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 : 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 : 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 : Jean Carmet, Claude Gensac, Louis de Funès, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Jean Girault,

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

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 : 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 : Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, 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 : 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 : 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 : Julie Brown, Melinda Cordell, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Patti Hansen, John Ritter,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.

Actors : Antonella Antinori, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Karin Well, Simone Mattioli,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

A professor opens a crypt and reanimates rotten zombies. The zombies attack a jet-set-group which is celebrating a party in a villa nearby...

Actors : Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy, E.J. Peaker,
Directors : Herb Freed,

A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.

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.