Best Drama movies of 1981

Actors : Perry Lang, Nikki Swasey Seaton, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy,
Directors : George Bowers,

A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.

Actors : Tamás Major, Dorottya Udvaros, Dezsö Garas, András Kern,
Directors : Pál Sándor,

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Meng Lo, Pan Pan Yeung, Yue Wong,

The traditional lion dance never looked so good as in Lion vs. Lion which captures the most impressive sequences of lion dancing on film. Lo Mang teams up with Wong Yu, as they ...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Lisa Kreuzer, Bernard Le Coq, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Laurent Heynemann,

"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. In this film, the agency must eliminate a German female terrorist...

Actors : William T. Hicks, Deborah Bloodworth, Susan Bloodworth, Harris Bloodworth,
Directors : Christopher Reynolds,

In the 1920s, a man in black rides into a small Southern town to visit retribution upon the citizens who have strayed from the path of righteousness and religion. He does this, of course, by killing them in various bloody ways.

Actors : Judy Davis, Bryan Brown, Cathy Downes, Baz Luhrmann,
Directors : John Duigan,

When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of his former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friends...

Actors : Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Sheng Chiang, Tien Hsiang Lung, Hsueh-Erh Wen,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

"Godfather of the kung-fu film", Chang Cheh, made this treasured and beloved adventure featuring a sword, training manual, treasure map and a secret message. The kung-fu which ensues is as impressive as it is glorious.

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Y.G. Mahendran, Madhavi, L.V. Prasad,
Directors : Singeetham Srinivasa Rao,

The story is about a blind violinist who falls in love with a rich girl and ends up facing many difficulties.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo, Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Yann Andréa,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

A dialogue-driven drama about a woman and her brother who meet at a deserted seaside hotel to deal with their passionate incestuous feelings for each other and reminisce about their happy childhood.

Actors : Mihai Mereuta, Marioara Sterian, Stela Furcovici, Adrian Pintea,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

Actors : Tim Beekman, Huib Broos, Eric Clerckx, Kitty Courbois,
Directors : Otto Jongerius,

At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.

Actors : Massimo Boldi, Renato Pozzetto, Ornella Muti, Felice Andreasi,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.

Actors : Mahmut Cevher, Talat Bulut, Türkan Soray, Aliye Rona,
Directors : Türkan Soray,

Actors : Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Jennifer Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal,
Directors : Aparna Sen,

After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a ...

Actors : Lucélia Santos, José Lewgoy, Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Wilson Grey,
Directors : Haroldo Marinho Barbosa,

Engraçadinha is a sexy teenager, with whom every man wants to get involved, except her cousin Sílvio, the only man she loves. On Sílvio's engagement day, she seduces him at the party and ...

Actors : Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

Censored by the Polish authorities, this film was reedited and new footage added. It begins with a sci-fi motif: abstract images and electronic music take the viewer from ruins of Lebanon ...

Actors : Levent Dönmez, Kadir Inanir, Müjde Ar, Hakan Tanfer,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

Actors : Vladislava Milosavljevic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mladen Budiscak, Zijah Sokolovic,
Directors : Rajko Grlic,

Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family...

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Daria Nicolodi, Franco Citti, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Sergio Citti,

Rome,1960.Four different people meet each other on Olympic games.They follow games and become friends talking about their sad lifes.