1981 Movies

A teacher comes to a village and an old man asks her to tutor his sickly grandson. The teacher becomes curious about the old man and the boy. She find...

Young people meet in the local pub and pretend a lot more than they are. Mostly their swanky conduct is touching and affecting. There is a lot of atte...

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

A gala performance at Cirkus in Stockholm ahead of the International Women's Day on March 8, 1981.

A powerful ironic work of the society in which a hydro-central is erected in an area where there is no water.

After being released from prison, Chen is attacked by his old nemesis but, at the urging of his wife, agrees not to seek revenge. Chen finds himself t...

This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never...

This 140-minute documentary takes a close look at the story and historical context of a young Swiss man who was beheaded during WW II for supposedly w...

Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded in...

The wars of 1912-1913 pass as a distant echo in Dozhden, a small village in the Rhodopes. Overwhelmed by a dream to fly, the young shepherd Sirachko,...

A man who was a radical student activist during the 1970 Security Treaty protests was arrested by the police and worked as a bartender in a rundown ba...

Bob Rafelson: Self-portrait

An adaptation of Xuan Xiaofo’s novel of the same name

1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device that...

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual p...

For one year, Tehching Hsieh punched a worker’s time clock located in his studio, on the hour, every hour. Marking the occasion by taking a self-portr...