All Films

Picture Friend

1985 • 55 min

After a drunken woman falls off a bus and is taken to hospital overnight, she starts to have disturbing memories.

Arei's Mirror ~ Way to Virgin Space

1985 • 22 min • Japan

Meguru and Mayu are two future-wanderers hoping to find the mythical Mirror of Arei that is said to allow all who glimpse it to pass beyond the edge if the universe. Highjacked by renegade android Zero, the trio joins forces when they realise that they are all searching for the same thing.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

1985 • 49 min • United States of America

The Peanuts gang perform the classic Broadway musical. In addition to the classic songs, we see Charlie Brown and his friends perform the various comedy sketches of the play.

Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court

1985 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Ex-colleagues reflect on the comic genius and sometimes difficult character of Tony Hancock.

D-Day to Berlin: A Newsnight Special

1985 • 60 min • United Kingdom

George Stevens's remarkable film is acclaimed by historians as the most important colour footage taken during the war. Milestones covered include the liberation of Paris, the link-up between the Russian and American armies on the River Elbe and the Allied capture of the Dachau concentration camp.

The Canterville Ghost

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares!

Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins

1985 • 25 min

Strawberry rids Strawberryland of a strange, horrible smelling purple cloud with the help of her new friends, the Berry Princess and her helpers, the Berrykins.

The Only Take

1985 • 2 min

Director Gorman Bechard sets up a scene, but makes an assistant makes a crucial mistake with the camera with comic results.

Rachel and the Roarettes

1985 • 43 min • United Kingdom

A musical about female rebels in the 18th and 20th centuries.

À Propos De... L'autre Détail

1985 • 50 min • France

Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses were tortured by Jean-Marie Le Pen. These testimonies will help defend the newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné in court against Jean-Marie Le Pen for defamation. The film was shown in 1985 during the trial and some witnesses also came to support the newspaper. But the 1963 amnesty law protects the politician, prohibiting the use of images that could harm people who served during the Algerian war.

One Day of Mosfilm

1985 • 27 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about the main stages of the history of the country's largest studio "Mosfilm", about the work of the creative team, introduces the viewer to the outstanding masters of Soviet cinematography, with such unique groups such as the Theater-Studio of Film Actors, with the workshops of the studio.

Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia

1985 • 57 min • Japan

The Lovely Angels are dispatched to the planet of Ookbar in search of a missing girl. Kei and Yuri have traced young Missinie to the forest of Nolandia, but their investigations have stalled thanks to the less than helpful Chief of Security. But Kei and Yuri never let a little bureaucracy stand in their way. It's the unicorns and UFOs, not to mention the rampaging killer robot, that are going to be the problem as the Dirty Pair tackle their toughest case yet.

Tommy's

1985 • 16 min • United States of America

A state employee tasked with photographing road conditions tracks a mysterious man (played by Steve Buscemi) who leaves suspiciously large garbage bags along a snowy country road.

Kinbakuka: Biniku no Mori

1985 • 59 min • Japan

At the beginning of the Meiji era, Sayoko, the daughter of a large banker in Tokyo, comes to Sotobo's villa for the first time in eight years, guided by her student, Yasu. In fact, Yasu is the son of Keizo Naya, the keeper of this villa. His father and older sister, Kyoko, live quietly in this place, where people rarely visit, like recluses. Sayoko, who grew up sickly and full of selfishness, treats Yasu, who has feelings for her, like a slave, blindfolds him, makes him help her change clothes, and makes him imitate Sansuke in the bathroom.

The Last Polka

1985 • 54 min

A mockumentary that depicts the final concert of Yosh and Stan Shmenge aka the Happy Wanderers.

Amok

1985 • 14 min • East Germany

The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of time. The story of a mass murder in San Diego on July 18 1984 is told by showing reports of a local TV station. It turns out that the amok was partly caused by traumatic experiences during the Vietnam War.

Where Evil Dwells

1985 • 33 min • United States of America

Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.

Elvis Presley - One Night With You

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

The two unedited sit-down sessions recorded by Elvis before a small audience for his 1968 NBC comeback special, Elvis.

Robin Hood

1985 • 52 min • Australia

With good King Richard away at war, the greedy Sheriff has forced the residents of Nottingham to pay all their money to him. But Robin Hood, with the help of his friend Maid Marion, a spy in the Sheriff's castle, is out to thwart the evil Sheriff and return the Kind to his rightful throne.

Radio Pictures

1985 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Intrigues and tension surround the production of a radio drama. The leading lady is unhappy with the script, the leading man is attempting to seduce the leading lady and the peeping tom of the play within the play presides over them all.

Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown

1985 • 24 min • United States of America

After Snoopy displays his usual level of courage and runs away from his sentry duty, he happens to run into a beautiful female. Smitten, he decides to marry her. Now, the gang, and Snoopy's brother, Spike, want to help in an affair that has the usual complications

Väntan

1985 • 6 min • Sweden

A tribute to the victims of a mining disaster that happened in 1930 in Silesia before the reign of Nazi Germany.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1985 • 50 min • Australia

This is an Australian made-for-television animated film from Burbank Films Australia. The film is an adaptation on Jules Verne's classic French novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

1985 • 55 min • United Kingdom

A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.