All Films

A Statlers Christmas Present

1985 • 51 min

Sit back and enjoy the music and merriment of A Statlers Christmas Present. This special DVD release is a delightful mixture of Christmas classics and original songs, with the Statler Brothers singing and telling heartwarming stories from earlier holidays. Winner of four Grammy Awards and one of the most successful vocal harmony groups in the history of country music, the Statlers are sure to add a melodic touch of nostalgia to your holidays.

M'hamed Issiakhem

1985 • 43 min • Algeria

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi Sahraoui produced by the RTA in 1985 and filmed a few months before the painter M'hamed Issiakhem 'turns off this sentence is spoken. A very interesting docu-fiction in which Issiakhem delivers himself with finesse, passion and generosity.

Hot Love

1985 • 29 min • Germany

A guy is in love with a girl. He sees her one day with another guy, freaks out, commits suicide, and then she has a baby.

Thedebadfilm

1985 • 30 min • Germany

Documentary to prevent the closing of the Thedebad in Hamburg-Altona.

Boi Aruá

1985 • 60 min • Brazil

Boi Aruá is a feature film of Brazilian animation, directed by Chico Liberato. The film is based on the book "O Boi Aruá" by Luís Jardim.

Stray Dogs

1985 • 10 min • United States of America

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.

Cannibal Orgy

1985 • 60 min • Italy, United States of America

Heavy Metal band Insane Albino and their manson-like leader go on a cannibal rampage in chicago.

Por una tierra nuestra

1985 • 23 min

The documentary portrays the occupation of land in the town of San Francisco Solano

Buckaneezer Scrooge

1985 • 25 min • Canada

This Canadian adaption features real-life Scrooge interacting with puppet characters.[

Bio and Bones

1985 • 10 min • United Kingdom

An educational children’s animation by Sheila Graber about the workings of the human body. The film features a one celled character called Bio as he guides the viewer on the structure of the skeleton.

Sister Suzie Cinema

1985 • 22 min

Sister Suzie Cinema is a fantasy about fantasies - about the way movies, music and other cultural artifacts shape what we feel.

Sampo from Lapland

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale by S. Topelius "Sampo Lappelill".

1985 World Series Home Video: Kansas City Royals vs. St Louis Cardinals

1985 • 30 min

The Road to Royalty

Dancing of the Dolls

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The tale of how toys came to entertain a sick girl.

Cali, Calido, Calidoscopio

1985 • 25 min

Documentary aspects of the city with old archive shots that allude to the “450 years of the founding of Cali.” A parallel is drawn between the memory of the past salvageable in photographs and the visual freshness of the present printed in each of its manifestations. The statue of the founder De Belalcázar, the chorus of “Hey, see”, the rumba in the peripheral neighborhoods, the photographer Fernell Franco and the afternoon light of Cali.

Examen

1985 • 28 min • Sweden

A farce about what happens to citizens A and B and their beloved cars, before, during and after the annual, mandatory vehicle inspection.

M.K.C. Zodiakas

1985 • 60 min • Soviet Union

The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's lives, as well as dreams, pain or joy...

Playboy Video Playmate Review 3

1985 • 60 min

Your playmate favorites-totally for you.

The Hatbox

1985 • 4 min • United States of America

This short silent film—the first movie directed by THE DAYTRIPPERS filmmaker Greg Mottola, who also shot and edited it—was made during Mottola’s brief stint at Pittsburgh Filmmakers in 1985.

Psykho III: The Musical

1985 • 24 min

Psykho III: The Musical is an intriguing play on the tension between “authentic” and “pop” camp. This celebration of artifice was originally written, directed, and produced by Mark Oates as a stage musical parody following the release of Psycho II in 1983, and was performed at the East Village’s most notorious nightspot — The Pyramid Club. In 1985, after a wildly successful run, Oates reached out to longtime friend and video artist Tom Rubnitz to produce a video adaptation of the stage musical.

The Fly

1985 • 20 min

A man is annoyed by a fly he just can't seem to kill.

You Killed Me First

1985 • 11 min • United States of America

Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den. When confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"

Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women

1985 • 29 min

The cowgirls in this documentary are modern-day women aged six to sixty, who ride, rope and tough out the elements just as well as their more famous cowboy counterparts. The film spans three generations, telling the inspirational real-life stories of women who are living their own "dream-come-true" existences.

The Snow Queen

1985 • 60 min

Kay and Gerda are best friends. A wicked goblin who likes to cause trouble casts a spell on Kay to separate them. The Snow Queen snatches him away to her castle. Gerda must go find him. Will she ever do so? Is the Snow Queen helping him or is she freezing his heart forever?