1981 Movies

This landmark 1981–82 documentary series consists of weekly 25-minute episodes filmed across Taiwan using an ENG (Electronic News Gathering) camera. It documents local customs and social textures through a distinctly humanistic lens. The project also marks an...

A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.

A domineering and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to a young man, for the financial advantages it will...

The historical musical made in the Inca citadel in 1981 with texts by Pablo Neruda and music of The Jaivas. Special Guest: Mario Vargas Llosa in the presentation.

When gambling champ Yau retires, his heir is forced to enlist the help of legendary gambler Patrick Tse to protect his inheritance.

Four friends take a weekend camping trip in the mountains of Utah, where a homicidal woodsman begins murdering tourists.

A wealthy landowner uncovers a bronze statue of Venus on his property. He asks an antique expert to examine the statue and confirm its wealth. Upon arrival, the expert is striken with love by the landowner’s daughter-in-law who bears an uncanny resemblance to...

Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil. Life in the valley isn't what it was, there's no pit in Deri now, but the humour survives, and it's amazingly peaceful considering.

The young daughter of a US Senator is drawn into a hippie “free love” cult called “The Children of Light” by the blond boyfriend of the cult’s leader, a mysterious and beautiful Asian woman. The cult turns out to be not quite the “free” love community it prese...

A funny tale about a group of children fighting the evil sorcerer.

Iron Maiden at Palasport, Bologna, Italy. And the setlist was: 1): Purgatory, 2): Wrathchild, 3):Twilight Zone, 4); Remember Tomorrow 5): Killers, 6): Running Free, 7): Murders In The Rue Morgue

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Aderlaß is a youthful attempt to process the inheritance of the Vienna Actionists through the use of a super 8 camera. In front of the camera is a performance from Armin Schmickl Sebastiano (Peter Tcherkassky). A game with light and sound that explodes out of...

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary re...

Telugu language remake of the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me".

Based on the memoirs of author Curzio Malaparte, diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian forces after the defeat of the Nazis in Italy, The Skin follows the collapse of Italian society under the US occupation and the desperate measures required for s...

When they were about to graduate from high school... just after their junior-senior prom, trouble exploded!