All Films

Import Export

1983 • 27 min • Yugoslavia

Two men involved in mining business, exporter and importer, find in a bar to make deals about their future transaction plans. Instead of business, they end up stuffing themselves, drinking and singing all night.

Firefight

1983 • 16 min

A squad of Marines on a hilltop in Vietnam calls for a Medevac after a sniper wounds one of them. Before the Medevac helicopter can come down for a landing, the Marines are attacked by a large force of Vietcong. After a brutal battle, resulting in more wounded Marines, they're able to repel the attack, but then the helicopter is hesitant to land.

The Execution of Love

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Forbidden love! The aesthetics of seppuku! The phantom Mishima literature has been made into a complete movie! !

Our Season

1983 • 60 min • Japan

A gay couple is on good terms with each other. They run a shot bar together and are enjoying their love. Their father was also once a lover, and they vowed to be together in the future, but they split up due to the barriers of the world. They are determined not to follow in the footsteps of their father. One day, at their restaurant, the two fathers meet again for the first time in decades. At first they are at odds with each other, but then the love they once had for each other comes back to life...

O’Malley

1983 • 60 min

An ex-New York detective becomes a poor man's private eye and gets involved in a high-stakes scam.

The Commissioner

1983 • 60 min • Italy

In the basement of a hypothetical ministry, a man has set up a public office where he intends, for a fee, to solve any bureaucratic problem. His life becomes complicated the day he realizes that someone is persistently spying on him.

Narcissus

1983 • 22 min • Canada

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the techniques McLaren acquired over a lifetime of experimentation.

Afterward

1983 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A skeptical family moves into their new home despite warnings of a resident ghost. They soon become believers.

The Green Cat

1983 • 24 min • Japan

As a child, Sanbo was adopted by a mysterious green cat once owned by his father’s murderer. The cat grants his every wish, leading Sanbo to a lucrative life of crime, but the gift comes at a high cost. Ban, a family friend turned private detective, sets out to stop the cat’s influence before it can claim the young boy’s soul.

Rapunzel

1983 • 58 min • United States of America

A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determined to keep Rapunzel for herself, the witch locks her up in a tall tower all alone, with no way in or out except by climbing her long, braided hair. Wonders and dangers occur when the girl meets a handsome prince.

Hattori and the War of the Little Ninja Villages

1983 • 53 min • Japan

Hattori-kun received a letter from Iga's father asking him to take his friends and return home for spring break. Hattori-kun leaves for Iga with his younger brothers Shinzo, Kenichi, Yumeko-chan, and others. However, a suspicious shadow stares at the group... He is a subordinate of the scientific ninja Mechamaro, who has replaced the power of ninjutsu with the power of science. Mechamaro was plotting to confront Hattori-kun in order to prove the strength of scientific ninjas. And in order to occupy Iga no Sato, Hattori-kun sends a fake letter...

Nadja Yet

1983 • 9 min

Nadja Yet is a story of obsessive teen love, adapted from Turgenev, and starred Jenny Wright.

Moonchild

1983 • 49 min • United States of America

Real life deprogrammers and ex-Moonies reenact one person’s journey into and out of the Unification Church in this compelling docudrama. Moonchild is an eye-opening glimpse of a religious cult from an insider’s point of view.

Making Utu

1983 • 48 min

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.

Double Crossed

1983 • 18 min

Shoplifting, lying, running from the law make up the background for this "big city" dramatic film. Hector, just released from jail himself, takes the rap for his younger brother, and in so doing makes clear how the Lord Jesus Christ took our punishment for sin.

Eroticise

1983 • 60 min

Aerobics has finally grown up...to the sensually delightful EROTICISE. What is EROTICISE? Simply the most uninhibited exercise session you've ever witnessed, a new film fantasy featuring a bevy of beauties who sweetly stretch and bend their way right out of their leotards - and into your heart. Join them as they sway to the beat - or pull up an easy chair. Either way, you're in for the workout of your dreams!

Pereat

1983 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

Short drama.

Vom Trockenschwimmer

1983 • 8 min • Germany

Early short by Philip Gröning.

Total

1983 • 52 min • Spain

"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places ..

Landscape

1983 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A dysfunctional couple remember a better time.

Reluctant Chickens

1983 • 55 min

Malcolm and Jo are eagerly anticipating a quiet retirement but find that their adult children are in no hurry to leave the family home.

Group Madness

1983 • 45 min • Mexico

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

Cattle Mutilation

1983 • 25 min

Against the background of a grisly mystery, four people face a growing sense of panic and uncleanliness. Part documentary, part "cartoon," part B movie, the film asks questions to which there don't seem to be any clear-cut answers.

A Summer in St. Tropez

1983 • 59 min • France

In an isolated country house close to the shore near Saint-Tropez, seven young women share a bedroom. Over two days, they wake, shower, breakfast, play dress up, bathe in the sea, picnic, ride bikes, pick flowers, have a pillow fight, run on the strand, practice ballet stretches, groom themselves and each other, and laugh. Anne returns a horse to Renaud; the next day, he's in a rowboat and meets her by the pier. By the film's end, all are celebrating with the lovers.