Cinematic Era: 1983 Vintage

A guy picks up a girl hitchhiking and starts making advances to her to sleep with her, albeit with the ruse of offering to do a photo shoot so that she can succeed as a model.

Sixteen-year-old Magda and Jakub, who is the same age, are in love. Nothing wrong with that, love is part of youth. But one day, Jakub invites Magda to a cottage instead of a disco. And the romance of the most beautiful sunsets for two is quickly replaced by the reality of life. Magda is pregnant.

Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the "Plowshares Eight". In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and in an act of protest against nuclear proliferation, poured vials of their own blood onto secret missile plans, burned other files, and damaged nosecones intended for nuclear missiles. The direct-to-video production is intercut with clips from actual news coverage of the trial. The "Plowshares Eight" portray themselves in the production, and after taping was complete, reported to court for their imprisonment.

When his father dies, a Colombin child decides to go to Mexico to find his grandfather. And become a ranchera singer.

Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

Shot on Super 8 film in 1983 (as a college project), this political-thriller was made on the campus of Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. The movie takes place in Canada, and is the story of a hit man (played by Peter Coston) hired to take out a controversial Canadian politician.

How friends punished a bully cat.

Thambathigal Tamil Movie ft. Sivakumar and Poornima Bhagyaraj in lead Directed by MS Rajendran

An experimental documentary portrait of author J.G. Ballard. Ballard speaks about his life and work, and submits to a lengthy personality questionnaire; these sections are intercut with surrealist scenes inspired by Ballard's fiction, centering on a downed pilot wandering through various landscapes.

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in 1983 with interviews that go in depth of his style and music theory of his signature minimal sound.

Young family on a yacht floating on the waves of the tropical seas, moored to some islets which seemed initially, and while their two daughters playing on the beach, unreasonable parents managed to blow up the boat with him. Children left alone on the island, they managed to survive, and now they have grown up, and the island was not so uninhabited...

Writes Imai, "As a photographer during the 1970s, my interest in capturing time led me to explore the video medium. After utilizing video in two or three works, I saw a similarity between videotape and an ancient scroll, in that they both capture a story of our time. I started using physical videotape as a metaphorical representation of time, rolling out the magnetic tape from right to left, representing a narrative from beginning to end."

A man and his two siblings run a company. However, the younger brother is a spendthrift, and they are constantly fighting. At home, he has lost love for his wife and lives a lonely life. One day, an innocent-looking woman appears before the man. She says she is looking for work. Attracted by her innocence, the man decides to keep her at home as a maid. From then on, strange events begin to occur one after another for the man. In fact, the woman approached the man for a certain purpose. The brothers are unaware of this, and gradually become captivated by the woman. What is her purpose...?

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The life story of Ben Warner and Annie Steiner and their home told in abstracted repetitions of audio overlayed with video footage of their mundane routines.

A comic play revealing people's empty ambitions and meaningless principles.

A historical television film directed by Jean‑Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, Richelieu, or The Day of the Dupes recounts the political tensions that came to a head in November 1630, when Marie de’ Medici attempted to remove Cardinal Richelieu from power. Blending court intrigue, the king’s illness, and decisive reversals, the film portrays the struggle for influence that ultimately cemented Louis XIII’s trust in his minister. Led by Didier Sandre, Patrick Raynal, and Dominique Blanchar, the telefilm offers a meticulous reconstruction of the events that shaped the kingdom’s balance of power.

Drama

World War II. Italians accuse the residents of a village in South Albania of giving signals to the Greeks during the Greek-Italian War.

The film shows the fate of a person who, in his brave work, ordinary efforts, after a bit of luck, encountered misunderstanding, selfishness, careerism and cowardice. It is a rallying cry for the unequal struggle for civil honor amid the contrast between the official and real hierarchy of the scientific workplace. The protagonist has only one choice. To come to terms with the world he lives in or to rebel against it.

It is a special day in an orphanage today. Its boys and girls put on beautiful national costumes in order to take part in the ceremony of lottery winners. These are children who have never had the chance to enjoy the life's wheel of fortune themselves, so they draw the lots of state lottery for other people.

On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Only drivers with special permits could cross the road blocks set up at various intersections leading to the restricted zone.

An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he finds out that his target Ali Akbar Tabatabaei has already been killed by Hassan Tantai aka David Theodore Belfield. A prominent mullah residing in the States finds him a new assassination target.

A coarse but intimate documentary of birth. The eight year old sibling is heard but not seen as she watches and reacts to her brother being born.

A coming-of-age drama about a thirteen-year old boy Ilmārs, who suddenly gets entangled in his parents' relationship crisis as well as experiences his own first romantic feelings, too.

Yellow Magic Orchestra concert recorded in late December 1981 at the Shinjuku Koma Theater.

For Manuel, revenge is a dish best served hot. Blinded by rage after the accidental murder of his wife during a hold-up, he has only one thing on his mind: to find the gangster and make him pay. But all his resolve is shattered when he meets the alleged murderer's lover.

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway

A story of how a team of lumberjacks react when the forest company wants to introduce the chainsaw.

Müslüm is passionately in love with a young woman. The problem is, that the woman is ill. She needs a kidney transplant for being cured. Müslüm is the only person, who is ready to give her his kidney.

In the middle of a drought, Pétanqui - who is responsible for the distribution of food to the population - enjoys a good life, a nice house, lovers and an official car. His son returns from France with a Law degree, and although he does not approve of his father’s lifestyle, he decides to defend him in court when he is accused of embezzlement. His defence becomes a strong attack on civil servants and members of government who take advantage of their situation. After all, his father is the lesser evil of a state of generalized corruption.

“The idea behind it is: Feminists claim that men objectify women’s bodies. So this was a revenge or a punishment for men who did that during their lifetimes, by being subjected to objectification by women in the after death state"

The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed Bye. Dunn's athletic choreography is performed to the rhythms, cadences, and associative meanings of the poets' "cascade of words," which function as music. Atlas introduces narrative references, ironically staging the dance in unexpected locations, including domestic interiors and vehicles. In a self-referential deconstruction that punctures the theatrical illusion, the poets are seen reading their texts and interacting as self-conscious performers within the dance. Atlas and his collaborators intersect the language of words with the language of the body.

This vibrant and engaging video profiles the a capella activist group, Sweet Honey in the Rock. Singing to end the oppression of Black people world wide, SWEET HONEY embraces musical styles from spirituals and blues to calypso, and concerns ranging from feminism to ecology, peace and justice. This dynamic video features individual portraits, powerful concert footage and commentary by Angela Davis, Alice Walker and Holly Near.

A reporter enters the world of bodybuilding at a time when there has just been a death at the gym. He befriends an unusually gregarious bodybuilder there.

Emerald Cities, completing the trilogy, is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune. Her drunken dad still stuck in his Santa suit from the local Christmas pagent, follows and soon comes in contact with the "new dark ages" of 1984. Juxtapositions of "on-the street" interviews (by Willie Boy Walker), punk performances by bands Flipper and The Mutants, TV shows of past-life hypnotism and nuclear destruction, and a crazed ex-con all finally intermix with the characters' own sagas.

Narayana Murthy is a respected businessman who professes righteousness. But when his illegitimate daughter Lakshmi shows up at his house, he struggles to keep his hypocrisy from being revealed. Meanwhile, Lakshmi has secrets of her own. Murthy's son Rajesh is determined to out the truth.

The Impossible Dream" is an animation film produced by the United Nations (UN) in 1983, together with Dagmar Doubkova of Kratkty Films, Czechoslovakia. The film takes a wry humorous look at a problem faced by women everywhere: the double-workload of a full-time job and being a housewife. The film features an average family with a baby and two school-age children. Both parents work outside the home. The woman puts in the same hours as her husband, for less money.

On April 4, 1979, TWA Flight 841 came within seconds of crashing following a mysterious nosedive. In an exceptional television documentary, CBS News recounted the events of the flight, the official investigation, and the ongoing controversy over where responsibility lay for what took place. Producers Paul and Holly Fine painstakingly reconstructed the flight, reuniting many members of the crew and most of the passengers for a frighteningly realistic re-creation of their shared nightmare. Distinguished by its fairness, thorough attention to detail and reliance on the facts of the incident as reported by the crew and in subsequent investigations, this program is television documentary at its best. For handling an unusual subject in an informative and riveting manner, a Peabody was awarded to CBS News for The Plane That Fell From The Sky.

A joint family suffers a rift when the elder brother's wife tells him to demand a bigger share of the ancestral property. The other relatives try to resolve this dispute before it is too late.

A young martial arts master sets out on a quest to find his missing parents and brother.

A social and psychological study of contemporary problems.

An attentive and time-consuming observation of the daily life of workers in a hat factory - entering the factory, the rhythm of the machines, the rhythm of manual work, the steam, the brief and precious break for lunch, the mechanical gesture of the worker repeated over and over again countless times, the silhouettes of bodies. The only foray into direction by the prolific photographer and art director of Brazilian cinema, Adrian Cooper.

Essentially an informercial to advertise the newly remodeled Fantasyland at Disneyland in 1983. It features Heather O'Rourke fresh off of Poltergeist and Morey Amsterdam.

Anamika, a post-graduate student, along with her friends visit the Javadi Hills to make a study on the tribals who live there. During her stay, she befriends a tribal girl named Gangamma. Upon returning home, she wishes to do something for uplifting the lives of the people. She is encouraged in this regard by her father, and Agni, a journalist. After a while, Anamika goes to Javadi Hills and gets to know that Gangamma is dead.