Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

Behind the scenes of Akira Kurosawa's Ran, produced by Kurosawa Productions.

A Japanese TV documentary, NHK Tokushu Tezuka Osamu: Sosaku no Himitsu (Secrets of Creation.), was originally released as a book-mounted DVD, with cooperation from Tezuka Productions. Screened in Japan in 1986, it was filmed as Tezuka prepared for the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in 1985. It shows him working in his private studio and with his team, and gives glimpses of his wife, colleagues and old friends.

This concert was filmed and seven songs ("Hand In Glove", "Handsome Devil", "Barbarism Begins At Home", "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", "Rusholme Ruffians", "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Miserable Lie") were shown in a Spanish one-hour special on the Smiths titled Arsenal. The special also included interviews with Morrissey and Johnny Marr as well as studio songs.

Nai has to look after Meowadee, the daughter of Chan a hunter who protected him from being killed by a tiger. Meowadee is a cute and naughty young girl. She causes him lot of trouble. How could Nai handle this situation as he has to keep his word given to her father?

A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide out at the home of her ex-boyfriend -- her current male companion has been murdered in his apartment, and she fears the worst. The trouble is that Mathieu, her ex, is happily living with his new love Christine.

Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.

The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer who passed key information to the West.

A housewife starts a business hiring herself out as a "wife," to provide various domestic services.

The billiard ball is round... like the life of Carding which revolves around the billiard table for the survival of his small family. As a master of the game, he's prey to the big bets and vices of rich gamblers. He seeks revenge on them when he was falsely accused of playing the game backward.

Three young girls coming of age in a Catholic boarding school bond over the strict rules and vow to support each other. Kikuka dreams of becoming a manga artist, Makiko an actress. Shinobu just didn't want to relocate to Hokkaido with her parents.

A new modern communist youth shoe store The shoe house is opening in a city. School graduates headed by Tamara Berezina are sent there on a business trip for work. Now all kind of problems and defects of modern services sector are in front of them. And Tamara with her team just cant put up with one of these defects and start the fight. The fact is that the factory situated in the city floods their store with inferior shoes, in chase of going over the quota. With help of mass media in the face of young journalist, fellows are trying to change the existing state of things.

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Fidel, a deaf mugger, sees the possibility of a new life after he start attending to a school for the deaf. However his chances are getting shorter as the a police officer is after his trail.

Dean, a failed American writer, receives some unexpected news: his wife, who belongs to a wealthy family, has filed for divorce. Stunned, he decides to commit suicide. His initial attempt fails when he has second thought. But during a drunken blackout spent gambling he wins big and promises all the winnings to the man who can kill him...but they must possess a special playing card.

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.

Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.

A very beautiful and blind girl, Gülüşan, marries miller Mestan and becomes his third wife. Gülüşan is not welcomed by the other wives, resulting in a dangerous power struggle among them.

Hyun-il and his wife are returning from a fishing trip when they get into a car accident with a drunken man. They end up killing him. They meet with the dead man's wife, Su-jin, to come to an agreement. Su-jin demands their house so they make her to stay in their house temporarily. Mi-young's nerves are on edge due to Su-jin. Mi-young meets Jin, Su-jin's neighbor, and finds out that Su-jin was once a hostess. But Jin tries to rape Mi-young and she ends up killing him. This sends Mi-young over the edge and she is confined to a mental institution. Too late, Su-jin goes to Mi-young to ask for her forgiveness and then she leaves.

Martial arts champion Raul Ries was weaned on anger and fueled by rage – a destructive path that led him to the brink of the murder-suicide of his family and himself. But on the darkest night of his life, Someone intervened. The man who refused to show weakness faces Someone so powerful that he is finally broken and taken from... Fury to Freedom.

U2's iconic performance at Wembley.

Carlos is a young priest who teaches at a boarding school for difficult or conflictive adolescents. The arrival of Jonás, a boy with a strong personality, whose tutelage is recommended to Carlos by the rector father, puts the balance in which the priest's actions and thoughts have always been kept on a tightrope, because Jonah symbolizes disorder, anarchy, even sensuality and, therefore, temptation.

MOMOKO in ADVANCED DOMESTIC TOUR BUDOKAN 1985

After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.

Tamil movie directed by Raja Yuvaraja director Somasundaram. Thiagarajan and Deepa are playing the lead roles.

The memory of the young promising composer Gleb Shubnikov helped his widow and his friend Sanya find their place in life...

A dedicated biologist, Dr. Petr Gabriel accidentally kills a child in a hit-and-run and, fearing the ruin of his career, hides the body and shifts blame onto two intruders. His new acquaintance Olga and investigator Major Válek grow suspicious as Petr’s fabricated evidence unravels, plunging him into increasingly desperate mistakes.

Lakshmi, an orphan, saves a man and falls in love with him. However, she is unaware that he is a prisoner who is on the run from the cops.

Balung Wesi was defeated in battle and is seeking revenge on Ki Sapu Angin, the teacher of Jaka Sembung, The Warrior. In mobilizing power to fight the Dutch, The Warrior makes the acquaintance of Bajing Ireng (Black Ninja).

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

Seventh-grader Vitya Davydov is sent to a factory for practical training. His mentor, a worker nicknamed Goliath, gives him an assignment, unaware that their relationship is about to become a battle of wits.

Ahmed is a boxing instructor at the university. He gets into a fight in defense of his father and goes to prison, where he becomes friends with Abbas. Abbas comes out of prison and finds Ahmed's beloved Souad, who escaped from her father's house, he keeps her safe till Ahmed gets out of prison.

A Japanese policeman in Los Angeles uses an ancient magic sword to battle killers and an extortion ring.

Antar seeks to cleanse the Tel al-Aqrab neighborhood of corruption. The villains of the neighborhood take revenge on him by burning the factory, which is a shelter for every unemployed and fraudster in the hill, Antar becomes paralyzed and the hill returns to its former state. Mahmoud al-Nimsi, who was unjustly imprisoned to complete Antar's mission, expires. Together with Nousa, the owner of the café, he confronts those who want to turn the neighborhood into a supermarket

Usha loves Raja and wants to marry him. Raja's friends agree to help her and make a plan to break Raja's relationship with Selvi while Usha helps them.

A Super-8 movie based on the case of grandmother murderess Velma Barfield who was executed for murdering her husband. It was described by Tessa Hughes-Freeland in "The Underground Film Bulletin #4" as "A murderess's last testament, explicating her view of the world, of her crime, and of her punishment. Intimate, compelling and ultimately disturbing".

Ramu, a poor boy and an avid reader, works hard and saves money to buy his favourite book. But, situations drive him to take a hard decision when his family members suffer in cold weather.

As Salwa takes the train to Alexandria, she runs into her old sweetheart whom she left for a wealthy man. As the train breaks down, they engage in a conversation that reveals so much about who they once were and how their lives took different courses.

France, 17th century, under the reign of Louis XIII. Dogtanian is an impetuous and innocent peasant from Gascony, as well as a skilled swordsman, who travels to Paris with the purpose of making his dream come true: to join the Corps of Muskehounds of the Royal Guard. (Edited version of the 1981 animated television series Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds.)

The stories of a group of women training to become military nurses.

Mahmood, an engineer, receives support from his lover, Aisha, as he attempts to make an invention. But things take an unexpected turn when a group kidnaps her to get hold of his creation. Directo

The movie is based on a popular tale from the Basque Country and tells the story of a woman that becomes a widow the same day she gets married, and decides to keep living with the husband's dead body for 6 years.

Otto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. Otto's place soon becomes a microcosm of the city with its German invaders, Dutch collaborators and anti-fascist resistance groups.

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in.

Inspector Vladimir Sazhin investigates an unusual case.

After Vanavarayan's son Sathyam and his friends rape Velan's fiancee Valli, he vows to murder them.

Loosely based on a section of Mikhail Lermontov's classic Russian novel of the same title, the film involves a displaced cowboy (played by Kevin Jarre, the screenwriter of Rambo), a sociopathic record producer (Dennis Hopper) and, caught between them, a gum-chewing valley girl who would rather be somewhere else (Natalie Zimmerman). Lermontov's 19th century novel leaves a vapor trail on the action, but A Hero of Our Time is more precisely a portrait of contemporary Los Angeles, a tale of wayward heroism played out against a landscape of yearning and desolation. Director/writer Michael Almereyda, whose screenplay for Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World will be produced this year, completed principal photography for A Hero of Our Time in October of 1985. Dennis Hopper's participation occurred during a break in the filming of Blue Velvet.

Roaring through the streets in dirty denims and leather, The Outcasts present a menacing appearance to the respectable folk of East Anglia. Theirs is an alternative world of wild parties, arrest and sudden death. This film shows a group most people would cross the street to avoid. It's a life which borders on the edge of society and the law, but one which is governed by strict rules and traditions. There are two faces to The Outcasts. One exists in the pounding of heavy metal music and the exhaust fumes of powerful customised motorbikes. The other lies in the day-to-day grind, where even Outcasts have livings to earn, children to feed and bills to pay.

Koodum Thedi is a 1985 Malayalam film directed by Paul Babu. The film stars Mohanlal, Radhika Sarathkumar, Rahman and Nadhiya in lead roles.