All Films

Cain's Tears

1980 • 14 min • Soviet Union

The satirical short movie about traitors of Soviet Ukraine who mask their betray for "wishing for Ukraine's independence" through the history since 1918 up to modern times. Was considered lost, but was found in Latvian film fund in the year 2025.

Stepping Out: The Debolts Grow Up

1980 • 52 min

An update on the DeBolt family, originally featured in Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977).

Soup or Sonic

1980 • 9 min

The coyote chases the road runner, but in this one he actually succeeds, to his bemusement.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny

1980 • 7 min • United States of America

Bugs Bunny gushes with excitement over the end of school, but while stopping to wonder why he's excited about this at his age, he runs into a tree and has a flashback to his youth, when he was just as excited about the end of school. But his nemesis, a young Elmer Fudd, is also out, and he's out to get the budding wascally wabbit.

Хитрая ворона

1980 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Cseh Tamás énekel

1980 • 43 min

Smoky little clubs, late nights, late nights of conversation over a glass of beer and a guitar. The lyricist Géza Bereményi and the composer-performer Tamás Cseh are the creators of the most topical and accurate songs of the 70s and 80s, expressing the mood of the "30s and 40s" of that time - a mood that was their own destiny. This stunning recording from 1980 includes songs like Tangó, Álomfejtés, Szabó Kálmán tegnap este..., A 100. éjszaka, A legjobb viccek, Születtem Magyarországon, A dédapa dala, Egy bogár, Krakkói vonat, Az ócska cipő, Filmdal.

The Chola Heritage

1980 • 15 min • India

The film highlighting the Dravidian temple architecture and bronze sculpture which attained the creative pinnacle during the rule of the Cholas in the 10th and the 11th centuries. Cholas were great temple builders. The temple of Vijayalaya Cholesvara is one of the finest examples of the early Chola style. The temple of Nagesvara at Kumbakonam is remarkable for the sculptures found in the niches of its outer walls. The Brihadesvara temple at Thanjavur is a landmark in the evolution of building art in India.Among several such unique temples, Tribhuvanam is the last important temple belonging to the Cholas. Besides temple architecture,the bronze sculpture of the Cholas holds a unique place in the field of art. One of the most important and famous of all Hindu icons,that of the cosmic dance of the Nataraja is intimately associated with the Chola bronzes.

Golden Hue

1980 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A lion cub lives on a distant island, in which his friend, a monkey, is sick. In order to cure the ailment, the lion cub covered the monkey with leaves and gave him a coconut milk, heated on the fire. But the wise parrot advised a miraculous way - linden tea, which has a magnificent golden hue. But where, among the palm trees, take the linden-tree?

The Dig

1980 • 55 min

' No permissive society the Iron Age ... no messing about in those days.' A gruesome discovery on an archaeological excavation has more than historical interest when the love of a young man for an older woman gets out of hand

Tyll the Giant

1980 • 13 min • Soviet Union

Based on an Estonian folk tale about of the gigantic hero, Tõll, who lived on the island of Saaremaa (Oesel) in the Baltic Sea. Though he was king of the island, Tõll often worked as a common farmer, tending to his crops and returning to his loving wife. He was a good king, often quick to anger but always kind and willing to help his fellow man. Tõll's greatest enemy is the god of the underworld who specializes in sly, cowardly mischief. When war comes to the island, Tõll arrives to aid his dying army, but the devil takes advantage of his absence to wreak havoc on Tõll's home.

In a Foreign Country

1980 • 10 min • Sweden

An newly arrived immigrant to Sweden is dazzled by the culture, conveniences and excesses of western lifestyle.

The Chaco Legacy

1980 • 60 min

Examines archaeological theories about the rise and fall of Chacoan culture, which flourished 900 years ago in the area of Chaco Canyon, N.M

A Strange Harvest

1980 • 57 min

Emmy Award-winning hour documentary about the worldwide animal mutilation mystery that has haunted ranchers and law enforcement since the 1950's. TV producer Linda Moulton Howe follows the eyewitness testimonies and the facts where they lead, linking the unusual animal deaths to a non-human intelligence and technology.

Railway Station

1980 • 13 min • Poland

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.

Brutal

1980 • 7 min • Sweden

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

Topchumba

1980 • 10 min • Soviet Union

There was a bear cub in the same forest, named Topchumba. He was mocked by all the animals in the forest for his clumsiness. But one day his dad told him how to become dexterous and skillful.

Separated

1980 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A brother and sister are pulled apart by rich oligarchs named The Three Fat Men.

Hallelujah, Mary Plum

1980 • 60 min

A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.

Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions

1980 • 45 min

A tribute to Britain's number one sex symbol of the 1970's - Mary Millington. Made a year after her tragic death, this film uses archive footage from all aspects of her life, from intimate interviews to adult modelling.

Helvete också

1980 • 20 min

Friday is disco-day. But everything will not go as planned. The girl you just met disappears when your friends are about to move on. And too much booze adds to regrets and angst in the abandoned suburb.

Metaphor: King Vidor Meets with Andrew Wyeth

1980 • 36 min • United States of America

Vidor and Wyeth discuss the influence of The Big Parade on Wyeth and the use of metaphors in art

Seven Brothers

1980 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Seven brothers are seven colored pencils, the best friends of all kids. The pencil brothers paint the world around them in different colors, draw the sun and trees, a lake and a house, and after the rain, the brothers’ mother appears in the sky - a bright rainbow.

Lepakkolinna

1980 • 50 min • Finland

Set in 1860's Transylvania, a group of travelers ends to the Dracula's castle.

Seven Rights of a Viewer

1980 • 2 min • East Germany, Germany

An enumeration of various ways by which the public might react to a film projection.