1981 Movies

A televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie),incorporating filmed conversations between him and Isabelle Hu...

Three stories based on tales of the book by Manuel Mujica Lainez, ("El hambre", "La pulsera de cascabeles" y "El salón dorado".).) On scripts for the...

A female hair stylist is torn between two lovers as she waits for treatment in a gynecological ward. She meets the other patients who are there and ge...

The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350...

The Chinese tale of a poor young man. His mother married to the cruel king of the state and he wants to take his mother back. One old man comes from t...

A crew of female migrants come to town to help harvest produce and to lively up the men in town.

The 38th GRAND MATCH of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club held on the frozen Lake of Menteith in 1979.

A woman struggles with her husband.

In Portuguese Occupied Goa, a freedom fighter, a bar owner, and the woman they both love, find themselves at odds as their goals collide against each...

Following on from Shelter (1981),the setting is again an air-raid shelter. Close-up images of trees are dissected and reformed abstractly. The film...

Taiwanese thriller.

Soviet television feature film of 1981, a three-part historical detective. In January 1918, one of the most notorious crimes of the first years of the...

Taiwanese crime film.

Upset by the death of one of her patients, Marie, a young nurse, decides to go in search of the relatives of the deceased. This is how she meets the g...

Interview with Ingmar Bergman by the Swedish Film Institute's then CEO Jörn Donner about the filming of Fanny and Alexander.