Movies released in 1981

Kalyug

78/100

This movie tells story of fierce and total competition of two related business families in the days...

Merry-Go-Round

68/100

Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins.

Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake

26/100

When Kelly Morgan was 11 years old he had a terrifying encounter with Rana, a strange half man/half frog monster living in a lake. The creature killed his father and many other people ... See full summary »

Hoge hakken, echte liefde

58/100

A bored company owner decides to find out what it is like to be one of his workers. During his "transformation"...

Les hommes préfèrent les grosses

48/100

Sea Prince and the Fire Child

73/100

A prince of the sea and a child of fire engage in a tragic forbidden romance.

Herzchirurg Dr. Vrain

62/100

The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart... See full summary »

Firecracker

57/100

Femme fatale martial arts expert teaches the mafia a lesson.

Amin: The Rise and Fall

61/100

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

Light Years Away

74/100

A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.

Martial Club

72/100

When you combine "Kung-fu" Liu Chia-liang with the greatest kung-fu film character of all time, Huang Fei-hung, you get one of the finest "pure" kung-fu films ever made, with martial arts mastery in every scene.

On the Right Track

55/100

Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, ... See full summary »

Family Reunion

83/100

Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher and matriarch of a problematic family who desperately tries to keep her family together...

Laf u srcu

73/100

After confronting his professor, a student of medicine loses his illegal bed in student housing and finds a job as a housemaid at Sava Mitrovic house. The family happiness soon turns into a chaos, falling apart like a Robert Hall suit.

Ik ben Joep Meloen

53/100

The Brady Girls Get Married

51/100

Jan and Marcia have met the men of their dreams and decide to tie the knot. They agree to hold the weddings together in the family's back yard, but fight over whether to have a modern ... See full summary »

I fichissimi

59/100

Mechanic Romeo and grocery deliverer Felice lead two rival gangs and the local discotheque is not big enough for the both of them. When Romeo falls for Felice's sister, conveniently called ... See full summary »

Othello

72/100

A general becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair, even though there is no evidence.

Clara und die tollen Typen

57/100

Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In ... See full summary »

Man liebt nur einmal

75/100

Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family... See full summary »