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BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

In ancient times, a Persian merchant gets lost in a windstorm. Suddenly a spiritual deer of nine colors appears to guide the man. Later on, the deer rescues a man drowning in a river. In exchange, the man promises not to reveal the deer's whereabouts. The man reaches an imperial palace. The king insists on hunting down the spiritual deer down to make clothes out of the deer skin. The man gives in to his greed and leads an army of warriors to the spot. He falls into the river again, hoping the deer will show up to rescue him. This time, all the warriors' arrows turn into dust and the man is drowned

This montage, based on a 1920s pornographic film from the Pathé-Nathan company, uses old prints worn and scratched by generations of projection.

An interview with actress Ingrid Bergman at London's National Film Theatre in 1981.

A boy and a puppy choose a gift for their grandmother.

A young boy and his dog spend an afternoon trying to capture a playful frog at a nearby pond.

This 1981 television special features the pop icons ABBA being interviewed by American television legend Dick Cavett. ABBA also took to the stage, performing nine songs in a so-called "mini-concert" at SVT Studios, Stockholm.

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation film Travel Songs (1967–1981).

Shot in a single day, POSERS captures a thriving subculture in Kings Road, London: the style, music, and expression of the New Romantics.

Excerpts from a collection of 9.5mm films dating from 1900 to 1928—including theatrical films, anthropological documentaries, and home movies—that reveal much about life during the silent-film era. —MoMa

Short film included in the Dr. Ochanoko’s Horror Theater DVD by Makoto Tezuka. The story tells of a girl who was afraid of seeing a monster in the bathroom.

Documentary about Sir Terence Conran, an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.

How animals re-educated a lazy fox.

Shortly after Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister, Ken Loach returned to documentary, convinced that the long gestation of feature films made them useless as instruments of topical social comment. But his trade union documentary A Question of Leadership, intended for national ITV broadcast, was criticised by the Independent Broadcasting Authority for its explicitly anti-government stance. It was eventually screened a year later, exclusively in the Midlands (tx. 13/8/1981). Believing that the then-new Channel 4 would be more amenable to politicised documentaries, Loach proposed the four-part Questions of Leadership (1983), a wider-ranging study of the trade union movement - but on viewing the completed programmes' strong criticism of leading trade unionists, an anxious Channel 4 shortened the series to two parts and proposed screening a 'balancing' documentary by a different filmmaker, before scrapping the broadcast altogether.

A man suffering from paranoia and delusions is convinced that the city water source is contaminated

As winter comes, little Bear decides to eat all the snow around him, but soon falls ill.

A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on the constitutionally enshrined equality of men and women in the GDR. The film was awarded a medal at the 1982 congress of UNICA, the Union Internationale du Cinéma, in Aachen.

The transvestites of the Rio nights in testimony about their professional difficulties, moralism, repression and stardom

A man leaves his work by the computer terminal and rushes home through the worries of urban nighttime. In the loneliness of his apartment the everyday images and sounds continue to haunt him.

Promo film shown at the EPCOT Preview Center at Walt Disney World. The film explains the philosophy and ideas behind EPCOT Center, which would open to the public on October 1, 1982. It also presents a look at the various pavilions that would be there, as well as footage of the attractions being planned and developed at WED Enterprises.

Beginning with an abstract explaining ghost dogs, a woman tells a story of an abduction of a widow's son by an evil Fiddle Man with powers of Satan, and how a dog that might contain the spirit of her husband saves them both.

Mirage is a visionary, metaphysical journey that uses the unique art form of dance-animation.

Many centuries ago, on the southwest coast of India, in Travancore, the art of kathakali dance arose, the most important place in which gestures occupy.