Best Drama movies of 1981

Actors : László Gálffi, Ninetto Davoli, József Madaras, Teresa Ann Savoy,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

Actors : Juozas Budraitis, Uldis Dumpis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Donatas Banionis,
Directors : Almantas Grikevicius,

This film only evokes one day, the last day of a Lithuanian village of which all the inhabitants have been massacred, shot and burnt by Nazi executioners Saturday, June 3td. 1944. But the ...

Actors : Robert Fields, Pep Munné, Jeannine Mestre, Norman Briski,
Directors : Gonzalo Herralde,

Elena, a young Catalan translator, discovers that David, her former lover, is living in New York with a new girlfriend, where she will travel to try to win him back.

Actors : Yeong-ja Jeon, Ahn Sung-ki, Bo-ra Geum, Chu-ryeon Kim,
Directors : Won-se Lee,

Kim Bul is a midget, but despite his stature he has been able to live a successful life in his village and raise three children. When he, his wife and now-adult children prepare to move to ...

Actors : Marcus Alvisi, Manfredo Colassanti, Jose Braulio, Catalina Bonakie,
Directors : Braz Chediak,

Senhorinha (Dina Sfat), wife of Jonah (Rubens Correia), witnesses the decline of oligarchic family structure. His son William (Mark Alvisi), to escape the passion he feels for Glory (...

Actors : Leen Jongewaard, Jaap Stobbe, Piet Kamerman, Peter Faber,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

Patients in a mental hospital are sent to live in a house in town as part of a social experiment. To the surprise of some and the delight of others, two other women move in.

Actors : Hans Christian Blech, Ingrid Caven, Shelley Winters, Sydne Rome,

A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are aging, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and ...

Actors : Ewa Barszczewska, Natasza Czarminska, Milosz Benedyktowicz, Tadeusz Bogucki,
Directors : Janusz Kijowski,

The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he ...

Actors : Catarina Ligendza, Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Directors : Götz Friedrich,

Richard Strauss' classic opera version of the ancient Greek tragedy about the princess Elektra, who dreams of avenging her father Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover.

Actors : Jerzy Góralczyk, Lucyna Brusikiewicz, Jerzy Felczynski, Jerzy Binczycki,
Directors : Gerard Zalewski,

The story is about a diary of a resistance fighter, a writer who died without daring to write truth as he knew it. The legendary diary is passed to a writer's friend by his widow. It is to ...

Actors : Joe Chapman, Delana Michaels, Christopher Wynne, Alvy Moore,
Directors : David R. Elliott,

A Christian woman (Delana Michaels) wants a newspaper man (Greg Wynne) to publish a story about a One World Foundation being set up whose only goal is to control the world. She wants him to...

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Igor Livanov, Andrei Popov, Sergey Yakovlev,
Directors : Vladimir Dostal,

Soviet propaganda film set in Russia under the Tsar, just before the February Revolution of 1917. A Bolshevik Communist, politician Kirill Astakhov, is transfered from a regular prison to a...

Actors : Yanet Cuevas, Kim Harlow, Alexandra Stewart, Dirke Altevogt,
Directors : François Mimet,

A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny. She knows too much ...

Actors : Libuse Heczková, Lucie Zednícková, Dan Sedivák, Michal Suchánek,
Directors : Karel Smyczek,

Several big-city teenagers are falsely accused of vandalising a valuable organ, casting light on the hypocrisy of the adult world.

Actors : Jennifer Dale, Richard Harris, Jeanne Moreau, George Peppard,
Directors : George Kaczender,

An influential businessmen is stressed out by work. This leads to him being unable to perform in bed. He gets paranoid that his wife will start cheating on him. This idea, however, slowly becomes more and more appealing to him.

Actors : Houcem Sabbah, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar, Haithem el Amine,
Directors : Borhane Alaouié,

Just after telephone communication is restored between the warring East and West sides of Beirut, two old college lovers, one Christian, the other Shiite, whose efforts to meet have ...

Actors : Orna Lavie, Albert Cohen, Dubi Gal,
Directors : Alfred Steinhardt,

A masseur has very capable "electrical" hands for the women who come to him. He begins to take a special interest in three of his clients to whom he offers treatment in a more intimate ...

Actors : Shek-Ching Law, Eva Bisset, Emma Yeung, Hok Nin Lau,
Directors : Pasan Leung,

Three women captured and imprisoned by a gang of white slavers lead a bloody rebellion, aided by a detective investigating the gang.

Actors : Qiang Guan, Decheng Zhu, Shan Liang, Hao Hu,

Principal of a reformatory school leads a lost boy back on the right direction.

Actors : David Chiang, Paul Chun, Siu Tin Yuen, Hua Yueh,
Directors : Tien-Yung Hsu,

David Chiang, star of many classic Shaw Brothers films, and the great Yuen Hsiao Tien (Jackie Chan's Drunken Master) star in this kung fu bonanza set in China's warlord period. When a ...