Race for the Yankee Zephyr

Race for the Yankee Zephyr 1981

5.82

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.

1981

Alla En La Plaza Garibaldi

Alla En La Plaza Garibaldi 1981

5.50

Orphaned child hitchhikes to Mexico City to look for a family member, falls in with gang of juvenile pickpockets.

1981

Only When I Laugh

Only When I Laugh 1981

5.70

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.

1981

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

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper 1981

5.20

A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?

1981

Love & Money

Love & Money 1981

4.64

An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new country, he finds himself dealing with dictators and revolutionaries during a time of intense political upheaval, and to complicate his life further, he begins an affair with his new employer's wife.

1981

Rubberface

Rubberface 1981

3.70

A teen-age girl conceals her insecurity behind a barrage of jokes — until she meets an aspiring comedian who asks for her help with his new act. Janet is an over-weight girl who has a knack for making the other children in school laugh... by making fun of her own weight. In seeing the other kids' reactions, she feels that she might have what it takes to be a comedian. She visits the local comedy club where she finds Tony Moroni who is a struggling comedian whose jokes are less than funny. Together Tony helps Janet find self-esteem and Janet helps Tony with his material.

1981

Yokohama BJ Blues

Yokohama BJ Blues 1981

7.86

BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.

1981

Ninja In The Deadly Trap

Ninja In The Deadly Trap 1981

5.20

During the Ming Dynasty, as Japanese pirates wreak havoc along the Chinese coast, laying waste to entire towns, a band of ninjas start appearing and target the Chinese military commander, General Chi. The Master of the Three Arts (who possesses a book illustrating various ninja techniques) is the only one who can combat this new enemy, so he pledges that his students will join Chi's army in their fight to wipe out the killers.

1981

Deep Water

Deep Water 1981

6.12

On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.

1981

Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai

Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai 1981

5.00

'Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Ata Hai' revolves around the Pintos and the people connected to them. There's Albert who's pretty much angry at everybody. His brother Dominic who thinks it's better to be jobless than to work an underpaid job, his patient sister Joan who works at a sari shop, his independent girlfriend Stella who feels under-appreciated by her boyfriend, his father and his colleagues, client and Stella's family. The film is very much a social commentary about Middle-class life in Bombay during the late ’70s and the conflicts arising in the labour force because workers were getting severely underpaid.

1981

The Club

The Club 1981

6.70

Mainly the story of Sai, a rascal who works at a gang-operated nightclub, and his conflicts with a rival gang.

1981

The Blazing Valiant

The Blazing Valiant 1981

5.00

Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once the funeral was over, he missed the boat that was going to take him back home, and, because of an altered itinerary, he ends up stopping in a town for awhile -- striking up an acquaintance with a teenager and her grandfather when he captures their runaway horse. He would have been glad to leave after the proper amenities were completed, but the girl's journalist brother is murdered -- he was getting too close to wrapping a major news story. At that point, Jo and a friend cannot easily drop the matter as though nothing had occurred, and the two start to track down the source of the trouble -- a factory that makes poison gas for Third World buyers. Now their task is to dismantle the operation, prevent one train shipment from arriving at a transfer point, and find the journalist's killer.

1981

Hot Spirits

Hot Spirits 1981

3.80

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?

1981

Modern Romance

Modern Romance 1981

6.70

A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.

1981

Jwaala Daaku

Jwaala Daaku 1981

1

Ravi would like to study medicine and then come back and practice it in his small town where there is no doctor or medical facility available for miles. Encouraged by the townspeople and his brother, Bankhe, he re-locates to Bombay, where in a few years time he is able to successfully complete his studies and become a doctor. When he returns home, nothing is the same anymore. His brother Bankhe is absconding, running away from Daku Jwala, who has sworn to kill him to avenge his brother's death - and Dr. Ravi himself has to face Jwala sooner or later - as Jwala's vengeance includes Bankhe and all of his family. Dr. Ravi must now make up his mind to look death at the hands of an angry Jwala - or re-locate and practice medicine elsewhere.

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

Nuclear Shelter

Nuclear Shelter 1981

6.40

Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.

1981

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge 1981

5.50

Spider-Man goes to China to help an official accused of World War II treachery. Two episodes of the TV series "Spider Man" edited together and released as a feature.

1981

Five Magic Minutes

Five Magic Minutes 1981

1

Magic show featuring a range of famous acts including Ali Bongo and Alan Shaxon, shown during ITV's children's 'Watch It' slot in the early 80s.

1981

11 Women

11 Women 1981

1

Autumn of the same year the director Zhang Aijia planning television drama unit eleven women of duckweed. In 1982, planning story time, directed by Edward Yang second expect, a movie watch, then with the new movie is inseparable, and frequently won awards in the international film.

1981

Newark File

Newark File 1981

1

Three witnesses, photographer Cheng Suqi, Oriental Research Society member Li Qiwen, and police chief Liang Ruijie, observed a councilor being shot. Suqi unwittingly took a photo, which was later destroyed. A committee member of the case's investigation, Prosecutor Jiang Zhushi, saw the photo at a film festival but did not see it again. After the Oriental Research Society faced arson, Qiwen discovered that it was an intelligence organization and was then chased. Suqi eventually found the photo, which revealed the witness and led to Qiwen's acquaintance with Zhushi and progress in the investigation. However, Zhushi persisted in investigating even after discovering the wide scope of the shooting case. Zhushi obtained a box of tapes with information about the case's motive and mastermind but was later killed.

1981

Olivier Awards

Olivier Awards 1981

1.00

Annual awards ceremony presented by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London.

1981

Tiger Mask II

Tiger Mask II 1981

7.20

A new opponent called "Outer Space Mask" bullies his way into the ring without representing any wrestling federation. Tatsuo Aku, once an orphan child from the "house of the children", was a fan of Naoto, who has died. He would put on his old hero's mask to become the new Tiger Mask.

1981

Kallocain

Kallocain 1981

1

A dramatization of the Karin Boye's last novel. A nightmarish existence in a future regimented society. In this welfare state introduced the drug Kallocain that may reveal the crimes of dissent.

1981

Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen 1981

1

Behind the Screen is an American late-night weekly serial which aired on CBS from October 9, 1981 to January 8, 1982. It was created by David Jacobs for CBS, which wanted to experiment with late night programming as a counterpoint to ABC and NBC's more successful efforts at that time of night. Drawing upon his experience with the prime-time serials, Behind the Screen was a dramatization of the goings-on at a fictional TV soap opera called Generations. This was not the first attempt to explore the concept of a "soap within a soap" as radio soaps had used the idea as far as back as the 1940s, and Ryan's Hope had used the idea for a story in the early 1980s.

1981