All Films

Madballs: Escape from Orb!

1986 • 23 min • Canada

The Madballs are a zany animated rock band who rock and roll their way across the galaxy. Music is illegal on their home planet so they make a break for it on Earth.

Courage to Change

1986 • 55 min • Canada

This feature documentary is a sequel to the 1966 documentary The Things I Cannot Change, which, by focusing on the Bailey family of Montreal, provided an anatomy of poverty in North America. Courage to Change explores what has happened to the Baileys in the intervening 18 years.

Girl Detective Club

1986 • 27 min • Japan

Our heroine has been kidnapped and her two somewhat ditzy friends decided to save her in a war machine they found in her house. Unfortunately they have little idea of how it works so let the random destruction begin.

David Macaulay: Cathedral

1986 • 60 min

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.

Fireloop

1986 • 3 min

Part two of the Caswallon Trilogy, and the only film in the group to also be printed as a stand-alone. Features sound.

Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual

1986 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual

SilverHawks: The Origin Story

1986 • 46 min • United States of America, South Korea, Japan

The next generation of superheroes has arrived... SILVERHAWKS. They fly on silver winds - they fight with nerves of steel. Partly metal...partly real. Born of a time beyond time, they are the SILVERHAWKS. They sacrificed their human bodies, modified to withstand the stress of their long journey through space to a distant galaxy. Sent there to defend the universe against the terrible MonStar and his intergalactic mod. SILVERHAWKS - the first super androids with the minds of men and the muscles of machines.

Guzoo: The Thing Forsaken by God

1986 • 40 min • Japan

Upon visiting a secluded summer home, four high school girls are soon targeted by a horrific creature in the basement with a knowing housekeeper trying to keep the unspeakable heap secret and at bay using a flute.

Love hotel: Keshi wasure dai-zenshû

1986 • 47 min • Japan

"Hidden cameras" capture couples at a love hotel: a high school teacher and a female student, an SM model and a man trying to pick up girls, and a woman in the nightlife industry and a boy.

Gerorisuto

1986 • 11 min • Japan

A short experimental film by Japanese underground filmmaker Shozin Fukui. The film follows a young woman on the Tokyo subway, who may be possessed.

Rockin' Ronnie

1986 • 45 min • United States of America

ROCKIN' RONNIE 80's Political Satire Comedy of Ronald Reagan Bloopers.

The Christmas Toy

1986 • 50 min

It's Christmas Eve and the playroom is alive with excitement for the new toys that will arrive the next day. Balthazar, the old and wise bear, explains to the other toys that they must welcome the newcomers even though each of them may be replaced as one of the children's new favorite toys.

The Hear 'n Aid Sessions

1986 • 30 min

Hear 'n Aid was a one-time collaboration of various individual hard rock and heavy metal artists in 1985 to raise money for famine relief in Africa. According to Ronnie James Dio's MySpace profile, the project raised $1 million within a year.

The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard

1986 • 43 min • Japan, United States of America

A little girl, Molly, loses her doll, Belinda, in the Blinkin wood and the Blinkins find it and make it their mission to return her to the owner. In the process, Flashy gets kidnapped by Mr Bear and the Blinkins are given a ransom from Mr Bear and Mr Grogg in the form of food from their winter store in exchange for Flashy's safe return.

Best Chest in the West II

1986 • 60 min

Twenty-five beautiful and bountiful ladies compete in the second annual contest. It's dangerous curves ahead!

Ask Max

1986 • 45 min • United States of America

A 12-year-old genius, poor Max is a washout socially. To impress his girlfriend, he sells the design of his latest invention-a jumping bike-to a major toy company.

The Castle Tour

1986 • 30 min • Sweden

A group of tourists are shown Tjolöholm caste, by a guide (Peter Rangmar), who speaks home made, incomprehensible english.

Charming Figures of the Magical Girl Trio

1986 • 30 min • Japan

Its New Year and Yu, Mai and Pelsha get together to celebrate and reminisce over the magical adventures in their respective TV series. "Their three other selves", the alter egos Creamy Mami, Magical Emi and Fairy Pelsha, join them for a sparkling musical final.

Tofalaria

1986 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A short documentary about a small Tofalar nation living in the remote lands of Siberia.

Mistress Madeleine

1986 • 57 min • Canada

Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.

As Novas Aventuras da Turma da Mônica

1986 • 56 min • Brazil

Embarking on an exciting journey, the Monica group encounters a series of eight enchanting stories, each unfolding within a short span of 2-8 minutes. These tales, united by the charismatic presence of Jotalhão the elephant, offer a delightful mix of adventure and camaraderie.

Kinnikuman: New York Close Call!

1986 • 45 min • Japan

Terryman, Robin Mask, and the other Justice Choujins are participating in a tournament in New York. Suddenly, Akuma Shogun (not the same as the guy from the series) arrives and defeats all of the Justice Choujins and absorbs their power... all except Kinnikuman (who was late for the tournament because he was busy eating gyuudon). Now Kinnikuman must defeat Akuma Shogun, whom now posseses the combined strength of all the Justice Choujins.

Bondage Dance

1986 • 60 min • Japan

Hisako was sold off by her husband to pay off his debts. She is covered in tattoos and, through the relentless torture of a bondage master, she gradually discovers the joys of bondage.

Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection

1986 • 59 min • Japan

A collection of deleted scenes and bloopers from the library of Toho Studios films, including several films from the famous Godzilla franchise.