Australian filmmaker Peter Weir re-created the tragic and notorious World War I debacle of Gallipoli – a blundered campaign that saw the massacre of the…
Browsing: Movies 1981
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Producer and star John Daniels played the lead in several Blaxploitation potboilers in the mid-70s – including The Black Godfather and The Candy Tangerine Man (1975).…
A frog and a bear as identical twins? A pig fashion model? Only in the world of Jim Henson’s Muppets could anyone get away with…
An antidote to all those 80’s-era US teen movies with their genetically-modified casts and big cars, Glaswegian Bill Forsyth’s gentle comedy shows teenagers in all…
It is still Halloween night 1978, and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is in Haddonfield Hospital recovering from Michael Myers’ near-fatal attack on her in…
Oliver Stone directs Michael Caine in this hybrid horror that combines elements of The Beast with Five Fingers and The Hands of Orlac. Caine stars…
Virginia Wainwright (Melissa Sue Anderson) is a volatile senior student who returns to school after a freak accident necessitating brain surgery which has blocked her…
Originally broadcast on NBC as a two-part special in May 1981, this third and final television movie sequel to the classic 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island…
Val (Andy Kaufman) – short for Valcom-17485 – and Aqua (Bernadette Peters) – short for Aquacom-89045 – are two servant robots (he programmed as a…
Science fiction, sword-and-sorcery, violence, sex, drug culture and humour all featured in varying degrees in Heavy Metal, an animated feature that took its title from the…
Emerging as the first in a spree of 80’s wolf movies, The Howling has it all: lupine howls drifting through dark woods, a secluded and creepy retreat…
Lily Tomlin stars in this comedy as Pat Kramer, a frenetic American housewife who, falling victim to 20th-century technology, finds herself shrinking inch by inch…
Unfairly dismissed on its release as a low-budget imitation of Alien (1979), Norman J. Warren’s Inseminoid follows an archaeological expedition by the space explorer Xeno to investigate the origin…
Residents of a row of terrace houses in Sydney, Australia, form an Action Group to fight a development company who want to buy the houses…
A group of overgrown hippies travel the American Mid-west putting on “Renaissance Fairs” before audiences composed chiefly of fat slobs and kids scoffing hot dogs…
Written in 1928, D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover had only been available, unexpurgated, in Britain since Penguin Books’ famous 1960 obscenity trial at the Old Bailey.…
Highly strung and egocentric singer/model/actress Marie Coleby (Deborah Coulls, ex- Skyways) lives in a luxurious secluded beachside home on the Australian coast (location shooting was…
When two of his female patients die, plastic surgeon Doctor Larry Roberts (Albert Finney) is the chief suspect. Yet as he attempts to find the…
“Man, I was what you call ragged. I mean, way beyond torn up. I wasn’t gonna be no man’s friend today.” The opening of this…
A thundering juggernaut of a movie and one of the few correct answers to the question, “name a sequel that surpasses the original”. After the low-budget…