All Films

Andrina

1981 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.

Vinyl Book Woman: Close Up Naked

1981 • 59 min • Japan

An older sister who is a model of a vinyl book and a younger sister who has a damn past gangbanged by men. The story about their love and hate goes to a dangerous place with a black passion.

Starstruck

1981 • 50 min • United States of America

Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

Molester Train 9

1981 • 60 min • Japan

I do not stand in the case of emergency! The beautiful married woman who knew the delicate trouble of virginity…. A case full of joys and sorrows that the virginity pervert man who I outrun an emergency brake of the reason, and dashes causes.

菩薩の仮想

1981 • 23 min • Japan

DeLorean

1981 • 53 min • United States of America

In 1973, John DeLorean was most likely going to be the next president of General Motors, when he turned his back on his $650,000 a year job and focused on a grander dream... to build his own car company (the first new American car company since 1925). In 1978, DeLorean built the most advanced auto factory in the world in under 18 months, from the ground up in a small suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Piwi

1981 • 29 min • Canada

The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.

The Visitant

1981 • 22 min • United States of America

A graveside visit turns out to be a never-ending nightmare for a grieving father. Restless spirits and ghastly visitations materialize in the cemetery as if to warn the man of some impending doom.

Dreamhouse

1981 • 36 min • United Kingdom

A couple move into a house only for the wife to start experiencing violent supernatural visions.

Recluse

1981 • 27 min

A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkleigh, Devon. Brothers and sister Robert, Alan and Frances Luxton had lived in the farm for many years. On 23 September 1975 their bodies were found with shotgun wounds outside their farmhouse.

The Door Into Summer

1981 • 59 min • Japan

A club of young men who live by logic find themselves in love, and their lives fall apart as they try to cope with the emotions their romance strikes on them.

Djävla Robert

1981 • 28 min • Sweden

Maria doesn't like her mother's new boyfriend Robert. He has his own daughter, Lisa.

Grain Elevator

1981 • 16 min • Canada

This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies. Surveying an old diesel elevator’s day-to-day operations, this film is a simple, honest vignette on the distinctive wooden structures that would eventually become a symbol of the Prairie provinces.

Shima Izumi no suwappingu (hi) sekkusu kōza

1981 • 30 min • Japan

A sexually mature wife was overwhelmed by her desires. The person she chose to swap with was a lesbian friend from her high school days. She was impatient to wait for her husband, and began playing while remembering the past. Mixing in the pleasure techniques she had experienced since graduating, the lesbian play in all sorts of ways was exciting, and the two of them ascended to heaven at the same time...

Moon Man

1981 • 9 min • United States of America

In this classic story by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers for children, the man in the moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet, but quickly finds himself thrown into jail by people who see him as an invader, rather than a friendly visitor. The Moon Man, however, has a most unusual - but perfectly logical - means of escape, and sets out to make his way back home.

Edith Head

1981 • 28 min • Germany, United States of America

A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. Edith Head presents some of her famous designs using glamorous models to impersonate Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. They move to the music of the films for which she was the designer as Head recalls the times and places that served as inspiration for the famed looks.

Made Manifest

1981 • 12 min • United States of America

"Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is." -1 Corinthians 111-13

Shuffle

1981 • 34 min • Japan

Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the yakuza member Kimura who got her stuck in drugs. The entire film consists of a long hunting-scene.

Ojamanga Yamada-kun

1981 • 27 min • Japan

The Yamada family lives in Tokyo's Higashi Edogawa Ward. Noboru, the second son and high school student, dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. One day, he hears about a scout from a pro team! However, it turns out that it's not a pro baseball player, but a scout to become a professional wrestler! Ine, the housewife of the Yamada family and landlady of the Yamada-so apartment building they run, has recently gained weight. To lose weight, she joins a nearby tennis club, but there she runs into her son, Noboru, who is trying to join the club in search of girls!

The Knight of the Rose

1981 • 17 min • Hungary

Short student film made by Ildiko Enyedi at the Hungarian University of Theatre and Fine Arts.

Skyward Christmas

1981 • 60 min • United States of America

In this sequel to "Skyward" and pilot to a prospective series, Julie attempts a secret flight to bring her grandfather home for a Christmas reunion.

Boomerang

1981 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of Sheriff Maclain, who died in a car accident. While remaining black, he begins to think like a racist Maclain.

The Race

1981 • 9 min • Sweden

The elusive dream that brings many people to the horse-racecourse.

Dilemma

1981 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to progressive creation.