10 Best Movies Like 1981
If you loved 1981, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
My Brother the Devil
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1981 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older broth...
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1981 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to sta...
Starcrossed
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1981 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them....
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1981 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem....
The Adjuster
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1981 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords....
Dare
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1981 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Smart and lonely high school senior Ben secretly lusts after bad boy classmate Johnny. After play practice one night for the senior production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “light...