Best movies of 1981

Actors : Cliff De Young, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Jim Sharman,

Janet and Brad become contestants on a game show... but wind up as captives instead.

Actors : Joe Cortese, Clint Howard, Claude Earl Jones, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Eric Weston,

An outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer.

Actors : Michèle Baumgartner, Henri Garcin, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

Actors : Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown, Joe Penny, Lori Lethin,
Directors : Ed Hunt,

Three children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members.

Actors : Gregg Henry, George Kennedy, Chris Lemmon, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Jeff Lieberman,

Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the ...

Actors : Marianne Jacobi, Susan Anspach, Per Oscarsson, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.

Actors : Fernando Ramos da Silva, Edilson Lino, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with little crimes, prostitution, etc

Actors : Edward Albert, Bernard Behrens, Ray Walston, Erin Moran,
Directors : Bruce D. Clark,

SciFi suspense thriller in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jeffrey Tambor, Severn Darden,
Directors : Howard R. Cohen,

A family moves into a house inhabited by scary creatures and a number of close calls ensue.

Actors : Annie McEnroe, Andrea Marcovicci, Bruce McGill, Michael Caine,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and ...

Actors : Mira Banjac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Slavko Stimac, Ljiljana Blagojevic,
Directors : Emir Kusturica,

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. They hire him to hide a young ...

Actors : Vernel Bagneris, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Actors : Bob Balaban, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti,
Directors : John Badham,

Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he ...

Actors : Patti D'Arbanville, Dabney Coleman, Mary Kay Place, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Ken Shapiro,

Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Christopher George, Franco Nero, Susan George,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also ...

Actors : Teri Földi, Gyula Szabó, József Gyabronka, Judit Pogány,
Directors : Attila Dargay,

Famous, great hunters, better stay away, here comes Vuk! (They say he is cunning as a fox!)

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...

Actors : Sevket Altug, Mehmet Ali Erbil, Osman Cavci, Savas Dinçel,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

A literature teacher who was born in a village comes to Hababam Sinifi. However, the students in the class mock him because of his accent.

Actors : Christine Paul-Podlasky, Stanislaw Tym, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Barbara Burska,
Directors : Stanislaw Bareja,

The main character is the manager of a sport club, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : James Ivory,

Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.