All Films

For Better or For Worse: The Bestest Present

1985 • 30 min

The Patterson family learns the true meaning of Christmas when Lizzie loses her stuffed bunny.

The Trap

1985 • 55 min • United States of America

In this soft-core bondage film, Jody and her girlfriend Diana devise a plot to get revenge on a female burglar who'd previously broken into their home and terrorized Jody.

High School Narc

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

22-year-old police officer poses as a student to find the identity of a drug supplier at an inner-city high school.

Adiós, adiós ídolo mío

1985 • 47 min • Mexico

A strange fantasy about the decadence of the Mexican wrestler "El Santo, The Man in the Silver Mask".

Women Tell the Dirtiest Jokes

1985 • 58 min • United States of America

All female hardcore stand-up comedy special.

Duck Rock

1985 • 48 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

A visual compilation of songs from Malcolm McLaren's 1983 album "Duck Rock", including the songs "Buffalo Gals" and "Double Dutch", mixed with interview and documentary footage.

Minky Momo VS. Creamy Mami

1985 • 3 min • Japan

A rare bonus short film featuring an epic battle between two magical girls - Creamy Mami and Minky Momo. (Shown as a bonus movie with the theatrical screening of Mahou no Tenshi Creamy Mami: Long Goodbye and Mahou no Princess Minky Momo: Yume no Naka no Rondo.)

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

1985 • 58 min

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera.

Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff

1985 • 47 min

Gonzo hosts this collection of some of the weirdest moments from The Muppet Show at his trailer home, assisted by Camilia and visited by Kermit The Frog.

From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services – Part One

1985 • 11 min • Germany

A woman threatens to jump off a crane with her two young children in order to secure affordable housing. Won Golden Bear for Best Short at the 1985 International Film Festival Berlin.

Pony Girl

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Under the direction of a wealthy pervert, young women are being kidnapped, shipped off to a remote ranch and forced to submit and behave like horses by a whip-wielding dominatrix. This shot-on-video thriller with just R-rated nudity is noteworthy as one of the only non-porn films Traci Lords appeared in prior to the discovery of true age. She co-stars along with future Scream Queen Michelle Bauer.

Thou Pluckest Me Out Screaming

1985 • 5 min • United Kingdom

An experimental short of men shouting into megaphones. Produced in 1985 and featured on the Fat of the Land compilation VHS released by Factory Records VHS imprint IKON in 1988. "Here is the first tape of a new British cinema which should be seen by everyone who loves film. The official British cinema is truly dead, alive only in admens bought dreams. This is the way to go."- Derek Jarman

A Hot Stone

1985 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A boy finds a magic stone that will allow people to live their lives over again. His bearded, noble Grandfather prefers his life of hardship, revolution and Communist victory to remain just as it is.

Frame by Frame: Shanghai Animation Studio

1985 • 21 min • United Kingdom

Shot in 1983, edited for the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985, a short documentary about Shanghai Animation Studio.

The King's Sandwich

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

It is a comedy film which is put on the motives of A. Milne's known poem in S. J. A. Marshak's translation. It tells us how for the sake of trifling whim of whimsical king the whole kingdom was agitated.

Frövi nästa

1985 • 46 min • Sweden

A comedy about a surprise party.

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

1985 • 47 min • United States of America

This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original crime-fighter in all his incarnations.

Pythons on the Mountain

1985 • 55 min

John Prothero, internationally famous for his witty and iconoclastic TV criticism, now treats us to an outrageously comic helping of autobiography, Scenes from a Welsh Adolescence.

Portrait of an African Woman

1985 • 6 min

In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams of traveling throughout France and getting to know her adopted country, taking issue with the cliché of the impoverished and helpless immigrant.

Maybe Baby

1985 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A couple weigh up the pros and cons of becoming parents.

R.a.b.l.

1985 • 8 min

RABL combines film, early 3D computer animated human movement, and dance. RABL explores the interaction of human bodies and technology with choreography by Patrice M Regnier and the support of the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the New York Institute of Technology.

Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?

1985 • 57 min • United States of America

Frank Zappa and his band in a digitally recorded live performance at "The Pier" in New York, NY on August 26, 1984.

Nik Kershaw - Live From The Hammersmith Odeon

1985 • 58 min

Concert recorded on 31 December 1984.

Giulia in ottobre

1985 • 58 min • Italy

Giulia has a one-night stand with a stranger to forget a heartbreak. Aimlessly walking through October city streets to let off steam, she meets a woman who came from Turin seeking an explanation from her partner, who doesn't even want to see her. The two join forces and settle accounts with him. Neither of them feels like going home and being alone, so they spend the whole night wandering around Milan.