All Films

A Child's Christmas in Wales

1987 • 55 min • Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America

It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also disappointed because it's raining instead of snowing. His grandfather gives him an old snow globe as an early Christmas present and starts telling colorful, amusing stories about his childhood Christmases that are shown in flashback. Thomas keeps asking his grandfather more questions because he likes the stories and because he doesn't want to go to bed. His parents finally insist that he go to bed, and his grandfather tells him one last story about going to bed on Christmas night while listening to his family singing carols downstairs. After Thomas falls asleep at last, his grandfather opens the bedroom window and sees falling snowflakes.

The Yattering And Jack

1987 • 22 min • United States of America

A three-foot tall demon is sent to corrupt a virtuous, happy go-lucky salesman named Jack Polo during Christmas, but if he touches him then he falls under the man's control.

A Study In Scarlet

1987 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original 'diorama' building in London. Followed by a celebration of the body and mind. The admission of sexual awakening and freedom. A tribute to the works of Georges Bataille. Filmed at The Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK.

Down at Fraggle Rock

1987 • 49 min • Canada, United States of America

Take a closer look at Fraggle Rock in this documentary special hosted by Jim Henson - featuring a glimpse inside Fraggle Rock character design and development, as well as the evolution of the television series.

Our Lady Blue

1987 • 60 min

In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It results in a strange and forbidden journey to Lourdes.

Kindering

1987 • 3 min • United States of America

Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There's a dog, a swing, a picket fence, a Big Wheels trike. The grass is green and lush. A soundtrack mixes a chorus, swelling strings, and a child vocalizing. The effect is to idealize the images.

The Short & Curlies

1987 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...

See You at Wembley, Frankie Walsh

1987 • 30 min

What do you do when you have only two passions in life - Hull City Football Club and your girlfriend Carol? Normally, you survive -just. Until that is, the semi-final is on the same day as your wedding.... This comedy, made at the National Film School, won an Oscar for the Best Foreign Student Film Category 1987.

Electric Blue 25

1987 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Segments include a profile on Copenhagen the "Sex Centre of Europe," commercial spoofs, the costume drama "The Amorous Adventures of a Travelling Gentleman," the uncensored music video for "Imagination" by Belouis Some and many soft erotic vignettes.

Fly Me

1987 • 40 min

The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.

Demon of Steel: Battle of the Great Demon Beasts

1987 • 60 min • Japan

In the year 1999, a team of UN scientists in an attempt to tap into a new energy resource on a deserted island called Samsara, unknownigly open a portal to another universe, unleashing dormant biomechanical entities. Three years later, Takuya Goroza returns to the island of Sansara urged by a mysterious request by college chum Haruka Alford. Little does he know, his old friend isn't what he appears to be...

Maehara Yūko & Kitamura Maiko zubunure kōru sukuranburu reipu

1987 • 60 min • Japan

The mysterious voice was heard from the phone..

Sonezaki jôshikô: Akai shitatari

1987 • 58 min • Japan

At the end of boundless lust and unsatisfied desire, a mad ending covered in fresh blood awaits. A man and a woman who have lived a life devoted to studying choose dark means to fulfill their unfulfilled love. Supposedly based on an actual incident involving a Tokyo University student, and depicts this seemingly old but universal theme in an orthodox manner. The leading role is Keiko Nakazawa from the pichipichi gal group "Romanko Club."

The Saint in Manhattan

1987 • 60 min • Australia, United States of America

Simon Templar returns to New York via Concorde and is feeling restless, until a note from an old flame surfaces. This TV movie was an unsold pilot for an attempted series revival.

The Evening Sacrifice

1987 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass scene falling into pieces without the director's orders and without any aims.

Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World

1987 • 25 min • United States of America

Rock sensation Barbie and her band The Rockers, beloved by everyone all around the world, decide to do something no band has ever done before - preform a charity rock concert in outer space.

This Year's Model

1987 • 30 min

'Look, I'm not being horrible or nothing, Sadie, but all you've got is a body. You've got to make the most of it. It's not enough just to like the idea of being a model. You've got to be businesslike about it.' How does 16-year-old Sadie react to her friend Mary's advice? Where - in the glamour model world - will she end up?

Hoshi Kikou

1987 • 53 min • Japan

Hiroko Yakushimaru live performance 1987

A Estrelinha Mágica

1987 • 15 min • Brazil

The Christmas star fell from the sky and hides in Monica's house. Monica and Cebolinha try to help the little star back to the sky. TV Special shown on 1987's Christmas Eve on TV Globo

The Dancing Princesses

1987 • 50 min • United States of America

A king with six daughters who is extremely over protective locks them in their room at night. But for some reason they order shoes from the cobbler practically every day and the king has to pay for them. And when he ask them why, they don't give him a straight answer. So he sends word that whoever figures out why they need so many shoes, he will have the hand of the daughter of his choice. But so far none have succeeded cause they make sure no one can find out. But a soldier upon learning of this decides to find out after being given a cloak that renders him invisible.

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea

1987 • 59 min • Soviet Union

A celebration of the culture of the Pomors who live around the White Sea.

The Joe Piscopo Halloween Party

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

Comedy concert of comedian Joe Piscopo filmed live from UCLA.

Citizen Steve

1987 • 24 min • United States of America

On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to uncover the truth behind his undisputed rise to the throne of the Amblin Empire.

Visiting Mr Beak

1987 • 21 min • United Kingdom

A Boy runs through the streets with a present for Mr Beak. Along the way he meets a series of strange characters in a strange world where your previous memories are inexorably attracted to you.