1981 Movies

On June 11-13, 1981, Van Halen recorded their performances of "Hear About It Later", "So This Is Love?", and "Unchained" at the Oakland Coliseum. The three videos were aired as promos on MTV and other tv networks.

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.

The encounter of a puppeteer with an orphan child and the subsequent relationship.

A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row crone.

This once-lost 1981 holiday special has now become a WPIX holiday tradition!

A woman explores relationships with an older salary man and bad boy, whose friends and fellow vagabonds search for purpose.

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Detective Kostenko is traveling between Moscow and Sukhumi trying to find the responsible for double homicide.

A cage is searching for a bird, but all its efforts fail. Without its help, a bird finds a way in. The cage closes its door and stands proudly on a pedestal, for it is now worthy of admiration.

A romantic story based on the Ural fairytales. The chiefs of two brotherly peoples living in the lands of the Southern Urals had a son - the rich man Altynduga and a daughter - the beautiful Ai. One day they met and fell in love with each other. Meanwhile, the...

A black and white scenery is coloured in one after another by several crayons in a short animation, all explained by a female voiceover.

Lucien Lumière has just bought a camera. He wants to experiment. In a square, he discovers a young woman sitting on a bench and decides to film her...

After a man racks up a huge debt, his wife and his father are “persuaded” to perform together in a sex show in order to pay it off.

A documentary about New Years' Dziady, the disguisers from Beskid Żywiecki, who go around the villages, making noise, scaring people and begging for handouts. Disguised as death, horses and devils, they wander accompanied by musos.

A gang boss orders the execution of a prostitute who witnessed a murder. When the boss' henchman discovers the prostitute is actually blind, he falls in love with her and protects her. The prostitute regains her sight just in time to see the death of her boyfr...

Poet Peter Blackman left Barbados in the 1930s to complete his training as an Anglican priest in the UK, but was so appalled by the colonial, parochial Britain he encountered that he joined the Communist Party instead.