Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1981

All Night Long – Jean-Claude Tramont

…All the Marbles – Robert Aldrich

American Pop – Ralph Bakshi

Amy – Vincent McEveety

The Aviator’s Wife – Eric Rohmer

Black Roads – Martin Ritt

Beau Pere – Bertand Blier

Berlin Tunnel 21 –

Betrayal – Vibeke Lokkeberg

Biance, rosso e Verdone – Carlo Verdone 

The Blood of Hussain – Jamil Dehlavi

Blood Wedding – Carlos Saura

The Boat id Full – Markus Imhoof

Body and Soul – Gerge Bowers

Buriki no kunsho – Setsuo Nakayama

Bye Bye Brazil –

Buddy Buddy – Billy Wilder

The Burning – Tony Mayalam

Bustin’ Loose – Oz Scott

Carbon Copy – Michael Schultz

Cattle Annie and Little Britches – Lamont Johnson

Chalie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Charlotte – Franz Weisz

The Chosen – Jeremy Kagen

Christine F. – Uli Edel

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash – David Lowell Rich

Circel of Deciet (Die Falschung) – Volker Schlondorff

Condorman – Charles Jarrott

Le confort et L’indifference (Comfort and Indifferance) – Denys Arcand

Coup de Torchon – Bertrand Tavernier

Cutter’s Way – Ivan Passer

Dance Crazy – Joe Massot

Dead and Buries – Gary Sherman

Deadly Blessing – Wes Craven

Death Hunt – Peter R. Hunt

The Decline of Western Civilization – Penelope Spheeris

Desprisa, Desprisa (Hurry, Hurry!) – Carlos Saura

The Devil and Max Devlin – Steven Hillard Stern

Do you Rememebr Dolly Bell – Emir Kusturica

Dragonslayer – Mathew Robbins

Dreszcze (Shivers) – Wojciech Marczewski

Eijanaika (Why Not?) – Shohei Imamura

Ek Duuje Ke Liye (Made for Each Other) – K. Balachander

Embryo – Ralph Nelson

Endless Love – Franco Zeffirelli

The Entity – Sidney J. Furie

An Eye for an Eye – Steve Carver

Eye of the Needle – Richard Marquand

Eyewitness – Peter Yates

The Fan – Edward Bianchi

Faster, Faster – Carlos Saura

La Femme d’a cote – Francois Trufaut

La Femme de l’aviateur

Fever – Agnieszka Holland

First Monday in October – Ronald Neame

Fort Apache, The Brox – Daniel Petrie

For Friends – Arthur Penn

Friday the 13th Part 2 – Steve Miner

Full Moon High – Larry Cohen

The Funhouse – Tobe Hooper

Gangster Wars – Richard C. Sarafian

Garde a vue – Claude Miller

The Girl with the Red Hair – Ben Verbong

Going Ape – Jeremy Joe Kronsberg

Goodbye Pork Pie – Geoff Murphy

Graduation Day – Herb Freed

Green Ice – Ernest Day

Grendel Grendel Grendel – Alexander Stitt

The Hand – Oliver Stone

Hands Up! – Jerzy Skolimowski

Happy Birthday to Me – J. Lee Thompson

Hard Country – David Green

Hardly Working – Jerry Lewis

Harry’s War – Kieth Merrill

Heartbeeps – Allen Arkush

Heavy Metal – Gerald Potterton

Heartland –

Hell Night – Tom DeSimone

Honky Tonk Freeway – John Schlesiger

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Igor Maslennikov

I love You (Eu Te Amo) – Arnaldo Jabor

Inseminoid – Norman J. Warren

The Inventor (Der Erfinder) – Kurt Gloor

Just Another Missing Kid – John Zaritsky

Killing Heat (Graset Sjunger) – Michael Reaburn

The Killing of Angel Street – Donald Crombie

Kranti (Revolution) – Manoj Kumar

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains – Lou Adler

Land of Hunger (Aakali Rajyam) – K. Balachander

The Last Chase – Martyn Burke

Lawaaris – Prakash Mehra

The Legend of the Lone Rager – William A. Fraker

Light Years Away – Alain Tanner

Lili Marleen – Rainer Werener Fassbinder

The Lion of the Desert – Moustapha Akkad

Lola – Rainer Wener Fassbinder

Looker – Michael Crichton

Looks and Smiles – Ken Loach

Loophole – John Quested

Mandala – Im Kwon-taek

Marianne and Juliane – Margarethe von Trotta

Il Marchese del Grillo – Mario Monicelli

The Melody haunts My Memory – Rajko Grlic

Memoirs of a Survivor – David Gladwekk

Mephisto – Istvan Szzabo

Il Minestrone – Sergio Citti

Montenegro – Dusan Makavejev

Ms. 45 – Abel Ferrara

Muzhiki! – Iskra Babich

My Bloody Valentine – George Mihalka

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians – Oldrich Lipsky

The Mystery of the Third Planet – Roman Kachanov

Naseeb (Destiny) - Manmohan Desai

National Heritage – Luis Garcia Berlanga

The Nesting – Armand Weston

Nice Dreams – Tommy Chong

Nighthawks – Bruce Malmuth

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia – Ronald F. Maxwell

The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians – Dan Pita

Omen III – The Final Conflict – Graham Baker

On the Right Track – Lee Philips

Only When I Laugh – Glenn Jordan

Outland – Peter Hyams

Passion of Love – Ettore Scola

Paternity – David Stienberg

La Pelle (Thin Skin) – Liliana Cavani

Pixote – Hector Babenco

Priest of Love – Christopher Miles

The Prodigal Son – Sammo Hung

Puberty Blues – Bruce Beresford

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

Quartet – James Ivory

Quest for Fire – Jean-Jacques Annaud

Race for the Yankee Zephyr

Ragtime – Milos Forman

Raggedty Man – Jack Fisk

Rich and Famous – George Cukor

Ritam zlocina – Zoran Tadic

Rollover – Alan J. Pakula

Ruckus – Max Kleven

The Salamander – Peter Zinner

Saturday the 14th – Howard R. Cohen 

Sharky’s Machine – Burt Reynolds

Shaukeen – Basu Chatterjee

Shikake-nin Baian – Yasuo Furuhata

Shock Treatment – Jim Sarmen

Shaolin and Wu-Tang – Lu Chia-Hui

The Simple-Minded Murder – Hasse Alfredson

The Sixth – Samvel Gasparov

Smash Palace – Rodger Donaldson

Sogni d-oro (Golden Dreams) – Nanni Moretti

Southern Comfort – Walter Hill

Sphinx – Franklin J. Schaffner

Station – Yasup Furhata

Strange Affiar (un etrange affaire) – Pierre Granier-Deferre

Strange Behavior – Michael Laughlin

Student Bodies – Michey Rose

Suddenly at Midnight – Ko Young-nam

The Survivor – David Hammings

Tales of Ordinary Madness – Marco Ferreri

Tarzan, the Ape Man – John Derek

Tattoo – Bob Brooks

Taxi zum Klo – Frank Ripploh

Teheran 43 – Alexander Alov / Vladimir Naumov

This is Elvis – Malcolm Leo / Andrew Solt

Three Brothers (Tre fratelli) – Francesco Rosi

Threshold – Richard Pearce

Ticket to Heaven – Ralph L. Thomas

Tragedy of a Ridiculos Man – Bernardo Bertolucci

Tree of Knowledge – Nils Malmros

True Confessions – Ulu Grosbard

The True Story of Ah Q – Fan Cen

Tuck Everlasting – Frederick King Keller

Under the Rainbow – Steve Rash

Les Uns et les Autres – Claude Lelouch

Utlaginn (Outlaw: The Sage of Gisli) – Agust Guomundsson

Variola Vera – Goran Markovic

Vernon, Florida – Errol Morris

The Watcher in the Woods – John Hough

Whose Life is It Anyway? – John Badham

Will – Robert Lieberman

The Woman Next Door – Fancois Truffaut

Woman Who Exposes Herself – Masaru Konuma

The Vulture – Yaky Yosha

Zoot Suit – Luis Valdez

Zorro, the Gay Blade – Pater Madak