All Films

Yume dorei

1987 • 49 min • Japan

Yuko, a beautiful married woman obsessed with SM delusions. Tachibana, the director at Tachibana Hospital where she is treated. Assistant Furuya. Nurse Megumi. Under the guise of reverse treatment for her, they gradually drag Yuko into a sensual SM hell. Yuko becomes a slave to the ecstasy and irresistible pleasure caused by her intense delusions, and she begins to live as a true masochist...

From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services - Part Five

1987 • 10 min • Germany

The 2nd of three self-contained shorts by Helke Sander from her series of shorts entitled From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services.

Faces of the Enemy: Justifying the Inhumanity of War

1987 • 58 min

Faces of the Enemy follows social psychologist Sam Keen as he investigates how people dehumanize their enemies. Based on the book of the same name.

Beast-Man (Wolf)

1987 • 55 min • Japan

Eto receives a call from the police, informing her about the death of her twin sister, who was killed by a wolf near a small town. She travels there seeking revenge, completely unaware of the truth behind her sister's death, which she is about to uncover.

Mu-mu

1987 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Poetic screen version of the story of I.Turgenev about mutual relations of landowner’s old wife and her mute yard keeper Gerasim. About Gerasim's attachment to a dog with nickname Mu-mu.

Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends

1987 • 58 min

Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends is a straight-to-video release by magicians Penn & Teller on Lorimar Home Video in 1987. The tape features seven different swindles or tricks that the home viewer can use to fool their friends. The tape was a companion piece to their best selling book of the same name. All of the tricks involve using a portion of the videotape.

Just A Regular Kid: An AIDS Story

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

Teenaged boy discovers he has been afflicted with AIDS after a blood transfusion.

Valis: The Fantasm Soldier

1987 • 3 min • Japan

Yuko Asou is a Japanese student from the late 1980s who must protect three different kingdoms - our own land, the land of the Spirits, and Vecanti, the world of dreams - by using a mystical sword called Valis.

Martinko

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Martynko, while in the guardhouse, found a deck of magic cards with which he could easily beat anyone! He made a quick career to the customs minister, robbing all foreigners to the skin right at the border crossing. However, the princess's unrequited feelings led to the end of his career, and he was abandoned in the forest. After eating wonderful apples, he develops a plan of revenge.

Don Quixote of La Mancha

1987 • 50 min • Australia

Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked.

Place Mattes

1987 • 8 min • United States of America

Place Mattes explores the space between reaching and touching. Animation and optical printing are used to create travelling mattes for places, confounding the difference between eternal and internal.

Texas, Osijek

1987 • 16 min

A Bohemian and a five-year-old take walks on the outskirts of Osijek.

Gap-Toothed Women

1987 • 31 min • United States of America

A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth, ranging from lighthearted whimsy to a deeper look at issues like self-esteem and societal attitudes toward standards of beauty. Interviews were conducted with over one hundred women, including model Lauren Hutton and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

The Return of Bruno

1987 • 56 min • United States of America

A "documentary" about the major influence that a '60s rock singer named Bruno has had on rock music, as attested to by such rock legends as Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson and the Bee Gees, among others.

Space Fantasia 2001 Nights

1987 • 57 min • Japan

In the year 2058, mankind is about to take its first leap into the distant reaches of space. Using the resources at the tail end of a comet, massive spaceships will be sent to the corners of the universe in an attempt to colonize other worlds, but due to the length of time it will take to arrive at even the closest solar system, the comets must be destroyed in-flight, resulting in super-fast speeds that will kill any life onboard; only frozen sperm and eggs, and machines will survive the journey. Carrying the unborn children of the Robinsons, the first of these ships must now set forth to Ozma; and with its precious cargo is coupled the hopes and fears of all humanity.

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: Scacco Matto

1987 • 45 min

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror

Empire

1987 • 32 min • Soviet Union

A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.

ALF’s Special Christmas

1987 • 48 min • United States of America

The Tanners decide to spend Christmas in a cabin in the woods but ALF soon gets trapped in a box of toys going to a children's hospital.

Demon Queen

1987 • 54 min • United States of America

A female vampire goes on a rampage seeking blood.

Legend of the Forest

1987 • 30 min • Japan

A tranquil forest and all of its residents must face the destruction of man. A squirrel, born and raised in the forest, fights to defend his home and faces trials and adversities along the way.

Lust For Life

1987 • 42 min • Netherlands

Iggy Pop documentary.

Breakfast on the Grass

1987 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.

Barbie and the Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth

1987 • 25 min • United States of America

Following their concert for world peace in outer space, Barbie and her band the Rockers are going back home. During the trip back to Earth, the band's space shuttle inadvertently enters a time warp. Upon landing at an airport, they meet Dr. Merrihew and his daughter Kim and soon learn that they have been transported back to 1959. The band then decides to go on a tour around the city alongside Kim. After a performance at Cape Canaveral, Dr. Merrihew helps Barbie and the Rockers return to their time. Back in the present, they stage a big concert in New York City, where Barbie is reunited with an adult Kim and introduced to her daughter Megan.

Foster Child

1987 • 43 min • Canada

Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.