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Thunderbirds 2086: Cloudburst & Nightmare

Thunderbirds 2086: Cloudburst & Nightmare

1986 • 54 min • United Kingdom, Japan
In the 21st century Mankind will have pushed back the frontiers of science in a way we can scarcely conceive of today. Space exploration, energy development and biological as well as environmental sciences will enable the earth to progress beyond our wildest dreams. Alongside such far-reaching changes will come new and unsuspected hazards. One organization will be ready, International Rescue with its fleet of Thunderbirds. Join the crew of these fantastic crafts on ARCOLOGY, a vast city complex in the Pacific, where they are ready to face any danger, no matter how desperate.
Silent Life

Silent Life

1986 • 13 min
Silent Life records the first hours and days of life through a series of portraits of newborn babies in a hospital nursery. The alienating hospital environment, and the vulnerability of the babies' gestures and expressions, suggests a primal linking of birth and death.
Standard Gauge

Standard Gauge

1986 • 35 min • United States of America
Standard Gauge is an autobiographical film that examines Morgan Fisher’s work as an editor in the film industry. The film goes through scraps of rejected material along with commentary on the meaning of all the scrapped images. This film is an account and critique of the processes of meaning within film production through an examination of both materialism and the institution of film itself.
Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

1986 • 55 min • Australia
Based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe's 12th-century England comes to life in Burbank Film's classic animated film.
Jun Togawa & Yapoos - Tour-Live'85-86

Jun Togawa & Yapoos - Tour-Live'85-86

1986 • 53 min • Japan
Live concert
Colette Vignette

Colette Vignette

1986 • 4 min
An award-winning short featuring an interview with actress Colette Haywood of CHAMELEON STREET.
Spooky Kitaro: The Strongest Ghost Army! Landing in Japan!!

Spooky Kitaro: The Strongest Ghost Army! Landing in Japan!!

1986 • 49 min • Japan
A monster appeared out of nowhere, transformed into a human, and began selling strange cloth. Becoming suspicious, the cat girl follows him and witnesses a horrifying scene deep in the mountains. Using a technique she had never seen before, she turned her colored paper into a piece of cloth...
Groper Train: Interconnected

Groper Train: Interconnected

1986 • 60 min • Japan
Murazawa molests Noriko on a crowded train, but she steals his wallet. He catches Noriko and takes her to the police, but she turns out to be the wife of the detective who interrogated him. Saeki molests Nozomi, a police officer, and makes the excuse that it was love at first sight. The two start dating, but Saeki's wife and Nozomi are best friends. Akiko has been having an affair behind her husband's back, but she is terrified when she hears about a case in which a husband killed his wife because of his affair...
Mr. Pen Pen

Mr. Pen Pen

1986 • 49 min • Japan
Pen-Pen, the hat-and-tie-wearing prince of Penguin Land, turns up unexpectedly on little Mika's doorstep. and invites himself and his zany friends to stay.
Ladies' Night

Ladies' Night

1986 • 52 min • United Kingdom
A tradition-bound gentlemen's club is thrown into chaos when women are allowed in during "ladies' night." One member resents the intrusion of women so much, he resorts to murder.
Bavi Stock II: The Revenge of Eyesma -Beyond The Throbbing Love-

Bavi Stock II: The Revenge of Eyesma -Beyond The Throbbing Love-

1986 • 45 min • Japan
Kate, the agent of police planet G.P.P. is still fighting Ventica Empire. She has the aces against the Empire with her: Bavi and Mooma. They have to crashland on an unknown planet, where there is not only a thriving vegetation of trees higher than a hundred metres, but also animals resembling dinosaurs. Before the three could find a way of getting out of this jungle, a strong enemy sent by the Empire arrives: cyborg soldier Eyesman.
Groper Train: Dangerous Neighbor

Groper Train: Dangerous Neighbor

1986 • 60 min • Japan
A neighbor enlists the help of a young perverted couple - an assistant professor and his wife. Can he fix his sexual complex? Part 20 in the "Molester Train" series.
Babylon

Babylon

1986 • 15 min • United Kingdom
Dark animation examining the thin line between human definitions of war and peace. Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.
Teen Father

Teen Father

1986 • 60 min • United States of America
College bound 18-year-old has his life turned upside down when his 16-year-old girlfriend announce she is pregnant.
Daylight Robbery

Daylight Robbery

1986 • 55 min
Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.
Prefectural Earth Defense Force

Prefectural Earth Defense Force

1986 • 50 min • Japan
The evil secret society known as the Telephone Pole Gang seeks to take over the world by first taking over a certain prefecture on Kyūshū (they never specify which one). In order to thwart the evil plans of the Telephone Pole Gang, Imazuru High School creates the Prefectural Earth Defense Force, composed of problem teachers and students from the school. They are also joined by a cyborg transfer student from India.
Dead Things

Dead Things

1986 • 21 min • United States of America
A deranged hillbilly dad, along with his similarly demented hick child, brutally butcher any folks who are unfortunate enough to venture into their remote neck of the woods. This is the original 1986 version.
Dreamless Sleep

Dreamless Sleep

1986 • 10 min • United Kingdom
Silently conveys a couple's fear of an immanent nuclear blast. Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.
Darlin' Clementine

Darlin' Clementine

1986 • 49 min • United States of America
Clementine is the sole woman in her mining camp who cares for everyone around her until her selfish father learns a valuable lesson.
Kappa

Kappa

1986 • 26 min
Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire. Quoting from Bunuel, Freud, pop media and art, they place the symbology of Western psychosexual analytical theory into a cross-cultural context, juxtaposing the Oedipal and Kappa myths in a delirious collusion of form and content. The Kappa, a malevolent Japanese water imp, is played with eerie intensity by artist Mike Kelley; actress Mary Woronov plays Jocasta as a vamp from a Hollywood exploitation film. Steeped in perversions and violent longings, both the Kappa and Oedipus legends are presented in highly stylized, purposefully "degraded" forms, reflecting their media-exploitative cultural contexts. In this ironic yet oddly poignant essay of psychosexual compulsion and catharsis, the Yonemotos demonstrate that even in debased forms, cultural archetypes hold the power to move and manipulate.
The Humanoid

The Humanoid

1986 • 45 min • Japan
Antoinette, an android of burnished chrome living on a distant Earth outpost, is equipped with a heart -- or at least the programming for one. As Antoinette searches for the true meaning of humanity, she confronts Proud, the planetary governor. Living up to his name, the governor is obsessed with laying his hands on a weapon that will allow him to control the universe and it's up to Antoinette and her creator, Dr. Watson, to thwart him.
Birthday Boy

Birthday Boy

1986 • 33 min • United States of America
A salesman in a sporting-goods store takes a cross-country trip on his birthday in order to visit his old gym coach, and sell him a supply of basketballs.
Darling Betty - Demon Story

Darling Betty - Demon Story

1986 • 55 min • Japan
A devil-girl with the face of an angel and a heart of gold, blond Betty falls in love with an earthbound gangster, Danpei Kimogawa, when they meet in a rainstorm. They end up living together in a Tokyo highrise apartment, though Danpei has trouble coping with his new witch and demon in-laws dropping in at inopportune moments. Betty has actually been sent to the human world on a mission to defeat the demon Lutan. While Betty continues her task, her skeletal grandmother sends nubile nymphs to tempt Danpei and see if he is suitable husband material. Based on the manga Mamonogatari itoshi no beti.
Biotherapy

Biotherapy

1986 • 36 min • Japan
A group of Japanese scientists are stalked and viciously butchered by a creepy alien in a trenchcoat.