All Films

Monte Carlo Rally 1986

1986 • 58 min

Experience one of the most dramatic years in the history of the Monte-Carlo Rally with this comprehensive look at the 1986 World Rally Championship season-opener. Packed with incredible action footage from the historic mountain stages, plus interviews with legendary drivers and jaw-dropping slow-motion film, this is the complete story of an unforgettable event. The '86 Monte-Carlo Rally was the first round of what would prove to be the very last year of the awesomely powerful Group B 'supercars'. Enjoy the sights - and incredible sounds - of the Martini Lancia Delta S4, Audi Quattro S1, Peugeot 206 T16 and Metro 6R4 as they do battle.

The Berenstain Bears and the Spookiest Pumpkin

1986 • 12 min

Papa is ambitious to win a pumpkin carving contest and Brother and Sister are also joining in. Papa is extremely secretive with his own pumpkin and guards it closely. Papa then has nightmares and he chooses to miss out on the contest.

Oh Dad!

1986 • 3 min

An animation.

A Guerra do Pente

1986 • 55 min

Curitiba, PR, December 8, 1959; at around five o'clock in the afternoon, Military Police sub-lieutenant Haroldo Tavares enters the Bazar Centenário, Praça Tiradentes, to buy a comb. He chooses one, finds it expensive and demands an invoice. The store owner, Amhad Najar, argues and they end up fighting. The warrant officer leaves the fight with a fractured leg. Outside the store, the people who were watching the fight and the fight rebel, destroy the merchant's store and go to other stores in the square. The police cannot control the situation. Late at night, a truce: the population goes to sleep, gathering strength for the following days, when the situation becomes unsustainable. The police withdraw from the streets, the Army begins to act and, on the tenth, puts the tanks on the streets.

Jitsuroku reipu tokkun yagai-hen

1986 • 40 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Senaka kara aishite himemiya megumi

1986 • 30 min • Japan

A woman wants to find love. Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

La Tour Eiffel, Olivier

1986 • 8 min

Short film by Teo Hernandez

Hi mi tsu o to na ni naritai Ōshima Rie

1986 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Third Treasure

1986 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A film about Dagestan and its main treasures - folk crafts. The first treasure is mountains and plains, the second is rivers, springs, lakes, the sea, and the third treasure is everything else. These treasures are the three precious feathers on the wing of Dagestan. From these three main jewels, the three goldsmiths created Dagestan.

The Sweetest Melon

1986 • 9 min • Soviet Union

How brave little Ashirka met a jackal calf.

America’s Cup - Yank It Back

1986 • 48 min

This 48 minute VHS documentary narrated by Christoper Reeve explores the history of the America's Cup race. Color, Produced & Written by: Nicholas Granby and Deborah Dennison, Directed by Nicholas Granby.

Clair de pluie

1986 • 3 min

A short film by Marcelle Thirache

Montenegrin Athos

1986 • 22 min • Yugoslavia

Vlatko Gilić, after not getting enough funds for his last film, Days of Dreams, and after getting his scripts he wrote in the 1980s rejected for being too "artsy", was unable to direct movies for the rest of his life. In the meantime, he had the chance to direct this short documentary movie about the natural beauties of Montenegro, for a ski hotel, after meeting its hotel manager.

Country House

1986 • 9 min • Soviet Union

When a person lacks a sense of rational attitude towards nature, what happens is what the film tells about: people built another city, displacing the last tree from it.

The World beyond the World

1986 • 44 min • Germany

'Thinking machines' and 'people thinking as machines' (super-computerprogrammers who have internalized computerese) are perhaps two of a kind. But clashes with the 'real world' are preprogrammed for these machines of flesh and blood. The film traces humankind's striving to discover itself again in its mechanical creations, from the effort to construct automatons in Switzerland some 200 years ago, to a pinnacle display of the 1980ies achievements: a robot playing Haydn's 'Genesis' at the World Expo in Japan.

Pteryphlegia

1986 • 7 min

Depiction of the birth of alternative lifeforms on a strange planet

The Gift of Life

1986 • 40 min

Seven couples in Hammersmith Hospital go through the long and painful process of trying to conceive a test-tube baby. one succeeds.

Friday the 13th

1986 • 9 min

A FRIDAY THE 13TH fan film made by teenagers.

Complete Training Course

1986 • 2 min • Soviet Union

Plasticine animation film, which has received honorary diplomas, diplomas and commemorative awards from the Jelgava City Culture Department at the 29th Kurzeme area amateur film screening in Jelgava. The film focuses on the importance of the environment and the quality of education in the learning process and children's personal development.

El hipercubo

1986 • 23 min • Venezuela

Based on the thesis of Alejandro Rivero and Ernesto Pacheco, this documentary attempts to glimpse, through the senses, the fourth mathematical dimension.

Life in a Scotch Sitting Room

1986 • 5 min

A short animated film with words and music by Ivor Cutler, about a young boy and his sister dreaming about running away from the harsh punishments of home.

Maple Branch

1986 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An animated film about the time of the year.

The Arkhangelsk Peasant

1986 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Using the example of the family of Nikolai Stepanovich Sivkov, who lives on the Krasnaya Gorka farm in the Arkhangelsk region, the film tells about the difficult problems of implementing a family contract in rural areas. The film touches on the issues of rural labor organization, the place of commodity-money relations in the socialist economy, family work, the meaning, value and costs of self-employment in our society.

The Baroness on the Pea

1986 • 39 min • Soviet Union

Based on French fairytales.