Nighthawks

Nighthawks 1981

6.40

When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.

1981

Woman Who Exposes Herself

Woman Who Exposes Herself 1981

2.00

Toriko is a sexually frustrated wife who gets involved in swapping games with her neighbors.

1981

Ahimsa

Ahimsa 1981

4.50

Talks about the Hindu-Muslim politics and conflicts in Kerala which are connected to some of the feudal lords who incite the tension.

1981

Gadis Marathon

Gadis Marathon 1981

1

An athlete juggles her career and love life while an internal conflict within the sports organization gets in the way.

1981

Fallen Angel Gang

Fallen Angel Gang 1981

2.00

With soft curves and deadly cunning a widow and her two daughters take revenge for the killing of her husband who was the leader of their gang. Based on the novel by Azusa Katsume.

1981

Der Spot oder Fast eine Karriere

Der Spot oder Fast eine Karriere 1981

1

This bizarre comedy demonstrates - as a convincing example - how TV-commercials may be produced, sacrificing extensive amounts of money, bottomless creativity and even human life without any respect right to the finish.

1981

Love Massacre

Love Massacre 1981

5.80

Set in San Francisco, Love Massacre follows college student Ivy as she tries to help her friend Joy recover from a breakup. Ivy soon becomes involved with Joy's married brother Chu Chung, who spirals into senseless violence as he breaks into Ivy's dormitory and goes on a delirious killing spree.

1981

Gone Without Saying Goodbye!

Gone Without Saying Goodbye! 1981

1

This TV drama special depicts the obsession of a sister and two detectives searching for her missing brother who witnessed the crimes of a political fixer.

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

Mirror in the palm

Mirror in the palm 1981

1

An employee meets a fortune teller who tells him about things that will happen to him, and tells him that he will kill a person, so all the fortune teller prophecies are fulfilled, then the employee is afraid of killing someone that he starts doubting everyone around him.

1981

Big Boss

Big Boss 1981

3.00

Conflicts between power-hungry triad gangsters in Macao leads to bloody battles.

1981

Sathya Sundharam

Sathya Sundharam 1981

1

An elderly couple mediates marital disputes, guiding conflicted partners to appreciate their bond through wisdom and diplomacy.

1981

White Smile

White Smile 1981

1

A well-meaning teacher starts working at a school where she clashes with a student whose tough guy exterior masks a secret pain.

1981

Chasing Girls

Chasing Girls 1981

7.00

Afro-haired Robert demonstrates over and over to his gawking cousin how easy it is to pick up girls. Robert eventually narrows the field down to two girls. One is a TV model, the other a rich girl with a red sports car working as a waitress. Robert finds the part after the pickup to be a bit more difficult.

1981

Night of the Chairman

Night of the Chairman 1981

6.00

The whole life of Pavel Sergeevich is connected with his native village. Returning from the front, he headed the collective farm in his native village and became its permanent chairman. It was then that relations with his older brother Peter, who left for the city, deteriorated. And here is a new meeting of the brothers after many years...

1981

What Price Honesty?

What Price Honesty? 1981

6.36

Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates who run afoul of such vicious, murderous depravity that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky one.

1981

High School Girl's Diary

High School Girl's Diary 1981

5.30

A high school girl is recruited by a photographer to be a model for a photo book. Thinking that she can make lots of money she agrees. He starts innocently enough but slowly convinces her to pose for more explicit shots.

1981

Maggie

Maggie 1981

1

Based on books by Erma Bombeck, Maggie Weston is a housewife living with husband Len and sons Mark and Bruce outside of Dayton, Ohio. There is a third son, LJ, who is never seen because he's "always in the bathroom." Rounding out the main cast are Maggie's friends.

1981

Roots

Roots 1981

6.00

Melvyn Solomons has a promising career as dentist ahead of him but he wants to become an art student.

1981

Hickory Hideout

Hickory Hideout 1981

1

Hickory Hideout was a television program for children which aired in Cleveland, Ohio on WKYC-TV from 1981 to 1991. It had human hosts, Cassie Wolfe and Wayne Turney, puppet squirrel characters, and a handful of other characters, such as Buzz Buzzsaw and Cecelia C. Seesaw. It addressed psychological issues that children face and was a change from the usual lineup of Saturday morning animation based cartoons. Kathryn Hahn, a Cleveland native who later appeared in the NBC series Crossing Jordan, had her first TV appearance on the show. The show also featured a young Matthew James Murphy, who went on to perform in the Broadway musical Rent. At the time of the program's production, WKYC-TV was an NBC owned-and-operated station. From 1986 until the program's conclusion in 1991 Hickory Hideout was also broadcast on other NBC-owned stations, including WNBC-TV in New York City; WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.; WMAQ-TV in Chicago; KCNC-TV in Denver; and KNBC in Los Angeles.

1981

Jessica Novak

Jessica Novak 1981

5.00

Jessica Novak is a 1981 drama television series that aired on CBS from November 5, 1981 till December 3, 1981 and was written by Ira Steven Behr. The cast includes Helen Shaver, Kip Gilman, Erik Kilpatrick, and Lara Parker.

1981

Tod eines Schülers

Tod eines Schülers 1981

8.00

"Tod eines Schülers" is a German television series directed by Claus Peter Witt, based on a script by Robert Stromberger. The six part TV mini series is about the fictional suicide by train of student Claus Wagner. Each episode begins with Wagner's death, looking into the subject from different points of view.

1981

Pop Quiz

Pop Quiz 1981

6.00

A British television quiz programme hosted by Mike Read that originally aired on BBC1 from 4 July 1981 to 28 December 1984, with a Top of the Pops special on 4 January 1994. It was then revived from 21 May to 9 July 1994 on the same channel but this time with Chris Tarrant in charge.

1981

Niño de Papel

Niño de Papel 1981

7.50

An orphan who sells newspapers on a street corner, instead has a large family on the streets of the city: an old uncle with whom he lives, a kindly false manager from a bank, a substitute mother at the vendor of arepas, a sister in her daughter and a future brother-in-law in the police that goes out of her way. A series where grace and tenderness mix, and in which economic poverty and spiritual wealth shake hands and offer laughter and teachings.

1981

West End Tales

West End Tales 1981

1

A look at Soho life through the eyes of likeable rogue Fiddler and his two cronies, Bishop and Checkie.

1981

Ludwig

Ludwig 1981

9.40

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

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

Cervantes

Cervantes 1981

6.50

The life of Miguel de Cervantes, writer of the iconic novel Don Quixote of La Mancha.

1981

Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself

Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself 1981

5.50

Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself was a British sitcom that aired for two seasons from 1981 to 1982. It was co-created by actor David Firth and Shelley and It Takes a Worried Man creator Peter Tilbury. The first series was co-written by Firth and Tilbury, and the second one by Firth alone. It starred Robin Bailey, David Hargreaves, veteran Anglo-Jordanian actor Nadim Sawalha, Diana Rayworth and Christopher Fulford. It was made by Thames Television for the ITV network.

1981