All Films

He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special

1985 • 44 min • United States of America

In this special Christmas episode of the He-Man and She-Ra cartoons, their sidekick Orko accidentally gets beamed to Earth during a test of a new spy satellite. Orko manages to get back Planet Eternia, but brings along two Earth children, Alisha and Manuel, with him. Since it's Christmastime on Earth, the kids are naturally filled with the holiday spirit, but this overflowing goodwill attracts the unwelcome attention of the Horde Prime and Skeletor. Will the combined power of He-Man, She-Ra and the spirit of Christmas be enough to stop them?

Giordano

1985 • 1 min • Canada

An animated film promoting the value of freedom of expression as stipulated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Beaver Gets a Boner

1985 • 20 min

Michael Lehmann's 1985 USC student film.

That Fertile Feeling

1985 • 10 min • United States of America

Two female friends watch porn until one of them has a baby.

Be Prepared to Speak

1985 • 26 min • United States of America

Instructional Video on how to prepare and present a speech publicly.

Swabbies

1985 • 25 min

An unreleased Disney animated featurette that never got completed. The basic premise of "Swabbies" was a retread of "Stripes," the classic Bill Murray/Harold Ramis comedy. The story found our heroes, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy out of work, out of luck and in need of a job. They end up enlisting in the Navy and going to boot camp with Pete as their exasperated drill instructor and then meet their feminine counterparts, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, and Clarabelle Cow. Once they put to sea, they encounter a submarine full of the Beagle Boys.

Dawning

1985 • 5 min • Sweden

A little boy wakes up before dawn. As he walks out in the suburb on his own, he finds out that nothing is like it used to be.

The Big Snit

1985 • 10 min • Canada

A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.

Sweet F.A.

1985 • 40 min

Documentary following Fascinating Aïda, the British comedy singing group and satirical cabaret act

Free Cinema, 1956 - ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson

1985 • 54 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richard Attenborough's celebratory episode of the same series, or Alan Parker's more aggressive show, which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parker's bugbears, Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI, Anderson's show accentuates the negative, painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself. It's mordantly funny and very savage.

Je Veux Le Soleil Debout

1985 • 43 min • Switzerland

There was a child, Stéphane Hiroz, who dreamed of birds, a child among many others, a child however very different from the others because he has Down syndrome. Integrated into his small mountain village, he lives like an ordinary boy. Thanks to his mother who refuses to exclude her disabled child and his brother the director Pierre-Antoine Hiroz who do everything to make him a fulfilled person, Stéphane discovers passions which become reality thanks to the love which surrounds him: the Opera, ski touring...

Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape

1985 • 13 min

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write

1985 • 52 min • United Kingdom

She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres. In this interview, the late novelist and filmmaker talks openly about the hardship and the romance of her childhood in French Indochina, sharing how this period haunted her life and shaped her work. Excerpts from her films and readings from her books by actress Elizabeth Rider and Duras herself—including The Lover, winner of the Prix Goncourt and translated into more than forty languages—bring to life those formative years in Vietnam.

Un Image

1985 • 12 min • Japan

Canada Vignettes: The Move

1985 • 5 min

In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home after nearly a half-century of use. The film follows the lifting and transporting of the 9-storey, 200-ton structure, and examines the feelings of the people as they witness the final passing of their town's one and only grain elevator.

For Better or For Worse: The Bestest Present

1985 • 30 min

The Patterson family learns the true meaning of Christmas when Lizzie loses her stuffed bunny.

The Trap

1985 • 55 min • United States of America

In this soft-core bondage film, Jody and her girlfriend Diana devise a plot to get revenge on a female burglar who'd previously broken into their home and terrorized Jody.

High School Narc

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

22-year-old police officer poses as a student to find the identity of a drug supplier at an inner-city high school.

Adiós, adiós ídolo mío

1985 • 47 min • Mexico

A strange fantasy about the decadence of the Mexican wrestler "El Santo, The Man in the Silver Mask".

Women Tell the Dirtiest Jokes

1985 • 58 min • United States of America

All female hardcore stand-up comedy special.

Duck Rock

1985 • 48 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

A visual compilation of songs from Malcolm McLaren's 1983 album "Duck Rock", including the songs "Buffalo Gals" and "Double Dutch", mixed with interview and documentary footage.

Minky Momo VS. Creamy Mami

1985 • 3 min • Japan

A rare bonus short film featuring an epic battle between two magical girls - Creamy Mami and Minky Momo. (Shown as a bonus movie with the theatrical screening of Mahou no Tenshi Creamy Mami: Long Goodbye and Mahou no Princess Minky Momo: Yume no Naka no Rondo.)

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

1985 • 58 min

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera.

Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff

1985 • 47 min

Gonzo hosts this collection of some of the weirdest moments from The Muppet Show at his trailer home, assisted by Camilia and visited by Kermit The Frog.