All Films

Rapunzel

1983 • 58 min • United States of America

A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determined to keep Rapunzel for herself, the witch locks her up in a tall tower all alone, with no way in or out except by climbing her long, braided hair. Wonders and dangers occur when the girl meets a handsome prince.

Hattori and the War of the Little Ninja Villages

1983 • 53 min • Japan

Hattori-kun received a letter from Iga's father asking him to take his friends and return home for spring break. Hattori-kun leaves for Iga with his younger brothers Shinzo, Kenichi, Yumeko-chan, and others. However, a suspicious shadow stares at the group... He is a subordinate of the scientific ninja Mechamaro, who has replaced the power of ninjutsu with the power of science. Mechamaro was plotting to confront Hattori-kun in order to prove the strength of scientific ninjas. And in order to occupy Iga no Sato, Hattori-kun sends a fake letter...

Nadja Yet

1983 • 9 min

Nadja Yet is a story of obsessive teen love, adapted from Turgenev, and starred Jenny Wright.

Moonchild

1983 • 49 min • United States of America

Real life deprogrammers and ex-Moonies reenact one person’s journey into and out of the Unification Church in this compelling docudrama. Moonchild is an eye-opening glimpse of a religious cult from an insider’s point of view.

Making Utu

1983 • 48 min

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.

Double Crossed

1983 • 18 min

Shoplifting, lying, running from the law make up the background for this "big city" dramatic film. Hector, just released from jail himself, takes the rap for his younger brother, and in so doing makes clear how the Lord Jesus Christ took our punishment for sin.

Eroticise

1983 • 60 min

Aerobics has finally grown up...to the sensually delightful EROTICISE. What is EROTICISE? Simply the most uninhibited exercise session you've ever witnessed, a new film fantasy featuring a bevy of beauties who sweetly stretch and bend their way right out of their leotards - and into your heart. Join them as they sway to the beat - or pull up an easy chair. Either way, you're in for the workout of your dreams!

Pereat

1983 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

Short drama.

Vom Trockenschwimmer

1983 • 8 min • Germany

Early short by Philip Gröning.

Total

1983 • 52 min • Spain

"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places ..

Landscape

1983 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A dysfunctional couple remember a better time.

Reluctant Chickens

1983 • 55 min

Malcolm and Jo are eagerly anticipating a quiet retirement but find that their adult children are in no hurry to leave the family home.

Group Madness

1983 • 45 min • Mexico

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

Cattle Mutilation

1983 • 25 min

Against the background of a grisly mystery, four people face a growing sense of panic and uncleanliness. Part documentary, part "cartoon," part B movie, the film asks questions to which there don't seem to be any clear-cut answers.

A Summer in St. Tropez

1983 • 59 min • France

In an isolated country house close to the shore near Saint-Tropez, seven young women share a bedroom. Over two days, they wake, shower, breakfast, play dress up, bathe in the sea, picnic, ride bikes, pick flowers, have a pillow fight, run on the strand, practice ballet stretches, groom themselves and each other, and laugh. Anne returns a horse to Renaud; the next day, he's in a rowboat and meets her by the pier. By the film's end, all are celebrating with the lovers.

American Inquisition

1983 • 60 min

An examination of the effect of McCarthyism on two ordinary Americans. Interviews with Paul McCarty and his family describe the loss of his job in a Paducah, Kentucky power plant in 1953 when his loyalty was questioned; he lost job after job for over twenty years. Interview with Luella Mundel, the object of false accusations based on her unconventional views and actions. Interviews with colleagues, friends, and a historian recreate the dramatic trial which devastated Mundel personally.

Kandagawa Pervert Wars

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.

Down to the Cellar

1983 • 15 min • Czechoslovakia

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Habibi

1983 • 34 min

A young gay man falls head over heels in love with an Algerian labourer he meets in transvestite bar where he is a regular.

Inspector Perez

1983 • 60 min

Failed crime TV pilot starring Anne Bloom.

Mickey's Christmas Carol

1983 • 25 min • United States of America

Ebenezer Scrooge is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some new found friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season. A retelling of the classic Dickens tale with Disney's classic characters.

Suicide Line

1983 • 41 min

A Karl Hinz feature length film starring punk celebrities Jennifer Blowdryer , J. Sats Beret (The Lewd) , El Duce (Mentors) , Nicky Beat (Weirdos) , Meri St. Mary (Housecoat Project) , Merrill Ward (SWA) , Janet Cunningham (C.A.S.H.) , Modi Frank and many more in a mystery thriller juxtaposed alongside a satirical look at what can happen when the desire to be famous at any cost is coupled with those willing to exploit for a profit.

Passionless Moments

1983 • 13 min • Australia

A series of the awkward trials of everyday living.

Sjörövarfilmen

1983 • 14 min • Sweden

Animated short about a bunch of pirates who gets shipwrecked, ends up ashore and they settle down on land with marriage and a regular job. They think it will last forever, but one day another pirate ship gets ashore...