A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

Stripes

1981

English

6.8

♡ 51

88%

Ivan Reitman Director

Donald Gibb as Bouncer in Mud Wrestling Bar

Lance LeGault as Col. Glass

Dennis Quaid as Extra at Graduation Ceremony

Warren Oates as Sgt. Hulka

Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his barely satisfactory performance in basic training, the irreverent Winger emerges as the figurehead for a ragtag band of misfits. However, his hijinks threaten to cause an international scandal when he inadvertently commandeers a military assault vehicle behind enemy lines.

The Hippies

1981

French

5.3

♡ 5

Comedy

commune

rural setting

François Leterrier Director

Christian Clavier as Antoine Bonfils

André Penvern as Jean-Michel, le mari d'Odette

Paul Préboist as Monsieur Triconet

Richard Bohringer as Paul

Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...

Gallipoli

1981

English

7.4

♡ 38

91%

Peter Weir Director

Mark Lee as Archy Hamilton

Steve Dodd as Billy Snakeskin

Mel Gibson as Frank Dunne

Bill Hunter as Major Barton

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Dreadnaught

1981

Cn

7.1

♡ 13

80%

Woo-Ping Yuen Director

Chun Hua Li as Biggie / Big Mouth

Biao Yuen as Mousy

Ching Tang as Mousy's girlfriend Lily Li

Lily Li as Mousy's sister

Mousy, a timid laundry man, crosses paths with a violent criminal known only as 'White Tiger', who hides amongst a theatre troupe, murdering anyone who discovers his identity.

Tree of Knowledge

1981

Danish

7.2

♡ 2

Nils Malmros Director

Line Arlien-Søborg as Anne-Mette / student

Eva Gram Schjoldager as Elin / student

Erno Müller as Hr. Særlang

Jan Johansen as Niels / student

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

The Boogens

1981

English

5.5

♡ 12

25%

James L. Conway Director

Jon Lormer as Greenwalt, the old man

Anne-Marie Martin as Jessica Ford

Rebecca Balding as Trish Michaels

Peg Stewart as Victoria Tusker

Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootlegging tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.

Being Different

1981

English

6.3

♡ 3

43%

Action

Documentary

Harry Rasky Director

Billy Barty as Self

Ronnie Galyon as Self

Christopher Plummer as Self - Narrator

Johann Petursson as Self - The World's Tallest Man

A tribute to the spirit and humanity of people who are physically different from the average: very tall and very large men and women, a bearded woman and her long-time husband, Siamese twins joined at the midsection, and several little people including actor Billy Barty. We meet some at Gibsonton, Florida, where carnival folk winter. They talk about their lives and accomplishments. The camera also goes on the road to visit a grandfather with a distinctive face, a legless mechanic from Kentucky on a second honeymoon in LA, a marathon runner and motivational speaker who has no feet, a karate student with partial limbs, and an armless, down-to-earth mom in Texas.

L'amour trop fort

5.2

Daniel Duval Director

Dimitri Rafalsky as

Lucien Camiret as

Jean Carmet as Max

Marie-Christine Barrault as Rose-Marie de Boisel

Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.

The Cannonball Run

1981

English

6.2

♡ 46

29%

Hal Needham Director

Walter Robles as Biker

Sammy Davis Jr. as Fenderbaum

Jackie Chan as Subaru Driver #1

Terry Bradshaw as Terry

A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker, who in the roaring 20's rode his motorcycle across the country. Many of the characters are based on ruses developed by real Cannonball racers over the several years that the event was run.

Engel aus Eisen

6.6

receiving of stolen goods

War

Thomas Brasch Director

Anna Thalbach as Agnes Gabler, Tochter

Kurt Raab as Chauffeur

Hilmar Thate as Gustav Völpel

Hanns Zischler as Ridzinski

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

Stoney Knows How

1981

English

7.9

♡ 2

Pacho Lane Director

Don Ed Hardy as

Leonard 'Stoney' St. Clair as

A visit with a master of the Oldest Art In The World: tattooing. Disabled by arthritis since the age of four, confined to a wheelchair, his growth stunted, Stoney St. Clair joined the circus at 15 as a sword swallower. A year later he took up tattooing, and traveled with circuses and carnivals for fifty years practicing his craft. As we watch him at work, we see the determination which led Stoney to use his crippled hands in an art where mistakes are permanent, and we realize Stoney has overcome his handicap to heal himself and others with the magic of symbols. The film ends with a visit by New Age tattoo master Don Ed Hardy, who receives a permanent souvenir by Old School tattoo master Stoney.

Christiane F.

1981

German

7.5

♡ 22

Uli Edel Director

Jens Kuphal as Axel

David Bowie as David Bowie

Thomas Haustein as Detlev

Daniela Jaeger as Kessi

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.

Arthur

1981

English

6.9

♡ 16

86%

Steve Gordon Director

Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach

Anne De Salvo as Gloria

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Martha Bach

Phyllis Somerville as Saleslady

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

1981

English

5.5

♡ 5

27%

Joel Schumacher Director

Nancy Lenehan as Guard

Martin Ferrero as Guard

Mark Blankfield as Rob

Sally Kirkland as Store Cashier

After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.

Knightriders

1981

English

6.3

♡ 10

80%

George A. Romero Director

Ed Harris as Billy

Martin Ferrero as Bontempi

Patricia Tallman as Julie

Ken Foree as Little John

A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and their so-called king's delusions of grandeur.

Edward Hopper

5.7

Ron Peck Director

Gail Levin as Self

Ron Levin as Self - Narrator

A film based on a search undertaken by filmmaker Ron Peck into the life and work of the painter Edward Hopper.

Mystery on Monster Island

1981

Spanish

3.8

♡ 3

8%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Juan Piquer Simón Director

Ana Obregón as Meg Hollaney / Meg Calderón

David Hatton as Professor Thomas Artelect

Terence Stamp as Taskinar / Skinner

Peter Cushing as William T. Kolderup

A young European boy living in San Francisco is reluctant to marry his long-term girlfriend because he wants to travel around the world first. His wealthy uncle agrees to send him on a global expedition aboard his ship, but en route the boy and his travelling companion are shipwrecked on a remote island, populated by countless prehistoric creatures as well as gold-hunting bandits.

Heat of Desire

1981

French

5.7

♡ 3

Luc Béraud Director

Jeanne Moreau as Hélène, la mère de Caroline

Alejo del Peral as Réceptionniste

Patrick Dewaere as Serge Lainé

José Luis López Vázquez as Sr. Martínez, recteur de l'université de Barcelone

In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.

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