1981

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Threshold
6.1

Threshold

Sep. 19, 1981

Threshold

Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of ...
Desirable Teacher
5

Desirable Teacher

Sep. 19, 1981

Desirable Teacher

In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in ...
Mommie Dearest
6.7

Mommie Dearest

Sep. 18, 1981

Mommie Dearest

In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. ...
Continental Divide
6.2

Continental Divide

Sep. 18, 1981

Continental Divide

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Das Boot
8.3

Das Boot

Sep. 16, 1981

Das Boot

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, ...
Beau Pere
7

Beau Pere

Sep. 15, 1981

Beau Pere

Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, ...
Mandala
7.4

Mandala

Sep. 12, 1981

Mandala

The lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.
The Smurfs
7

The Smurfs

Sep. 12, 1981

The Smurfs

Classic Saturday-morning cartoon series featuring magical blue elf-like creatures called Smurfs. The Smurfs, named for their personalities, ...
Looks and Smiles
6.9

Looks and Smiles

Sep. 12, 1981

Looks and Smiles

Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens’ ...
Edo Porn
6.5

Edo Porn

Sep. 12, 1981

Edo Porn

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Tales of Ordinary Madness
6.8

Tales of Ordinary Madness

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 ...
Pixote
8

Pixote

Sep. 11, 1981

Pixote

Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of São Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, ...
Cream Horn
6.1

Cream Horn

Sep. 11, 1981

Cream Horn

Edwige Fenech and Lino Banfi stars in this Italian sex-comedy from Sergio Martino. Mariana (Fenech) and Domenico (Banfi) are on the run from her ...
Sweet Dreams
6.9

Sweet Dreams

Sep. 10, 1981

Sweet Dreams

Michele Apicella is a young film and theater director, who lives his troubles as an artist. In Italy reach the Eighties, and Michele, who was ...
The Evil Dead
7.5

The Evil Dead

Sep. 10, 1981

The Evil Dead

When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they’ve rented for the weekend, they ...
Don’t Go in the Woods
3.8

Don’t Go in the Woods

Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who…or what…is it? The lazy ...
The Killing of America
7.6

The Killing of America

A documentary of the decline of America. Featuring footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
7.6

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time ...
Don’t Go Near the Park
3.5

Don’t Go Near the Park

In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods ...
Hell Night
5.8

Hell Night

Aug. 28, 1981

Hell Night

Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving ...
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
7

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective ...
Body Heat
7.4

Body Heat

Aug. 28, 1981

Body Heat

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Evilspeak
5.7

Evilspeak

Aug. 22, 1981

Evilspeak

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
An American Werewolf in London
7.5

An American Werewolf in London

Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Private Lessons
5.2

Private Lessons

Aug. 21, 1981

Private Lessons

Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper ...
Lola
7.5

Lola

Aug. 20, 1981

Lola

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants ...
The Chosen
7.2

The Chosen

Aug. 20, 1981

The Chosen

The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New ...