1981 Movies

Thirupati, an orphan, makes a living by selling movie tickets in black. He is a kind-hearted man who eventually turns violent against evil

Hajj Ali makes a living as a taxi driver during the day, carrying citizens safely across the city, but he also runs a funeral home, waiting for “custo...

A LaserDisc-exclusive sound and image ski fantasy from 1981 by Japanese producers, soundtracked by the pop rock band Talizman.

A vision of the folkloric and farcical dance of Junín, La Tunantada, peasants with masks of white people pretend to dance a minuet.

A Woman is watching her chicken while enjoying breakfast. This peaceful scene makes way for that of a poultry slaughterhouse. The images pursue her on...

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A conversation between Fani Lucas and the filmmaker, with audio overlayed over p...

Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with Kristian...

Film by M.S. Mani

A man is attacked by all kinds of images from his past.

Hashiguchi's own high school years from 1979 to 1981 on 8mm.

A nostalgic tour through the great Harlem jazz clubs of the 1930s and '40s, led by Harlem born personality Cab Calloway. Using rare clips and "soundie...

News from Peru.

Film starring Master Amit, Master Chaitanya and Asha Chandra

Using pixillation, or the art of animating inanimate objects, the rides and carnival atmosphere of an amusement park are displayed at a dizzying fast...

All is inevitably one. With the golden mean as seed, the fruit is 10 sided. Not "?'s", but "?s'" in homage to Ken, who almost offhandedly wished for w...

The exuberance of the rivers that crisscross the Peruvian jungle.

"A masterpiece of compilation film" (Berlin Kinemathek),Dream Documentary uses footage from other films to create a surreal and foreboding societal l...