Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

Why is the disco popular among Manila's youth?

The Iranian revolution leads to the Shah’s downfall and installation of the Islamic Republic. Avoiding the more sensational elements of the news this film questions Iranian society as a whole to try to understand what this wave of change means for the Muslim world.

Follows the amazing city of Smekhograd. The day of Laughter and Fun came to Smekhograd and a carnival was announced. All the inhabitants of this magical city began to diligently prepare for the holiday and make funny masks. Only the three-headed Dragon was unhappy with the upcoming holiday and decided to ruin it.…

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.

In 1972, to provide Athens with water, a bold project began, involving the creation of an artificial lake from the water of Mornos River, leading, however, to the destruction of the Velouchovo village, and the ancient town of Kallipolis.

A fox manipulates a bear and a wolf to steal their food, framing each to the other.

Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still alive.

Filmed concert performance of the one-woman musical show written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black that stars Marti Webb as an English girl who travels to America in search of love.

Computer imagery dances before a techno soundtrack.

A look at a conspiracy involving the United States president Jimmy Carter.

A play based on V. Eliseeva's novel "And It Was Like This..."

Dying man calls in the three illegitimate sons who never met him to take over the ownership of his nightclub and brothel. Wacky hijinks and boobies.

The story of three young women, Salome (Amy Austria), Bella (Rio Locsin) and Sylvia (Lorna Tolentino), are prostitutes who live together in one house.

A girl goes to buy bread...

This documentary takes us on a journey of discovery of China through the eyes of the employees on the train that runs between Wuchang and Beijing. We join the team of young women responsible for the well-being of passengers, and share their daily life in all its playfulness and serenity, even if discipline is omnipresent. Behind every word, every look, a new being to get to know.

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

Sonia cares more about her job than her husband, so much that he leaves her. From this moment on she changes partner every day, without ever reaching sexual pleasure. With her friend she gets back with her ex, and starts spying on him while he has sex.

A television film based on the story of the same name by Valentin Rasputin. The hunter Vasil kills the bear. The surviving bear rushes to the hunter and gets injured. And now the abominable wounded beast pursues man.

Drama written by Su Shuyangin in 1978. The feature film adaptation was produced by Beijing Film Studio in 1980. Fang Lingxuan, a veteran Chinese medicine doctor, devotes himself to the research of new drugs for coronary heart disease and receives the enthusiastic support of Premier Zhou Enlai. But the Ministry of Health, controlled by the "Gang of Four," uses Fang's son-in-law to obstruct the research. Just as Fang and his colleagues finally succeed in producing a new drug, Premier Zhou dies. Grief turns into strength, and despite persecution, Fang works hard.

A short film that tries to deter young people from shoplifting.

The Brent Delta is but one of 40 platforms between the Shetlands and Norway which reap this black liquid harvest. It is a strange and eerie world: the night sky glows bright orange; men work on deck sweltering in tropical warmth, but surrounded by a sub-Arctic sea; 300 miles from any city, commuters shuttle daily to and from their work on flying buses. Yet every activity of every one of the thousands of men confined to this unreal and dreamlike world is directed to one end alone: profit.

Adrián, a businessman who runs his wife's family industry, begins an affair with Marisa, an employee at his office. Marisa tries to blackmail her mature boss who has fallen into her trap. But the plot takes an unexpected turn, and it turns out that he is the one who dominates the situation and uses the young woman for his own benefit.

Short film about swimming.

An alcoholic man is forced to come to grips with a society when he's taken into custody.

Set in late 1920s, Huang Ying Gu leads a group of outlaws in green woods, and joins the Red Army.

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by James Levine and his top-flight cast. Plácido Domingo is Des Grieux, the handsome, headstrong young aristocrat who falls head over heels for the enticing, impetuous Manon Lescaut (Renata Scotto). Manon returns his love, but her obsession with luxury ruins them both. Gian Carlo Menotti’s opulent production, with sets and costumes by Desmond Heeley, superbly captures the colorful world of 18th century France.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Interviewees sit in the Modnar Machine and reflect on contemporary life, from war, to television, identity, self-perception, with abstractions in sound and visuals creating a feedback loop.

Based on Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', this Hungarian tv-movie is the adaptation of Part Two (Gulliver in Brobdingnag).

"Am I the story I sell myself?" Fragmented memories of a chance meeting are dissected and rehashed.

Majka "Chatterbox" is a girl entering adolescence. She was born with a minor disability. While her mother keeps scolding her for the way she walks, her classmates mock her and call her a "duck". Along an innocent first love affair and a secret friendship, she receives little understanding from her parents and lots of malice from her schoolmates. Majka finds refuge with her grandmother and in her own fantasy world.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Model, Seong-min, falls in love with Eun-ju who is a hallucinating kleptomaniac suffering from memory blackouts. Seong-min learns that Eun-ju's husband had murdered her fiance long ago and forced Eun-ju to marry him with threats of death. Seong-min becomes determined to rescue her but he may not survive her husband's fury or Eun-ju's own mental state.

This educational science program features the story of Dr. Alfred Clothear and his discovery of how bears know when to sleep for the winter.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Agni Kshethram is a 1980 Indian Malayalam film, directed by PT Rajan and produced by Deepa Films.

Adventure in Bleau is a documentary about bouldering that takes place in Fontainebleau. Directed by Jean-Paul Janssen in 1980 and produced by Antenne 2, it is part of the series "Les Carnets de l'Aventure" and broadcast on the same television channel. It features different generations of the finest free climbing artists of the time: Patrick Edlinger, Catherine Destivelle, Lucien Bérardini, Jean Pierre Bouvier, and Bertrand Roche 'Zébulon'.

The life journey of Justīne, a country girl, through the years of World War II to the position of chairwoman of a collective farm.

In a coastal town with no name and desolated by poverty, the sea suddenly begins to exhale a scent of roses that transforms the lives of all the villagers.

Actress Stela Freitas answers a series of questions that seek to show the figure of the Rio de Janeiro movie spectator, their habits, their preferences, how and why they watches movies.

Before shearing, done with electric devices and hand shears, lambs are separated from the flock. The lambs are not yet shorn but dipped in a disinfectant, parasiticidal liquid prescribed by law. For the auction, held in autumn, the sheep for sale are loaded on special trucks and transported from the pasture to the public sale.

Fugitive images of old Paris neighborhoods.

The adventures of three Puerto Rican brothers scraping by while contending with the ghost of their dead father. The three brothers are tasked with refurbishing the house of Miss Malloy, but undercurrents of the past keep resurfacing.

The hard-working head of the farm machinery maintenance crew, Lawrence, is always in control. He knows how to keep everyone around him busy, and he loves to meddle in the affairs of other members of his large family. Above all, he has high hopes for his promising daughter Štěpánka. He wants her to become a college student. But everything gets complicated when the girl falls in love with Tomas from the neighbouring village. One of Vavřince's latest excesses is to prepare a wedding that he doesn't know is no longer necessary.

The girl holding the world’s record for selling Girl Scout Cookies shows how effective sales techniques and setting of personal goals lead to success.

Cited as the first Saudi narrative feature. The story revolves around a police officer who is accused of killing his colleague. He flees in order to defend his innocence and arrest the real criminal, and throughout the pursuit of the perpetrator, he is exposed to extremely difficult situations in order to prove his innocence.