1981 Movies

Making of ”Quest for Fire“.

"Untoward Ends, along with Dead End, Dead End and Endless are a kind of cross between diaries and structural films and span the main part of my career working in 16mm. These were not happy years for me and they are not happy films. They were all conceived as s...

An intended meeting with the Irish civil rights leader, Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey.

An Italian journalist leaves her family and goes to Africa in search of reports. As soon as she arrives, she is raped by an Arab sheikh, locked up in a brothel and given over to the lasciviousness of an emir. A former arms dealer will be the one to save her fr...

The story starts as a seemingly simple crime of passion, Jimmy, the persistent suitor, is stabbed to death by Salome, the young and pretty wife of Kario, an ordinary farmer. But as the story unfolds, conflicting versions of the crime are given.

Rocksteady to both a visual and musical documentary of the big shots of the English 2-Tone movement of the late 1970s that has the exhaustive, high-energy performances exploding onto stage. Jump, shout, twist and crawl and dance to the tunes of Ska and its ant...

A female teacher with a heavy past who committed suicide with a fellow teacher in the past, and was the only one to survive. However, the woman who was the fiancée of the dead teacher also committed suicide in despair. The younger brother of the woman enrolls...

After spending a long time in prison, a man is pursued by international agents who want to kill him. Without knowing exactly what is going on, the protagonist realizes that they want to kill him because the book he wrote about his time in prison contains secre...

Documentary about the lives of three generations of residents of Warsaw’s Wola district.

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

Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the surreal world of nursery rhymes and Josef Lada's paintings.

James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fresh insights to this beloved score. Ileana Cotrubas is poignant and touching as Violetta, the consumptive courtesan who finds true love with Alfredo, sung with s...

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

George Burns hosts his first Christmas special. Special Guests: Bob Hope ; The Hawkins Family ; Ann-Margret

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the high-class courtesan Giulietta, and the ambitious but delicate Antonia - and recalls how each was thwarted by the...

Experience the mesmerizing sounds of Takanaka World with this rare Laserdisc/Betamax. Tropical music video film features music from Masoyoshi Takanaka's "Brasilian Skies". Immerse yourself in the vibrant culture of Takanaka World and enjoy the soulful melodies...

A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime.