Cinematic Era: 1983 Vintage

A young girl is glancing through a family photo album. Childhood memories come to life, still pictures start moving. Souvenirs become a metaphorical imaginary story about past and future.

Echo and the Bunnymen live at the Royal Albert Hall, London (18/7/83).

Fictional film about Hristo Smirnenski's life before his death of tuberculosis at 27...

A young merchant's son spends his entire fortune to be able to throw lavish parties with his cronies. All he has left in the end is an old magic suitcase that can be used to fly.

Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early morning fog of California winter. Painterly gradations of color and juxtapositions in scale are beautifully arranged to music by Antonio Vivaldi.

The film, shot in the city of Mezen in the Arkhangelsk region, tells about the spiritual culture and traditions of the Pomors, the wooden architecture of Mezen, crafts and the city as a place of exile.

Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.

A video of live performances by Chris & Cosy with visuals by John Lacey. Recorded during the CTI European tour of 1983. (throbbing-gristle.com)

Saturday morning cartoons and children's shows with some retrospective footage of older shows and the new cartoon line-up for 1983.

Pran struggles to make a film with newcomers but nobody is willing to finance his flick.Many big stars of 70/80's have special appearances.

A man rehearses for an emergency—the dry swimmer, his technique is good, he must be very fast. Only the water still causes him difficulties, it confuses him so much.

1866. The Habsburg monarchy fight a war against the Italians and the Prussians. General Klapka, who emigrated to England after the fall of the 1848-49 freedom fight of Hungary, exploits the situation and organises a Hungarian legion with the help of the Prussians, then attacking the Austrians in their back sets out to return to Hungary.

Music video for Golden Earring's hit song 'Twilight Zone.' Both the song and the video were inspired by the book 'The Bourne Identity.' The band's singer Barry Hay plays a secret agent on the run from enemy agents played by his bandmates.

A village lothario and toughie is a meek lamb to his pampered wife.

Film about the privatization of education in Chile imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship. The people begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy. This documentary was filmed clandestinely in Chile in 1983 and completed with the support of the Mozambique Film Institute.

A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young man from the upper middle class tries to escape the constraints of his family.

In addition to asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction based on seed development is common in the world of plants. The possibility of selectively crossing male and female plants to obtain seeds with desired characteristics is of great importance for the breeding of new plant varieties. The short film shows the dispersal of seeds - alone or together with fruits or fruit parts

The efforts of a widowed Scots family to keep the farmer's estate going after his death fail through poor accountancy.

Teatro Alla Scala 1983 production of three one-act operas from Puccini.

From Baptist to bluegrass, this PBS documentary examines the unique culture of religious music in the Appalachian Mountains.

A short documentary detailing the people and philosophy behind Hockey Ministries International featuring a number of Christian professional hockey players.

A drama adapted from Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer's short story 'Oral History'

Nobita and friends engage in an all out robot war in this unofficial installment of the Doraemon series.

Witaya (Sorapong Chatree) is responsible of the security inside Pa's company. Pa has two daughters, Plaew and Fai. They rob their father's money from a safe and donate (บริจาค) 500 000 baht to a blind pupil school. The two sisters give the money under the father's name (กุศล)! While stealing the money, they wear masks with red cheeks (แก้มแดง). They sign their crime with a name card displaying a lioness logo (นางสิงห์).

An eccentric girl named Euis is betrothed by her parents to a young man who is the son of a landowner. Things turn out differently, as Euis is more interested in an equally eccentric motorcycle taxi driver named Beno. The failure of the landlord's son's love resulted in Euis and Beno having to pay losses and pay their debts. Of course, this makes it difficult for them. Fortunately, Grandpa Lihun, Euis's grandfather, appears, whom she hasn't seen in a dozen years. Grandpa Lihun was the one who paid all the losses and debts of Euis' family. Grandpa Lihun was suddenly rich because he had just sold his land. Beno and Euis got married the next day.

The Republic of Poland of the 16th century. During the period of religious tolerance, the Sieniawski and Bielecki families compete with each other.

Roberto, a violent & domineering young man, abuses and rapes Jeni, the domestic worker in his home. Upon learning of this, his mother decides to fire the young woman rather than take action regarding her son's behavior.

A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.

Story of two musicians on their way to a concert.

An upper middle class white young girl leaves her suburban family in shock when she moves in with her lover, an Afro-Latino trumpeter.

The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.

A young man faces several hurdles but plays a huge role in the pioneering of Tappa music in Bengal.

A seventeen year old girl, who is very carefully brought up by her well-to-do parents, on completion of her school studies, has to make a decision regarding her future.

Jeeva, the son of a rich landlord, falls in love with Selvi, the daughter of a widow. Problems arise when the landlord marries Selvi's mother.

Registration of Herman Heijermans' play, performed by the 'Toneelgroep Theater' company.

"My moving-visual response to William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell," this hand-painted film seems the most rhythmically exact of all my work: it was inspired by memories of an old man coughing in the night of a thing-walled ancient hotel... a triumph of rhythm thru to inspiration. Dedicated to Bill and Stella Pence." - S.B. "Although it was later incorporated into The Dante Quartet in 1987 in a slightly modified form, this film was initially completed in 1983 by Brakhage, and prints exist of the standalone version, which features main and end titles, and a small amount of additional material at its very beginning, including a few small film flares and two frames of a leader lady (which are part of the film, but were removed in 1987)." - Mark Toscano

Laura and Micha travel the Danish countryside performing their off-beat cabaret show. Their personal lives suffer as a result of their dedication to their craft, yet the chaos that ensues becomes the grist for their revue.

Simhapoori Simham is a 1983 Telugu film directed by . The film stars Chiranjeevi, Radhika Sarathkumar, Madhavi and Maruthirao Gollapudi in lead roles.

This piece of work is composed of slides, music and poetry which document the two cultures in Ulster today. It also expresses the futility and inanity of the civil war which the two cultures are manipulated to perpetuate. The poetry expresses something of the hurt which the majority of the people there feel.

Phil, a driver for an armored car company, reveals his route to a friend. The friend, who is in financial difficulties, is put under pressure by her "benefactors" and betrays Phil. The money transporter is robbed. Phil manages to overpower the robbers. His passenger and friend as well as the two robbers fall by the wayside. Phil suffers a severe shock. That night he meets Eddie, a bum, near the robbery site. Eddie steals the money and goes into hiding. Phil, who has made the headlines in the tabloids, is suspected of having stolen the money himself. He also goes into hiding and searches for Eddie. Phil and Eddie decide to flee with the money ...

On the morning of her birthday, eight-year-old Katja learns what she has been afraid of for a long time: her parents want to separate. Instead of going to school, she takes the train into town to visit her older sister. Her sister tries to explain to Katja why everything happened and how things might continue.

Filipino director Willy Milan's first entry into the Maxsploitation sub-sub-genre.

Havada Hoovu is a 1983 Kannada film.

A chronicle-poetic film about St. Petersburg-Leningrad from the Italian television documentary series "Cultural Capitals of Europe" (seventh film).