While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Presents

1981

English

6.7

♡ 3

Action

Michael Snow Director

The apparent vertical scratch in celluloid that opens Presents literally opens into a film within the film. When its figure awakens into a woman in a 'real' unreal set, the slapstick satire of structural film begins. It is not the camera that moves, but the whole set, in this first of three material 'investigations' of camera movement. In the second, the camera literally invades the set; a plexiglass sheet in front of the dolly crushes everything in its sight as it zooms through space. Finally, this monster of formalism pushes through the wall of the set and the film cuts to a series of rapidly edited shots as the camera zigzags over lines of force and moving fields of vision in an approximation of the eye in nature. Snow pushes us into acceptance of present moments of vision, but the single drum beat that coincides with each edit in this elegaic section announces each moment of life's irreversible disappearance.

The Monster Club

1981

English

5.9

♡ 22

75%

39%

Action

anthology

based on novel or book

Roy Ward Baker Director

Britt Ekland as Busotsky's Mother

Roger Sloman as Club Secretary - Werewolf

Vincent Price as Eramus

Liz Smith as Villager

A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.

Who Pulled the Plug?

1981

Swedish

5.8

♡ 3

Hans Iveberg Director

Georg Rydeberg as Gustav

Magnus Härenstam as Kronofogden

Lars Amble as Leif Andersson

Bertil Norström as Slussvakt

To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against their major competitor and they both have to resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Black Cat

1981

Italian

5.8

♡ 6

33%

Lucio Fulci Director

Lucio Fulci as Doctor

Bruno Corazzari as Ferguson

Mimsy Farmer as Jill Trevers

Patrick Magee as Prof. Robert Miles

Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.

The Fox and the Hound

1981

English

7.2

♡ 51

75%

based on novel or book

David Hand Director

Paul Winchell as Boomer

Kurt Russell as Copper

Corey Feldman as Young Copper

Keith Coogan as Young Tod

When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on his role as a hunting dog -- and the object of his search is his best friend!

Attack Force Z

1981

English

5.4

♡ 8

31%

Tim Burstall Director

Mel Gibson as Capt. P.G.

Sylvia Chang as Chien Hua

John Phillip Law as Lt. J.A.

Sam Neill as Sgt. D.J.

Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.

The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold

1981

English

6.1

♡ 9

50%

Jules Bass Director

Ken Jennings as Dinty Doyle / Father Leprechaun

Peggy Cass as Faye

Bob McFadden as Lord of the Leprechauns

Art Carney as Narrator / Blarney Kilakilarney

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.

Mommie Dearest

1981

English

6.7

♡ 11

50%

Frank Perry Director

Diana Scarwid as Christina Crawford

Margaret Fairchild as Mother Superior

Cathy Lind Hayes as Nurse

Peter Jason as Pepsi Executive #4

Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.

Hands Up!

1981

Polish

6.5

♡ 4

post-apocalyptic future

refugee train

Jerzy Skolimowski Director

Fred Zinnemann as Self

Alan Bates as Self

Bruno Ganz as Self

David Essex as Self

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Possession

1981

English

7.2

♡ 99

85%

Andrzej Zulawski Director

Isabelle Adjani as Anna / Helen

Carl Duering as Detective

Sam Neill as Mark

Leslie Malton as Sara, woman with club foot

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

The Howling

1981

English

6.5

♡ 47

76%

61%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Joe Dante Director

Noble Willingham as Charlie Barton

Kevin McCarthy as Fred Francis

Elisabeth Brooks as Marsha Quist

Meshach Taylor as Shantz

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

Adieu Galaxy Express 999

1981

Japanese

7.0

♡ 10

Rintaro Director

Makio Inoue as Captain Harlock

Chiyoko Kawashima as Kei

Noriko Ohara as Mime

John Payne as Tochiro / Meowdar

Two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro is summoned to board the Three-Nine once more. In this, the shattering, full-length theatrical conclusion to Leiji Matsumoto's epic story, all questions will be answered and all mysteries will be revealed as Tetsuro embarks on a journey which will reveal a secret so awful, even Maetel herself can hardly bear to speak of it.

Mobile Suit Gundam I

1981

Japanese

7.0

♡ 15

80%

Ryôji Fujiwara Director

Diane Michelle as Crowley Hamon

Katsunosuke Hori as Eschenbach

Dai Matsumoto as Krampe

Takkô Ishimori as Reed

In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However, the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon, the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth, has sparked a war.

Fort Apache the Bronx

1981

English

6.7

♡ 10

Daniel Petrie Director

Daryl Edwards as Black Rookie

Rachel Ticotin as Isabella

Paul Newman as Murphy

Kim Delgado as Suspect #1

From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.

Beware of the Jonsson Gang!

1981

Swedish

6.3

♡ 6

Jonas Cornell Director

Lillemor Planck as Berusad kvinna

Gösta Ekman as Charel-Ingvar 'Sickan' Jönsson

Nils Brandt as Rocky

Jean-Paul Chakbazof as Shejken

The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months in jail, Vanheden and Rocky come to welcome him when he's released. But he doesn't take notice of them, and he's picked up by the mysterious banker Wall-Enberg Jr. instead. He wants Sickan to perform a burglary in Switzerland, in order to retrieve the famous Bedford Diamonds. Sickan does this but is fooled by Wall-Enberg and nearly gets caught. When he returns to Sweden and re-unites with his old gang members, he's set on revenge, both physically and psychologically...

Prince of the City

1981

English

7.4

♡ 18

93%

Sidney Lumet Director

Norman Parker as Assistant U.S. Atty. Rick Cappalino

Lance Henriksen as D.A. Burano

Carmine Caridi as Detective Gino Mascone

Bob Balaban as Santimassino

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.

Vernon, Florida

1981

English

7.0

♡ 1

100%

Errol Morris Director

George Harris as Self

Albert Bitterling as Self

Roscoe Collins as Self

Joe Payne as Self

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

Fear No Evil

1981

English

4.7

♡ 4

50%

Frank LaLoggia Director

John Quinn as Apostle

Frank Birney as Father Daly

Elizabeth Hoffman as Mikhail / Margaret Buchanan

John Holland as Rafael / Father Damon

Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18 year old student Julie.

Enter the Ninja

1981

English

5.3

♡ 10

43%

Menahem Golan Director

Franco Nero as Cole

Will Hare as Dollars

Dale Ishimoto as Komori

Christopher George as Venarius

After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Angolan Bush War veteran by the name of Cole visits his war buddy Frank Landers and his newly wed wife Mary Ann, who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a CEO named Charles Venarius.

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Presents

The Monster Club

Who Pulled the Plug?

The Black Cat

The Fox and the Hound

Attack Force Z

The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold

Mommie Dearest

Hands Up!

Possession

The Howling

Adieu Galaxy Express 999

Mobile Suit Gundam I

Fort Apache the Bronx

Beware of the Jonsson Gang!

Prince of the City

Vernon, Florida

Fear No Evil

Enter the Ninja