All Films

Ace Hits The Big Time

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

On the day he enters Kennedy High in Manhattan wearing a patch over one eye, sixteen-year-old Horace Hobart is urged to join what he believes is the toughest gang at school.

The Enchanted Island

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A fairytale about the awkward Kohmits who frees his people from an evil spell. Based on the motifs from a Chukchee fairytale.

Happily Ever After

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

Third-grader Molly Conway finds out that her parents are getting divorced. She tries everything she can to get them back together, but most of her attempts backfire. Eventually, she accepts her new situation with the help of her friends.

Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

1985 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

Rat Trap

1985 • 12 min

A no-holds-barred portrait of addiction, RAT TRAP is an unflinching portrayal of a junkie injecting heroin cut with footage of (already expired) rodents being tortured and maimed, all underscored by a fiery guitar rock solo, painting a grim picture of numbing daily grind, dependency, and domestic urban squalor.

Passion: A Letter in 16mm

1985 • 28 min • Canada

The film takes the form of an extremely intimate Letter in 16mm from Anna, normally a documentary filmmaker, to her unidentified lover. From the first 'exquisite ache' of romantic passion to her final drunken and solitary dance with success, Anna struggles with an all-too-prevalent problem in this achievement-oriented age: Is it possible to balance a passion for excellence with a passion for intimacy?Are obsessions mutually exclusive?

Ninth January

1985 • 44 min • Soviet Union

About the events that took place on January 9 in St. Petersburg, which marked the beginning of the revolution of 1905-1907 in Russia.

Goldie and the Bears

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Following the death of a former football player turned private investigator, his daughter, his former coach, and three of his players take over his PI business.

My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina

1985 • 23 min • United States of America

All the little ponies and their young friend Megan must save Baby Surprise and their ponies, magical rainbow locket from the evil Cartrina. If they don't, Catrina will force all the baby ponies to become her slaves. It's a battle the little ponies must win or life in Dream Valley will never be the same!

Nawa hada sanshimai

1985 • 60 min • Japan

A wealthy married woman finds passion with a lover while her husband lusts after his wife’s younger sister. The lover convinces the wife to invest her inheritance in land development and also attempts to steal her money. When the frustrated husband discovers what’s going on he decides that his wife is in need of a little discipline.

The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

A comedy written and Narrated by Jean Shepherd. The story involves several different events such as Ralph's first serious romance with his new neighbor, Randy playing a turkey in the school Thanksgiving Day play, The Old Man setting his sights on a yellow buick and the High School basketball rival game of the season.

Patience Labour

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age. Kinetic and up close, the doc focuses on movement with music, eschewing interview and conversation, and mostly submerging political and social commentary.

Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

A contemporary remake of "Cinderella"

My First Suit

1985 • 30 min • New Zealand

14-year old Steve is caught between creatures he does not fully understand: two parents with very different ideas about the suit he should wear to his first school dance. Meanwhile everywhere he seems to look, images of men are taking control of his imagination. In Stewart Main's comical coming of age story Steve escapes his parents' good wishes, to discover his true desires. They aren't quite what his no-nonsense father had in mind.

The Victor

1985 • 14 min • United Kingdom

An army conscript fights his way through a series of hallucinatory scenarios in which he is confronted by a series of bizarre attackers - who, one by one, turn out to be his army friends.

Round Vernian Vifam: 12 Fade Away

1985 • 57 min • Japan

Scott is furious after being falsely accused of peeping into the bedrooms of Claire, Maki, and Katue, and gets into a small craft to run away from home. In the end, he returns to the Janus, but immediately afterwards the computer indicates phantom images inside the ship, and one by one people start to disappear...

Knowledge of Beauty (My National Pride)

1985 • 7 min

A promotional film for Dexys Midnight Runners in which Kevin Rowland reflects on his Irish roots

Kinnikuman: Justice Superman vs. Ancient Superman

1985 • 45 min • Japan

While Kinnikuman is on vacation with Mari-san's kindergarten class at Easter Island, the young wheelchair-bound Kouichi-kun laments being with an idiot like Kinnikuman, preferring to instead be with his favorite Seigi Choujin Buffaloman. Meanwhile, the other Seigi Choujins are also vacationing at ancient landmarks.

What's Michael?

1985 • 55 min • Japan

Michael is a cat - with a difference. He lives with a cartoonist and his wife and does his best to keep his cool amid the trials of everyday life in suburbia, like fussing human girls, the local tough cat Nyazilla - just like big grey lizard, a foe too fearsome to take risks with - and the females of his own species.

Long Term Memory

1985 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Gerald has been separated from his wife and children for twenty-one years. Now ailing physically and mentally, he contacts them in the hope of a reunion.

America, You're Too Young to Die

1985 • 59 min • United States of America

An historical and patriotic film focusing on the conservative moral and religious view of American life. The documentary was based on the original stage production by Life Ministries. It portrays the steady erosion of American moral values.

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise Pilot

1985 • 4 min • Japan

Short pilot film from year 1985 for the Royal Space Force movie that came out two years later.

Apt. 2C

1985 • 30 min • United States of America

A comedy film showing a fictional day in the life of George Carlin, at his apartment where he lives.

Worm Movie

1985 • 2 min • United States of America

Experimental short film starring Lung Leg and a worm.