All Films

Candelaria

1981 • 26 min • Chile

The contrast of the parallel lives of two women personified in a single actress (Delfina Guzmán). Despite the radical differences between their lives, they are intimately connected to each other. Candelaria is a vagabond in Parque Forestal, crazy but happy. In contrast, in a comfortable and luxurious apartment, lives Laura, who is harassed by the greed of her children and her lover, who will not rest until they strip her of her fortune and expel her from the country.

Rockstage: The Stranglers

1981 • 30 min • United Kingdom

The Stranglers in concert at the Royal Theatre, Nottingham and broadcast via the ITV network

There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues

1981 • 58 min

Chronicles the history of Negro Leagues baseball by using rare historical footage and interviews with black baseball greats.

Autumn Trip to Mother

1981 • 39 min • Soviet Union

Successful film director Dmitry Pavlovich must fly by plane to Moscow and then to Rome. But the phone rings in his house and he is told that his old mother, who lives in Melovatka, his native village, has fallen ill. Dmitry Pavlovich hires a taxi and begins his “autumn journey to his mother.”

Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast

1981 • 12 min

"Beauty and the Beast" - In order to save her father's life, the gentle Beauty must live in a castle of the ugly Beast. Though the Beast is kind, and tries in every way to make her happy, Beauty cannot bring herself to love him. Finally, as he lay dying, Beauty gives the beast a kiss which breaks the spell and magically transforms him into the handsome prince he once was. "The Silver Pony" - A young farmboy daydreams about a beautiful, enchanted pony a pony with wings. The boy climbs upon his back, and they fly high above the treetops. Together, they bring happiness to four very different people. The boy's daydream is wonderful, but it ends all to soon, and the boy wakes up despondent and alone. But there is a wonderful surprise waiting for him as he approaches the once empty corral. Could it be that his day dream has come true?

Forever Young

1981 • 58 min • United States of America

Examines the fear of aging and what post-retirement years are really like by interviewing a group of active, interested people, all over the age of 65. They speak of their enjoyment and appreciation of life, their health, happiness, retirement, sex and death.

Altered Habits

1981 • 3 min

Queer catholic musical short by Stanford student Marjorie Newman that toured with Divine and John Waters' film "Polyester"

Leopold the Cat's Television

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Leopold the Cat bought a TV, but the mice are preventing him from watching it.

No One Here Gets Out Alive: A Tribute To Jim Morrison

1981 • 60 min

No One Here Gets Out Alive, The Doors' tribute to Jim Morrison is a full exploration of the controversial and quixotic singer, delving into his fascination with cinema and psychology, mysticism and sexuality, poetry and power. In addition to clips of the band in action, it features interviews with the surviving members of The Doors and many others who were instrumental in creating and maintaining the legend.

Kiss Me, Petruchio

1981 • 58 min • United States of America

A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Includes scenes from the production, interviews with Meryl Streep (Kate) and Raul Julia (Petruchio) as well as an introduction by producer Joseph Papp and audience commentary.

Historien om Kim Skov

1981 • 58 min • Denmark

The boy Kim moves with his family from the countryside to a ghetto in a big city. He does not do too well in school, and that makes him an easy victim for the hard core bullies in the new school. When the group leader is moved to a private school, Kim is accepted in the gang - as long as he provides cigarettes for the other members. This of course leads to a confrontation with the school teachers, his family and eventually the gang members.

Female Teacher: Chain and Bondage

1981 • 60 min • Japan

A female teacher with a heavy past who committed suicide with a fellow teacher in the past, and was the only one to survive. However, the woman who was the fiancée of the dead teacher also committed suicide in despair. The younger brother of the woman enrolls in the school where the female teacher is a student in order to get revenge. There are also men at the school who are always after her body, thinking that such a female teacher will easily let them have sex with her. In desperation in such a world, she accepts the perverse desires of the men...

The Man of Destiny

1981 • 59 min

One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it features a battle of wits between Napoleon Bonaparte and a mysterious, daring woman who has stolen his documents. Can she really challenge the strategic mind of a general still celebrating a famous victory?

Space: 2000

1981 • 5 min • Germany

A magnificent cardboard spaceship crashes in the grass, so the crew of the Enterprise beams down to the scene to render first aid. However, buckets of enemies are just waiting for their moment to put that alien crew to flight - only they didn't count on the phasers & fists of our heroes!

Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers

1981 • 44 min

With film clips and photos, Eric Sykes gives a tongue-in-cheek account of his follies and fortunes as an actor, gag writer, and comedian in a long and successful career in the theatre, on radio and television. He pays tribute to his friends in showbusiness and in particular to Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis and the team of his long-running Sykes series.

The Mask of Sarnath

1981 • 19 min • United States of America

A finalist for the 1980 Student Academy Awards, Neil Ruttenberg's The Mask of Sarnath is structured as an entry in the horror film genre. The theme of 'Evil Never Dies' dominates the narrative backed by a hauntingly eerie soundtrack recorded by Throbbing Gristle.

The Exile

1981 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Like plants, people can either thrive or wither when removed from their native soil, as this short film explores.

Gently Down the Stream

1981 • 14 min • United States of America

GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM is constructed from fourteen dreams taken from eight years' worth of my journals. The text is scratched directly on to the film so that you hear your own voice as you read. The accompanying images of women, water, animals and saints were chosen for their indirect but potent correspondence to the text.

Princové jsou na draka

1981 • 60 min • Czechoslovakia

Let's take a look into little Martin's room. His mother tells his sons that they will have a new father, and Martin has a fairy-tale dream at night about a kingdom threatened by an evil dragon. Fortunately, clever Martin is there, who has fairy tales literally in his little finger. He advises the king on how to kill the dragon - it would take Honza...

Portrait of a Teenage Shoplifter

1981 • 45 min

Teenager becomes involved in the thrill of shoplifting with her friends, until she is inevitably caught in the act.

Daughters of Equality

1981 • 1 min • France

The Daughters of Equality want everybody to be like them...

T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven

1981 • 8 min • United Kingdom

An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.

Inside the Coppola Personality

1981 • 7 min

Monte Hellman's short portrait of Francis Ford Coppola discussing business and craft at home and on the set of his Zoetrope Studios.

Anybody's Woman

1981 • 24 min • United States of America

The goings-on around a porn theater in New York’s East Village, interspersed with actors recounting experiences with extreme sexualities and a description of a scene from the pre-code Dorothy Arzner film of the same name.