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Mabuse in Mind

Mabuse in Mind

1985 • 15 min
Rudolf Schündler, who played the role of Hardy, describes his experiences on Fritz Lang's Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse.
Tina Turner: Private Dancer Tour

Tina Turner: Private Dancer Tour

1985 • 55 min • United States of America
The Private Dancer Tour was the fifth concert tour by singer Tina Turner. In support of her fifth studio album, Private Dancer (1984), the tour helped to establish Turner as a major solo artist of the 1980s and a dynamic solo performer, after initially starting out singing with ex-husband Ike Turner's band. The tour is often considered one of the best comebacks in music history. The 180-date, eleven-month world tour traveled across Europe, North America and Australasia. Notably, Turner played a show in Budapest, Hungary, the only show of the tour behind the Iron Curtain. The concerts received many accolades, including the "Most Creative Tour Package" and "Comeback Tour Of The Year" awards from Pollstar. The two March 1985 shows at Birmingham, England's NEC Arena were filmed and released as Tina Live: Private Dancer Tour. It featured special guests Bryan Adams and David Bowie. In 2025 a 4K upgraded blu ray of the concert came out, including bonus video clips.
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

1985 • 52 min • United States of America
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song is a documentary which examines how the song was written, how producer Quincy Jones and songwriters Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie persuaded some of the most popular performers in America to donate their services to the project, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the marathon recording session that produced the single.
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

1985 • 38 min
This was a concert video released thru Sonic Death, filmed on January 5th, 1985 in the Mojave Desert. This was SY's first west coast excursion.
Profession grimpeur, Eric Escoffier

Profession grimpeur, Eric Escoffier

1985 • 26 min • France
A documentary portrait of the legend Eric Escoffier at the height of his mountaineering career. A true athlete, Escoffier has comprehensive, cutting-edge preparation in three different climbing disciplines: rock climbing, ice climbing and solo free climbing, without any safety devices. Philippe Lallet's camera follows Eric in his performances and in his preparation for one of the first La Sportroccia climbing competitions, in 1985 in Bardonecchia in Italy.
Treasure

Treasure

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union
L'art d'aimer

L'art d'aimer

1985 • 15 min
L’art d’aimer / The Art of Loving (1985), another colour short, is probably the weakest of the ten films, mostly because it’s a blurry monologue (read by Smolders) from the perspective of a man confused about past events from his youth, and the fate of his mother. Smolder’s voice is deadly monotone, and the short drones on towards a climax set in an old age home, and a room filled with men and women suffering from diverse ailments, or seniors trapped in some darkened mental gloom. - kqek.com
Casiopea: Live

Casiopea: Live

1985 • 52 min • Japan
Recorded on April 27, 1985 at Shin Kokugikan, Ryogoku, Tokyo. 1. Down Upbeat 2. The Continental Way 3. Fabby Dabby 4. Twilight Solitude 5. Marine Blue 6. Looking Up 7. Eyes Of The Mind 8. Asayake 9. Galactic Funk
Ginger Cat

Ginger Cat

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union
A puppet film about a boy who loved to go into the forest to pick mushrooms and communicate with forest inhabitants. All the forest animals loved to play with the boy and helped him pick mushrooms.
Kids Can Say No

Kids Can Say No

1985 • 20 min
Kids Can Say No! is a 1985 British short educational film produced and directed by Jessica Skippon and written by Anita Bennett. It is intended to teach children between ages five and eight how to avoid situations where they might be sexually abused, how to escape such situations, and how to get help if they are abused. In the film, the pedophile Australian celebrity Rolf Harris is in a park with a group of four children and tells them about proper and improper physical intimacy, which he calls "yes" and "no" feelings. The film has four role-playing scenes in which children encounter paedophiles, with Harris and the children discussing each scene.
Wolfy

Wolfy

1985 • 6 min • Soviet Union
About the adventures of a cute wolfy. He loves to sing, thinking it is a wonderful skill. However, his howl excites other forest residents, causing not the most pleasant emotions. With the advent of winter, life around freezes, all animals hide, and our hero becomes very lonely and sad. What awaits him now?
About Time

About Time

1985 • 57 min • United Kingdom
Film Essay based on “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos” by John Berger.
Personal View: Victoria Wood

Personal View: Victoria Wood

1985 • 25 min
Victoria Wood discusses her career and her writing, and gives a glimpse of life backstage on her comedy tour.
È Pericoloso Sporgersi

È Pericoloso Sporgersi

1985 • 28 min • France
È Pericoloso Sporgersi is Robert Nicod's first short film, shot in 1985, featuring four young climbers, two women, Catherine Destivelle and Monique Dalmasso, and two men, Alain Bultel and Marc Lecomte-Durouil, in the Verdon Gorges. In a natural setting of cliffs, rivers, sinkholes and vertical waterfalls, Catherine Destivelle and Monique Dalmasso climb the Bombé de Pichenibule. This progression, filmed as a female climbing adventure, represents a successful first 7b+ ascent for the French champion. The film received the Genziana D'Argento for best sports film at the Trento Film Festival in 1986.
Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music

Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music

1985 • 58 min
Through composer Colin McPhee's passionate and detailed writing about his time in Bali it becomes evident how strongly the country impacted both his career and life. Seduced by recordings of Balinese music he heard in Paris in the 1920s, McPhee traveled to Bali and remained there for six years. The film blends McPhee's writings with observations and praise from fellow composers and colleauges.
What Sex Am I?

What Sex Am I?

1985 • 60 min • United States of America
A group of transgender individuals are struggling to make their way in every stratum of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"
How the Hedgehog and the Bear-Cub Changed the Sky

How the Hedgehog and the Bear-Cub Changed the Sky

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union
Hedgehog and Bear shivered from cold at the leaves strewn yard where shrill and angry wind was blowing. Friends decided to go to an abandoned house, where they found a lot of interesting things. They saw a sheet of paper on which a sunny and hot day was painted. Spreading it, they found summer and after taking the sunbath, Hedgehog and Bear continued their fascinating experiments with the weather.
Wow, Butter Week!

Wow, Butter Week!

1985 • 7 min • Soviet Union
A clever boy punishes a greedy landlord. Based on the Armenian folk tale by Hovhannes Tumanyan.
Como la sombra tenue de una hoja

Como la sombra tenue de una hoja

1985 • 16 min • Argentina
A rigorous mother, two brothers bonded by their passion for music and the intrusion of a girl violinist who interferes in their relationship.
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

1985 • 60 min
Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow tribe's turbulent past with modern-day accounts from Robert Yellow-tail, a 97-year-old Crow leader and a major reason for the tribe's survival. Poverty and isolation combine with outside pressures to undermine the tribe, but they resist defeat as "Contrary Warriors," defying the odds.
Cockerel

Cockerel

1985 • 11 min • Soviet Union
A chicken dreams of becoming a rooster.
La Negrita: the Miracle of Our Lady of Los Angeles

La Negrita: the Miracle of Our Lady of Los Angeles

1985 • 39 min • Costa Rica
Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini explores the religious myth of Latin America: the apparition of the Virgin.
The Imp With A Bushy Tail

The Imp With A Bushy Tail

1985 • 16 min • Soviet Union
The Smiths: Studio 54 In Barcelona

The Smiths: Studio 54 In Barcelona

1985 • 54 min
This concert was filmed and seven songs ("Hand In Glove", "Handsome Devil", "Barbarism Begins At Home", "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", "Rusholme Ruffians", "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Miserable Lie") were shown in a Spanish one-hour special on the Smiths titled Arsenal. The special also included interviews with Morrissey and Johnny Marr as well as studio songs.