The Hot Touch

1981 93 min Canada, USA 5.1

• Director: Roger Vadim
• Actors: Wayne Rogers,Marie-France Pisier,Lloyd Bochner,Samantha Eggar
• Genres: Crime,Drama

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.

Pippin: His Life and Times

1981 112 min Canada, USA 7.7

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At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples life's pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life.

Emmanuelle in Soho

1981 72 min UK 4.4

• Director: David Hughes,Ray Selfe
• Actors: Angie Quick,Julie Lee,John M. East,Kevin Fraser
• Genres: Drama

Emanuelle lives in London where almost everything in the realm of erotic is available. Her friend Kate becomes a nude revue show to help her husband pay the bills.

The Marva Collins Story

1981 100 min USA 7.5

• Director: Peter Levin
• Actors: Cicely Tyson,Morgan Freeman,Rodrick F. Wimberly,Mashaune Hardy
• Genres: Biography,Drama

This movie can inspire you to overcome whatever obstacles you have, when you see how Marva Collins overcame the obstacles, financial and otherwise, in opening her own School in her home. ...

Waitress!

1981 88 min USA 4.4

• Director: Michael Herz,Lloyd Kaufman
• Actors: Jim Harris,Carol Drake,Carol Bevar,Renata Hickey
• Genres: Comedy

Three lovely waitresses contend with a drunken, slovenly chef and mutinous patrons.

The Loveless

1981 82 min USA 6.2

• Director: Kathryn Bigelow,Monty Montgomery
• Actors: Willem Dafoe,Robert Gordon,Marin Kanter,J. Don Ferguson
• Genres: Drama

Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.

Caligula and Messalina

1981 155 min Italy, France 3.6

• Director: Bruno Mattei,Antonio Passalia,Jean-Jacques Renon
• Actors: Vladimir Brajovic,Betty Roland,Françoise Blanchard,Raul Cabrera
• Genres: Action,Adventure,Biography

The seductive Messalina (Betty Roland) will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome. Gaining the attention of the Emperor Caligula (Gino Turini), she soon finds herself at...

Goliath Awaits

1981 200 min USA 6.5

• Director: Kevin Connor
• Actors: Eddie Albert,John Carradine,Alex Cord,Robert Forster
• Genres: Adventure,Sci-Fi,Drama

During World War II, the passenger liner Goliath is sunk by a German submarine. Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the passengers and crew survive. Over the decades ...

Filming 'The Trial'

1981 82 min USA 7.7

• Director: Orson Welles
• Actors: Joseph McBride,Todd McCarthy,Myron Meisel,Orson Welles
• Genres: Documentary

After a screening of 'The Trial' at the University of Southern California, Welles discussed with the public and tried to answer their questions.

The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane

1981 50 min USA 7.1

• Director: Sid Smith
• Actors: David Copperfield,Jason Robards,Susan Anton,Audrey Landers
• Genres: Comedy,Family,Fantasy

This is the 4th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Jason Robards and then presented by David Copperfield himself, inside a flying Lear Jet. For the first time he is also the...

In the Shadow of the Sun

1981 51 min UK, West Germany 6.6

• Director: Derek Jarman
• Actors: KarlBowen,GrahamDowie,ChristopherHobbs,GeraldIncandela
• Genres: Fantasy

A collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.

Modern Romance

1981 93 min USA 7

• Director: Albert Brooks
• Actors: AlbertBrooks,KathrynHarrold,TyannMeans,BrunoKirby
• Genres: Comedy,Romance

Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.