1981 Movies

Two little boys face a paranormal entity in the form of gnomik.

A half-hour comedic monologue by Bill Martin, made up of short routines each delivered in a different character voice. Martin wears a smoking jacket a...

Adapted from Luc Dietrich's touching autobiographical novel, this TV film chronicles the troubled childhood of a boy born at the beginning of the 20th...

Mexican feature film

How Baba Yaga and the devils tried to interfere with the happiness of Ivan and Marya.

Kolangal is a 1981 Indian Malayalam film, directed by KG George and produced by D Philip and KT Varghese. The film stars Thilakan, Nedumudi Venu, Venu...

Step on Silence was made from raw material from Peter Martins - en danser but unlike the traditional way the Martins film communicates its material in...

Two Brothers living in a small town gets themselves involved with a city girl escaping a crime syndicate.

“Journey into the Mine” (礦之旅) is a 1981 documentary directed by Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂). Part of the “Journey Through Images” series (映象之旅),i...

Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on...

A portrait of Alison French, a young woman with cerebral palsy, and her attempts to lead a normal life

A rich business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of becoming a punk rock star.

A small town lives its normal life. But when the first car appears there, the monotonous and boring life of the city changes and takes on new colors.

"The Beauty of Rituals" (《祭典之美》) by Chang Chao-tang (張照堂) surveys Taiwanese folk festivals across regions and seasons, framing them through t...

The juxtaposition may seem strange, but the Cash clan’s roots are in Scotland—even if Johnny’s speculation about descent from the 12th-century King Ma...

A Visit to Ogawa Productions offers a rare insight into the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film collectives....

An alien king sends two of his most loyal--and, as it turns out, stupidest--subjects to Earth to find him a queen to help rule his planet.

Vullnet, raised in an orphanage, has finished the military service and must solve some problems in his life.