Most Viewed Year 1981 - 5

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

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Divine

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Anthony Quinn

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Lori Lethin

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 truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Stacy Keach

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meryl Streep

After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask begins murdering her friends and teachers.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Christopher George

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Richard

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

Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot. To her horror it turns out to be for an S&M magazine...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Izumi

In this dark tale of revenge, Bruce Lee "returns" as Billy Lo, whose best friend Chin Ku dies of a sudden illness. But suspicion of foul play arises...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kim Tae-Jeong

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jim Henson

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bogusław Linda

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...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Toru Furuya

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

A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ed Harris

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

In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry Miller

Momo and Yudale take turns mounting Bentzi's foreign buxom cousin, but Yudale and her get stuck together. Momo raises the bar even further by proving...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yftach Katzur

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

A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 900 Jews made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter O'Toole

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