Best Drama movies of 1981

Actors : Tomasz Hudziec, Marek Kondrat, Teresa Marczewska, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Wojciech Marczewski,

Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Maureen McCormick, Peter Jason, Cameron Mitchell Jr.,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A rough and tough macho truck driver decides to make his soft son more of a man by taking him hunting. They go on a holiday and go to a honky-tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Katia Ivanova, Grigor Vachkov, Stefan Mavrodiyev,
Directors : Georgi Djulgerov,

Early 20th c. This is an era of seething passions, aspirations for freedom and national self-identification. Uprising are incited, blood is shed. The picture features national leaders who ...

Actors : Saffron Henderson, Kathleen Barr, Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda,
Directors : Rintaro,

It's been three years since the destruction of planet La Maetel, but the Machine Empire is as great of a threat as ever. Teen Tetsuro, now a rebel fighter, learns that Galaxy Express 999 is returning and that Maetel is on it.

Actors : Mu-song Jeon, Ahn Sung-ki, Jong-su Kim,
Directors : Kwon-taek Im,

A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.

Actors : Joseph Bottoms, Richard Cox, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Noel Nosseck,

A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of "King of the Hill."

Actors : Hussein Fahmy, Khairy Beshara, Zouzou Mady, Bachir El Dik,
Directors : Mohamed Khan,

Maowid ala Ashaa is a 1981 Egyptian romance film, starring Soad Hosni and Ahmed Zaki. The life story of a beautiful and pure woman, interested of the very little things with a great sensibility.

Actors : Banzo Africano, Zaqueu Bento, Jotta Barroso, Catalina Bonakie,
Directors : Braz Chediak,

Rich man wants to pay one of his employees a lot of money in order he marries his daughter, who had been raped by five men. But something in the girl's story isn't quite right.

Actors : John Considine, Cindy Pickett, Yvette Mimieux, Christopher Allport,
Directors : Bobby Roth,

A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.

Actors : Leif Sylvester, Dagmar Andreasen, Helle Fastrup, Erik Clausen,
Directors : Erik Clausen,

Film about a pair of traveling entertainers and con-men and their problems with jobs, money and women. We follow them in a period there it goes downhill with engagements. It's hard for them...

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Claire Pimparé, Nicholas Campbell, Jack Wetherall,
Directors : Larry Kent,

Love story, young soldier maimed in Vietnam, allows former girlfriend to believe he's dead to spare her anguish.

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Mircea Albulescu, Gheorghe Cozorici, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them.

Actors : Tony Pitts, Carolyn Nicholson, Graham Green, Roy Haywood,
Directors : Ken Loach,

Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents...

Actors : Richard Burton, Kate Mulgrew, Nicholas Clay, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Tom Donovan,

The classic Arthurian tale of tragic love. In medieval times, Lord of Cornwall decides to marry an Irish princess Isolde. However, his most loyal knight Tristan becomes bewitched by her beauty and they fall hopelessly in love.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zülfikar Divani, Talat Gözbak, Recep Filiz,
Directors : Remzi Jöntürk,

Actors : Cora Miao, Cherie Chung, Lieh Lo, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Ann Hui,

Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand, he ...

Actors : Monica, Rajinikanth, Sarath Babu, Goundamani,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

A God- fearing son finds a way to teach a lesson to his sex- addict father.

Actors : Clio Goldsmith, Donatella Damiani, Catherine Spaak, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Gianfranco Angelucci,

The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night - without knowing that it's this special kind of hotel, that serves more than breakfast. Curiously she walks around and watches the ...

Actors : Kanako Higuchi, Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

Actors : Angela Winkler, Nathalie Baye, Patrick Chesnais, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Claude Goretta,

A 31 year-old designer moves to Paris in search of steady work but finds only dead ends, harassments, and broken promises.