All Films

Star Wars: Droids - The Great Heep

1986 • 48 min • United States of America

C-3PO and R2-D2 are on their way to Biitu to meet their new master, Mungo Baobab, when their ship is attacked and they are taken prisoner. Biitu has been taken over by the giant mechanical Great Heep who works with the Empire, enslaving the natives by using droid enforcers and draining R2 units to keep up his strength. Meanwhile Mungo has been imprisoned to be handed over to his arch enemy Admiral Screed.

The Presence III

1986 • 13 min • Hungary

Two rabbis show the ruins of an abandoned synagogue to a group of primary school-age Jewish children, and stand by as the children dip bread in honey, drink wine, pray, and sing.

Rocky VI

1986 • 9 min • Finland

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.

Fluppy Dogs

1986 • 46 min • Japan, United States of America

Five pastel-colored talking (Fluppy) dogs who arrive through a Fluppy interdimensional doorway. Upon arrival, the dogs befriend 10-year-old Jamie and his neighbor Claire. The friends must help the Fluppy dogs avoid the clutches of the evil exotic-animal collector Wagstaff and find the doorway that will lead them back to their world.

Home Cooking

1986 • 53 min

The abused neglected wife of a loutish hotelier begins to suspect that her husband is the serial rapist that has been terrorizing the area.

Muscat Lips Tour

1986 • 45 min • Japan

Tomoyo Harada live performance from 1986.

Blue Comet SPT Layzner: Act-I Eiji 1996

1986 • 55 min • Japan

OVA that recaps the first part (episodes 01-24) of the Layzner TV series.

Roman-ko Club: Ecchi ga Ippai

1986 • 59 min • Japan

Eight female members of a high school drama club try various erotic ways to raise money to put on a play.

JerUSAlem

1986 • 37 min

Jerusalem is the Style Council's 'Magical Mystery Tour' - a bonkers jumble of imagery, concepts, and situations and outdoor locations that the band members find themselves in, which occasionally cuts to a song.

Wanna-Be's

1986 • 45 min • Japan

A tag-team battle between the elegant girls of Dream Team and the heavy-face-painted women of Foxy Ladies. Naturally, the Dream Team gets the crap kicked out of them, but not before one of them makes one strong attempt at lifting the 250-pound Foxy lady over her head. The one`s to take their place are Eri and Miki of the Wanna-Be`s team. Miki and Eri are both just fun girls who want to have fun, but once they begin their new training with the mysterious Kidou Corporation, the same corporation that trained the Dream Team, they discover that there is something deeper behind their training.

Casebusters

1986 • 47 min • United States of America

Jamie and Allie are amateur sleuths whose grandfather runs a small security business. One afternoon, while digging around on their own, they accidentally stumble onto a major case.

Beyond the Mainstream: A Salute to Philippine Independent Cinema

1986 • 48 min • Philippines

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and Raymond Red, Beyond Mainstream documents the robust energy of nascent independent filmmaking in the country in the 80s. Based on Nick Deocampo's first book Short Film: The Emergence of a New Philippine Cinema (1985), it features the first Independent Film and Video Festival held in the Wave Cinema in Cubao, Quezon City, the first video theater in the country.

Telephone

1986 • 27 min • United States of America

An emotionally-distraught and suicidal woman dials a random telephone number and gets a lonely man on the phone. With pistol in hand, she threatens to kill herself over the phone unless he can talk her out of it within one minute.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1986 • 51 min • Australia

In the 1840s, two boys get mixed up with an Indian accused of stealing money and rescue a pretty girl who is trapped in a cave.

Over the Rainbow: The Story of Young Diana

1986 • 24 min • Japan

Before she became royalty, Diana Frances Spencer led a simpler life as a child of an aristocratic family. Her experiences in adolescence, from her studies at Riddlesworth Hall to witnessing the separation of her parents, set a course for the storied life of the People’s Princess.

Tokyo Illusion

1986 • 15 min • Japan

A fragile-looking woman visits a photography studio, and the owner becomes increasingly captivated by her. This short film condenses the very essence of Jissōji’s style: a man meets a femme fatale and literally descends into ruin—told without dialogue, composed in an illusory fashion through music and imagery alone. Produced by the NSV Study Group as a demonstration piece for analog high-definition video.

Recién casados

1986 • 54 min • Spain

Pepe Carvalho is hired to guard the gifts at at wedding.

Starlet Screen Test

1986 • 60 min • United States of America

12 beautiful women audition for film roles.

Crush on You

1986 • 6 min • United States of America

High Octane Low Budget Action Film Shot in Hawaii

California Crisis: Gun Salvo

1986 • 45 min • Japan

Carefree Californians Noera and Marcia find themselves at the center of a massive government conspiracy when they discover a mysterious object in the wreckage of a military convoy. Their search for answers leads them all the way to the heart of Death Valley, where a secret of international proportions (or bigger) is just waiting to get out.

Spray Jet

1986 • 15 min

Three artists from São Paulo - Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino - talk about their work and the rebirth of painting through pop, conceptual art and graffiti.

Point Virgule

1986 • 4 min

In this short piece, fledgling editors, reporters, and illustrators describe their work on Point Virgule, a newspaper by and for young people, including publishing articles on racism.

Chikan densha: Okumade nozoite

1986 • 60 min • Japan

"Groper Train" entry distributed by Million.

Five Days

1986 • 18 min • Australia

An American Vietnam serviceman arrives on a 5 day R&R leave in Sydney. He meets a local girl and they enjoy their short time together.