Most Viewed Year 1981 - 5

International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Klaus Kinski

Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory share life stories and anecdotes over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Shawn

A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Albert Finney

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Albert Finney

The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bo Derek

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Brian Matthews

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer

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Cast: Mio Takaki

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michael Caine

A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lauren Bacall

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sally Field

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Paul Kelman

One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Belushi

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Everett McGill

As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Edward Albert

Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following...

Genre: Action

Cast: Frédéric Andréi

Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Crawford

A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denzel Washington

Laverne & Shirley in the Army is a 1981 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series based on the TV show Laverne & Shirley, with the title characters voiced by...

Genre: Animation

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Pat and his black-and-white cat Jess deliver the mail in Greendale.

Genre: Kids

Cast: Ken Barrie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kees Brusse

Galaxy Cyclone Braiger is an anime series aired from 1981 to 1982 in Japan. There were 39 episodes aired. Other loosely translated names include...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hidekatsu Shibata

Katsuragi Motoko started as an NHK announcer, became a reportage writer after the war, and then an author. This story is about a woman's struggle to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Hara

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Cast: Shek Sau

Triangle was a BBC Television soap opera in the early 1980s, set aboard a North Sea ferry which sailed from Felixstowe to Gothenburg and Gothenburg...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Craig

Aloha Paradise is an American comedy series that aired on ABC on Wednesday night from February 25, 1981 to April 22, 1981. Aloha...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Reynolds

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dana Hill

That's My Boy is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1981 to 1986. Starring Mollie Sugden, it was written by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mollie Sugden

Willo the Wisp is a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981.

Genre: Animation

Cast: James Dreyfus

Genre: Family

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Spider-Man is an American animated TV series based on the popular Marvel Comics character of the same name.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ted Schwartz

Three of a Kind was a British comedy sketch show starring comedians Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry and David Copperfield. Three series were made by the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tracey Ullman

A good-hearted frontiersman poses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose homes have been destroyed by an evil mining manager.

Genre: Western

Cast: Merlin Olsen

A powerful eight-hour adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 generational saga stars Bruce Boxleitner and Timothy Bottoms as battling brothers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Timothy Bottoms

GoShogun was a super robot anime series produced in 1981 and aired in 1982 in Japan. It is variously referred to in English as "Demon God of the...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kaneto Shiozawa

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Harper Valley PTA is an early 1980s American television sitcom based on the 1978 film Harper Valley PTA, which was itself based on the 1968 song...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Eden

Punishment is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981. Set in a fictional men's prison,...

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Cast: Anne Charleston