All Films

Blommig falukorv

1984 • 34 min • Sweden

A film based on book and record by Hans Alfredson.

Jools in Jamaica

1984 • 31 min

Jools In Jamaica film report with Dennis Brown, Black Uhuru, Sly & Robbie, Lee 'Scratch' Perry

A Mulher do Atirador de Facas

1984 • 10 min • Brazil

In a circus, the big act is that of the knife thrower, assisted by his wife. The couple takes risks in real life, in a show of great skill and coldness, which respects a blood treaty.

The Ties That Bind

1984 • 55 min • United States of America

The Ties That Bind is an experimental documentary about the filmmaker's mother, who was born and lived in southern Germany from 1920-1950. Through a mixture of personal anecdote and social history, she describes the rise of Nazism, the war years, and the Allied occupation, during which she met her future husband, an American soldier. The Ties That Bind breaks with the usual format of war documentaries, thus allowing a different portrait of the individual to emerge, while it reflects on the current political situation in America and the filmmaker's activities in relation to those issues.

Winter in Prostokvashino

1984 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A third movie about Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village and their adventures - this time during the winter.

So Say The Dead

1984 • 23 min

A team of investigators gets trapped in a supposedly haunted house in this SOV short.

A Girl's Own Story

1984 • 27 min • Australia

This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.

Scooby-Doo's A Nutcracker Scoob

1984 • 22 min • United States of America

The evil is set to damper another Christmas season for the children's home. Can the Scooby gang warm his heart?

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

1984 • 55 min • United States of America

Waylon Jennings joins a crew of cowboys from the Old 06 Ranch on a roundup.

In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam...

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Musical fantasy based on Armenian fairy tales.

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

Two girls rediscover their love for playing rock, find a drummer and begin practicing. When one of their mothers intervenes, they run away from home and are forced to fend for themselves on the streets against gangs and rival bands. Soon they are discovered and taken under the wing of rock manager Johnny Tremaine (played by Steven McDonald) who uses them for sex and his own aspirations of wealth. The Love Dolls set out to get revenge on those who have wronged them, and rise to the top of the rock world.

A Man in Your Room

1984 • 6 min

A priest wakes repeatedly from a dream in which he sees attractive, partially-disrobed man in his room. The hypnotic repetition and anxiety of his vision gains tension from the minimalist score.

The Fall of the House of Usher

1984 • 10 min

Animated adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher, a work of Gothic fiction that includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.

The Singing Cowboys

1984 • 9 min • Bulgaria

A little boy is watching a cowboy movie on TV. Suddenly, one of the characters reaches across the screen and steals the child's food. In turn, the boy enters the screen and takes part in the action. The time of the film and reality are mixed.

Hide and Seek

1984 • 57 min • Canada

In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.

Privatdeckarna: Uppdrag Gran Canaria

1984 • 41 min • Sweden

At the Falk Detective Agency every assignment is taken seriously.

Factory: Play at Home

1984 • 51 min • United Kingdom

An examination into Factory Records. The members of New Order interview founders Tony Wilson and Martin Hannett, who speak on the philosophical and cultural purpose of their label, and their associates, who mostly appear frustrated or confused. Rob Gretton, Factory founder and manager of New Order, interviews himself. Also includes three live performances of New Order at the Haçienda.

Incident at Restigouche

1984 • 46 min • Canada

Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation (Restigouche) by the Sûreté du Québec in 1981, as part of the efforts of the Quebec government to impose new restrictions on Native salmon fishermen. Incident at Restigouche delves into the history behind the Quebec Provincial Police (QPP) raids on the Restigouche Reserve on June 11 and 20, 1981. The Quebec government had decided to restrict fishing, resulting in anger among the Micmac Indians as salmon was traditionally an important source of food and income. Using a combination of documents, news clips, photographs and interviews, this powerful film provides an in-depth investigation into the history-making raids that put justice on trial.

Reel Around The Fountain: The Smiths on Tour 1984

1984 • 50 min

A film intended as a tour souvenir for the band, roadies and tour staff was put together in 1984 by sound engineer Grant Showbiz with Jonathan Barnett and Hetty Church using stage, soundcheck and backstage footage filmed on this date.

Evil Madness

1984 • 29 min • Canada

In 1984, Moncerf, a village in the Haute-Gatineau region, is stricken by cases of porphyry, the werewolf disease. Several families evacuate the region, where teenagers who have morphed into wolves may have devoured a sheep and a dog. Some of the residents in Moncerf attribute the apparition of this phenomenon to unemployment and general misery among the youth of the region.

GMM contro Dracula

1984 • 11 min

Castle Dracula, Transylvania. The old Count, tired and disillusioned, is visited by the GMMs who wish to be vampirized in order to live forever. Infected by their diseased blood, Dracula dies. Finally, as he himself says, 'a mourning full of joy'.

Motherwell/Alberti

1984 • 15 min

Motherwell/Alberti explores the artistic connection between Robert Motherwell's Open Series and Rafael Alberti's poetry cycle, A La Pintura. Infatuated with Alberti's text, Motherwell uses his words as the subject for his first venture into aquatints at Tatyana Grosman's printmaking workshop. Historic footage shows Alberti, the last member of the Garcia Lorca generation, reading his poetry aloud. His poetic themes voice an homage to painting, which Motherwell's set of abstract "windows" delicately complements.

Hizoban Higasa no onna

1984 • 56 min • Japan

A shop girl is sold to a military officer as a mistress. She endures his cruelty until she meets an aspiring writer.

Making a Splash

1984 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming.