All Films

Robbie

1979 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers. Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train".

Hot Stuff

1979 • 5 min

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

A Movie Star's Daughter

1979 • 46 min • United States of America

A shy teen enrolls in a new school and doesn't make friends easily. Then, overnight, everyone wants to be her friend, once it is discovered that her father is a famous movie star.

Your Children Come Back to You

1979 • 27 min • United States of America

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

Yes: Live In Philadelphia 1979

1979 • 50 min

Yes: Live In Philadelphia 1979

A Rainy Day

1979 • 30 min

A television star goes home to Texas for her father's funeral and spends time with her mother for the first time in five years. Reminiscing about her childhood allows the daughter to work through lifelong resentments and to forgive her mother.

Mammoth Bone

1979 • 58 min • Yugoslavia

The vagrants of a 15-year-old school dropout who's torn between jobs that do not suit him, and dreams of having music career.

Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter

1979 • 25 min • United Kingdom

An enraged detective's wife kills her husband by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled.

Rabbit's Moon

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

Rabbit's Moon is an avant-garde short film by American filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and released in two different versions. It was filmed in 1950, but not completed (nor released) until 1971. This, the second version, was re-released in 1979, sped up and with a different soundtrack.

When Stroker Strikes

1979 • 14 min

A superhero team training in the art of Kung Fu to prepare for a secret mission against The Stroker.

The New Aladdin

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Adventures of Sinbad

1979 • 47 min • Australia, United States of America

Sinbad relates the story to his son of his adventures in trying to reclaim the Caliph's magic lamp from the Old Man of the Sea.

Kate Bush: Live at Hammersmith Odeon

1981 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A live performance from Kate Bush's critically and commercially successful The Tour of Life, recorded on May 13th, 1979.

Casper's First Christmas

1979 • 24 min • United States of America

Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound and more Hanna-Barbera characters get lost and decide to spend Christmas by vising Casper, the friendly ghost. But soon they encounter a not-so-friendly ghost.

The Goose-Girl at the Fountain

1979 • 56 min • East Germany, Germany

A young blacksmith, searching for happiness in a series of dreams, realizes that he must find a rejected princess and hold her hand. A fairytale after the Brothers Grimm.

Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed

1979 • 57 min • Canada

Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays bare the idiosyncrasies of bureaucracy, whether in Canada, Austria, Hungary, the Vatican or the Virgin Islands. It also attempts to make the functioning of the public service more comprehensible. The absurdities of bureaucratic behaviour are exposed with humour and irreverence.

Ho

1979 • 13 min • Brazil

An experimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Helio Oiticica and his works, especially the Parangolés.

Hurt

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About how the bunny offended the bear cub, but with the help of the mole he realized that he was wrong.

S.o.s.

1979 • 10 min

Expect the unexpected in this unusual short that combines live action and animation.

Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

A biblical drama about Daniel who gains his release by interpreting a dream for King Nebuchadnezzar.

Casting the Runes

1979 • 49 min • United Kingdom

The producer and her team are in danger from evil forces and must figure out how to save themselves

Ed Zorax of the Future City

1979 • 36 min

Suspicious goings-on have been happening in the ruins of the Old City, threatening the very foundations of society. Agent Ed Zorax, posing as an estranged painter, is on the case!

Whinfrey's Last Case

1979 • 32 min • United Kingdom

In 1913 the British government, hearing that the Germans are planning World War I, ask top agent Whinfrey to intervene, but instead he decides to go on holiday to Cornish fishing village Torpoint. Here he believes he has stumbled upon a smuggling ring, but in fact they are Germans who are masquerading as locals in an advance invasion party. The British arrive and arrest them, believing that Whinfrey deliberately planned everything - though it is apparent that he did not.

Last Day of a Rainy Summer

1979 • 30 min • Soviet Union

A document on the daily life of an ordinary collective farm of the U.S.S.R. in 1978 : the hard-working people who love their work just because they are brought up to do so, almost with no rewards from life, in an atmosphere contaminated with official rhetoric.