All Films

The Hares Scared the Little Bunny

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The little bunny has an overly naive and, at the same time, stubborn character. He never listens to anyone: neither to his relatives - hares, nor to other forest inhabitants. During this period, everyone around is preparing to face the harsh winter. Therefore, the bunny was told to change his fur coat to a warm one, so as not to freeze later. However, he decided to think about it, while everyone around him was wearing warm fur coats.

Down at the Hydro

1983 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.

New Order: Taras Shevchenko

1983 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Live concert at the Ukrainian National Home (Taras Shevchenko) in the East Village of New York City.

My Smurfy Valentine

1983 • 24 min

What could be more smurfy than spending Valentine's Day with the most lovable little blue creatures in all of the forest? In this half-hour animated special from Hanna-Barbera, the residents of Smurf Village cheerfully await Cupid's arrival ... but evil lurks nearby. Can Cupid's arrow make a dent in the stone-hard heart of Gargamel, the evil wizard? Will Smurfette's Prince Smurfing ever arrive?

Ladies Night Out

1983 • 60 min • United States of America

A live performance of The Peter Adonis Traveling Fantasy Show burlesque show, taped at the Broadway Theater in Pitman, New Jersey.

Hellcat Mud Wrestlers

1983 • 45 min • United Kingdom

First and only show of the "1983 World Mud Wrestling Tour" of the female mud-wrestlers based in Las Vegas, Nevada, filmed live in a British pub in England. The British girls were models, with no wrestling training.

A Sign is a Fine Investment

1983 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising films from 1897 to 1960. Places advertising in the context of historical events and everyday life, archive material being juxtaposed with contemporary images.

Lettre de la Sierra Morena

1983 • 23 min • France

Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. Sancho Pança (Risch) is systematically condradicting Quichotte, whose film materializes in front of them as he lists his ideas

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1983 • 59 min • United States of America

As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the night, educational hilarity ensues as Big Bird and Snuffy team up to help a small Egyptian boy solve a riddle - as the rest of the cast searches for their big, yellow friend.

Gallagher: Stuck in the 60's

1983 • 50 min • United States of America

A live performance by "Sledge-O-Matic" stand-up comedian Gallagher.

The Garden

1983 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Soviet film based on Borges' "Garden of Forking Paths." The film tells about the events that occurred on the eve of the British offensive in Saint-Montauban on July 24, 1916. A screen version of the short story of the famous Argentine classic Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). Course work by Alexander Kaidanovsky, as a director, at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors at VGIK. "Pavilion" for filming was chosen a room in a communal apartment on Vorovskogo street, where Alexander Kaidanovsky lived.

Backstage at Disney

1983 • 48 min

The various trials and errors in creating films at Disney, including aspects of "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

The Hospital of Leningrad

1983 • 58 min • France

A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Nocture

1983 • 59 min • United Kingdom

This was the first concert film to capture the excitement of Siouxsie and the Banshees live. Director Don Coutts filmed two sell-out concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and then worked with The Banshees to select the best tracks for this film.

Investigation Held by Kolobki. The First Investigation

1983 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Detectives Kolobok and Bulochkin work at an emergency good deeds center and help a grandmother find her grandson.

The Spice of Wickedness

1983 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Oxford, 18th C. Nobleman's wife lures husband away from his mistress.

The Language of Trees

1983 • 29 min • Mexico

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of art

Seaton’s Aunt

1983 • 51 min

A young boy forced to live with his aunt after his parents die is convinced that she is old hag in league with the devil.

The Sea in Their Blood

1983 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A film made for the Central Office of Information concerning Britain's coastline, with music by Michael Nyman.

Flamenco at 5:15

1983 • 29 min • Canada

In this Oscar Winning documentary short film, students in their final year at the National Ballet School of Canada are seen learning the flamenco from Susana and Antonio Robledo, who come to the school every winter to conduct classes which are held after the day's regular schedule has ended.

Frankenstein 83

1983 • 32 min • Germany

Dr. Stein experiments at the school of his confidence with corpse parts together with assistant Hans, until he is driven sooner or later to create a new man from it. The mischief takes its course, so that all timpanists in the periphery threaten to blow up! Or does the whole cinnabar even evoke admiration?

A Visitor from Outer Space

1983 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A group of boys serving Community Service orders are working on the conversion of an old railway station, when a local magistrate comes to visit them.

Please Don't Hit Me, Mom

1983 • 43 min

A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.

Jasenovac: The Cruelest Death Camp of All Times

1983 • 49 min • Yugoslavia

This film tells the story about the concentration camp run by Ustashas and was made on the 40th anniversary of the inmates' escape from the camp.