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1978-12-20 | Crippled Avengers | A group of martial artists seek revenge after being crippled by Tu Tin-To, a martial arts master, and his son. | ['Action', 'Drama'] | 6.7 | 52 |
1979-01-01 | The Meateater | Psycopathic killer stalks teens at a run down, abandoned movie theatre | ['Horror'] | 4.4 | 7 |
1979-01-17 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death. | ['Drama', 'Horror'] | 7.4 | 614 |
1979-01-25 | Family Nest | Családi tüzfészek (aka Family Nest) is an intimate portrayal of a family slowly disintegrating under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary. The plot of the film is deceptively simple, with the occasional momentous event--including one that's relatively shocking, but plot in a conventional sense is not the focus here. | ['Drama'] | 6.7 | 26 |
1979-02-05 | Satan’s Triangle | The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle. | ['TV Movie', 'Mystery', 'Horror'] | 5.9 | 17 |
1979-02-05 | Uncle Marin, the Billionaire | At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett. | ['Comedy'] | 8.3 | 24 |
1979-03-09 | The Passage | During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German. | ['Action', 'Drama', 'War'] | 6.3 | 32 |
1979-03-23 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone. | ['Drama'] | 7.4 | 174 |
1979-03-28 | Phantasm | A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him. | ['Horror', 'Science Fiction'] | 6.6 | 495 |
1979-04-25 | Manhattan | Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. | ['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Romance'] | 7.8 | 1,931 |
1979-05-01 | The Europeans | A New England household is upset by the arrival of two cousins from Europe. | ['Drama', 'Romance'] | 5.7 | 13 |
1979-05-04 | The Shape of Things to Come | Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on an anti-radiation drug only available on planet Delta Three, which has been taken over by Omus, a brilliant but mad mechanic who places no value on human life. Omus wants to come to the Moon to rule and intends to attack it by ramming robot-controlled spaceships into the domes. Dr. John Caball, his son Jason, Jason's friend, Kim, and a robot named Sparks embark on Caball's space battlecruiser on an unauthorized mission to Delta Three to stop Omus. | ['Science Fiction'] | 4.4 | 16 |
1979-05-19 | Nezha Conquers the Dragon King | The film is an adaptation of a story in Chinese mythology (in particular, the epic fantasy novel "Fengshen bang") about the warrior deity Nezha, who became a student of the immortal Taiyi Zhenren. The main part of the story revolves around Nezha's feud with Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, whom he angers through the killing of Ao Bing, Ao Guang's third son. Through bravery and wit, Nezha finally breaks into the Dragon King's underwater palace and successfully defeats him. | ['Animation', 'Fantasy'] | 7.2 | 31 |
1979-05-23 | The Hussy | Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado is a gawky 11-year old, who is neglected by her family because of the oddness of the way she expresses her affection. For reasons which never become clear, François kidnaps Mado, and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. Instead of feeling fear, Mado enters into the spirit of the abduction, and they joust with one another, increasingly finding love and comfort in their relationship. When the police come upon them, however, they put an entirely different interpretation on their behavior. | ['Drama'] | 6.9 | 23 |
1979-06-26 | Moonraker | After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and outer space. | ['Action', 'Adventure', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction'] | 6.1 | 1,536 |
1979-07-10 | The Champ | The more you love, the harder you fight. The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. He knows what his flawed but loving father is, was and always will be - The Champ. | ['Drama', 'Family'] | 7 | 160 |
1979-07-20 | Dracula | Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride. | ['Horror', 'Romance'] | 6.4 | 189 |
1979-07-27 | Pacific Inferno | After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure. | ['War'] | 4 | 2 |
1979-08-03 | More American Graffiti | College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s. | ['Comedy', 'Drama', 'War'] | 4.9 | 71 |
1979-08-14 | Caligula | The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more. | ['Drama', 'History', 'Romance'] | 5.9 | 566 |
1979-08-27 | Dead Mountaineer's Hotel | Police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things are starting to happen. | ['Crime', 'Drama', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller'] | 6.3 | 31 |
1979-09-04 | Disco Godfather | Retired cop and celebrity DJ Tucker Williams (aka The Disco Godfather) takes to the streets as a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Angel Dust begins to take hold of the neighborhood. | ['Action', 'Comedy', 'Crime'] | 5.6 | 17 |
1979-09-05 | Charles and Lucie | Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France. | ['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Romance'] | 5 | 4 |
1979-10-06 | Tess | A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. | ['Drama', 'Romance'] | 7 | 246 |
1979-10-12 | Assassination on the Tiber | A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had an argument with the victim a short time before the murder. | ['Comedy', 'Crime', 'Action'] | 6.1 | 29 |
1979-10-26 | The Medic | The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficult meeting. | ['War', 'Drama'] | 5.4 | 23 |
1979-11-01 | Don't Go in the House | As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower. | ['Horror'] | 5.6 | 82 |
1979-11-09 | Ticket of No Return | A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard. | ['Drama'] | 5.8 | 9 |
1979-11-15 | Beyond the Darkness | A disturbed young embalmer digs the grave of his recently deceased girlfriend and brings her body to his family villa with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning. | ['Horror'] | 6.4 | 120 |
1979-12-13 | You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken | Madicken is a Swedish girl from the upper level family, growing up during the time of first world war which did not include Sweden. She lives happily with her family, experiencing the world and making brave and crazy things. | ['Family'] | 6.3 | 17 |
1979-12-14 | 1941 | In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub. | ['Action', 'Comedy', 'War'] | 5.9 | 461 |
1979-12-19 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. | ['Drama'] | 7.6 | 1,777 |
1979-12-19 | The Magnificent Butcher | A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons. He is accused of raping the Head of that school's goddaughter and killing his son. Now Ko, the Head of Five Dragons, wants revenge. | ['Action', 'Comedy'] | 7.1 | 61 |
1979-12-21 | Red, White, and Zero | Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved. | ['Comedy', 'Music', 'Drama'] | 0 | 0 |
1979-12-26 | The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders | Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks in the department store Magasin du Nord, just in time for their closing sale. The attempt to get the red suitcase that will save the day they rob the main vault at the EEC headquarters in Brussels and end up hijacking a tank. | ['Family', 'Comedy', 'Crime'] | 6.7 | 36 |
1980-01-01 | Catherine de Heilbronn | In the Middle Ages, the earl Wetter von Stahl is accused of having bewitched Catherine, the daughter of the blacksmith of Heilbronn. The earl tries to be exonerated by proceeding himself to the interrogation of the young woman, who apparently shows an "unnatural possession". | ['History', 'Drama', 'TV Movie'] | 6 | 4 |
1980-02-04 | Children's War | A school closes due to heavy debt which brings the children into action by doing naughty deeds so as to persuade the real estate agency to reopen the school, and since this didn't work, they kidnap the school's owner in order to be heard. | ['Family', 'Drama', 'Comedy'] | 5.9 | 6 |
1980-02-07 | Inferno | A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house. | ['Horror', 'Thriller'] | 6.7 | 449 |
1980-02-15 | Saturn 3 | In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally. Meanwhile, the psychotic Captain Benson fails the mental test required to travel to Saturn 3 and kills his replacement, Captain James, taking his place in the mission of assembling and programming the Demi-God series robot Hector to replace one of the scientists in Saturn 3. On the arrival, the mentally disturbed Captain Benson becomes sexually obsessed for Alex. Then he uses an interface to link his brain to program Hector, but incapable to control his emotions, he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot. | ['Science Fiction', 'Thriller'] | 5.3 | 143 |
1980-02-27 | The Conductor | A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons. | ['Drama', 'Music'] | 6.2 | 10 |
1980-02-29 | The Ninth Configuration | Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. Although Kane's own grasp on sanity is questionable, he manages to engage Cutshaw in a series of thoughtful conversations about science and faith that deeply affect the lives of both men. | ['Drama', 'Thriller', 'Comedy', 'Mystery'] | 6.7 | 103 |
1980-03-07 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame. | ['Music', 'Drama'] | 7.3 | 187 |
1980-03-20 | Gamera: Super Monster | As a massive alien craft heads to Earth to do evil, three good and powerful superwomen befriend a young boy who has a special connection to Gamera. The alien Zanon launches a battery of familiar foes against Gamera, who might have to give the ultimate sacrifice to defeat the alien invader. | ['Science Fiction', 'Family'] | 6.2 | 30 |
1980-03-28 | Harlequin | In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events. | ['Drama', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Mystery'] | 6.8 | 27 |
1980-04-01 | Zigeunerweisen | A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways. | ['Mystery', 'Drama'] | 6.6 | 33 |
1980-04-11 | Alien 2: On Earth | A group of cave explorers are confronted in an underground cavern by a mysterious living rock. Little do they know that it bears home to deadly, flesh-eating creatures, intent on wiping out the entire human population. An ultra low-budget, unofficial and unauthorized sequel to the 1979 film Alien, although the plot has little connection to the original film. | ['Horror', 'Science Fiction'] | 3.1 | 40 |
1980-04-18 | The Candidate | Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and present and Franz Josef Strauß, the man who, as the CDU/CSU candidate, aspires to be elected to the most important political office in the land. | ['Documentary'] | 5 | 2 |
1980-04-21 | Microphone Test | The plot centers on the cameraman Nelu - played by Daneliuc - and television reporter Luiza (Gina Patrichi), who are emotionally involved and are interviewing people caught travelling by train without tickets. Daneliuc is one of the first directors to have used direct sound, recording entire scenes and then mixing them with post-synchronized ones. | ['Drama'] | 6.8 | 5 |
1980-04-26 | Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord. | ['Action', 'Drama', 'History', 'War'] | 7.9 | 488 |
1980-04-30 | The Under-Gifted | The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison! | ['Comedy'] | 6.5 | 367 |
1980-05-01 | Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties | Two pretty chorus girls, Cecile and Brigitte, who have been sentenced to prison terms, agree to undertake risky undercover work for Senator Conolly in exchange for their freedom. Investigating the disappearance of well-known personalities, as well as young women, Conolly wants the dancers to get hired by a Canary Islands nightclub to keep tabs on the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes... | ['Thriller'] | 5.3 | 15 |
1980-05-01 | Humanoids from the Deep | After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women. | ['Horror', 'Science Fiction'] | 5.8 | 162 |
1980-05-20 | Supersonic Man | Kronos, hero of a distant galaxy, tangles with mad scientist Gulik over the fate of mankind. | ['Adventure', 'Comedy', 'Fantasy'] | 3.4 | 20 |
1980-05-20 | The Empire Strikes Back | The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair. | ['Adventure', 'Action', 'Science Fiction'] | 8.4 | 14,343 |
1980-07-09 | Hex | Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance. | ['Horror', 'Action'] | 6.2 | 15 |
1980-08-22 | The Charter Trip | Stig-Helmer and Ole Bramserud on a trip to the Canary Islands for Christmas. | ['Comedy'] | 6.7 | 69 |
1980-08-27 | Hawk the Slayer | Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones. | ['Fantasy', 'Adventure'] | 4.9 | 41 |
1980-09-19 | Ordinary People | Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together. | ['Drama'] | 7.5 | 475 |
1980-09-26 | Stardust Memories | While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films. | ['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Romance'] | 7 | 321 |
1980-09-26 | Resurrection | The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics. | ['Drama', 'Fantasy'] | 6.7 | 29 |
1980-10-01 | That Sinking Feeling | Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion. | ['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Crime'] | 6.6 | 19 |
1980-10-18 | Une Page d'amour | In Passy, Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire". | ['Drama'] | 5.5 | 2 |
1980-10-27 | Pepi, Luci, Bom | After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends. | ['Comedy', 'Drama'] | 6.4 | 113 |
1980-11-01 | Christmas Evil | A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree. | ['Horror', 'Thriller'] | 5.4 | 121 |
1980-11-07 | The Boogey Man | A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death. | ['Horror'] | 4.7 | 71 |
1980-11-07 | Babylon | Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism. | ['Drama'] | 7 | 21 |
1980-11-11 | Shogun Assassin | A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance. | ['Action'] | 6.8 | 125 |
1980-11-14 | Raging Bull | The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. | ['Drama', 'History'] | 8 | 3,398 |
1980-11-21 | Hurray for Betty Boop | Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators. | ['Animation', 'Comedy', 'Music'] | 7.3 | 3 |
1980-11-26 | Rockshow | Paul McCartney and Wings in concert, 1976. Thirty songs are performed, spanning McCartney's career with Wings (prior to Rockshow) and The Beatles. | ['Music'] | 7.9 | 10 |
1980-12-17 | The Party | A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce. | ['Drama', 'Romance', 'Comedy'] | 6.6 | 948 |
1980-12-18 | Nightkill | The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to escape the results of her actions, she too falls victim to deception. | ['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Horror'] | 4.6 | 7 |
1980-12-20 | Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy | An anime film for the second Cyborg 009 anime TV series. | ['Animation'] | 7.2 | 5 |
1980-12-21 | The Ghosts of Buxley Hall | Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed. | ['Comedy', 'Family', 'Fantasy', 'TV Movie'] | 5.6 | 7 |
1981-01-01 | Taxi zum Klo | Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and teaching separate, but he sometimes corrects student papers in public toilets as he waits to score. He cruises constantly, and one evening, he meets Bernd. They become lovers. While Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways. For how long will Bernd and Frank tolerate each other's habits, and for how long can Frank keep his sexual orientation out of the classroom? Things come to a head during Berlin's annual Queen's Ball and the morning after. | ['Romance', 'Drama', 'Comedy'] | 6.5 | 33 |
1981-01-14 | Lili Marleen | The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song "Lili Marleen." | ['War', 'Drama', 'Romance'] | 6.1 | 49 |
1981-01-21 | The Howling | After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem. | ['Horror'] | 6.5 | 568 |
1981-02-01 | Cutting It Short | Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit. | ['Comedy'] | 7.1 | 31 |
1981-03-14 | Doraemon: The Record of Nobita, Spaceblazer | Seven years ago, Lopplc and Morina were playing at a park. Suddenly they felt an earthquake on the Koya Koya Planet. The quake was so massive that the planet was destroyed. Everyone had to escape using a giant ship. A sudden bolt of lightning damaged the ship, causing a power failure. The Professor (who was Morina's father) wanted to fix the spaceship, but another lightning strike took him to another dimension. | ['Animation', 'Family', 'Adventure', 'Comedy', 'Fantasy'] | 6.8 | 21 |
1981-03-14 | Mobile Suit Gundam I | In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon (the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth) has sparked a war. | ['Animation', 'Science Fiction', 'Action', 'Adventure', 'Drama', 'War'] | 6.8 | 47 |
1981-03-20 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband. | ['Romance', 'Crime', 'Drama'] | 6.6 | 379 |
1981-03-21 | SOPOR | One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages. | ['Comedy'] | 5.4 | 11 |
1981-03-27 | Thief | Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score. | ['Crime', 'Thriller', 'Action'] | 7.2 | 455 |
1981-04-17 | Lion of the Desert | This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives. | ['Action', 'History', 'War'] | 7.3 | 123 |
1981-04-24 | Cannibal Ferox | Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge. | ['Adventure', 'Horror'] | 5.4 | 193 |
1981-05-01 | Kill and Kill Again | Dr. Horatio Kane has been kidnapped, and is being forced to create an army of martial artists who will help take over the world. His daughter, Kandy Kane, enlists the help of Steve Chase (and a few of his friends) to rescue her father before it's too late. | ['Action'] | 4.4 | 12 |
1981-05-08 | The Burning | A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him. | ['Horror'] | 6.3 | 285 |
1981-05-15 | Happy Birthday to Me | Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on... | ['Drama', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery'] | 6.1 | 128 |
1981-05-22 | Outland | An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him. | ['Science Fiction', 'Action', 'Crime'] | 6.4 | 442 |
1981-05-27 | Bolero: Dance of Life | The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together. | ['Drama', 'Music'] | 6.9 | 50 |
1981-07-11 | Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow | After managing to survive attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits must battle Zeon forces through Asia, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean if they are to reach Earth Federation's headquarters alive. During that process many of its crewmembers must overcome their fears, losses, immaturities, and insecurities in order to survive. | ['Animation', 'Science Fiction', 'Action'] | 7.3 | 38 |
1981-07-13 | Time Bandits | Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them. | ['Family', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Comedy'] | 6.6 | 774 |
1981-07-15 | Rapt in Love | In a secluded villa, a couple and her daughter and a girl are kidnapped by two thugs. | ['Drama'] | 1 | 1 |
1981-07-17 | Endless Love | Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This doesn't stop him from seeing her. When he gets out he goes to look for her. But the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave. | ['Romance', 'Drama'] | 5.7 | 162 |
1981-07-24 | Comin' at Ya! | A young couple's wedding ceremony is brutally interrupted when a pair of outlaw brothers arrive and massacre almost everyone in sight. They kidnap the beautiful young bride and leave her husband for dead. Luckily, he only sustains a flesh wound and quickly saddles up to track down the brothers before they sell his wife and a group of other women at an auction to a group of Mexican brothel owners. | ['Western'] | 4.5 | 11 |
1981-07-25 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 1 | The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton. | ['Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Crime', 'TV Movie'] | 8 | 66 |
1981-08-05 | Jailhouse Wardress | After the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries. There they created special laboratories to crate beautiful women for satisfaction of their guards' sexual desires. The main warden in this prison is a cruel woman. Their main plan is to revenge for defeat of Nazi's Germany. | ['Drama'] | 3.5 | 4 |
1981-08-07 | Heavy Metal | The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. | ['Animation', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Music'] | 6.5 | 528 |
1981-08-09 | Yuki | Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However if she does not succeed within one year she will become as insubstantial as the wind. Down in the village, Yuki is befriended by a group of orphans whose parents have all been killed by the bandits and who now subsist by begging. Yuki amazes them by taming the wild horse Blizzard. She is instrumental in getting the orphans and farmers to stand up to first the warring bandits and then Goemon, the greedy lord that owns the region. But Yuki must face her greatest challenge yet when the displeased Demon God that lives in the volcano emerges to destroy those who live beneath. | ['Animation', 'Adventure', 'Family'] | 7.4 | 5 |
1981-08-13 | Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven | When his father dies a young man has the choice to continue the farmwork of his old man who suffered because of the hard labour and all the regulations. | ['Drama', 'History', 'Comedy'] | 5 | 3 |