The Union

The Union 1981

1

A dramatised impression of the events surrounding the Electrical Trades Union ballot rigging case of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

1981

Subway Riders

Subway Riders 1981

6.50

A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.

1981

The Imp

The Imp 1981

6.00

Keung has a pregnant wife but he has been unemployed for a long period. One day he gets a new job as a security guard in a commercial building. But strange incidents start happening and his colleagues die in horrible ways one by one. A geomancer tells Keung that he will be the next victim and teaches him how to avoid his fate. But Keung begins to notice his wife's strange behaviour...

1981

Zoom Up: Sexual Crime Report

Zoom Up: Sexual Crime Report 1981

3.00

The wife of a prominent businessman works as a late-night radio personality. One night on her way to the radio station, she is raped by a motorcycle gang without knowing the reason...

1981

Prince of the City

Prince of the City 1981

7.00

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.

1981

Romaneto

Romaneto 1981

6.00

A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate searcher who tries in vain to unravel the supposed secret of the altarpiece...

1981

Pygmalion

Pygmalion 1981

1

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

1981

Family Scandal

Family Scandal 1981

1

A wife tries to deal with the recent death of husband and her rebellious daughter who is at constant odds with her. One day a friend of her deceased husband enters her life. The wife and her husband’s friend quickly form a bound which further puts her at odds with her daughter who sets her sights on seducing her father’s friend.

1981

Chie the Brat

Chie the Brat 1981

6.74

Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him not too long ago. She plans on trying to reunite them, but not until her father gets a job.

1981

The Treasure Hunters

The Treasure Hunters 1981

7.06

Fu Sheng and his real-life brother star as friends who are searching for a treasure that a Shaolin priest, a villainous traitor and his sister are also trying to find.

1981

Lonely Heart

Lonely Heart 1981

6.00

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

1981

The Door Into Summer

The Door Into Summer 1981

4.67

A club of young men who live by logic find themselves in love, and their lives fall apart as they try to cope with the emotions their romance strikes on them.

1981

The Woman Next Door

The Woman Next Door 1981

7.06

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

1981

Play While You Play

Play While You Play 1981

6.10

A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their connection intensifies.

1981

Céleste

Céleste 1981

6.50

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

1981

Gregory's Girl

Gregory's Girl 1981

6.77

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

1981

Sizzle

Sizzle 1981

1

A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's murder after he is killed while running illegal booze for the mob.

1981

Bewitched

Bewitched 1981

6.20

While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the case also becomes possessed. A good monk helps fight the evil spirit.

1981

Lion vs. Lion

Lion vs. Lion 1981

5.50

A teacher comes across a secret list of anti-Ching rebel names and quickly becomes a target for Ching loyalists. The Five Venom's actor Lo Meng teams up with kung-fu comedic actor Wang Yu to bring some of the best lion dancing action footage ever seen on film. The amazing lion dance sequences alone gives this film major historic significance where it's the first time Northern and Southern lion dancing skills are compared.

1981

Tales of Ordinary Madness

Tales of Ordinary Madness 1981

5.89

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

1981

Park Place

Park Place 1981

5.00

Park Place is a short-lived legal sitcom that first aired on CBS on April 9, 1981 and was cancelled on April 30, 1981 after four episodes. The series centers on young lawyers working for a legal aid clinic in Manhattan.

1981

Great Expectations

Great Expectations 1981

5.00

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

1981

Shannon

Shannon 1981

1

Shannon is an hour-long 9-episode CBS crime drama starring Kevin Dobson. Jack Shannon is a recently widowed detective who moves from New York to San Francisco to live and work, intending to be closer to his wife's parents. In New York, Shannon operated in a single mode—always moving forward. However, he discovers that in San Francisco, the approach is more relaxed; they also take time to pause. He faces considerable resistance from the laid-back San Francisco police officers, who are not impressed by his intensity or his methods. When he requests his coffee to be served "regular," they smirk at him. Additionally, when he is dissatisfied with a crime arrest that he feels is questionable, they merely blink in response.

1981

Vita di Antonio Gramsci

Vita di Antonio Gramsci 1981

1

The life and times of Antonio Gramsci from the establishment of L'Ordine Nuovo newspaper in 1919 to his untimely death in 1937, encompassing the birth of the Italian Communist Party (PCd'I), Gramsci's visits to Moscow where he met his future spouse, his election to Parliament, anti-fascism, trial and conviction.

1981

Concrete Cowboys

Concrete Cowboys 1981

5.00

Two Montana saddletramps head to Nashville to open up a detective agency. At first, the agency begins on a lark, but soon they get involved in a case involving a kidnapped singer.

1981

I Am Your Ancestor

I Am Your Ancestor 1981

1

" I Am Your Ancestor " (Ore wa Gosenzosama) is a 14-episode television drama produced by Office Henmi and broadcast on the Nippon Television Network every Sunday from 20:00 to 20:54 ( JST ) from December 6 , 1981 to March 14, 1982 .

1981

Robot 8-chan

Robot 8-chan 1981

6.00

Robot 8-chan is the first entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei.

1981

The Kwicky Koala Show

The Kwicky Koala Show 1981

5.00

The Kwicky Koala Show is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Australia in 1981 for CBS. The TV program is notable for being among cartoon director Tex Avery's final works. Avery died during production in 1980 and the show was broadcast for one season on CBS. As it was produced in Australia, the Cartoon Network and later Boomerang broadcast was sourced from PAL masters, rather than NTSC masters like many other Hanna-Barbera productions. Each segment has been shown separately in-between shows on the Boomerang Network.

1981

Torvet

Torvet 1981

10.00

In the square of an unnamed Danish town, we follow a number of people as they go about their daily business, big and small: The police officer tries to find out whether the Christmas tree seller has a "permit" to sell Christmas trees, the bicycle repairman invents a new kind of bicycle, the baker's assistant and the chimney sweep are in love, and the barber is working on a rug made of hair. Meanwhile, the Christmas tree seller sits carving small wooden figures and talking to everyone who passes by. The dramatic main story is that a modern entrepreneur wants to tear down all the old buildings in the square and replace them with a modern parking lot. Each section ends with the characters gathering around Ella's hot dog stand and singing along with the courtyard musicians.

1981

Nana

Nana 1981

1

A prostitute named Nana Coupeau rises from the very bottom of the social ladder to become one of the most sought-after courtesans.

1981

Dark Towers

Dark Towers 1981

1

Dark Towers is a 1981 educational production by the BBC in the Look and Read series. The series remains highly popular in primary schools to this day. The show involves two main characters; Tracy and Edward. They go about their mission to stop a group, led by Miss Hawk, from stealing the treasures of Dark Towers.

1981