All Films

Elvis Stories

1989 • 22 min • United States of America

Elvis Stories is a short movie directed by Ben Stiller and starring John Cusack and Ben Stiller

Carmilla

1989 • 51 min

Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman from a carriage wreck, and soon bodies start turning up with holes in their necks...

Beetle Bailey

1989 • 24 min • United States of America

When a group of generals from the Pentagon notify General Halftrack that they want to inspect a model of the modern soldier, Beetle Bailey probably wasn't what they had in mind.

Crying Freeman 2: Shades of Death, Part 1

1989 • 50 min • Japan

With the blessing of the 108 Dragons, Yo and Emu marry and receive new names, Ron Tayan and Fu Ching Ran. The elders send them to Macau to find out who's behind a new attack. Fu is kidnaped; at the same time, Baya San (the huge granddaughter of the 108 Dragons' aged leaders) demands to be the next head of the gang, not Ron. The childish Baya San has joined forces with the Macau gang, in league with the American mob. A surprise visitor from the US arrives where Fu is being held captive. Can Ron rescue her, find the traitor within the 108 Dragons, defeat his enemies, and bring discipline to Baya San? He must still face the angry and deadly girlfriend of the American visitor.

Riki-Oh: The Wall of Hell

1989 • 48 min • Japan

In the late 1990s, society is descending into ecological collapse and totalitarianism. Saiga Riki-Oh, a mysterious man with a six-pointed star on his fist, finds himself at the privately-owned Tokyo State Prison. Serving a term of three years due to assault, his first offense, Riki-Oh openly antagonizes The Four Emperors, four powerful prisoners that control the prison and keep the rest of the inmates in line...

Urusei Yatsura: Goat and Cheese

1989 • 30 min • Japan

Mendou recounts an old story that warns, “Don’t take pictures in front of the statue of Great-Grandfather’s Goat, or terrible things will happen!” When his father does just that, only Sakura and Onsen-mark the Teacher can ward off the horrifying consequences of an ancient family curse… or can they?

Urusei Yatsura: Catch the Heart

1989 • 26 min • Japan

A mischievous spirit gives Ran a heart-shaped candy that causes a magical heart to appear over the head of whoever eats it. And whoever catches that heart captures the heart of the person who ate the candy! And if there's one thing the Urusei Yatsura crowd can do, it's play catch!

The Houseguest

1989 • 31 min

A low budget spoof of a Bergmannesque summer resort love triangle that ends with a surreal twist.

Baoh: The Visitor

1989 • 50 min • Japan

Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and creating biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, a parasite living inside 17-year-old Ikuro, escapes with a psychic young girl named Sumire, Doress will do anything to get the boy and girl back. The only problem for them is that BAOH has the ability to alter its host into a living death machine in order to keep it alive. BAOH "awakens" to its "Armed Defense Phenomenons", giving Ikuro acid-tipped claws, bio-regeneration, and super-strength. But Doress takes the girl, and BAOH, alongside its host, must fight an army of commandos and psionics to get her back.

Totem Lesson

1989 • 14 min

Student film by Eiki Takahashi. Japan University College of Art Film Department Video Course 4th grade graduation production.

Glueman

1989 • 7 min

Collaboration with Fugazi

Groper Train: 100% Accuracy

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Two brothers frequent the train together, soon getting involved with a sterilization plot.

Rhea Gall Force

1989 • 57 min • Japan

The last remaining human soldiers of a devastated Earth fight against the machines for one last chance for their species to escape and survive.

Wakazuma Fuhô Kankin

1989 • 57 min • Japan

Without the Third One

1989 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

TV drama written by Milan Begović that tells about the pathological jealousy between a man and a woman.

Kitchen Sink

1989 • 14 min • New Zealand

From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism and leads the viewer towards the fantasy of horror.

Multiple Choice

1989 • 22 min • Canada

A short drama that takes a humourous look at the consumer society.

Kamen Rider: Run All Over the World

1989 • 16 min • Japan

In the film, the Crisis Empire devise a plan to defeat Kohtaro Minami by reverting him back to his old form of Kamen Rider Black and sending out several revived monsters after him. However, Kamen Rider Black is assisted by another RX, who used a time warp to help his past self. The two are joined by RX's alternate forms of Robo Rider and Bio Rider and the four Kamen Riders combine their powers to defeat the revived monsters.

Two Daddies?

1989 • 55 min • United States of America

An animated special about a young girl who must learn to accept her divorced mother's remarriage.

Project A-Ko 4: Final

1989 • 53 min • Japan

A-ko and B-ko are fighting as usual, as C-ko watches from the sidelines feeling neglected by both. Ayumi-sensei has been behaving strangely lately. She's wearing a heart-shaped crystal with a hexagram inside, and is chanting mysterious prayers in private. At the ruins of an ancient civilization, an archaeologist spies a hexagram among the hieroglyphics. Deep in outer space, an alien fleet is on a course for Earth, and its flagship bears the same hexagram shape.

La Divina

1989 • 45 min • United States of America

Brooke Dammkoehler’s meditation on the rise to stardom of a glamorous movie idol (modelled after Greta Garbo), draped in gorgeous black & white photography and a tone of delirious grandeur.

Peacemaker

1989 • 25 min • United States of America

In the 1950s a father helps his 11-year-old son overcome his fear of the A-bomb. Presented on PBS American Playhouse as part of a trilogy of short films on childhood events by new directors.

Neo Tokyo

1989 • 50 min • Japan

A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate opponent. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man must shut down worker robots.

Clara

1989 • 52 min • France

"Clara, screenplay and dialogues of a Franco-Czechoslovak film, the co-director should have been the Czech filmmaker Kadar. Screenplay adaptated in 1989 by Philippe Garrel and students of the University of Paris X (Nanterre). The subject of the film - which is also a love story - is part of the political atmosphere, release the XXth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party has changed both individual for a certain way of seeing and understanding History: political trials, purges in Czechoslovakia, Hungary events of 1956, Algeria war, cold war." - KG