The Executor

The Executor 1981

6.50

Chow Yun-Fat and Danny Lee star in this police action film. Two cops are trying to capture a triad boss, but are interrupted by hitman played by Chow Yun-Fat. This is one of those unique combination Hong Kong movies with action, comedy, and violence.

1981

Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment 1981

5.81

Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriage Maze. Poor Brad is heavily sedated and institutionalised, whilst Janet is given a radical makeover and primed for stardom. But what are the real motivations behind the kooky DTV crew and their enigmatic head-honcho, Farley Flavors?

1981

Heartaches

Heartaches 1981

5.30

A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.

1981

Mandala

Mandala 1981

6.33

A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.

1981

Strange Behavior

Strange Behavior 1981

5.47

When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.

1981

Green Ice

Green Ice 1981

5.58

A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.

1981

Final Exam

Final Exam 1981

5.13

In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.

1981

Girl Going to the City

Girl Going to the City 1981

8.00

Lee Mun-hi works as a bus conductor. She is tormented by the fact that she is subject to body searches, but tries to treat her co-workers nicely and live an honest life. She is kind to people who are less fortunate than her and falls in love with Kwang-seok, a traveling salesman. She helps Kwang-seok become a crewman of the ship and promises to marry him. When she is subjected to another body search, she protests against the humiliation and jumps from the roof of her company building. She is critically injured and is embraced by Kwang-seok.

1981

Inmate

Inmate 1981

5.88

Francesco Improta is an honest fruit and vegetable peddler who lives with his elderly mother Assunta and daughter Fiorella. His wife Lucia left home two years earlier, as, in order to help the family, she did not hesitate to give herself to the boss Peppino Ascalone, with whom she is now forced to live together.

1981

Loophole

Loophole 1981

6.10

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.

1981

Signé Furax

Signé Furax 1981

4.80

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

1981

The Plouffe Family

The Plouffe Family 1981

6.73

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

1981

Rubber Tarzan

Rubber Tarzan 1981

6.25

Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole.

1981

High Risk

High Risk 1981

5.80

Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.

1981

Evita Peron

Evita Peron 1981

1

Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.

1981

Hitman in the Hand of Buddha

Hitman in the Hand of Buddha 1981

5.30

A country bumpkin arrives to help his brother's rice business. Things get out of hand while a rival company becomes corrupt. The bumpkin, an ace martial artist, fights off the rivals. Angered, the rivals hire a martial arts expert to fight the hero, only to get beaten up himself. The expert send his teacher to hurt the hero and succeeds. The hero is sent to a temple where he learns a new style of kung fu. Now with the skills, our hero is ready to get even.

1981

The Pyramid Game

The Pyramid Game 1981

7.50

The Pyramid Game was a United Kingdom game show based on the American format of the same name that was originally shown on ITV from 1981 to 1984 then 1989 to 1990 hosted by Steve Jones, then revived by Challenge in 2007 hosted by Donny Osmond.

1981

Le rose di Danzica

Le rose di Danzica 1981

1

The plagued climate of the era is realized in the encounter and later in the friendship between the general Konrad Von Der Berg, who refused to command a ruthless suppression of opponents and from whose diary the story is drawn, and Eric Von Lehner Baron, who has orders to escort Von Der Berg to a prison camp.

1981

Pelle Parafins Bøljeband og automatspøkelsene

Pelle Parafins Bøljeband og automatspøkelsene 1981

1

Pelle Parafin's Wave Band is threatened with eviction from the basement where they rehearse by the cynical businessman Audun Automat, who wants to turn the place into an arcade. The band must fight against Audun Automat, the municipality, and the automat ghosts to keep the basement, while Randi and Ronny must also find a new home.

1981

Die Rumplhanni

Die Rumplhanni 1981

1

August 1914. In the village of Öd, the maid Rumplhanni has a love affair with Simon, son of the farmer Hauser. Before he goes to war, she dizzy to him, she expects a child from him. Simon can persuade his parents to say goodbye to Hanni as a daughter-in-law. Thus she has achieved what she wanted: to come out of the state of an illegitimate maid and to become peasant woman with house and farm. Since the old farmer wants to give her but nothing written, Hanni sets out another plan.

1981

Petőfi

Petőfi 1981

6.00

A series on the life of Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi.

1981

The Krypton Factor

The Krypton Factor 1981

7.00

The Krypton Factor is a United States game show based on the UK series of the same name. The series originally ran on ABC from August 7 to September 4, 1981, and in syndication from September 15, 1990 to September 7, 1991. The first version was produced by Alan Landsburg Productions in association with MCA Television Entertainment. The second version was produced by Kushner-Locke Productions and distributed by Western International. Dick Clark hosted the ABC version and Willie Aames hosted the syndicated version.

1981

Jade Solid Gold

Jade Solid Gold 1981

1

Jade Solid Gold is a music show on the TVB Jade television channel. It has been running since October 10, 1981.

1981

Saken Ruth Vang

Saken Ruth Vang 1981

1

One morning Ruth Vang comes running out of the apartment, falls down the stairs and is left unconscious. In her apartment the body of the land lord, Otto Hagenberg is discovered. Helmer and Sigurdson search to uncover the killer.

1981

El mundo del Profesor Rossa

El mundo del Profesor Rossa 1981

10.00

Chilean children's television show centered on a professor named "Professor Rossa", who taught about national animals and nature.

1981

Fighter Pilot

Fighter Pilot 1981

1

The BBC cameras follow an ever diminishing band of students through 3 years of training and selection.

1981

Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1981

1

It's tough fighting a divorce but when your wife decides to show your children your sponge bag in order to promote you as being one of the three most evil men - along with Nero and Attila the Hun - then you are in trouble. Roger Flower, an impoverished composer, is one such man and his acrimonious divorce from his well-heeled wife, Emma, is doing him no favors. He has, however, found some consolation in the arms of Rose, who finds an adulterous relationship a major turn on. In order to maintain their healthy sex-life she marries an all-in wrestler called Stanley on the morning of his divorce!

1981