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1981 Romantic Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 28 movies or TV shows/series

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Arthur(1981)

PG
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 179 votes)

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

Endless Love(1981)

R
| 1h 56min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.8/5 (with 88 votes)

Parental disapproval of two teenagers wrapped up in a passionate love affair causes a confusion of arson, death and insanity.

Lady Chatterley's Lover(1981)

R
| 1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 29 votes)

A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

The Woman Next Door(1981)

R
| 1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 125 votes)

Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.

The French Lieutenant's Woman(1981)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 86 votes)

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.

The Aviator's Wife(1981)

3.6/5 (with 38 votes)

A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them….

Hotel America(1981)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.

Pennies from Heaven(1981)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 39 votes)

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Could One Imagine?(1980)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

Two high school kids meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy's mother is very jealous and tries to separate them. The only person that tries to help them is their teacher who has relationship problems of her own.

Directed by Ilya Frez - With Tatiana Aksyuta, Nikita Mikhaylovsky, Yelena Solovey, Irina Miroshnichenko

Silsila(1981)

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Although orphaned at very young ages, Scriptwriter Amit and military pilot Shekhar are brothers and also very good friends. The latter is happily engaged to Shobha, while the former has just fallen in love with pretty, young Chandni. But tragedy strikes when Shekhar's plane is shot down in Kashmir. Amit feels it to be his obligation to leave the girl he loves and marry his brother's pregnant fiancée instead. But when, by an unexpected turn, Amit and the now also married Chandni meet again, their love for each other proves to be stronger than their marital vows.

Karma(1981)

1h 39min | Drama

Sarah is assaulted by Eric on the eve of her wedding. Years later, their paths cross again, and the coincidence leads them to a shocking discovery: They are in fact reincarnations of Enrico and Guada, illicit lovers who lived 60 years ago. Are they destined to follow the path of the long-dead couple … and with what effects on their present-day marriages?

Directed by Danny Zialcita

Chanel Solitaire(1981)

1h 47min | Drama
1.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The story about the life and loves of an amazing woman-Coco Chanel- who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary of all our creative icons.

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Andha 7 Naatkal(1981)

2h 17min
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A poor musician enters the city dreaming to become a music director finds his love, the wife of his producer.

Directed by K. Bhagyaraj - With K. Bhagyaraj, Ambika, Rajesh

I Love You(1981)

1h 50min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.

Geetha(1981)

Geetha is a 1981 Indian Kannada romance drama film directed by and starring Shankar Nag in the lead role, alongside Padmavathi Rao. The supporting cast features K. S. Ashwath, Ramesh Bhat and Gayathri. Ilayaraaja composed the soundtrack and the background score for the film that and was declared a blockbuster musical hit. The track "Santhoshakke" from the film became widely popular in Karnataka and is still performed for in concerts and other events.

Directed by Shankar Nag - With Ramesh Bhat, Shankar Nag, Sowcar Janaki, K S Ashwath

Three Times About Love(1981)

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Former soldier returns to his village only to discover that his girlfriend married another man.

Play While You Play(1981)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their connection intensifies.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien - With Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan, Feng Fei-fei

Fire and Sword(1982)

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde. He falls in love with her, unaware that she is the daughter of the Irish king.

I'm Not Lying But I'm Beautifying(1981)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Ibraham the industrious student fall in love with his colleague Khayriyah and she also fall in love with him, but the rich student Hani admire her. Ibrahim is trying to hide his social level because he is afraid to lose Khayriyah, and telling everybody that he is from a wealthy family, will Khayriyah find the truth someday ?.

With Salah Zulfikar, Ahmad Zaki, Athar El-Hakim

Seethakoka Chilaka(1981)

2h 20min | Romance / Love, Drama

A man and a woman fall in love with each other; his mother does not approve of her as she is from a different religion and her brother is a gangster. But they decide to withstand religious differences to be with each other.

Directed by Bharathiraja - With Karthik, Aruna Mucherla, Sarath Babu, Silk Smitha, Rallapalli, Ali, ...

36 Chowringhee Lane(1981)

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Middle-aged Violet, an Anglo-Indian teacher, lives alone in a flat at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta. When a former student starts visiting her with her boyfriend, Violet welcomes them eagerly.

Fiffty Fiffty(1981)

2h 16min

Thakur Virendra Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle in India along with his wife and a son, Kumar. His relative Bihari is envious, and successfully switches his son, Kishan, with Kumar, and also ends up killing Virendra. In this manner, Kumar grows up a wealthy lifestyle, while Kishan lives a poor lifestyle, shunned by his father and his mother, who has lost the use of her vocal chords. Bihari takes Kishan to his brother in Bombay, and leaves him there to lead a life of crime. 20 years later, Kishan has grown up and is now a master burglar. He meets with another burglar, Mary, and both decide to be fifty fifty partners. However, Mary has other plans, she ditches Kishan and joins forces with Diwan Shamsher Singh to masquerade as the long-lost daughter of Ranimaa of Chandpur. Mary does not know that it was the Diwan who has done away with Rajkumari Ratna, and he will not hesitate to kill Mary - or anyone else who dares to stand in his way and the treasure of Chandpur.

Broken English(1981)

1h 33min | Drama

Follows the story of Sarah, who comes under fire from her family, friends and colleagues when she marries an African man, Maas. When she discovers that Maas is part of an underground group of South African freedom fighters, she must analyze her own political and sexual beliefs.

Directed by Michie Gleason - With Beverly Ross

Kudrat(1981)

The setting is in scenic Simla, summer capital of the British Raj in the 1970's. Chandramukhi from Bombay is on holiday with her parents and so is Naresh, a US educated medical professional with his parents. Chandramukhi and Naresh show interest in each other, encouraged by their parents. Choudhary Janak Singh, an important and wealthy man lives with his lawyer daughter Karuna in a lovely colonial period mansion. Their house-guest Mohan, a lawyer from Chandigarh is a protege of Janak Singh. Karuna and Mohan develop a romantic interest. The story of Paro and Madho, who lived in pre-independence India comes to affect the present.

Directed by Chetan Anand - With Raaj Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Priya Rajvansh, Aruna Irani, ...

Portrait of the Artist's Wife(1982)

1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The events of several days spent by the married couple - artist Pavel Alekseevich and his wife Nina - in a small country boarding house. For him, this is an opportunity to collect his thoughts and finally, after many years, write a new picture. The usual life of vacationers is mushroom hikes, boat trips, a costume ball, if not for Nina’s attraction for another man...

Dhanwan(1981)

2h 32min

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Directed by Surendra Mohan - With Rajesh Khanna, Reena Roy, Rakesh Roshan, Aruna Irani, Om Prakash

Vasily and Vasilisa(1981)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Was have Vasily and Vasilisa seven children. They lived together, the village respected the working family. But one day something happened to the owner: washed down the man and raised his hand to the faithful wife. And then Vasilisa evicted her husband in the barn. It was just before the war.….

Outbreak of Hostilities(1985)

1h 32min | TV Movie, Drama

A drama about forbidden love and war.

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