1981 Movies

A study on a New Year's theme.

Three middle-class families living in Chennai face several difficulties in their everyday lives and tackle the challenges that come their way.

Stop motion animation

Details the impact of television on people and social institutions.

Wong Chi-chae, an ambitious young doctor, is secretly in a relationship with Cheng Yuh-hsya, a nurse. When the president of the hospital selects Wong...

Set in the days of Anti-Japanese War. Doctors of Humanity Hospital save a wounded patriot, but the event is informed to Japanese secret service. How c...

Hunan boy Zhu escapes from local tyrants chase, joins the Hunan troop and gets promoted soon. The superior recommends Zhu to the military school where...

Thadavara is a 1981 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. Chandrakumar and produced by Augustine Prakash. The film stars Jayan, K. P. Ummer, M. N. Nam...

Gay men discuss sexuality, masculinity and relationships in a documentary filmed just before the outbreak of AIDS.

With a touch of fantasy and a lot of ingenuity, this short fiction film presents the beginnings of a simple love story. Employed in the service of a d...

A study of flowers.

Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual p...

Short animation made by Anno in his uni days

Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no ex...

Dutch filmmaker Roelof Kiers documents a reunion of the 509th Composite Group, the U.S. Army Air Forces unit that carried out the atomic bombing of Hi...

Outtakes from the movie

A mysterious love triangle in which a wife, her lover and her husband live together. A desperate insurance fraud case that arose as a result of this i...

The romantic story takes place in the time of Napoleon in Hungary, near Fertő-lake. Count Vavel hides here the French heiress from the revolution and...