All Films

Mr. H Is Late

1988 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to stop working. Chaos ensues.

The Canterville Ghost

1988 • 23 min

The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.

All for Tomorrow

1988 • 2 min

Key players of the Taiwanese New Cinema jointly produced this MTV-style propaganda short for recruitment to the military school. It caused great controversy at the time and marked the end of the Taiwanese New Cinema.

Doctor Chichibuyama

1988 • 58 min • Japan

Dr. Chichibuyama is the perverse head of a hospital way out in the mountains and terrorises patients with the help of his lover and a sexy young nurse.

Shimai ryôjoku!

1988 • 58 min • Japan

Kumiko Hayakawa and Keiko, whose parents had died three years earlier, lived together, cuddled up to each other. One day, when they arrived at a corner of a multi-tenant building, Keiko disappeared to buy sanitary products, and Kumiko got on the elevator alone. At that moment, three men entered the elevator as it was closing. A strange atmosphere prevailed. An unbelievable scene unfolded...

The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

1988 • 55 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

In a special documentary made for public television in the United States, Eric Luskin goes behind the scenes of the 25th anniversary story, Silver Nemesis.

Prisoner of Zenda

1988 • 48 min • Australia

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

Slaying the Dragon

1988 • 58 min

A highly-critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses and clips from classic films, such as "The Thief of Bagdad," "The Good Earth" and "The World of Suzie Wong," interspersed with Asian/feminist sociological commentary.

The Power of Speech

1988 • 25 min • France, Switzerland

Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the original material or even creating an alternate context.

Vernanda

1988 • 28 min • Soviet Union

A passenger steps off his train during a short stop in a small town called Vernanda in order to buy a loaf of bread. However, the train departs early and the passenger is left to deal with a bread-shaped bomb, strangely behaving townsfolk and an ominous laughter that follows him wherever he goes.

The Violence Movie

1988 • 14 min

When a deranged killer (David E. Wilkinson) escapes from prison, he inexplicably invades the home of Joey Hammond (Joseph Shaugnessy) who must fight for his life in order to stay alive.

Circuit Nurse

1988 • 60 min • Japan

This science fiction drama depicts the year 2XXX when the earth has been contaminated by nuclear warfare or the like. Surviving humans lead lives dependent on computers. Against this backdrop, a battle takes place. It is between a circuit nurse who guards the computers and an opponent who schemes to conquer the earth.

Trancers: City of Lost Angels

1988 • 24 min • United States of America

Jack Deth, the super cop from the future, has put away three centuries worth of time traveling criminals. But Deth's most dangerous collar, the ultraviolent assassin Edlin Shock, has escaped from her maximum security holding cell and won't rest until she's exacted revenge. Meanwhile, Deth is trying to make a life for himself as a private eye in 1988 Los Angeles with his hot-blooded girlfriend Lena. Relationship troubles are just the beginning of Deth's problems when he learns that Edlin Shock has followed him back in time.

Dirty Pilgrimage to the West: Sudden Turn

1988 • 60 min • Japan

This is a sexy drawing of a nasty battle between Ushimao, his wife, Rasetsujo, and Goku and others over a Basho Ogi fan, who can extinguish the fire of the scorching hell.

Dragon's Heaven

1988 • 42 min • Japan

A thousand years after the war that stopped the robot uprising, a human-allied mech awakens to find the battle rages on in Brazil. In the new world, he and his fresh-faced human operator launch a plan to confront his old archnemesis and bring the age-old conflict to an end.

Cathy's Last Resort

1988 • 22 min • United States of America

Cathy's preparations for an idyllic, romantic vacation with her boyfriend, Irving, go awry.

Tachihara Yuka & Takaki Yōko: yōjoku kōsaku toraianguru burū

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Two women and one man live together as roommates. Will love tear them apart?

Jim Henson: Sing-Along, Dance-Along, Do-Along

1988 • 30 min • United States of America

Rowlf the Dog and the kids have fun doing all kinds of activities, including singing and dancing. It features interactive sing-alongs including "The Smile was on the Crocodile," "Over and Under," and more.

The Death of Magister Coppelius

1988 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tales by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.

Happy Birthday Garfield

1988 • 48 min • United States of America

Garfield creator Jim Davis presents a behind-the-scenes 10th-anniversary celebration of the pasta-eating cat.

Toyomaru's Pervert Clinic

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Akemaru is the female director of Shumaru Clinic and a singer at a live spot at night. She treats perversions, but her treatment methods are unorthodox...

The Velveteen Rabbit

1988 • 24 min

A stuffed toy rabbit yearns to become real through the love of the boy who owns him.

A Woman Alone

1988 • 60 min

A housewife confides to her neighbour about the troubles she has been having with her possessive husband, her romantic lover and her lecherous invalid brother-in-law. In spite of the impressive battery of mod cons in her home, she feels that love and marriage are not all they are cracked up to be.

Alice in Wonderland

1988 • 51 min • Australia

It's a whimsical romp through Wonderland when Alice falls down the rabbit hole and finds herself in a strange land filled with a fabulous menagerie of curious characters.