Best Drama movies of 1981

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 : 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 : Christine Kaufmann, Carole Bouquet, Ida Di Benedetto, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Werner Schroeter,

Story of a mentally unstable woman who goes into an institution.

Actors : Gojko Santic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Darko Damevski, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Zdravko Velimirovic,

In medieval Serbia, a young monk, a master of herbal medicine, attracts the attention of a warlord's wife.

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 : 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 : Tarcísio Meira, Christiane Torloni, Lídia Brondi, Ney Latorraca,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer Amado ...

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

Actors : Matilde Mastrangi, Liana Duval, David Cardoso, Zélia Diniz,

Three tales of the erotic: First: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism. Second: A handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him. Third: A ...

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 : Ava Gardner, Ian McKellen, Penelope Keith, Janet Suzman,
Directors : Christopher Miles,

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they ...

Actors : Handan Adali, Ahmet Açan, Leyla Altin, Orhan Aykanat,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

Fuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, to suicide, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results

Actors : Tien Hsiang Lung, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Sheng Chiang, 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 : Louise Koch, Tommy Hansen, Benny Poulsen, Karen Margrethe Bjerre,
Directors : Hans-Henrik Jørgensen,

The boy Kim moves with his family from the countryside to a ghetto in a big city. He does not do too well in school, and that makes him an easy victim for the hard core bullies in the new ...

Actors : Rekha, Nazneen, Shabana Azmi, Jeetendra,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Sadhana (Rekha) and Ramkumar (Jeetendra) are a married couple. Their marriage gets into troubled waters when Sadhana starts to suspect that Ramkumar is having an affair. Sadhana does not ...

Actors : Kumar Gaurav, Aruna Irani, Danny Denzongpa, Vijayata Pandit,

Vijay Mehra loves Suman, but Suman is attracted to Ram, and marries Ram shortly thereafter. Vijay is angered by this. Subsequently, Vijay marries, and his wife gives birth to a baby boy, ...

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

Actors : Aldine Muller, Jean Garret, Calu Caldine, Neide Ribeiro,
Directors : Ody Fraga,

The lonely Jeruza lives in a simple isolated house by the seaside with the siblings Cassandra and Ulisses and the family survives by selling handicrafts for a local store. Her husband, ...

Actors : Paul Trahair, Mark Watson, Kylie Foster, Ivor Louis,
Directors : Tony Paterson,

The Story of a photographer's struggle in the glamorous world of nude modeling.