All Films

Poodle

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring.

Momo no kimai: Sex dream

1985 • 60 min • Japan

Pinku distributed by Million, featuring a University Pro-Wrestling group.

Round Vernian Vifam: Memory of Ms. Kate

1985 • 57 min • Japan

The story takes place in Kukto in D.C. 2060 - a year after VIFAM. Ypserlon has been restored to peace, though there still remains occasional skirmishes. The Thirteen are invited there for a ceremony by the new Kukto government (its members are formerly the rebels). As two unexpected people appear, they develop a new story. It is a quest for memory.

The Man in the Iron Mask

1985 • 54 min • Australia

Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one finds out about the switch. Burbank Films Australia animated release.

What Mad Pursuit

1985 • 55 min • United Kingdom

If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your books, wouldn't you welcome with open arms the chance of a quiet weekend away from it all in a remote corner of Long Island? Of course you would. Well, let what happened to Evan Lorrimer be an awful warning....

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1985 • 52 min • United States of America

The town of Hamelin pays the ultimate price after reneging on their promise to the pied piper. Based on the poem by Robert Browning.

Dumb Animals

1985 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A campaign public information film against fur trade. Originally owned by Greenpeace, but they disowned it after viewing it. Then Lynx / Respect For Animals swept it up and made sure it was running in cinemas across the country.

Back to Next Saturday

1985 • 25 min

A preview of NBC's Saturday morning lineup in 1985, in which Blair reads Rudy to sleep and Rudy dreams that she's trapped in the "Dream Zone" and, accompanied by other characters from Saturday morning shows, must get back.

Pity in History

1985 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A sculptor is working to finish off a memorial to the Royalist years - just as Cromwell's men are approaching the surrounding cathedral walls.

Ace Hits The Big Time

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

On the day he enters Kennedy High in Manhattan wearing a patch over one eye, sixteen-year-old Horace Hobart is urged to join what he believes is the toughest gang at school.

The Enchanted Island

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A fairytale about the awkward Kohmits who frees his people from an evil spell. Based on the motifs from a Chukchee fairytale.

Happily Ever After

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

Third-grader Molly Conway finds out that her parents are getting divorced. She tries everything she can to get them back together, but most of her attempts backfire. Eventually, she accepts her new situation with the help of her friends.

Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

1985 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

Rat Trap

1985 • 12 min

A no-holds-barred portrait of addiction, RAT TRAP is an unflinching portrayal of a junkie injecting heroin cut with footage of (already expired) rodents being tortured and maimed, all underscored by a fiery guitar rock solo, painting a grim picture of numbing daily grind, dependency, and domestic urban squalor.

Passion: A Letter in 16mm

1985 • 28 min • Canada

The film takes the form of an extremely intimate Letter in 16mm from Anna, normally a documentary filmmaker, to her unidentified lover. From the first 'exquisite ache' of romantic passion to her final drunken and solitary dance with success, Anna struggles with an all-too-prevalent problem in this achievement-oriented age: Is it possible to balance a passion for excellence with a passion for intimacy?Are obsessions mutually exclusive?

Ninth January

1985 • 44 min • Soviet Union

About the events that took place on January 9 in St. Petersburg, which marked the beginning of the revolution of 1905-1907 in Russia.

Goldie and the Bears

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Following the death of a former football player turned private investigator, his daughter, his former coach, and three of his players take over his PI business.

My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina

1985 • 23 min • United States of America

All the little ponies and their young friend Megan must save Baby Surprise and their ponies, magical rainbow locket from the evil Cartrina. If they don't, Catrina will force all the baby ponies to become her slaves. It's a battle the little ponies must win or life in Dream Valley will never be the same!

Nawa hada sanshimai

1985 • 60 min • Japan

A wealthy married woman finds passion with a lover while her husband lusts after his wife’s younger sister. The lover convinces the wife to invest her inheritance in land development and also attempts to steal her money. When the frustrated husband discovers what’s going on he decides that his wife is in need of a little discipline.

The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

A comedy written and Narrated by Jean Shepherd. The story involves several different events such as Ralph's first serious romance with his new neighbor, Randy playing a turkey in the school Thanksgiving Day play, The Old Man setting his sights on a yellow buick and the High School basketball rival game of the season.

Patience Labour

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age. Kinetic and up close, the doc focuses on movement with music, eschewing interview and conversation, and mostly submerging political and social commentary.

Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

A contemporary remake of "Cinderella"

My First Suit

1985 • 30 min • New Zealand

14-year old Steve is caught between creatures he does not fully understand: two parents with very different ideas about the suit he should wear to his first school dance. Meanwhile everywhere he seems to look, images of men are taking control of his imagination. In Stewart Main's comical coming of age story Steve escapes his parents' good wishes, to discover his true desires. They aren't quite what his no-nonsense father had in mind.

The Victor

1985 • 14 min • United Kingdom

An army conscript fights his way through a series of hallucinatory scenarios in which he is confronted by a series of bizarre attackers - who, one by one, turn out to be his army friends.