All Films

Subah Subah

1983 • 19 min • India

The film is about a young boy who has just finished graduation and is waiting for the result of a competitive examination. He is quite sure about getting through the examination, but his mother generally grumbles and assumes that her son is not capable of doing anything in this world. Discouraged and fed up with all this, he goes to his college and meets his girlfriend. He does not want to lose these moments. One fine morning he is awakened by the excited voice of his mother informing him that he has been selected in the competitive examination!

Hell W10

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Black and white silent film starring The Clash. A gangster tale that follows Earl, a musician and small-time hood played by Paul Simonon, who falls foul of the local crime boss called Socrates, ‘The Lord of Ladbroke Grove’, played with some relish by Mick Jones.

Bachelorette Pad

1983 • 11 min

Barbie dolls come to life in an underground experimental film

Mariner Man

1983 • 1 min • United States of America

Animation of a poem from Edith Sitwell's "Façade".

Busted

1983 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.

Lady's Silk Futon

1983 • 30 min • Japan

A certain Takabei house. In the dark, mansion, a perverse show unfolds between a beautiful woman with a birthmark (Shima Izumi) and a girl in a sailor uniform (Yamaji Miki). The gazes of men stare at them...

Cocaine Blues

1983 • 52 min

A look at the problems associated with cocaine use, including the toll it takes, not only on the users themselves but on society in general.

Samek

1983 • 54 min • Yugoslavia

Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiences historical events in his characteristic way. He does not like the king, but neither the German occupiers, for whom he coincidentally has to work for. His sense of justice even wins over friendship.

The New Seven Lines Between Things

1983 • 23 min

An anthology film by eight members of Parodious Unity.

Batten Robomaru: The Movie

1983 • 23 min • Japan

Robomaru causes chaos by bringing yokai to live in Karinto New Town.

La Métamorphose

1983 • 50 min • France

A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.

The Waiting

1983 • 18 min • Argentina

A hitman fleeing from his past decides to live in a boarding house to hide from his pursuers.

Beautiful Mystery

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early “special” training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship.

Diner

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

This pilot for a TV version of the critically acclaimed feature Diner (1982) focused on the complaints of the wives, Elyse and Beth, that their husbands were spending too much time hanging at the diner with their friends.

Patalliro: The Stardust Project

1983 • 48 min • Japan

The organization Tarantella is planning an attack by utilizing a space-bound device to create hail all over the planet, codenamed "Operation Stardust". Patalliro, Bancoran, and Maraich must put a stop to their scheme, and lie the mystery of Bancoran's supposedly-dead former lover Junior to rest.

Import Export

1983 • 27 min • Yugoslavia

Two men involved in mining business, exporter and importer, find in a bar to make deals about their future transaction plans. Instead of business, they end up stuffing themselves, drinking and singing all night.

Firefight

1983 • 16 min

A squad of Marines on a hilltop in Vietnam calls for a Medevac after a sniper wounds one of them. Before the Medevac helicopter can come down for a landing, the Marines are attacked by a large force of Vietcong. After a brutal battle, resulting in more wounded Marines, they're able to repel the attack, but then the helicopter is hesitant to land.

The Execution of Love

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Forbidden love! The aesthetics of seppuku! The phantom Mishima literature has been made into a complete movie! !

Our Season

1983 • 60 min • Japan

A gay couple is on good terms with each other. They run a shot bar together and are enjoying their love. Their father was also once a lover, and they vowed to be together in the future, but they split up due to the barriers of the world. They are determined not to follow in the footsteps of their father. One day, at their restaurant, the two fathers meet again for the first time in decades. At first they are at odds with each other, but then the love they once had for each other comes back to life...

O’Malley

1983 • 60 min

An ex-New York detective becomes a poor man's private eye and gets involved in a high-stakes scam.

The Commissioner

1983 • 60 min • Italy

In the basement of a hypothetical ministry, a man has set up a public office where he intends, for a fee, to solve any bureaucratic problem. His life becomes complicated the day he realizes that someone is persistently spying on him.

Narcissus

1983 • 22 min • Canada

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the techniques McLaren acquired over a lifetime of experimentation.

Afterward

1983 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A skeptical family moves into their new home despite warnings of a resident ghost. They soon become believers.

The Green Cat

1983 • 24 min • Japan

As a child, Sanbo was adopted by a mysterious green cat once owned by his father’s murderer. The cat grants his every wish, leading Sanbo to a lucrative life of crime, but the gift comes at a high cost. Ban, a family friend turned private detective, sets out to stop the cat’s influence before it can claim the young boy’s soul.