1981 movies

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Olivier, Laurence | Bloom, Claire | Smith, Maggie | Andress, Ursula | Gwillim, Jack | Fleetwood, Susan | Roach, Pat | Hamlin, Harry | Bowker, Judi | Burgess Meredith | Phillips, Siân | Robson, Flora | Manahan, Anna | Jackson, Freda | Pigott-Smith, Tim
Directors: Davis, Desmond
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

Excalibur (1981)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Terry, Nigel | Mirren, Helen | Clay, Nicholas | Lunghi, Cherie | Geoffrey, Paul | Williamson, Nicol | Addie, Robert | Byrne, Gabriel | Buckley, Keith | Boorman, Katrine | Neeson, Liam | Redgrave, Corin | O'Brien, Niall | Stewart, Patrick | Swift, Clive
Directors: Boorman, John
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As the title would suggest, it follows the travels of the legendary sword Excalibur through Arthurian myth, from the violent, powerful hands of Uther Pendragon, to a long-years’ rest in the stone to being redrawn by Uther’s son Arthur, who uses it to defeat the evil invaders and establish the great court of Camelot and the great Knights of the Round Table. It is there in Arthur’s glory years and in his decline, brought on by the love affair between his wife Guenevere and best friend and best knight Sir Lancelot, the Holy Grail Quest which produces many casualties among the knights, and the arrival of Mordred, the son Arthur had by his evil half-sister, the sorceress Morgana. Through it all, the magician Merlin watches over everything, always ready to throw in a Charm of Making when it’s called for.

Heavy Metal (1981)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy | Horror | Music | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Bumpass, Rodger | Candy, John | Burroughs, Jackie | Flaherty, Joe | Francks, Don | Lavut, Martin | Lightstone, Marilyn | Levy, Eugene | Playten, Alice | Ramis, Harold | Roman, Susan | Schellenberg, August | Romanus, Richard | Vernon, John | Yanovsky, Zal
Directors: Potterton, Gerald
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An astronaut brings home a glowing green orb for his daughter. However, the orb kills him and corners the girl for its purposes. Claiming to the embodiment of all evil, the malevolent sphere, known as the Loc-Nar, terrorizes the little girl by showing a series of bizarre and fantastic tales it has influenced. The first is “Harry Canyon,” a cynical taxi driver in a squalid futuristic New York who finds himself involved with a damsel in distress who is relentlessly pursued by murderous thugs who desire the Loc-Nar her archaeologist father found. The second is “Den” which chronicles the adventures of a nerdish boy who is thrown into the fantasy world of Neverwhere, where he is transformed into a studly naked muscle-man, desired by beautiful women, who must get involved in a conflict revolving around possession of the Loc-Nar. The third is “Captain Sternn” where the title character is a handsome but irredeemable scoundrel who stands accused in a trial that Loc-Nar throws into chaos. The fourth is “B-17″, where a World War II bomber plane limps home after a bombing run, only to have the Loc-Nar ram into it and revive the dead crew members as murderous zombies. The next is “So Beautiful, So Dangerous” where a buxom secretary at the Pentagon is abducted by stoned alien wastrels and a oversexed robot. The final story is “Taarna”, where the Loc-Nar has to come to a future Earth and changes a peaceful people into a horde of murderous barbarians who rampage with genocidal zeal. Only the last Tarackian, a silent swords-woman known as Taarna, can avenge the victims and stop the Loc-Nar.

Horrible (1981)

Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: Italy
Actors: Eastman, George | Belle, Annie | Borromel, Charles | Berger, Katya | Berger, Kasimir | Kochansky, Hanja | Danby, Ian | Rusoff, Ted | Purdom, Edmund | Shannon, Mark | Soavi, Michele | Sorrentino, Martin | Unger, Goffredo | De Fonseca, Carolyn | Leadbetter, Cindy
Directors: D'Amato, Joe
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Priest comes to small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates problems as the monster is very hard to kill and then decides to go on a killing spree of its own.

Final Exam (1981)

Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bagdadi, Cecile | Rice, Joel S. | Brown, Ralph | Robbins, DeAnna | Willis-Burch, Sherry | Fallon, John | Farren, Terry W. | Raynor, Timothy L. | Kilman, Sam | Hepner, Don | Withers, Mary Ellen | Rushing, Jerry | Norfleet, Shannon | Capka, Carol | Nanney, R.C.
Directors: Huston, Jimmy
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In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone’s final exam.

On Golden Pond (1981)

Monday, September 7th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hepburn, Katharine | Fonda, Henry | Fonda, Jane | McKeon, Doug | Coleman, Dabney | Lanteau, William | Rydell, Christopher | Garity, Troy
Directors: Rydell, Mark
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The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea — whom they haven’t seen for years — feels she must be there for Norman’s birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance’s son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last?

House by the Cemetery, The (1981)

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: Italy
Actors: MacColl, Catriona | Malco, Paolo | Pieroni, Ania | Frezza, Giovanni | Collatina, Silvia | Lassander, Dagmar | De Nava, Giovanni | Doria, Daniela | Saccarola, Gianpaolo | De Mejo, Carlo | Olsen, Kenneth A. | Johnsson, Elmer | Ferrara, Ranieri | Rossi Passante, Teresa
Directors: Fulci, Lucio
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A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings, ripped throats, and stabbings with a fireplace poker. The killer needs fresh body parts to rejuvenate his cells. He also has maggots for blood.

Escape from New York (1981)

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Van Cleef, Lee | Borgnine, Ernest | Pleasence, Donald | Hayes, Isaac | Hubley, Season | Stanton, Harry Dean | Barbeau, Adrienne | Atkins, Tom | Cyphers, Charles | Unger, Joe | Doubleday, Frank | Strobel, John | Cothran Jr., John | Bergfeld, Garrett
Directors: Carpenter, John
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In the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President’s plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.

The Funhouse (1981)

Monday, July 20th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Berridge, Elizabeth | Carson, Shawn | Austin, Jeanne | McDermott, Jack | Huckabee, Cooper | Woodruff, Largo | Chapin, Miles | Carson, David | Zomina, Sonia | Morino, Ralph | Conway, Kevin | Robins, Herb | Agar, Mona
Directors: Hooper, Tobe
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Four teenagers, Amy Harper, Buzz Klemmet, Richie Atterbury and Liz Duncan, travel to the carnival which has just come to town, for some fun. As the night begins to come to an end, Liz suggests they stay the night in the funhouse. They all agree and decide to take the last ride before the attraction shuts down. As they stay in the funhouse, the four witness and horrific murder aganist a psychic reader by a very big man in a frankenstien mask, also Richie takes some of the money earned by the man who runs the funhouse. The owner is furious about the missing money and sends his son, Gunther, who killed the reader, to take care of the thieves. Now the four are locked in the funhouse, being stalked and killed one by one, by the FREAK in the frankenstain mask who really is a horribly deformed and mentally challenged man.

The Burning (1981)

Monday, July 20th, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Matthews, Brian | Ayres, Leah | Backer, Brian | Joshua, Larry | Alexander, Jason | Eisenberg, Ned | Glenn, Carrick | Houlihan, Carolyn | Stevens, Fisher | David, Lou | Bruce, Shelley | Chodoff, Sarah | Deroski, Bonnie | Hunter, Holly | Kendall, Kevi
Directors: Maylam, Tony
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A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.