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…
Browsing: Movies 1981
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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…
“Welcome to Potters Bluff” Tourists and visitors to the sleepy coastal town of Potters Bluff, Maine, are being brutally murdered by the locals. What’s more…
There are lots of nutty women in Deadly Blessing. There’s the heroine, Martha Schmidt (Maren Jensen) – the widow of a member of the Hittite…
This Walt Disney comedy centres on a callous, greedy Los Angeles landlord named Max Devlin (Elliott Gould), a fellow whose policy is “no children, no…
When Galen (Peter MacNicol in his film debut), ward of the earth’s last master wizard, Ulrich (Ralph Richardson), tries to use his master’s magic against…
Director Franco Zeffirelli did a castration job on Endless Love, reducing Scott Spencer’s 1979 best-seller about the nature of sexual obsession to a soggy teenage romance…
The year is 1997 (the future) and the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world’s biggest free-for-all maximum security prison. There’s only one…
As a propaganda stunt, the Nazis arrange a football match during WWII between the national German team and a squad made up of Allied prisoners…
This cool horror flick starring B-movie king Bruce Campbell was one of the first “video nasties” of the 1980s. Adapting their own short called Within the…
Awkward, sensitive military cadet Stanley Coopersmith (Clint Howard, less-famous brother of Happy Days star and renowned director Ron Howard) is frequently bullied by his fellow…
This vivid and passionate telling of the Arthurian legend from director John Boorman is a thoroughly convincing visualisation of the Knights of the Round Table…
In an ancient time, an elderly priest hunts down and destroys Lucifer, who vows to be reborn. Fast-forward to the present day, Andrew (Stefan Arngrim)…
Damien Thorn, the human son of Satan, is a child no longer. He is now 33 and the head of the Thorn Corporation, and he’s…
A mine in the Ionian Sea accidentally sinks the spy ship, St Georges. The ship was equipped with the ATAC communications device, and both the…
Veteran cop John Murphy (Paul Newman) is very set in his ways but must face the changing realities of a tough job in an even…
The Fox and the Hound, Disney’s 24th animated feature, chronicled the sad tale of a friendship that simply wasn’t meant to be. Alternating between playful…
Lyme Regis, Dorset, 1867: Charles Smithson (Jeremy Irons), a Victorian gentleman recently engaged to the daughter of a wealthy businessman, is fascinated by the lonely…
Set five years after the first film (1980), the action takes place in the vicinity of the infamous Camp Crystal Lake, where the foolhardy counsellors from…
This Roger Corman rip-off of Alien (1979) has a Class III spaceship named Quest journeying to the distant storm-lashed planet of Morganthus to rescue the…