begins murdering her friends and teachers.

Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of...

After Shabana leaves her home to pursue a singing career, her husband struggles bringing up their only son. Will the family ever get together or...

Principal of a reformatory school leads a lost boy back on the right direction.

Rape/revenge story in a rural setting, with subplots about stealing livestock, home-invasion activity, and sexytimes with bar-girls.

After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.

A short directed by Hilda Soriano, based on José Emilio Pacheco's story.

Three sex workers and three pimps, wacky complications.

Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive...

Four friends, one of whom dies, and another, who discovers that he was killed, gets involved in a crime network.

The encounter of a puppeteer with an orphan child and the subsequent relationship.

Prevention and treatment of typhoid fever, which is ravaging the slums of Lima.

The passion for horse racing at the Monterrico Hippodrome, the moments of excitement, disappointment and joy at the end of the competition.

Mexican feature film

Documentary about the iconic portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara by Cuban photographer Alberto Diaz Gutiérrez (known as 'Korda').

Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring...

An episode of the series featuring the "compa" Clodomiro, who talks about capitalism in a didactic way.

An orphan girl meets a snake and it becomes her best friend.

Narrates the workers' struggles at the beginning of the 20th century, the lengthy process of achieving the 8-hour workday, finally conquered on...

Two middle-aged couples take a Murphy's Law vacation in Acapulco.

A group of women visit a nightclub. They are all attracted to him main dancer and try to win him over without the others knowing. Him taking...

Mauricio and Alberto are friends and work in an insurance company. Apparently they have very dissimilar personalities, since Alberto is a hummingbird...