Cinematic Era: 1981 Vintage

A budding singer's marriage with his childhood sweetheart is in shambles after his ex-girlfriend from college comes back in his life.

In a small fishing village in the West Indies, the children believe they see, in a strange cabin located on the way to the school, a devil.

A picturesque study of flowers.

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, the son of a skilled craftsman, set about building an aircraft.

Helen is a professional tennis player and a lesbian. Her best friends are Rick and Sheila — both are in love with her, although Sheila has never confessed her feelings.

Sang-ho and Suk compete for a position in a prestigious company and Suk succeeds in securing the job. As she consoles Sang-ho, the two fall in love. What she doesn't realize, however, is that Sang-ho is actually the son of a wealthy tycoon.

A man smuggles in an exotic animal, but discovers too late that it's infested with some rather nasty insects.

Montenegro in 1944. A highland farmer tries to change his only son's decision to join the partisans, while minding his own business and not taking any side himself. During the work field they are both captured by Chetniks who previously killed some local shepherds, and their fate is about to be decided by a reckless gang of murderers.

See What I Say is a 1981 American short documentary film produced by Linda Chapman, Pam LeBlanc and Freddi Stevens. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The subjects of the film are hearing-impaired women who discuss their use of sign language.

Julius Ceasar and Cicero meet in the afterlife and discuss their worldly beliefs and legacy in the modern day.

Kluane National Park is situated in the Yukon area of northern Canada and is a research paradise for glaciologists, geologists and other scientists. Mountaineers come to scale the impressive heights. Animals are free to roam, protected by stringent legislation. This film reveals many facets of this beautiful park, which has been declared a protected zone by UNESCO.

Discipline and productivity are more regimented in Japan than in many other parts of the world. For the Japanese, survival means doing things together rather than asserting North-American-style individualism. Japan's industry has automated and computerized at an unparalleled rate. Open-concept offices and collaborative work styles offer a model of the changing style of modern work that could inspire the West to modify their processes as well.

Hong Kong movie

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

Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would like to recover at all costs.

Illa, a brilliant and somewhat immature girl, involuntarily witnesses a ferocious shootout during a bank robbery. This fact places her at the center of an intrigue in which private life, journalism and investigations are dangerously intertwined.

The breakthrough show for the Swedish drag show pioneers After Dark.

Anniversary evening dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the State Academic Puppet Theater under the direction of S.Obraztsov and the 80th anniversary of Sergei Obraztsov.

Former sailor Kotrba, nicknamed the Admiral, has one dream, to take his own ship to sea. He's been building it for five years and now it's finished, but he still needs money to buy an engine. He asks for financial support from his friend Pošmurný. But he uses the excuse of his daughter's wedding. He has money set aside for a dowry, so he cannot lend his friend anything. Then Kotrba gets lucky - he wins a voucher for goods worth 10,000. But there's a hitch. He can only redeem the voucher for goods at the local unity, where he has become the 100,000th visitor. But Admiral Kotrba is foxy about it. Let's see what he comes up with!

Communist activists have to let out steam due to increased pressure in their professional life.

The eternal “housing question” in Russia is taken on by Serafimov, a young and principled city council deputy, who is determined to help his constituents. In the end, he manages not only to secure a new building for the veterans of the brick factory—made from the very bricks they once produced—but also to have them all housed under one roof, so they wouldn’t feel the pain of separation after leaving their crowded communal apartments.

Documentary about reggae in Jamaica and its history. Filmed in 1979.

Based on Chekhov's Christmas story "Vanka".

The contrast of the parallel lives of two women personified in a single actress (Delfina Guzmán). Despite the radical differences between their lives, they are intimately connected to each other. Candelaria is a vagabond in Parque Forestal, crazy but happy. In contrast, in a comfortable and luxurious apartment, lives Laura, who is harassed by the greed of her children and her lover, who will not rest until they strip her of her fortune and expel her from the country.

The young historian Elisabeth is traveling to Lyon on her own in order to explore the city tracing the life of Flora Tristan. Tristan, whose diary Elisabeth is carrying, was a 19th century socialist and feminist who influenced many contemporary activists and intellectuals yet fell into oblivion herself. Elisabeth tries to put together the clues she can find in Lyon wanting to reconstruct Tristan's life in the most sensual way.

Photographs present Hermeto Paschoal in the middle of the instruments he plays in the studio in his house. The rehearsals where the sounds are discovered and improvisation sets the tone. Hermeto's testimonies on the self-taught construction of his theoretical knowledge about music and his political position on the market. The musicians who are part of his band talk about the joint process of creation and the admiration they feel for the multi-instrumentalist. The creation of Hermetus from the sounds of bees and next to the frods. The use of unusual objects made of iron and the use of the body itself to generate new sounds.

This documentary short is a portrait of Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and 13th prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979). Diefenbaker's political career spanned 6 decades. When he died in 1979, his state funeral and final train trip west became more a celebration of life than a victory for death.

A remarkable invention turns a nine-year-old boy named Joe into a secret agent with super-powers and plunges him into a sensational career.

Leopold the Cat bought a TV, but the mice are preventing him from watching it.

A seven-minute look at what does on at the Davie Rodeo Arena.

Kim, Du-han earns the wrath of the Yakuza boss, Konoe, when he saves the life of Korean freedom fighter Hwang Ryong. Konoe hopes to hire the assassin Shirasoni to kill his enemies but Shirsoni, opposing Japan's colonial stance in Korea, is driven into Kim Du-han's camp instead and they, together with Hwang Ryong, unite to drive the Yakuza from Seoul.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A sensitive portrait of love, uniting two disillusioned misfits running away from the societies that are trying to tame them.

When a member of a group of occultists is violently slain, the rest repair to the woods, where they are haunted by an apparently supernatural force.

Three divorced women (Ildiko Kishonti, Anna Nagy, and Margit Foldessy) square off to face a new existence as single parents with residual hang-ups from their failed marriages. One woman gets involved with a man who is still symbolically, if not umbilically attached to his mother, the second woman makes half-hearted attempts to get back together with her husband. The third woman calls her husband to say "Happy New Year" and he interprets the gist of her message as a veiled suicide threat -- rushing her quickly into a hospital for treatment. The mishaps and misadventures of the women are a telling commentary on the assumptions that marriage brings with it, and how to gain independence in spite of oneself.

Graduate of Moscow State University, Yevgeny Ogarychev, arrives at the Rīga seaside with his grandmother. There, he meets Katya Batistova, a carefree and frivolous young woman who failed to get into university. Becoming infatuated with Katya, Yevgeny helps her prepare for the entrance exams. At first, Katya relies on the help of his grandmother—a famous actress—hoping to get into the drama school. But gradually, her interaction with the sincere and determined Yevgeny makes her take life more seriously. True love eventually comes to her.

An elderly commander takes his young lover, Milena, the daughter of an employee, to his beach mansion, leaving her in the care of the housekeeper, Letícia, who has sexual relations with the girl. On walks around the island, Milena meets a fisherman, Dimas, who will give her life a new direction. Over the weekend, the commander arrives with friends and throws a wild party; unsure of what to do, Milena accepts a ride in the red Mercedes of one of the guests and returns to the city.

" Now I'll never be Director-General of the BBC - what rotten luck! ... Maybe I should take up squash or join the Young Conservatives. It's good to have a mission in life.' , ,. It is a wet Sunday in Shepherd s Bush The Man remembers his past and faces what is left of his future. It's only his sense of humour that keeps him going.

Do Do Hae is a confident and outgoing young woman who is the daughter of the chairman of the Sindongyang Corporation. She works to help abused women. Ahn Min Bok is a veteran cop who lives for his daughter Yeong Hee. But Yeong Hee falls in love with Jung Eui Han who spends nights at the police station after curfew. Eui Han begins to work as a security guard at the Sindongyang building. He gets into an argument with Do Hae. She tries to get back at Eui Han but fails again and soon finds herself attracted to him. When she finds out that Eui Han and Yeong Hee are engaged, she bids them a happy marriage while hiding her tears

This absorbing documentary examines the lives of Asian Americans through the inspirational poetry of Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong. Interviews, rare archival footage, intimate family scenes, and a lively dialogue between these fascinating women underscore the different histories of Chinese and Japanese Americans, as well as their shared experiences of biculturalism and generational difference.

This documentary is about the Italian small family circus, based on the old street theatre of the Commedia dell'Arte. Since World War II, they have diminished in number and today hardly exist anymore. They simply can't compete with modern times entertainment, symbolized by television. The film portrays and follows the Colombaioni family, six brothers and two sisters, their children and grand children. Most of them work in their own small circus(father, mother, children). Two of the brothers, Carlo and Alberto left the circus and now have a theatre show, based on their improvisation skills that they learned in the circus. The family is known by their collaboration with Frederico Fellini and Dario Fo. They appeared in many a Fellini movie -o.a. La Strada, Le Notti di Cabiria and I Clown.

The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the provincial Bulgarian town, Turnovo. A rich young doctor suffers because of his love to his housemaid. Meanwhile the First World War is beginning.

After failing his annual physical, Fred wants to prove to everyone that he is in shape, so he decides to become the first citizen of Bedrock to enter the Rockstone Marathon.

Treated like crap and then banished by his village, the ugly and sickly Lawar seeks shelter in a cave and is visited by a wish-granting bat spirit. Lawar's wish is to be handsome and be given supernatural abilities. He's given what he wants but must follow certain rules. Instead, Lawar uses his powers against his enemies and to seduce a young woman named Ratih. Oh yeah, and he also turns into a bloodsucking bat monster from time to time.

A 1981 Indian Bengali Drama Film directed by Dilip Mukhopadhyay.