All Films

Friends Love

1985 • 45 min • Japan

Straight to Video film.

The Making of Sun City

1985 • 51 min • United States of America

Documentary Chronicling the making of Artists United Against Apartheid “Sun City”

The Book of Mary

1985 • 28 min • Switzerland, France

Anne-Marie Miéville, frequent collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard, made this partner piece to Godard's own 'Je vous salue, Marie'. Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. Her parents will separate. The perception of her universe is profoundly disturbed. This exacting portrait of a child immersed in her books, music and dancing casts a dispassionate yet touching eye on the girl's reaction to the new upheaval in her life.

The Turkey Caper

1985 • 30 min

It is Thanksgiving at Chucklewood Park and Buttons and Rusty are worried. They desire to rescue their friends, the wild turkeys of the forest who have been captured. Every turkey is rescued with the support of Ranger Jones. Buttons and Rusty enjoy a grand holiday celebration with their family.

George and the Christmas Star

1985 • 25 min • Canada

George cuts out a paper star to top his Christmas tree but, dissatisfied, decides to go for the real thing - an unusually bright star that seems to beckon him from the sky.

The Woman Who Married Clark Gable

1985 • 29 min

Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantasies that her newly-moustachioed husband is her screen idol, Clark Gable.

No Greater Gift

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

Two terminally ill boys strike up a friendship in a hospital ward. One of the boys decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to the other so he can have a chance at life.

Richard Lewis: I'm In Pain

1985 • 51 min

A live performance by "neurotic" stand-up comedian Richard Lewis. Includes tongue-in-cheek interviews with fellow comedians.

Rodney Dangerfield Hosts the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Some of the best new talent is showcased in these annual comedy specials each year. Every show is hosted by a different accomplished comedian. In 1984, the 9th year, the host was the magnificent Rodney Dangerfield.

Battle of the Bombs

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

A compilation of trailers and footage from early low-budget films that are generally considered to be among the worst films ever made.

Dialog på sängkanten

1985 • 42 min • Finland

Based on a true story from the summer of 1982 when Queen Elizabeth was visited in the middle of the night by a man who managed to get into Buckingham Palace in London and right up to her bedroom.

Emotional Structures of Young People

1985 • 50 min • Japan

An amusing portrait of youth with Hiroshi Mikami.

The Man Who Thought with His Hat

1985 • 14 min • Sweden

The wind takes hold of President Noll's hat and nothing is the same in his country.

Greed

1985 • 57 min • Japan

To succeed to his father, Lid Kyle sets out a journey to defeat the incarnation of the evil that seems to dominate the world. Longn and Mimau also began to journey to achieve his father’s will. On their way, Key and Bagda join them. They overcome some difficulties, and finally they met Vaii, the evil. They managed to beat Vaii, but it still doesn't solve their problem....

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

1985 • 43 min • United States of America

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.

Poodle

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring.

Momo no kimai: Sex dream

1985 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku distributed by Million, featuring a University Pro-Wrestling group.

Round Vernian Vifam: Memory of Ms. Kate

1985 • 57 min • Japan

The story takes place in Kukto in D.C. 2060 - a year after VIFAM. Ypserlon has been restored to peace, though there still remains occasional skirmishes. The Thirteen are invited there for a ceremony by the new Kukto government (its members are formerly the rebels). As two unexpected people appear, they develop a new story. It is a quest for memory.

The Man in the Iron Mask

1985 • 54 min • Australia

Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one finds out about the switch. Burbank Films Australia animated release.

What Mad Pursuit

1985 • 55 min • United Kingdom

If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your books, wouldn't you welcome with open arms the chance of a quiet weekend away from it all in a remote corner of Long Island? Of course you would. Well, let what happened to Evan Lorrimer be an awful warning....

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1985 • 52 min • United States of America

The town of Hamelin pays the ultimate price after reneging on their promise to the pied piper. Based on the poem by Robert Browning.

Dumb Animals

1985 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A campaign public information film against fur trade. Originally owned by Greenpeace, but they disowned it after viewing it. Then Lynx / Respect For Animals swept it up and made sure it was running in cinemas across the country.

Back to Next Saturday

1985 • 25 min

A preview of NBC's Saturday morning lineup in 1985, in which Blair reads Rudy to sleep and Rudy dreams that she's trapped in the "Dream Zone" and, accompanied by other characters from Saturday morning shows, must get back.

Pity in History

1985 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A sculptor is working to finish off a memorial to the Royalist years - just as Cromwell's men are approaching the surrounding cathedral walls.