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...And God Created Them

...And God Created Them (Spanish: Dios los cría...) is a 1979 Puerto Rican comedy film directed by Jacobo Morales. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • May 1979

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A tanú

The Witness (Hungarian: A tanú, also known as Without A Trace), is a 1969 Hungarian satire film, directed by Péter Bacsó. The film was created in a tense political climate at a time when talking about the 1950s and the 1956 Revolution was still...

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  • 1969

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Angels of Iron

Angels of Iron (German: Engel aus Eisen) is a 1981 German crime film directed by Thomas Brasch. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Apr 23, 1981

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Anima - Symphonie phantastique

Anima - Symphonie phantastique is a 1981 Austrian drama film directed by Titus Leber. It was shown out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • 1981

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Arising from the Surface

Arising from the Surface (Hindi: Satah Se Uthata Aadmi) is a 1980 Indian drama film directed by Mani Kaul. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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Beau-père

Beau-père is a 1981 French film directed by Bertrand Blier. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. The movie revolves around a never-reached-his-potential piano player, Remy and his struggles with, first, his failing marriage...then his...

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  • 1981

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Bodas de sangre

Blood Wedding (Spanish: Bodas de sangre) is a 1981 Spanish musical film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style. It is the first part of Saura's 1980s flamenco trilogy, and is followed by Carmen ...

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  • 1981

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Cerromaior

Cerromaior is a 1981 Portuguese drama film directed by Luís Filipe Rocha. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Apr 24, 1981

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Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew. The film was written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson. It...

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  • 1981

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  • Two men chasing dreams of glory!

Cserepek

Cserepek is a 1980 Hungarian drama film directed by István Gaál. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • 1980

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Eijanaika

Eijanaika or Why Not? (ええじゃないか , Ee ja nai ka) is a 1981 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee...

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  • Mar 14, 1981

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Excalibur

Excalibur is a 1981 fantasy film that retells the legend of King Arthur. It grossed $34,967,437 USD, and was the 18th most successful film of that year. Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) is in battle against the Duke of Cornwall (Corin Redgrave), and...

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  • Apr 10, 1981

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  • Forged by a god! Foretold by a wizard! Found by a king!
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  • more…

Faktas

Faktas (Russian: Gruppa krovi nol) is a 1981 Soviet war film directed by Almantas Grikevicius. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Yelena Solovey won the award for Best Supporting Actress.

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  • 1981

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Flame Top

Flame Top (Finnish: Tulipää) is a 1980 Finnish drama film directed by Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehto. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Oct 17, 1980

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From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China is a 1980 documentary film about Western culture breaking into China produced and directed by Murray Lerner. It portrays the famous violinist and music teacher Isaac Stern as the first American musician to...

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  • 1979

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Hands Up!

Ręce do góry (known in its subitled English version as Hands Up!) is a Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It is the fourth of a series of semi-autobiographical films in whch Skolimowski himself plays his alter ego, Andrzej Leszczyc....

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  • Oct 1981

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Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American Western film based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. The film's production was plagued by cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors...

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  • Nov 19, 1980

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  • What one loves in life are the things that fade

Honeysuckle Rose

Honeysuckle Rose (also known as On the Road Again) is a 1980 romantic drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Willie Nelson. Buck Bonham (Willie Nelson) is a country singer struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career...

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  • 1980

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I Love You

I Love You (Portuguese: Eu Te Amo) is a 1981 Brazilian drama film directed by Arnaldo Jabor. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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La Mouche

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La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (Italian: La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo) is a 1981 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It stars Anouk Aimée and Ugo Tognazzi, who was awarded the Best Male Actor Award at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival for his...

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  • Nov 6, 1981

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Les Uns et les Autres

Les Uns et les Autres is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work with Un Homme et une Femme. It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the...

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  • 1981

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Let There Be Light

Let There Be Light is a 1946 American documentary film directed by John Huston. The film was the final entry in a John Huston trilogy of films produced by the request of the U.S. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained...

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  • 1946

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Light Years Away

Light Years Away (French: Les Années lumière) is a 1981 film directed by Alain Tanner. It tells the story of a young man who meets an old man who says he was taught by birds how to fly and is building a flying machine. It is based on a novel by...

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Looks and Smiles

Looks and Smiles is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ken Loach. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Barry Hines. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Loach won the Young Cinema Award. A disadvantaged...

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  • 1981

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Man of Iron

Man of Iron (Polish: Człowiek z żelaza) is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize the workers' right to an independent union. The film...

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Memoirs of a Survivor

Memoirs of a Survivor is a 1981 British science fiction film directed by David Gladwell. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name by Doris Lessing.

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  • Sep 1981

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Mephisto

Mephisto is the title of a 1981 film adaptation of Klaus Mann's novel of the same name, directed by István Szabó, and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen. The film was a co-production between companies in West Germany, Hungary and...

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Montenegro

Montenegro also known as Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls (Swedish: Montenegro eller Pärlor och Svin) is a Swedish black comedy film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev. Marianne Faithfull sings The Ballad of Lucy Jordan over the credit sequence....

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  • 1981

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National Heritage

National Heritage (Spanish: Patrimonio nacional) is a 1981 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • May 1981

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Neige

Neige is a 1981 French drama film directed by Juliet Berto and Jean-Henri Roger. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Young Cinema Award.

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  • May 20, 1981

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Passion of Love

Passion of Love (Italian: Passione d'amore) is a 1981 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • May 7, 1981

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Possession

Possession is a 1981 cult movie directed by Andrzej Żuławski. Mark (played by Sam Neill) returns home to Berlin to find his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani) is leaving him for unclear reasons. He initially suspects an affair and hires detectives to track...

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  • May 27, 1981

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Quartet

Quartet is a 1981 Merchant Ivory Film, starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith and Alan Bates set in 1924 Paris. It premiered at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and was an entry for the Selection Officiel (Official Selection).

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  • May 25, 1981

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Street Angel

Street Angel (simplified Chinese: 马路天使; traditional Chinese: 馬路天使; pinyin: Mǎlù tiānshǐ) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1937. The film was directed by Yuan Muzhi and stars the popular singer Zhou Xuan. The film deals with two sisters,...

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  • 1937

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The Big Night Bathe

The Big Night Bathe (Bulgarian: Голямото нощно къпане, translit. Golyamoto noshtno kapane) is a 1980 Bulgarian drama film directed by Binka Zhelyazkova. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Dec 1, 1980

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The Melody Haunts My Memory

The Melody Haunts My Memory (Serbian: Samo jednom se ljubi) is a 1981 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Rajko Grlić. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Feb 4, 1981

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1981 film adaptation of a novel by James M. Cain. This version, based on a screenplay by David Mamet and directed by Bob Rafelson, starred Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. The film was shot in Santa Barbara,...

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  • Mar 20, 1981

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The Skin

The Skin (Italian: La pelle) is a 1981 Italian war film directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Claudia Cardinale and Burt Lancaster. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Aug 27, 1981

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Thief

Thief is a 1981 noir crime drama written and directed by Michael Mann, based on the novel The Home Invaders by "Frank Hohimer" (the pen name of real-life jewel thief John Seybold). The film's cast includes James Caan, Tuesday Weld, James Belushi,...

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  • Mar 27, 1981

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This is Elvis

This Is Elvis is a 1981 documentary film based on the life of singer, musician and actor Elvis Presley. The film combined archival footage with reenactments, and narration by pop singer and Elvis-soundalike Ral Donner. It was screened out of...

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  • Apr 4, 1981

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Three Brothers

Three Brothers (Italian: Tre fratelli) is a 1981 Italian film based on a work by Andrei Platonov. It was directed by Francesco Rosi and stars Philippe Noiret, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Michele Placido and Charles Vanel. The film won the Boston Society...

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Troubled Laughter

Troubled Laughter (Chinese: 苦恼人的笑; pinyin: Kǔ nǎo rén de xiào) is a 1979 Chinese drama film directed by Deng Yimin and Yang Yanjin. It was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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Who's Singin' over There?

Who's That Singing Over There (Serbian: Ко то тамо пева, Ko to tamo peva) is a 1980 Yugoslavian film written by Dušan Kovačević and directed by Slobodan Šijan. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. On...

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