A German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can’t handle the truth. Year 1981.
| Generes: Drama, War |
| Director: Volker Schlöndorff |
| Writer: Nicolas Born, Volker Schlöndorff, Jean-Claude Carrière |
| Actors: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet |
The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank “Green Line,” FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Michel Khleifi, acclaimed director of the Cannes Film Festival triumph, WEDDING IN GALILEE. Lyricall Year 1981.
| Generes: Documentary |
| Director: Michel Khleifi |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh |
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. Year 1981.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Wolfgang Petersen |
| Writer: Wolfgang Petersen, Lothar G. Buchheim |
| Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann |
Two sisters both fight for women’s rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live. Year 1981.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Margarethe von Trotta |
| Writer: Margarethe von Trotta |
| Actors: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler |
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life – and resorts to drastic means to do so. Year 1981.
| Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Bertrand Tavernier |
| Writer: Jean Aurenche, Bertrand Tavernier, Jim Thompson |
| Actors: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran |
Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, it leads him to the dark underbelly of Madrid where he finds that Year 1981.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Director: José Luis Garci |
| Writer: José Luis Garci, Horacio Valcárcel |
| Actors: Alfredo Landa, María Casanova, Manuel Tejada |
A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers. Year 1981.
| Generes: Documentary |
| Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub |
| Writer: Friedrich Engels, Mahmoud Hussein |
| Actors: Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan |
Actress Lola Herrera and her ex-husband, actor Daniel Dicenta, face the camera with honesty as they tell each other what they needed to about their professional and personal lives. Year 1981.
| Generes: Documentary, Drama |
| Director: Josefina Molina |
| Writer: Josefina Molina, José Sámano, Miguel Delibes |
| Actors: Lola Herrera, Daniel Dicenta, Natalia Dicenta |
Bukit Kepong is an adaptation from Bukit Kepong incident that was an armed encounter which took place on 23 February 1950 between the Federation of Malaya Police and the gunmens of Malayan Communist Party during the Malayan Emergency Year 1981.
| Generes: Drama, History |
| Director: Jins Shamsuddin |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Suhaina Yahya, Jamaliah Arshad, Hussein Abu Hassan |
A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea. Year 1981.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Kwon-taek Im |
| Writer: Song-dong Kim, Sang-hyon Lee, Kil-han Song |
| Actors: Sung-Ki Ahn, Moo-Song Jeon, Jong-su Kim |
A young man dreamed of a career in comics and movies. But his father would rather gave up all he had in order to let him receive formal education. Year 1981.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Allen Fong |
| Writer: Chui Chan, Alfred Cheung, Pik-Wah Lee |
| Actors: Lei Shih, Hong Zhu, Wai-Man Yung |
Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers. Year 1981.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Carlos Saura |
| Writer: Carlos Saura |
| Actors: Berta Socuéllamos, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González, Jesús Arias |
A group of dancers puts Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding’ on stage, the tragic play about a married man who is still in love with his ex-girlfriend, and tries to reunite with her despite her planned wedding. Year 1981.
| Generes: Drama, Music, Romance |
| Director: Carlos Saura |
| Writer: Antonio Gades, Federico García Lorca, Alfredo Mañas |
| Actors: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez |
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. Year 1981.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War |
| Director: Wolfgang Petersen |
| Writer: Wolfgang Petersen (screenplay), Lothar G. Buchheim (novel) |
| Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch |
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband. Year 1981.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller |
| Director: Bob Rafelson |
| Writer: James M. Cain (novel), David Mamet (screenplay) |
| Actors: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, Michael Lerner |
A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him. Year 1981.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Shûji Terayama |
| Writer: Dominique Aury (novel), Shûji Terayama (adaptation), Rio Kishida (adaptation), Dominique Aury (text) |
| Actors: Isabelle Illiers, Klaus Kinski, Arielle Dombasle, Pîtâ |