All Films

As Cobras

1985 • 6 min

They play football. They laugh, they cry, they swim. They love. They witnessed the discovery of Brazil and are present in the conquests of unknown planets. They are not just snakes, they are also slugs. As Cobras is based on these characters created by writer Luís Fernando Veríssimo, published daily in Brazilian newspapers and, between one joke and another, a vignette that satirizes a well-known film distributor.

To Be Or... To Drink?

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the disastrous power of alcohol over a person.

Friends From Far Away

1985 • 5 min • Bulgaria

The King and The Bird

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The tale of the greedy king and the restless bird. Based on a Georgian folk tale.

Little Hero

1985 • 6 min

In 1933 a young boy tries sneaking into a movie theater.

Hanjuku shōjo 3 Sanada Mayumi watashi “hentai” yurushite ageru

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Sway

1985 • 8 min • Japan

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

Augusta and Sport

1985 • 5 min • Hungary

Augusta watches sport on the television, mimicking the activities in a strange fashion.

Kipling Meets the Cowboys

1985 • 22 min

Kipling is touring North America, hoping to recruit boy scouts, and he is trailed undercover by a CIA-TV reporter. Meanwhile, a travel agent, watching a film during his lunchbreak, meets Kipling - all three are arrested and the journalist is fired.

Ramses' Pranks

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About the life of a hunting dog Ramses, whose master decides to go on a hunt. Ramses has to look after his master, remind him to put on his glasses and his boots. Ramses is also absent-minded, he runs into a big moose in the forest.

Perfil and Foma

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Leather to Last

1985 • 12 min

This documentary was made by Roy Spence for the Ulster Folk Museum and showcases the work of Alex Ralston. Ralston is one of the few remaining shoemakers in Belfast who hand crafts shoes using leather and traditional skills. Alex takes us through the entire process from original pattern through to the finished pair of shoes.

Advice on Lice

1985 • 13 min • United States of America

Created for by Walt Disney Educational

Battle of the Monster Trucks

1985 • 46 min

First of the 3 original, world famous Monster Truck shows to ever appear on National Television and home video. A favorite of fans young and old, see history making firsts with side-by-side monster truck car crushing races, 1974 Ford Bigfoot and Bigfoot IV, truck pulling, dragster tractors, flaming funny cars, bus crushing, mud bogging, world's biggest truck, more. Own or watch your copy today.

Two Times Woman

1985 • 36 min • Brazil

Jovina and Marlene, two Black women of different generations, left Northeast Brazil for Rio de Janeiro's Vidigal favela, in search of new opportunities. They relate how they thwarted Portuguese landgrabbers and transcended their status as housewives.

Les Conquérants De l'Impossible : Portrait De René Desmaison

1985 • 52 min • France

This episode is part of the series "The Conquerors of the Impossible (2/3)". From the 1950s to the 1980s, René Desmaison achieved a large number of "firsts". A specialist in normal routes (west face of Les Drus, Pilier du Freyney, Shroud...), he experienced a tragedy at the Grandes Jorasses, where his exceptional resistance allowed him to survive against all logic. He is the first to claim the practice of the mountain as a high level sport. A man of contrasts, his apparent strength hides great shyness and an unalterable enthusiasm despite the years. Beyond mountaineering, it is the spirit of adventure that has always inhabited him. A whole life devoted to mountaineering.

Nelson de Copo e Alma

1985 • 28 min • Brazil

Nelson Cavaquinho as seen by Ruy Solberg.

Strike Swiftly

1985 • 30 min

A look at the history of Australia's 1 Commando Regiment during the period in which commandos were all members of the Australian Army Reserve, rather than full-time soldiers.

Child of the Andes

1985 • 59 min • Canada

Ten-year-old Sébastiana recounts the history and legends and explains the local customs of Andahuaylillas, Peru, a small village located high in the Andes. Their simpler way of life has persisted for over three centuries, undisturbed by modern society's technology and materialism.

From the Diary of a Cow

1985 • 15 min • Sweden

A cow dreams away from the barn routine and goes out into the world, becomes a pop star, talks about world peace in the UN, takes a ride in space before she lands in everyday life again.

Bella och Gustav - om en liten vecka

1985 • 9 min • Sweden

Gustav invites Bella to his birthday party. But it's a whole week left and the impatient Bella will not wait.

Eskorbuto

1985 • 38 min • Spain

Documentary of the legendary Punk group from Santurzi. Review your early days. Interviews, video clips, street performances, walks along the depressed left bank and even their notorious and controversial performances on Spanish television, make up this essential documentary of the most damned band.

Skiss till filmen om mig själv

1985 • 12 min • Sweden

A film about early separation, self-experienced loss and isolation, portrayed through my uncle Göran, who already at the age of seven was diagnosed as mentally ill and sent away. His absence fom my life, my fantasies about our similarities. My father’s disappearance, my absent mother who wholeheartedly worked with others in need.

Quitters, Inc

1985 • 21 min • New Zealand

Dick Morrison joins Quitters, Inc. to quit smoking, but their methods are brutal.