All Films

An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

1980 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.

White Trash

1980 • 7 min

Early short film from Larry Fessenden.

The Fantastic Funnies

1980 • 48 min • United States of America

In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!

Carlton Your Doorman

1980 • 30 min

Rhoda's camera-shy doorman gets his own special in which we see his daily habits, including flirting with joggers and making the rounds of local watering holes.

Horny Virgins

1980 • 42 min • Turkey

The story of young girls who fall into brothels while looking for a job through newspaper ads.

Microphone's Test

1980 • 19 min • Poland

A Warsaw Pollena-Uroda cosmetics factory radio broadcaster is working on a programme investigating the workers' sense of factory ownership. The workers' answers come as a surprise, especially to the management. About the ruling and the ruled in communist Poland.

Jamaicaresan

1980 • 45 min • Sweden

Documentary following a Swedish non-profit organization on their study trip to Jamaica. One of the first films by Kristian Petri and a unique document on Jamaican society around 1980.

The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes

1980 • 50 min • United States of America

Sherlock Holmes is merely a framing device for the real story: The Treasure of Alpheus T. Winterborn. A small-town boy accidentally uncovers a list of mystifying clues to a hidden treasure left by the late Alpheus T. Winterborn, the town's richest citizen.

A Tribute to Dr. Shock

1980 • 58 min • United States of America

A tribute to Joe Zawislak and his horror host character "Dr. Shock".

Corkan and the German Tigthrope Walker

1980 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

The story published in 1921 follows Corkan, general scapegoat in Visegrad, a figure of fun who himself joins in the mockery. The object of his obsession is physically inaccessible: a tightrope walker in an Austrian circus company visiting Visegrad.

Kraft Salutes Disneyland's 25th Anniversary

1980 • 42 min • United States of America

Danny Kaye stars in the Disneyland 25th Anniversary television special with special guest star Michael Jackson, The Osmond’s, Adam Rich, and others.

Anatomia do Espectador

1980 • 20 min • Brazil

Actress Stela Freitas answers a series of questions that seek to show the figure of the Rio de Janeiro movie spectator, their habits, their preferences, how and why they watches movies.

Ramp Ahead

1980 • 56 min • Netherlands

Patrick Dench is a successful loudmouth barrister and professional womanizer who treats everybody with disrespect but still manages to bed every beautiful woman in sight.

The Cure: Apeldoorn

1980 • 24 min • Netherlands

The Cure concert at Apeldoorn, Netherlands 18 July 1980

The Constructor

1980 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about poor people making ends meet in a slum on the town's outskirts.

Practical Tips for Butterfly Collectors

1980 • 9 min • Poland

An ironic pastiche of the typical instructional-education film.

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

1980 • 24 min • United States of America

A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy" "His Bitter Half"

Taboo: The Single and the LP

1980 • 53 min • United States of America

"Abner L. Fuqua clears his throat and I get mad and stand close to trains or cut my eyebrow off. Dorothy is Abner's wife. Abner can slap hard, like blue magic." - graffiti

The Christmas Raccoons

1980 • 30 min • Canada

In this prelude to the television series 'The Raccoons', Bert, Melissa, and Ralph Raccoon have their home accidentally stolen when it is cut down to become a Christmas tree.

Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)

1980 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Adrian Thrills investigates a new and exhilarating musical blend which is taking the country by storm. 2-tone is a unique mix of music, fusing together reggae, rock, soul, ska, blue beat and punk. With its home in Coventry and its roots in reggae, it derives its name and identity from the co-existence of its black and white members.

Paul's Case

1980 • 55 min • United States of America

Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New York City.

Baryshnikov on Broadway

1980 • 51 min • United States of America

Mikhail Baryshnikov and his guests perform numbers from over a dozen renowned Broadway musicals including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Can-Can, The King and I, Cabaret, Where's Charley, Hello Dolly, Ain't Misbehavin', Guys and Dolls, The Boyfriend, Kiss Me Kate and A Chorus Line.

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

1980 • 51 min • United States of America

A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown

1980 • 24 min • United States of America

When the circus comes to town, Snoopy naturally pays a visit. There he falls for a beautiful poodle performing there. He soon runs away to join it. While he quickly becomes a star performer, Charlie Brown is distraught by Snoopy's decision while Snoopy himself has to face some realities of show business himself.