All Films

Patty Fatty

1981 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A play by Kay McManus. Patricia is fifteen and fat, and feels the odd one out...until her brother's friend takes her out for a ride on his motorcycle.

Mr. Griffin and Me

1981 • 55 min • United States of America

Kenneth Griffin, a Hollywood director, hasn't seen his wife in 24 years since he stole paintings from her and went into hiding.

An Audience with Dudley Moore

1981 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Outstanding comedian and musician Dudley Moore regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with his hilarious edition of the long-running An Audience With series. Backed by a full orchestra - and interrupted by both Peter Cook and the Dagenham Girl Pipers - Dudley entertains his audience of celebrities (including Stanley Baxter, Martin Shaw, Clive James, Lulu and Rolf Harris) and duets with singer-songwriter Christopher Cross on the award-winning 'Arthur's Theme'.

The Polish Non-Camera Newsreel no 1

1981 • 10 min • Poland

First edition of an animated newsreel containing - in the manner of newsreels - the latest news from the country and the world: "Polish economy in the grip of krill", "Oil spill in Karlin", "U-25 mystery deciphered", "Sensational-secession photoplasticon liquidated", "Situation in space".

L’homme atlantique

1981 • 38 min • France

When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never understand … I have made a film out of your absence.

Pictures 4 Barbara

1981 • 8 min • United States of America

Film by Barbara Hammer.

Misadventures of Fanny Starr

1981 • 20 min

A private eye is first seen tied to a tree as her narration and flashbacks explain how she took on the most challenging case of her career involving a plot to unleash literal hell on earth. --Mondo Digital Blu-ray Review

Paris s'en va

1981 • 30 min • France

Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both films. Henry Chapier who produced the short: "At the beginning of the '80s nobody was interested in Rivette's highly imaginative project Le Pont du Nord. Therefore Rivette came up with a kind of 'transposition' of the themes of Le Pont du Nord in the shape of Paris s'en va. Just like a painter in the Renaissance who does a sketch for a future project."

Apartment Wife: Wet Bedroom

1981 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Julie O'Brien

1981 • 19 min • Canada

Depiction of Newfoundland's "old times" as seen by Julie O'Brien, an 11-year-old living in Tors Cove. Told in the first person with cutaway shots to the girl's many activities, the film illustrates the way traditions are maintained, remembered and evolved. This film is part of the Children of Canada series.

The Tale of the Silly Baby Mouse

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film is made after the same named poem by Samuil Marshak. Mother mouse tries to find a nanny for her little mouse who can't sleep at night.The same poem was famously animated ( and orchestrated!) by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky with music of Dmitri Shostakovic

Rumi Sasaki and Yuka Takemura: Hotel Maid, Feel Wet!

1981 • 30 min • Japan

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Bimini

1981 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Based on Heinrich Heine’s poem, this film traces humanity’s longing for beauty and fulfilment, as expressed through a song about the legendary island of Bimini and its magical well whose waters revive a person’s strength and youth.

Incomparable Tips

1981 • 25 min • Soviet Union

About a hairdresser who became a playwright, not knowing how deep the ford decided to step.

Dief!

1981 • 27 min • Canada

This documentary short is a portrait of Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and 13th prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979). Diefenbaker's political career spanned 6 decades. When he died in 1979, his state funeral and final train trip west became more a celebration of life than a victory for death.

Homeless House-Elves

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About two little house-elves who were driven out of the house by an evil mistress.

The Greediest Monster

1981 • 8 min • Bulgaria

The Comic Strip

1981 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

Gallagher: Mad As Hell

1981 • 60 min

Gallagher's mad as hell but he never shows it, because he's cool as well. He's back in this 1981 special and telling jokes... to prevent his anger from building up.

Kusk á hvítflibbanum

1981 • 56 min

A man's struggle fighting the system he lives in.

A Chipmunk Christmas

1981 • 24 min • United States of America

Alvin learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Prince - Dirty Mind Paris '81

1981 • 57 min

On June 4, 1981 Prince staged a concert at Théâtre Le Palace in the City Of Lights. The show featured seven of the eight songs that appeared on the 1980 LP Dirty Mind as well as a few off his 1979 self-titled LP. The lineup in Paris included André Cymone on bass, Dez Dickerson on guitar, Bobby Z on drums and Doctor Fink and Lisa Coleman on keyboards, as well as Prince, in various stages of undress, playing guitar and handling lead vocals.

Puerto Rico: A Colony the American Way

1981 • 28 min • Puerto Rico, United States of America

A report on the political, social, and economic problems of Puerto Rico in the early 1980s and on the impact of the island's eighty-four-year-old link to the United States. Features interviews with leaders of the Puerto Rican Socialist and Independence parties, Governor Romero Barcelo, U.S. Congressman Ronald Dellums, and the Puerto Rican people themselves.

As If

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Once on a summer day, decided to play the Hare, the Bear cub and the Squirrel. Traditional forestry games have bothered them, as in the forest everything is so familiar. So they decided to hunt as if they were in the jungle. The Bear said that he would be a hunter, and the Hare is a wild beast. The Squirrel was assigned the role of a dog. But the dog from the squirrel came out some very soft, and in general the imagination of the squirrel is rather weak. She does not like to pretend and fantasize.