All Films

Leopold the Cat Asleep and Awake

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Leopold the Cat sunbathes and reads Robinson Crusoe, while the mice try to scare him. When he falls asleep on the beach, he dreams that he has landed on a desert island.

Steve Martin: Homage to Steve

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

This video contains three segments: First, the Oscar-nominated short The absent-minded waiter (1977), then a fake interview with Steve Martin about his art (comedians-segment) and finally a full live performance from September 28, 1979, at the Universal Ampitheater

Computability: How to Make the Most of Your Home Computer

1984 • 55 min

Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows teach viewers computer terminology, basic functionality and the many common uses of home computers.

A Merry Mirthworm Christmas

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

A Merry Mirthworm Christmas is an animated television special, produced by Perennial Pictures. It premiered on the Showtime Cable Network in 1984. The film features a cast of Mirthworms which are described as cuddly little critters about two inches long, who live in the tiny town of Wormingham.

Mai Inoue: Blue Rape Attacked

1984 • 30 min • Japan

Mai, a high school girl who was raped in a hotel, meets the man again two years later at a hotel on top of a mountain. She hates him! The intensity of her heart turns into a force she cannot control and transforms into SEX energy.

Toto Bissainthe

1984 • 5 min • France, Haiti

A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

Tras el horizonte

1984 • 42 min • Mexico

A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too

Gallagher: Melon Crazy

1984 • 43 min

A concert by stand-up comic Gallagher, featuring his usual plays on words and his patented bizarre use of props, climaxing with his finding a new use for watermelons.

Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War

1984 • 60 min

Burp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop of global politics. The second world war was the perfect vehicle for Coca-Cola distribution (including to the Nazis), with bottling plants on front lines paid for by the US war department.

Jonah, or the Artist at Work

1984 • 35 min • Soviet Union

A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.

Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster

1984 • 50 min • United Kingdom

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

George Carlin: On Campus

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

George Carlin hits the boards with the former Hippie-Dippie Weatherman's take on Brooklynese pronunciations of the names of sexually transmitted disease ("hoipes"), plus a prayer for the separation of church and state, feuds between breakfast foods, and the absurdity of wearing jungle camouflage in a desert.

Fatima

1984 • 60 min

This 60-minute documentary uses the reported miracle at Fatima in 1917 as a springboard for an examination of the relationship between religion and science in the 20th century. Participants include: Pope John Paul II, James H. Billington, philosopher Paul Kurtz, and writers Malcolm Muggaridge and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. It is hosted by Ricardo Montalban.

Bedrooms

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

Tales of love and marriage are spun in four short adult comedy stories.

Dangerous Knowledge

1984 • 30 min • Sweden

Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by artists such as Dürer, Grünewald, Holbein the Younger, Hans Weiditz, Sebald Beham and Hans Baldung.

W.A.S.P. | Live at the Lyceum, London

1984 • 57 min • United States of America

In September and October of 1984, within weeks of the release of their self-titled debut album, W.A.S.P. undertook their first headline World Tour, taking them to England, Europe, and Japan. This Video was shot at London's famous Lyceum on Monday, September 24, 1984, in front of a capacity crowd.

Ah, Amerika!

1984 • 30 min • Hungary

Documentary with animated sequences about that massive Hungarian exodus to the US which went on from the end of 19th century till the outbreak of WW1. The history of the nameless crowds presented in the film submerged under the surface of official history.

Bad Cat

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

Bad Cat (voiced by Bart Braverman) is a lively cat who sets out to prove that a feline does not need to be tough to have class.

Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros

1984 • 60 min • Portugal

The movie centers around the rape ritual of a minor by four young men, with the intention of freeing one of them of his past relationship with the girl.

Svatohor

1984 • 30 min • Czechoslovakia

This animated puppet film based on Russian folk tales tells the story of the hero Svätohor and his battle with the dragon Goryn Gorynych.

Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta

1984 • 28 min • United States of America

A ghost appears from a laundromat dryer seeking vengeance against her husband for leaving her for another woman.

Chameleon

1984 • 7 min • Canada

An animated allegory densely packed with fast-moving images, this film is about fear. A dissenter masks his true colours. Chameleon-like, he blends in with his surroundings. Because he lacks the courage to act on his beliefs, he cheats himself and others. He dies as he has lived, unnoticed.

Birthday

1984 • 45 min • Soviet Union

Follows the grandson minds his own business, forgetting about his grandmother.

Abortion: Stories from North and South

1984 • 55 min • Canada, Colombia, Ireland, Japan, Peru, Thailand

Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion. From this cross-cultural survey--filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada--emerges one reality: only a small percentage of the world's women has access to safe, legal operations.