All Films

Visitor from the Grave

1980 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A former mental patient kills her would-be rapist, but his corpse returns from its secret grave. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.

The Yolks on You

1980 • 7 min • United States of America

Foghorn Leghorn assigns Prissy, who's been laying some odd, unsatisfactory eggs, to lay turquoise eggs for Easter...

Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?

1980 • 25 min • United States of America

A young man wishes he could get away and his wish is granted in a globetrotting, song singing way.

Music Box

1980 • 35 min • United States of America

The story of a dreary man working a boring job and living a dull life. One day he finds a music box that changes his life. A classic film parable about the joy of finding Christ and then sharing your joy with others.

Rappaccini's Daughter

1980 • 55 min • United States of America

Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice (Kathleen Beller) masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthorne themes are explored: the sins of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature.

Émilie Jolie

1980 • 57 min • France

The World of Strawberry Shortcake

1980 • 23 min

Welcome to Strawberry Land, the charming and peaceful home of Strawberry Shortcake and her fruit-filled friends, where rivers of strawberry juice flow past homes made of pastry! But all is not well in this picturesque paradise. The presence of the Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak and his beastly Berry Birds threatens their tranquil existence.

Laila

1980 • 11 min • Canada

Laila Paattinen is a working woman. Tired of low-paying jobs, she completed a five-month course in dry-wall installation. Because she had chosen a non-traditional job for women, she ran into resistance in the marketplace. She finally solved her problems by opening her own dry-wall application business. A useful film for women seeking non-traditional jobs.

I Ramones

1980 • 28 min • Italy

I Ramones is a half-hour of concert footage captured in Rome in 1980, just after the release of the Phil Spector-produced album End of the Century. Shot on film, it laid forgotten in the vaults of an Italian television station for two decades after its one-time broadcast.

Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

1980 • 46 min • United States of America

When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a series of interviews, local aficionados of the palace as well as its projectionist, its organist, and former employees, reminisce about the Kings and its charmed days gone by.

Strangulation Blues

1980 • 17 min • France

A very Parisian night. Paul plays at strangling Colette because she doesn't inspire him a single, damn camera shot. Early in the morning, he takes flight because the future is for those who get up early. Was it too late? It's too early to say.

The Bride

1980 • 38 min • Albania

Northern Albania, 1911. Bali marries Bardha, who is betrothed to Sokol Dema, currently imprisoned by the Turks. Bardha tells this to Bali on the first night of their marriage and puts him in a dilemma: he should either kill Bardha due to the laws of the land, or send her to the parents of Sokol Dema.

The Beach Boys: A Celebration Concert

1980 • 60 min • United States of America

The Beach Boys perform live on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., July 4th, 1980. Originally aired on HBO.

Rebel Earth

1980 • 49 min • United States of America

The second part of John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's Prairie Trilogy

Making of いい旅チャレンジ20,000 km 清水港線・旅の表情

1980 • 16 min • Japan

Making of Nobuhiko Obayashi's TV Program in 1980 called 「いい旅チャレンジ20,000km清水港線・旅の表情』

Not for the Likes of Us

1980 • 60 min

In between working in a supermarket by day and in a cinema by night, Connie caters for her placid Stan and adolescent kids Cheryl and Paul. But slowly she starts to rebel against the traditional women's roles she's been pushed into.

Kamen Rider: Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King

1980 • 45 min • Japan

When a new threat from outer space called Galaxy King arrives on Earth seeking an equation for a new type of energy, Skyrider, and the other seven Kamen Riders join forces to fight off the new foe and the armies of Neo-Shocker.

Rabbit Pie Day

1980 • 30 min

As World War II draws to a close thousands of Russian soldiers overtaken by the Allied advance in Europe find themselves in England - and they like it. The major of one particular camp foresees problems should they have to go back; but as he says, 'They're only going home, after all!' - but home to what?

Deer in the Works

1980 • 25 min • United States of America

David Potter, owner of a small town weekly newspaper, decides to get a more secure job. Despite his wife's misgivings, he applies to be a publicity writer at the mammoth Ilium Works. Although shaken at seeing how the company immediately plans out his entire career, he accepts the position. He is then given his first assignment, recording the capture of a deer that has slipped onto the grounds of the Works.

The Chocolate Chase

1980 • 6 min

Speedy Gonzales is once again called to get past Daffy Duck when he denies the mice of Mexico chocolate bunnies for Easter.

Whiplash

1980 • 60 min • Iceland

Renowned photographer, Larus, returns to Iceland to attend the funeral of his mother. With him is his wife Rose, twenty years his junior. With his homecoming, Larus begins to reminisce on his childhood, and becomes distant from his wife. Soon she begins to realize that not everything is as it should be.

One Morning

1980 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Follows the friendship of animals.

Party przy świecach

1980 • 55 min • Poland

The marriage struggling with financial problems decides to impress visiting relatives.

¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?

1980 • 36 min • Mexico

It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.