As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop, her father forbids the young couple from seeing each other for 30 days. Driven insane with frustration and desire, David attempts to reverse the decision, with catastrophic results.

Green Ice

1981

English

5.5

♡ 12

47%

Adventure

Drama

Romance

Anthony Simmons Director

Anne Archer as Holbrook

Philip Stone as Jochim Kellerman

Ryan O'Neal as Joseph Wiley

Omar Sharif as Meno Argenti

A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.

X-Ray

1981

English

5.0

♡ 9

Boaz Davidson Director

Charles Lucia as Harry

Barbi Benton as Susan Jeremy

Billy Jayne as Young Harry

Elizabeth Hoy as Young Susan

When Susan was a little girl, she rejected the Valentine of a lovestruck classmate. Decades later, she’s come to the hospital for a routine medical examination, and finds herself trapped in a bizarre nightmare, made all the worse as her vengeful childhood valentine, disguised among the hospital staff, begins murdering everyone in his path as a means of proving his undying ‘romantic’ obsession…

Absurd

1981

Italian

5.3

♡ 13

42%

parent child relationship

priest

sadism

serial killer

Joe D'Amato Director

Annie Belle as Emily

Katya Berger as Katia Bennett

George Eastman as Mikos Stenopolis

Charles Borromel as Sgt. Ben Engleman

A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.

Paternity

1981

English

5.0

♡ 15

27%

David Steinberg Director

Burt Reynolds as Buddy Evans

Paul Dooley as Kurt

Beverly D'Angelo as Maggie

Mike Kellin as Tour Guide

Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming into contact with several children, Buddy decides that he is ready to be a father. Buddy decides to hire a surrogate mother in the hope of having a son.

Bloody Birthday

1981

English

5.7

♡ 11

75%

Ed Hunt Director

Julie Brown as Beverly Brody

Susan Strasberg as Miss Viola Davis

Joe Penny as Mr. Harding

Cyril O'Reilly as Paul

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.

Lady, Stay Dead

1981

English

5.2

♡ 6

Terry Bourke Director

Louise Howitt as Jenny Nolan

Deborah Coulls as Marie Coleby

Roger Ward as Officer Clyde Collings

Brian Hinzlewood as TV Director

A young woman is looking after her sister's house, unaware that her sister and neighbor have been murdered by their handyman who also happens to be a serial killer.

Suddenly in the Dark

1981

Korean

6.5

♡ 4

Horror

housekeeper

supernatural

Young Nam Ko Director

Il-bong Yun as

Hye-ri Han as

Lee Ki-seon as (as Ki-seon Lee)

Yeong-ae Kim as (as Yeong-ae Kim)

A wife starts to suspect her husband's infidelity after the arrival of their new, young housekeeper, who carries a mysterious wooden doll with herself.

Ragtime

1981

English

7.3

♡ 13

84%

77%

Action

based on novel or book

class differences

Drama

jazz singer or musician

new york city

public murder

racism

Milos Forman Director

Pat O'Brien as Delphin

Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit

Samuel L. Jackson as Gang Member No. 2

Michael Jeter as Special Reporter

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Pennies from Heaven

1981

English

6.5

♡ 5

83%

Herbert Ross Director

Twink Caplan as Bank Customer

John Karlen as The Detective

Christopher Walken as Tom

M.C. Gainey as Young Policeman

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Kárate contra mafia

1981

Spanish

3.8

♡ 2

Action

karate

Ramón Saldías Director

Atsuhisa Tonogami as Chan-Diku

Agustín Denis as Lai Chao

Albino Graziani as Policía 1

Carolina Yao as Tiu

Lai Chao, a young sailor and expert in kung fu, inadvertently finds himself dragged into an international diamond smuggling scheme. With both the police and the local mafia don (along with his hooded henchmen) in hot pursuit, Lai Chao is forced to fight for his life as kung fu expert killers lurk around every corner!

The Sword Stained with Royal Blood

1981

Cn

6.5

♡ 6

Cheh Chang Director

Han Chiang as

Chih-yung Yuen as

Hsiang Lin Yin as

Li Ching as Wen Yi

Raised to be a righteous martial artist, Yuan kicks off the story proper by finding a cave containing a skeleton, a treasure map, and a manual teaching him the Golden Snake style. Obeying a request hidden in the manual to give a portion of the treasure to the Golden Snake's old girlfriend, Yuan begins to seek the woman out - on the way solving the riddle of the Golden Snake, and how he came to his end.

Absence of Malice

1981

English

6.9

♡ 18

82%

Sydney Pollack Director

John Harkins as Davidek

Paul Newman as Gallagher

Luther Adler as Malderone

Sally Field as Megan

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.

Polyester

1981

English

7.0

♡ 21

93%

John Waters Director Divine

Divine as Francine Fishpaw

Jay Leno as Journalist on TV News

Susan Lowe as Mall Victim

Mink Stole as Sandra Sullivan

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.

The Killing of America

1981

English

7.5

♡ 5

66%

Sheldon Renan Director

John Lennon as Self

Nancy Reagan as Self

John Kennedy Jr. as Self

Ted Bundy as Self

A documentary of the decline of America. Featuring footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much, much more.

Heavy Metal

1981

English

6.6

♡ 65

66%

John Bruno Director

John Candy as Desk Sergeant

Robby the Robot as Hot Dog Vendor

Al Waxman as Rudnick

Eugene Levy as Sternn

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

The Hot Touch

1981

English

4.9

♡ 5

Crime

Drama

Roger Vadim Director

Marie-France Pisier as Dr. Simpson

Allan Kolman as Lincoln Simpson

Melvyn Douglas as Max Reich

Samantha Eggar as Samantha O'Brien

A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII.

Scream

1981

English

2.8

♡ 12

Byron Quisenberry Director

Alvy Moore as Allen

Pepper Martin as Bob

Hank Worden as John

Gregg Palmer as Ross

A group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out of the blue, a murder occurs.

Corpse Mania

1981

Chinese

6.3

♡ 4

Chih-Hung Kuei Director

Chok Chow Cheung as Boss San

Wei Tu Lin as Li Cheng-Wen

Jenny Liang as Li Hung-Mei

Tsui Ling Yu as Yen-Erh

A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.

S.O.B.

1981

English

6.4

♡ 9

81%

Blake Edwards Director

Rosanna Arquette as Babs

John Pleshette as Capitol Studios Vice-President

Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer

Paul Stewart as Harry Sandler

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

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