All Films

Homeless House-Elves

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About two little house-elves who were driven out of the house by an evil mistress.

The Greediest Monster

1981 • 8 min • Bulgaria

The Comic Strip

1981 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

Gallagher: Mad As Hell

1981 • 60 min

Gallagher's mad as hell but he never shows it, because he's cool as well. He's back in this 1981 special and telling jokes... to prevent his anger from building up.

Kusk á hvítflibbanum

1981 • 56 min

A man's struggle fighting the system he lives in.

A Chipmunk Christmas

1981 • 24 min • United States of America

Alvin learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Prince - Dirty Mind Paris '81

1981 • 57 min

On June 4, 1981 Prince staged a concert at Théâtre Le Palace in the City Of Lights. The show featured seven of the eight songs that appeared on the 1980 LP Dirty Mind as well as a few off his 1979 self-titled LP. The lineup in Paris included André Cymone on bass, Dez Dickerson on guitar, Bobby Z on drums and Doctor Fink and Lisa Coleman on keyboards, as well as Prince, in various stages of undress, playing guitar and handling lead vocals.

Puerto Rico: A Colony the American Way

1981 • 28 min • Puerto Rico, United States of America

A report on the political, social, and economic problems of Puerto Rico in the early 1980s and on the impact of the island's eighty-four-year-old link to the United States. Features interviews with leaders of the Puerto Rican Socialist and Independence parties, Governor Romero Barcelo, U.S. Congressman Ronald Dellums, and the Puerto Rican people themselves.

As If

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Once on a summer day, decided to play the Hare, the Bear cub and the Squirrel. Traditional forestry games have bothered them, as in the forest everything is so familiar. So they decided to hunt as if they were in the jungle. The Bear said that he would be a hunter, and the Hare is a wild beast. The Squirrel was assigned the role of a dog. But the dog from the squirrel came out some very soft, and in general the imagination of the squirrel is rather weak. She does not like to pretend and fantasize.

Candelaria

1981 • 26 min • Chile

The contrast of the parallel lives of two women personified in a single actress (Delfina Guzmán). Despite the radical differences between their lives, they are intimately connected to each other. Candelaria is a vagabond in Parque Forestal, crazy but happy. In contrast, in a comfortable and luxurious apartment, lives Laura, who is harassed by the greed of her children and her lover, who will not rest until they strip her of her fortune and expel her from the country.

Rockstage: The Stranglers

1981 • 30 min • United Kingdom

The Stranglers in concert at the Royal Theatre, Nottingham and broadcast via the ITV network

There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues

1981 • 58 min

Chronicles the history of Negro Leagues baseball by using rare historical footage and interviews with black baseball greats.

Autumn Trip to Mother

1981 • 39 min • Soviet Union

Successful film director Dmitry Pavlovich must fly by plane to Moscow and then to Rome. But the phone rings in his house and he is told that his old mother, who lives in Melovatka, his native village, has fallen ill. Dmitry Pavlovich hires a taxi and begins his “autumn journey to his mother.”

Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast

1981 • 12 min

"Beauty and the Beast" - In order to save her father's life, the gentle Beauty must live in a castle of the ugly Beast. Though the Beast is kind, and tries in every way to make her happy, Beauty cannot bring herself to love him. Finally, as he lay dying, Beauty gives the beast a kiss which breaks the spell and magically transforms him into the handsome prince he once was. "The Silver Pony" - A young farmboy daydreams about a beautiful, enchanted pony a pony with wings. The boy climbs upon his back, and they fly high above the treetops. Together, they bring happiness to four very different people. The boy's daydream is wonderful, but it ends all to soon, and the boy wakes up despondent and alone. But there is a wonderful surprise waiting for him as he approaches the once empty corral. Could it be that his day dream has come true?

Forever Young

1981 • 58 min • United States of America

Examines the fear of aging and what post-retirement years are really like by interviewing a group of active, interested people, all over the age of 65. They speak of their enjoyment and appreciation of life, their health, happiness, retirement, sex and death.

Altered Habits

1981 • 3 min

Queer catholic musical short by Stanford student Marjorie Newman that toured with Divine and John Waters' film "Polyester"

Leopold the Cat's Television

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Leopold the Cat bought a TV, but the mice are preventing him from watching it.

No One Here Gets Out Alive: A Tribute To Jim Morrison

1981 • 60 min

No One Here Gets Out Alive, The Doors' tribute to Jim Morrison is a full exploration of the controversial and quixotic singer, delving into his fascination with cinema and psychology, mysticism and sexuality, poetry and power. In addition to clips of the band in action, it features interviews with the surviving members of The Doors and many others who were instrumental in creating and maintaining the legend.

Kiss Me, Petruchio

1981 • 58 min • United States of America

A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Includes scenes from the production, interviews with Meryl Streep (Kate) and Raul Julia (Petruchio) as well as an introduction by producer Joseph Papp and audience commentary.

Historien om Kim Skov

1981 • 58 min • Denmark

The boy Kim moves with his family from the countryside to a ghetto in a big city. He does not do too well in school, and that makes him an easy victim for the hard core bullies in the new school. When the group leader is moved to a private school, Kim is accepted in the gang - as long as he provides cigarettes for the other members. This of course leads to a confrontation with the school teachers, his family and eventually the gang members.

Female Teacher: Chain and Bondage

1981 • 60 min • Japan

A female teacher with a heavy past who committed suicide with a fellow teacher in the past, and was the only one to survive. However, the woman who was the fiancée of the dead teacher also committed suicide in despair. The younger brother of the woman enrolls in the school where the female teacher is a student in order to get revenge. There are also men at the school who are always after her body, thinking that such a female teacher will easily let them have sex with her. In desperation in such a world, she accepts the perverse desires of the men...

The Man of Destiny

1981 • 59 min

One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it features a battle of wits between Napoleon Bonaparte and a mysterious, daring woman who has stolen his documents. Can she really challenge the strategic mind of a general still celebrating a famous victory?

Space: 2000

1981 • 5 min • Germany

A magnificent cardboard spaceship crashes in the grass, so the crew of the Enterprise beams down to the scene to render first aid. However, buckets of enemies are just waiting for their moment to put that alien crew to flight - only they didn't count on the phasers & fists of our heroes!

Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers

1981 • 44 min

With film clips and photos, Eric Sykes gives a tongue-in-cheek account of his follies and fortunes as an actor, gag writer, and comedian in a long and successful career in the theatre, on radio and television. He pays tribute to his friends in showbusiness and in particular to Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis and the team of his long-running Sykes series.