Best movies of 1981

Titles indexed: 88

Beau Pere

Rating: 6.5

Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughte...

Graduation Day

Rating: 5.2

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....

My Champion

Rating: 0.0

In 1964 Miki came to LA with only a suitcase, hoping to become the world's best marathon runner. She meets Mike and they start running toget...

Possession

Rating: 7.3

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At firs...

Bhagyavantha

Rating: 10.0

Krishna, a child, faces various obstacles as he is considered unlucky by his family who avoids him. However, he finds comfort in his paterna...

Station

Rating: 6.1

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers....

Death Hunt

Rating: 6.6

Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal do...

Time Bandits

Rating: 6.6

Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, th...

Stripes

Rating: 6.6

Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his c...

Engraçadinha

Rating: 4.8

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of...

The Evil Dead

Rating: 7.3

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway....

Mad Max 2

Rating: 7.4

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gas...

Diva

Rating: 6.7

Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The fol...

Taps

Rating: 6.8

Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers....

Caveman

Rating: 6.5

Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of the tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other mi...

Porky's

Rating: 6.4

In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When t...

Roar

Rating: 5.9

Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper....

Galaxy of Terror

Rating: 5.3

As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to ...

They All Laughed

Rating: 5.8

New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo tr...

The Monster Club

Rating: 5.8

A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a mee...

Hell Night

Rating: 5.5

As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the pre...

Taxi zum Klo

Rating: 6.2

Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers....

Deadly Blessing

Rating: 5.5

When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins t...

Coup de Torchon

Rating: 7.0

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it...

Cannibal Ferox

Rating: 5.4

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the t...

The Last Chase

Rating: 3.6

Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States ha...

Christiane F.

Rating: 7.3

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her m...

Bustin' Loose

Rating: 6.1

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the c...

Shock Treatment

Rating: 5.8

Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriage Maze. Poor Brad is heavily sedated and...

Bolero

Rating: 6.9

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, fro...

American Pop

Rating: 6.9

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possess...

Cutter's Way

Rating: 6.5

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an ...

Venom

Rating: 5.6

International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, however, when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by m...

The Rooster

Rating: 5.4

In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is gree...

The Wave

Rating: 6.9

A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces whic...

Teheran '43

Rating: 6.3

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetin...

Artemis '81

Rating: 3.5

Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of ev...

Carnival

Rating: 6.8

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encount...

Barcelona sur

Rating: 4.3

Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after po...

Krodhi

Rating: 6.5

Unaware of his parents, as he was abandoned as a young child, Vikramjit Singh alias Vicky grows up amidst hatred....

Aas Paas

Rating: 6.8

After her fiancé is killed in an accident, Seema becomes a bar dancer and is raped. When her fiancé miraculously returns, she learns that he...

They Were Actors

Rating: 0.0

The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of...

Bruce Vs. Bill

Rating: 2.0

The two fighters of the title clash due to a gang boss playing them off against each other. The boss is hoping to steal a million dollars of...

Toshishun

Rating: 1.0

The Chinese tale of a poor young man. His mother married to the cruel king of the state and he wants to take his mother back. One old man co...

Challenge

Rating: 6.0

Based on the play of the same name by G. Markov and E. Shim. About the difficult yet creative journey of the Siberian scientist Alexei Krayu...

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