Best movies of 1981

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 : 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Sammy Snyders, Laura Hollingsworth,
Directors : Lew Lehman,

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.

Actors : Mariangela Melato, Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Richard Kiel,
Directors : Andrew Bergman,

While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.

Actors : Tanya Lopert, Ornella Muti, Ben Gazzara, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

Actors : Richard Hatch, Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also ...

Actors : Nick Mancuso, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek,
Directors : Ralph L. Thomas,

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles ...

Actors : Stan Freberg, Ralph James, June Foray, Mel Blanc,
Directors : Friz Freleng,

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Toon shorts.

Actors : Jirí Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrusínský, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.

Actors : Deepti Naval, Saeed Jaffrey, Farooq Shaikh, Rakesh Bedi,
Directors : Sai Paranjape,

Two womanizing slackers, Omi and Jai (Rakesh Bedi and Ravi Baswani respectively) attempt to woo the new girl in the neighbourhood, and fail - miserably. Their third room-mate, shy, and a ...

Actors : Rajinikanth, Thengai Srinivasan, Showkar Janaki, Madhavi,
Directors : K. Balachander,

Ayyampettai Arivudainambi Kaliyaperumal Chandran is a hip graduate who gets a job through his family doctor. The employer, Sri Ramachandramurthy has some frivolous notions about character, ...

Actors : Vsevolod Larionov, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Volyntsev, Olga Gromova,
Directors : Roman Kachanov,

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zeleny go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to ...

Actors : Mumtaz Begum, Vikas Anand, Zeenat Aman, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Left in the care of an alcoholic Gangu Ganpat (Shreeram Lagoo), young Heera, who named himself after a stray dog, wrestles with life in his young age. Years later, now a young man (Amitabh ...

Actors : Vic Morrow, Micaela Pignatelli, James Franciscus, Joshua Sinclair,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area.