All Films

The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn

1985 • 30 min

Two pre-teenaged girls attempted to thwart a robbery.

Shithaus

1985 • 12 min • United States of America

Experimental film / music video by Jon Spencer.

Vic Silayan: An Actor Remembers

1985 • 43 min • Philippines

Silayan talks about his beginnings as an actor in the 1950s, his working method in front of the camera and on stage and the realities of working in mainstream Philippine movies.

The History of White People in America

1985 • 47 min • United States of America

In this parody of documentaries, host Martin Mull discusses the contributions that white people have made to the USA, visits the Institute of White Studies, and follows a typical white family as they go about their everyday lives.

Woodshock

1985 • 7 min • United States of America

It's just a simple stretch of interviews and images capturing the people who camp out, dope up, drink up, sometimes get naked, and jump into a nearby waterfall, whilst listening to musicians like Daniel Johnston.

Manhattan Love Suicides

1985 • 35 min • United States of America

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.

Big Foot And The Muscle Machines

1985 • 53 min • United States of America

a graduate student named Jennifer pursued by goons of millionaire industrialist Adrian Ravenscroft, who hides Ponce de Leon's map to the Fountain of Youth inside Bigfoot in the midst of a stunt driving show. This forces Yank Justice and Bigfoot, Red & Redder and Black Gold, and Professor D. & Dilly and the Orange Blossom Special, into a cross-country trek to rendezvous with Ravenscroft at the Fountain and stop him. Ravenscroft is so powerful he can impose his will onto county sheriff's offices and get the group arrested. They are saved by Close McCall and his souped-up stunt car War Lord, so he joins the team after initial resistance the first time he tried.

The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'

1985 • 46 min • Australia

Follows the cast and crew of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome filming in the heat and dust of central Australia.

Matylda and her Spare Head

1985 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

Surreal short animation about a clever girl with an amazing memory. Things go well for her until she can't remember facts about polar bears for a school project.

Friends Love

1985 • 45 min • Japan

Straight to Video film.

The Making of Sun City

1985 • 51 min • United States of America

Documentary Chronicling the making of Artists United Against Apartheid “Sun City”

The Book of Mary

1985 • 28 min • Switzerland, France

Anne-Marie Miéville, frequent collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard, made this partner piece to Godard's own 'Je vous salue, Marie'. Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. Her parents will separate. The perception of her universe is profoundly disturbed. This exacting portrait of a child immersed in her books, music and dancing casts a dispassionate yet touching eye on the girl's reaction to the new upheaval in her life.

The Turkey Caper

1985 • 30 min

It is Thanksgiving at Chucklewood Park and Buttons and Rusty are worried. They desire to rescue their friends, the wild turkeys of the forest who have been captured. Every turkey is rescued with the support of Ranger Jones. Buttons and Rusty enjoy a grand holiday celebration with their family.

George and the Christmas Star

1985 • 25 min • Canada

George cuts out a paper star to top his Christmas tree but, dissatisfied, decides to go for the real thing - an unusually bright star that seems to beckon him from the sky.

The Woman Who Married Clark Gable

1985 • 29 min

Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantasies that her newly-moustachioed husband is her screen idol, Clark Gable.

No Greater Gift

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

Two terminally ill boys strike up a friendship in a hospital ward. One of the boys decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to the other so he can have a chance at life.

Richard Lewis: I'm In Pain

1985 • 51 min

A live performance by "neurotic" stand-up comedian Richard Lewis. Includes tongue-in-cheek interviews with fellow comedians.

Rodney Dangerfield Hosts the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Some of the best new talent is showcased in these annual comedy specials each year. Every show is hosted by a different accomplished comedian. In 1984, the 9th year, the host was the magnificent Rodney Dangerfield.

Battle of the Bombs

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

A compilation of trailers and footage from early low-budget films that are generally considered to be among the worst films ever made.

Dialog på sängkanten

1985 • 42 min • Finland

Based on a true story from the summer of 1982 when Queen Elizabeth was visited in the middle of the night by a man who managed to get into Buckingham Palace in London and right up to her bedroom.

Emotional Structures of Young People

1985 • 50 min • Japan

An amusing portrait of youth with Hiroshi Mikami.

The Man Who Thought with His Hat

1985 • 14 min • Sweden

The wind takes hold of President Noll's hat and nothing is the same in his country.

Greed

1985 • 57 min • Japan

To succeed to his father, Lid Kyle sets out a journey to defeat the incarnation of the evil that seems to dominate the world. Longn and Mimau also began to journey to achieve his father’s will. On their way, Key and Bagda join them. They overcome some difficulties, and finally they met Vaii, the evil. They managed to beat Vaii, but it still doesn't solve their problem....

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

1985 • 43 min • United States of America

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.