All Films

Death Angel

1981 • 26 min

Three young wrestling fans are eager to see the mysterious masked wrestler Death Angel.

Abnormal Sex: Girl Kidnapping

1981 • 59 min • Japan

Pink film from Toei Central.

The Olden Days Coat

1981 • 30 min • Canada

While at her grandmother's house, a ten-year-old girl finds a coat in the closet. As she inspects it, she is suddenly taken back in time.

Of Muppets & Men

1981 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the work of puppeteer Jim Henson and his team in creating The Muppet Show.

Judo Champ

1981 • 30 min • United Kingdom

John Stewart is Scottish Junior Judo Champ. He has come to London to live. His new club and his new school want him to win competitions for them. His Dad wants him to bring glory to Scotland. The school bully badly needs teaching a lesson. But John no longer seems to enjoy tough competitive judo where the aim is to beat someone else. He wants something else - a different style, a deeper satisfaction. But few understand.

The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold

1981 • 24 min • United States of America, Japan

Sent in search of a Christmas tree, cabin boy Dinty Doyle lands on a mysterious, uncharted Irish island where he accidentally releases a bad-tempered banshee from her pine tree prison. Leprechaun Blarney Kilakilarney knows that in order to survive, the banshee will try to swipe his clan's pot of Christmas gold. With some magical assistance from Lord Patrick, the king of the wee folk, Dinty and Blarney make a plan to outwit the gold-hungry hag before Christmas morning dawns.

Das Obdach

1981 • 52 min • East Germany, Germany

Against the historical background of the occupation of Paris by the German Wehrmacht, the story of a German émigré child who finds shelter with a French working-class family is told.

Come On Then!

1981 • 37 min • Sweden

A 1981 TV film by Hallström about a 35-year-old footballer (played by Swedish pop star Robert Broberg) looking back over his life.

It's Magic, Charlie Brown

1981 • 24 min • United States of America

When Snoopy turns Charlie Brown invisible in a magic act, he has trouble changing him back.

Bondage Group Assault

1981 • 60 min • Japan

A high school student living with his older brother and his wife. A timid boy who always masturbates thinking about his brother's wife. His older brother and his wife always seem to get along well. His brother's wife is elegant and beautiful. However, when his brother is on a business trip to a local city, he keeps a mistress. His brother and his mistress also seem to get along well. A couple lives next to the mistress' room. They also seem to get along well. However, contrary to this outward appearance, the characters' hidden sexual desires lie hidden.

The Secret of the Third Planet

1981 • 50 min • Soviet Union

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev against legendary Two Captains Kim and Buran. The only clue is a talking bird Сhatterer [Govorun] that our heroes accidentally took possession of.

Zandra Rhodes

1981 • 15 min

Commissioned by the COI, Peter Greenaway made a biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.

The Factory

1981 • 60 min

A factory's workforce is dwindling as divisions between the workers and management widen.

Faeries

1981 • 30 min • United States of America

The king of the faeries sends for a young hunter after his shadow escapes and threatens his kingdom.

Heroes

1981 • 49 min

1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.

Andrina

1981 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.

Vinyl Book Woman: Close Up Naked

1981 • 59 min • Japan

An older sister who is a model of a vinyl book and a younger sister who has a damn past gangbanged by men. The story about their love and hate goes to a dangerous place with a black passion.

Starstruck

1981 • 50 min • United States of America

Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

Molester Train 9

1981 • 60 min • Japan

I do not stand in the case of emergency! The beautiful married woman who knew the delicate trouble of virginity…. A case full of joys and sorrows that the virginity pervert man who I outrun an emergency brake of the reason, and dashes causes.

菩薩の仮想

1981 • 23 min • Japan

DeLorean

1981 • 53 min • United States of America

In 1973, John DeLorean was most likely going to be the next president of General Motors, when he turned his back on his $650,000 a year job and focused on a grander dream... to build his own car company (the first new American car company since 1925). In 1978, DeLorean built the most advanced auto factory in the world in under 18 months, from the ground up in a small suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Piwi

1981 • 29 min • Canada

The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.

The Visitant

1981 • 22 min • United States of America

A graveside visit turns out to be a never-ending nightmare for a grieving father. Restless spirits and ghastly visitations materialize in the cemetery as if to warn the man of some impending doom.

Dreamhouse

1981 • 36 min • United Kingdom

A couple move into a house only for the wife to start experiencing violent supernatural visions.