1981 Movies

A pioneer of cinema and inventor of the first moving images, Émile Reynaud achieved dazzling success before the advent of the cinematograph, but was s...

Documentary about 30 years of Brazilian politics, focusing on ex-president Jânio Quadros, a controversial persona, elected using the broom as a symbol...

Open air theatre production about the Paris commune

An off-beat story where a pair of adulterers stir up some action including murder and mayhem.

A young 19-year old girl Anastasia (O.Bobyleva) comes to a big Siberian construction site. She dreams of being a welder, but at the moment there are n...

Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the yak...

A godlike being, discovered in an ancient sarcophagus in the plains of South America, is brought back to life and must learn to cope with today's soci...

United States of America, early 1980s. From the height of a fifty-story building located in the center of New York on a granite cliff in Manhattan, pe...

A young man, the soldier and bachelor type, is looking for Anima - the eternal unattainable female who alternately appears as a virgin, harlot, mother...

Worker becomes boss of his company through inheritance.

It’s boring to play alone, and the “big ones” don’t want to play with you. But, fortunately, then everyone understands that it’s really fun to play wi...

Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he c...

On this program we see a rare interview with the mercurial painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, conducted in 1981 in his studio on Crosby Street, in SOHO. B...

An interview with actress Ingrid Bergman at London's National Film Theatre in 1981.

Rebels mobilize Japanese troops who are pillaging villages in China, resulting in a failed assassination attempt that has dire consequences for both s...