All Films

Il a gagné ses épaulettes

1981 • 48 min • Canada

Shipley St.

1981 • 25 min • United States of America

Lana Wilson has trouble in school because of racist discrimination, but at first, her parents don't believe her.

The Muppets Go to the Movies

1981 • 49 min • United States of America

In this one-hour special taped between March 9-17, 1981, Lily Tomlin and Dudley Moore join the Muppets in a tribute to film classics. Kermit the Frog hosts the program, which begins with an all-cast rendition of "Hey a Movie!" from The Great Muppet Caper.

Enter Life

1981 • 6 min

The story of life on Earth from the formation of the solar system to the evolution of the first multi-celled creatures.

Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1981 • 52 min • France

A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

Julio Iglesias - Live in Jerusalem

1981 • 50 min • Israel

Backed by a symphony orchestra, singing superstar Julio Iglesias puts on a lively performance for 20,000 enthusiastic fans in this concert program, filmed live in 1981 at the Sultan's Pool, Jerusalem's natural amphitheater. Iglesias performs such beloved classics as "El Amor," "De Nina a Mujer," "Guantanemera," "33 Anos," "Quiereme Mucho," "Con Una Pinta Asi," "Si Me Dejas, No Vale," "Pobre Diablo," "Hey!" and more.

God's Trombones

1981 • 26 min • United States of America

A trilogy of African-American poems that applies artistic interpretation to religious parables.

Way home

1981 • 29 min • Japan

The Dream of Another

1981 • 60 min • Italy

A young student is visited by a mysterious and wealthy philosopher with an offer to make the student his heir .

Patty Fatty

1981 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A play by Kay McManus. Patricia is fifteen and fat, and feels the odd one out...until her brother's friend takes her out for a ride on his motorcycle.

Mr. Griffin and Me

1981 • 55 min • United States of America

Kenneth Griffin, a Hollywood director, hasn't seen his wife in 24 years since he stole paintings from her and went into hiding.

An Audience with Dudley Moore

1981 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Outstanding comedian and musician Dudley Moore regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with his hilarious edition of the long-running An Audience With series. Backed by a full orchestra - and interrupted by both Peter Cook and the Dagenham Girl Pipers - Dudley entertains his audience of celebrities (including Stanley Baxter, Martin Shaw, Clive James, Lulu and Rolf Harris) and duets with singer-songwriter Christopher Cross on the award-winning 'Arthur's Theme'.

The Polish Non-Camera Newsreel no 1

1981 • 10 min • Poland

First edition of an animated newsreel containing - in the manner of newsreels - the latest news from the country and the world: "Polish economy in the grip of krill", "Oil spill in Karlin", "U-25 mystery deciphered", "Sensational-secession photoplasticon liquidated", "Situation in space".

L’homme atlantique

1981 • 38 min • France

When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never understand … I have made a film out of your absence.

Pictures 4 Barbara

1981 • 8 min • United States of America

Film by Barbara Hammer.

Misadventures of Fanny Starr

1981 • 20 min

A private eye is first seen tied to a tree as her narration and flashbacks explain how she took on the most challenging case of her career involving a plot to unleash literal hell on earth. --Mondo Digital Blu-ray Review

Paris s'en va

1981 • 30 min • France

Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both films. Henry Chapier who produced the short: "At the beginning of the '80s nobody was interested in Rivette's highly imaginative project Le Pont du Nord. Therefore Rivette came up with a kind of 'transposition' of the themes of Le Pont du Nord in the shape of Paris s'en va. Just like a painter in the Renaissance who does a sketch for a future project."

Apartment Wife: Wet Bedroom

1981 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Julie O'Brien

1981 • 19 min • Canada

Depiction of Newfoundland's "old times" as seen by Julie O'Brien, an 11-year-old living in Tors Cove. Told in the first person with cutaway shots to the girl's many activities, the film illustrates the way traditions are maintained, remembered and evolved. This film is part of the Children of Canada series.

The Tale of the Silly Baby Mouse

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film is made after the same named poem by Samuil Marshak. Mother mouse tries to find a nanny for her little mouse who can't sleep at night.The same poem was famously animated ( and orchestrated!) by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky with music of Dmitri Shostakovic

Rumi Sasaki and Yuka Takemura: Hotel Maid, Feel Wet!

1981 • 30 min • Japan

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Bimini

1981 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Based on Heinrich Heine’s poem, this film traces humanity’s longing for beauty and fulfilment, as expressed through a song about the legendary island of Bimini and its magical well whose waters revive a person’s strength and youth.

Incomparable Tips

1981 • 25 min • Soviet Union

About a hairdresser who became a playwright, not knowing how deep the ford decided to step.

Dief!

1981 • 27 min • Canada

This documentary short is a portrait of Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and 13th prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979). Diefenbaker's political career spanned 6 decades. When he died in 1979, his state funeral and final train trip west became more a celebration of life than a victory for death.