All Films

After the Axe

1981 • 56 min • Canada

This full-length drama depicts the reality of managers getting fired and the emergence of a new industry specialized in handling executive terminations. The film was made with the cooperation of the business community, which helped script some of the scenes and provided authentic locations. The central figure, D.R. "Biff" Wilson, 44, is a composite figure based on extensive conversations with fired executives.

High Tide

1981 • 30 min

No plot found anywhere online.

Close Harmony

1981 • 30 min

A chorus of 4th- and 5th-graders at the Brooklyn Friends School and a chorus of elderly retirees at a Brooklyn Jewish seniors' center combine to give an annual joint concert. Practicing separately for several months while communicating only as pen pals, they eventually meet for a rehearsal prior to their concert. The children's various preconceptions about older people, as well as the seniors' approach to aging and their young co-performers, are a principal focus.

The Little Tiger on the Sunflower

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Taiga tale about a tiger cub who warmed the seed of sunflower.

Superbman: The Other Movie

1981 • 30 min

Facing impending doom on the planet Krapton, Kid-O, infant son of Jel-O, is sent to earth where he is found and adopted by Ma and Pa Cant. Eventually, the Kraptonian now known as Clark, becomes a newspaper reporter for the Daily Comet. Together with fellow reporter Lois Lame, they uncover a sinister plot by Rex Ruthor, to destroy the world.

Grover Washington Jr. - In Concert

1981 • 60 min

Multi Grammy Award-Winner Grover Washington, Jr. blends the best of jazz fusion, R&B, blues, funk, pop and soul to create his own innovative and distinctive musical voice. The hottest star in jazz-pop fusion, backed by an all-star band was captured in this rare concert appearance at the very peak of his powers.

The Attitude Factor

1981 • 23 min • United States of America

A 1981 educational film about the perils of school bus drivers having a bad attitude while on the job. Follow Barbara, a model employee... until she developed a bad attitude and let it effect her job performance.

Stainless Steel and the Star Spies

1981 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collides with another craft – sending the Kleptonite Ball, their precious cargo and the key to Universal Conquest, hurtling to a planet inhabited by primitive life forms: Earth. Having materialised in a bar, the Ball variously functions as a Christmas tree decoration, a bathroom ornament, and a fortune-teller's prop. The Metaliens must retrieve the Kleptonite Ball if their mission is ever to succeed. And that's when their problems really begin…

Monkeys Catch the Moon

1981 • 11 min • China

Animated folk tale about some very lively monkeys that catch the moon's reflection, only to lose it through a selfish quarrel.

Protest

1981 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime.

Cut Flowers

1981 • 4 min • United States of America

Bill works in a flower shop. Brian comes in to buy something special, and wants it to be something exotic.

Night Bombers

1981 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berlin -- from strategic planning and preparation to the execution of the actual attack with Avro Lancaster bombers. Air Commodore H.I. Cozens filmed the events during a period when the Bomber Command flew into Germany nearly every night for a massive series of raids on key targets.

Beats of the Heart: The Romany Trail Part Two: Gypsy Music into Europe

1981 • 60 min

The Romany Trail Part Two is a penetrating, provocative tour of a fabled people’s existence. It reveals the prejudice they still face daily and which they combat with the lyrics and music they have carried and adapted on their long migrations. Featuring: The music of Django Reinhardt, the ballads of the Holocaust, Hungarian folk musicians and professional restaurant bands, pipers and the greatest names in Gypsy entertainment.

Rr

1981 • 8 min • United States of America

This film is a mix of landscape images seen from train windows and the patterned shapes and shifting tones of moving-visual-thought thus prompted; it was inspired by Robert Breer's FUJI.

Algunos cantantes, algunas canciones

1981 • 28 min • Venezuela

An approach to Latin American protest music.

Couples and Robbers

1981 • 29 min

Couples and Robbers is a 1981 English language comedy/crime film written and directed by Clare Peploe, starring Frances Low, Rik Mayall and Peter Eyre. Two couples -- one with all the riches that dreams are made of, the other with only dreams and schemes -- are brought together by the plotting of the poorer couple. A pair of newlyweds wander through the city streets, bickering about their poverty, until they are distracted by the opulent home of a lawyer. Impulsively, the couple makes off with the lawyer's vehicle for one night of extravagant indulgence. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Rendez-Vous Video Magazine

1981 • 60 min

This 1981 video magazine “For the Man Who Wants More…” contains Monte Hellman’s short portrait of Francis Ford Coppola discussing business and craft at home and on the set of his Zoetrope Studios, “Inside the Coppola Personality” (aka “Coppola: A Profile”). Also inside is “Modesty”, a self-portrait by Bob Rafelson, shot by Bruno Nuytten; a portrait of a pubic hair dye specialist; a travelogue on Bangkok; a candid camera with a planted hussie at a gas station. a.o.

The Nightingale

1981 • 34 min

A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.

The Cigarette and the Weed

1981 • 2 min • United States of America

The Cigarette and the Weed tells the story of a weed growing on a street corner, and a discarded cigarette butt that rolls up to the weed. The two converse before the cigarette rolls into a puddle and is extinguished.

He Got Caught!

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A team of rodents rescues a hare from a bear den. Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin 's cartoon about indifference.

The Dollar Bottom

1981 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting caned, which quickly earns him a small fortune

Space Visitors

1981 • 32 min • Soviet Union

Several scientists create drama around a mysterious black ball.

We Had Some Happy Hours

1981 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Prestwich Clough, near Bury, is the setting for a disastrous family cricket match and a picnic that does little to assuage rising tempers.

Jizeru Gōda and Rima Aono's Bondage and Sex Trainer

1981 • 30 min • Japan

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.