Sally Field plays Megan Carter – a Miami reporter who has been working for the city’s leading newspaper for three years. She needs a scoop…
Browsing: Movies 1981
Father Goddard (Richard Burton), an austere schoolmaster-priest at a Roman Catholic boarding school in England, considers standout student Benjie Stanfield (Dominic Guard) to be an…
American Pop is the animated story of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the…
The archetypal wolf fable, An American Werewolf in London overshadowed equally good The Howling (1981) with Oscar-winning SFX and its classic man-to-wolf transformation. Two American students, David Kessler (David Naughton)…
Filming of Americana began in 1973 when David Carradine was the star of the popular Kung Fu series and continued intermittently over the years until…
Arthur Bach (Dudley Moore) is a weak, spineless, noisy little creep, who also happens to be a midget, a millionaire, and an alcoholic, and who…
Z Special Force – also known as the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) – was a secret Australian Special Forces reconnaissance and sabotage unit during World…
Set in the early days of World War II and based on a true story, Australian actor Jack Thompson stars as Stanley Graham, a poor…
A group of teenagers at a summer camp (Camp Blackfoot) play a prank on their mean, alcoholic caretaker and groundskeeper, Cropsy (Lou David) but it…
It was somewhat dispiriting to see the no-punches-pulled, hard-hitting comedian Richard Pryor lending his abrasive personality to a film as marshmallow gooey as Bustin’ Loose. Not…
The Cannonball Run is a mindlessly stupid film, described by critic Jeffrey Lyons as making Smokey and the Bandit look like Richard III. Ostensibly about a cross-country motor race on…
“Back when you had to beat it before you could eat it” Nothing too cerebral about that tagline. Well actually, there was nothing too cerebral…
Made on a shoestring budget at the South Australian Film Corporation’s studio in Adelaide, this Australian film is (allegedly) set in a dystopian future where…
It’s hard to think of a more quintessentially British film. Based around the 1924 Olympic Games and the preparation of two of England’s most cherished…
Within a year of its release, Christiane F was the most popular film in German history, out-grossing every movie ever made in that country. It’s the violently…
Greek mythology returned to the big screen in 1981’s Clash of the Titans, a bid to lure in the same kids who had sat spellbound through…
Picture James Bond, slightly geekier and wearing a winged condor suit. Got it? Then you’re ready for Condorman, a goofy action/comedy from Disney starring the world’s…
This made-for-TV thriller – airing on Sunday 4 January 1981 – starred Bernard Cribbins as the titular policeman investigating the cold case file of the…
In a small American country town, the mentally-impaired Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake) has the mentality of a child and is best friends with young local…
Director Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 World War II drama Das Boot (“The Boat”) was nominated for six Academy Awards – a virtual “mission impossible” for any foreign…
