All Films

Captain Tsubasa Movie 03: Run Towards Tomorrow!

1986 • 35 min • Japan

Monster Heaven

1986 • 50 min • Japan

An anthology of strange horror tales featuring yokai. It begins with astronauts finding a katana on the moon.

Spooky Kitaro: The Great Yokai War

1986 • 40 min • Japan

The second movie based on the 1985 TV anime.

Maricela

1986 • 58 min

Maricela and her mother Eugenia have fled El Salvador for the US with hopes of building a better life. Unable to find work in her profession as a school teacher, Eugenia becomes a live-in housekeeper to the affluent Gannett family. Conflict occurs when Maricela clashes with teenage Stacy Gannett, who resents her presence at home and at school. Can Maricela win Stacy's friendship and still remain true to her own ideals and values?

Workshop Exercises

1986 • 12 min • Poland

A street poll about contemporary youth. The answers are engineered to show the manipulation of propaganda and television.

Shift Work

1986 • 55 min

It's Julie's last night as a mini-cab driver and it's a night full of adventures she'll never forget.

Yamataro Comes Back

1986 • 25 min • Japan

After losing his parents, a young bear named Yamataro is chained as an attraction of a small kiosk near a train station. There he is encouraged by a C-62 train to runaway from the humans and become free.

Mr. Pen Pen II

1986 • 46 min • Japan

Sequel of Mr. Pen Pen.

Johnny Appleseed

1986 • 51 min

Shelley Duvall acted as host for this 1980s television series about legendary characters and historical events. This volume chronicles Jonathan Chapman (Martin Short), who loves two things: apples and his sweetheart, Jenny Smith (Molly Ringwald). Following Mother Nature's advice, he travels the countryside and sows apple seeds along the way, riling Smithville's imperious ruler (Rob Reiner) in this timeless American yarn.

Kunglig toilette

1986 • 60 min • Sweden

The King is about to visit a small town, and everyone is excited to prepare for the event. Everyone but Egon Karlsson, vice municipal commissioner and and member of the Republican Association.

Sista föreställningen

1986 • 59 min • Sweden

An ageing showman and his young sidekick accordionist are on a low budget summer tour of Sweden when the accordionist suddenly gets an offer for a much better gig and then the conflict is born.

Groper Train: Danger Signal

1986 • 60 min • Japan

The pub Muhomatsu is located next to a prison. Love and hate unfolds at the pub...

The Mistake

1986 • 49 min • Albania

Martin is a curious boy, but because of his personality, he often has misunderstandings with his parents, siblings, and teachers.

Sonia

1986 • 54 min • Canada

A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.

Urban Square: In Pursuit of Amber

1986 • 55 min • Japan

Ryou Matsumoto is a screenplay writer that runs into a man and witnesses his murder. Unknown to him, he gets caught up in an illegal antique ring along with a girl he meets named Yuki. In order to survive, he ends up acting out the "action hero" role that he writes in his screenplays.

Phoenix: Karma Chapter

1986 • 60 min • Japan

The story of two men - sculptor genius Akanemaru, and former bandit Gao. Discover how the lives of the two men cross repeatedly throughout their lives, how they struggle with their own fate, and how they are forced to compete with each other for a great honour, when karma is the only prize.

Pecos Bill

1986 • 49 min • United States of America

Steve Guttenberg portrays Pecos Bill, the "King of the Cowboys," in this rootin' tootin' epic. Raised by coyotes, Bill puts the "wild" in the Wild West settlement of Petunia City. When his rowdy behavior gets him run out of town, he heads for Mexico. There, Bill lassos a cyclone to save the state of Texas from drought. His heroics become campfire legend, proving that selflessness and bravery are never forgotten.

Achilo kulnas

1986 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A film by F. Kauzon and V. Staroš about Zalgiris' 1986 debut in the European Champions Cup, where they lost in the final to Zagreb Cibona.

The SuperGal

1986 • 50 min • Japan

Maris is a freelance bounty hunter/soldier of fortune who just wants to be so rich that she doesn't have to work anymore. Just one slight problem... Maris is from a world of super strong beings, and constantly has to pay for damages she and her parents inflict wherever they go,

The Nativity

1986 • 30 min • United States of America

The Nativity is seen through the eyes of three young visitors from the 20th century who are transported back through time to the Holy City

Daikanyama Wonderland Horror

1986 • 45 min • Japan

Three girls, who are would-be ‘idols’, try to train somewhere in Daikanyama, by order of a manager of secret ‘idol’ school.

Shift Change

1986 • 56 min • Canada

This documentary looks at the microchip, an American invention exploited by the Japanese that caused a second industrial revolution. The devastating effect on millions of human lives is related through interviews with some of the newly jobless in Hamilton, Ontario. Using the example of Japan for contrast, host James Laxer demonstrates that the cost of technological advances need not be so high if their effects are foreseen and planned for. Part 2 of the series Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada.

Guinea Pig Part 3: He Never Dies

1986 • 41 min • Japan

Hideshi, a bored salaryman with no friends, would love nothing more than to die. But when his suicide attempt doesn’t take, he settles for terrorizing a judgmental coworker with his newfound immortality.

Transformers: Scramble City

1986 • 22 min • Japan

Taking place after the Second Season of Transformers, Scramble City is a story in which the Cybertrons have built a secret lab hidden inside a mountain to build a new super robot, Metroplex to be a mobile base for them. As Ultra Magnus prepares it the Destrons find out its location and attack it. The Cybertron and Destron teams duke it out over the mountain then Metroplex comes out and beats all the Destrons but then out of the water comes Typticon! Can Metroplex defeat Trypticon???