1981 Movies

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.

The saga of Severino, a poor guy living in the back country of Northeast Brazil, leaving for the big city of Recife, in search of a better life.

Old people from a small village in Guria, renowned for their love and knowledge of folk songs, will be performing at a folk song festival in a Bulgari...

A couple with baby try to re-unite after illegally seeking refuge in Hong Kong.

Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where the...

A cartoon about high-quality glass, or how faith in omens can change a life!

Based on the diaries of Canadian doctor Ben Wheeler during his internment in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, this feature-length...

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of...

“Heart Burn” challenges teens to examine some common misconceptions about love, and develop their own definitions of true and unconditional love.

The events of the play deal with many characters and situations from daily life in Kuwait, through a Kuwaiti family that faces the challenges and diff...

Images of Stockholm and the people who live there set to music.

The Goosehill Gang goes camping and must discover who or what is causing a howling noise in the woods. Did we mention there's also an escaped convict...

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.

A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.

Identifying himself intimately with serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the director uses the camera to take hold of the actors, constructing fantasies tha...

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartment) in Okazakijoka town with his sick wife, Sugie (...

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

A young student, haunted by the memory of a mysterious figure called Coppelius who killed his father, starts to slowly lose his mind when he encounter...