Best movies of 1981

Actors : Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Michael Laughlin,

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

Actors : Biao Yuen, Frankie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ching-Ying Lam,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a ...

Actors : Andrea Bevilacqua, Tommaso Bianco, Caroline Berg, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, Patrick Piccininni, Howard Hesseman,
Directors : Alan Myerson,

An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love.

Actors : Daniel Valdez, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly, Edward James Olmos,
Directors : Luis Valdez,

A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped ...

Actors : Bruce Lee, Jang Lee Hwang, Roy Horan, Tae-jeong Kim,

While investigating his friend Chin Ku's (Hwang Jang Lee) death, martial artist Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) is killed. His younger brother, Bobby Lo (Kim Tai Chung), investigates both deaths. His ...

Actors : Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver, Patrick Magee, David Warbeck,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Robert Miles is a psychic that can communicate with the dead. He also has the ability to control the mind of his cat (who incidentally is black). He uses the cat to take vengeance upon his ...

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Howard Vernon, Anouchka, Pierre-Marie Escourrou,

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.

Actors : Marian Opania, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Wieslawa Kosmalska, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. ...

Actors : C.J. Cooke, Mik Cribben, Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith,
Directors : Romano Scavolini,

A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.

Actors : Paul Boensch III, Elvis Presley, David Scott, Johnny Harra,

The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and death.

Actors : David Keith, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Miriam Colon,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Actors : Bud Spencer, Piero Trombetta, Carlo Reali, Joe Bugner,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

Two outlaws: "The doctor" (Bud Spencer) and the Indian Girolamo (Amidou) are helping villagers to fight a gang and a corrupt sheriff who has discover gold under the village.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Rekha, Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Can an unconventional love that runs afoul of societal expectations survive?

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Kris Kristofferson, Josef Sommer, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Actors : Philippe Marlaud, Mathieu Carrière, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, William Sanderson, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Suna Yildizoglu, Yavuz Simsek, Gölge Basar,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Said funny events that have to be engaged to endear himself to the beloved players.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Necla Soylu, Dinçer Çekmez, Fatma Girik,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

Turkish tragicomedy of the legendary Bloody Mary depicts how an ingenue is driven into adultery and is happened to suffer from early puberty until she ends up as a harlot. This is when she decides to take revenge from all the men on Earth.

Actors : Milla Sannoner, Ornella Muti, Adriano Celentano, Adolfo Celi,

Barnaba, a rude bus driver who enjoys the attention of women, one day meets Principessa Cristina, the princess of a local principality.