Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

A young woman looks after her aging grandmother to receive her wisdom.

Tuesday's child.... is full of grace. Teresa has been on a visit to the Holy Land. She goes to Fr Doyle at confession, to confide news of a miracle.

Clowns are coming to town. There is a performance of the clowning theater "Litsedei". Their reprises are laughter and jokes bordering on sadness and sadness.

A fun comedy about two young people working at the same place who fight back against their boss who treats his employees badly.

John Prothero, internationally famous for his witty and iconoclastic TV criticism, now treats us to an outrageously comic helping of autobiography, Scenes from a Welsh Adolescence.

Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properties of his former owner, and his companions' freedom, becoming Chico Rei, the first black man to own lands in Brazil.

Samboja, a thug who controls an area, catches Ceking and his friends who are trying to rape two girls, Dyah Setiowati and Marlina. Samboja tries to help and is stabbed. Samboja is thought to be the rapist and is arrested. One of the victims, Dyah Setiowati, defends him to the police and he is released. But this incident makes him an enemy of the drug syndicate, who the rapist Ceking works for. Although his friend, Leo, who also works for the syndicate, defends him, the drug boss orders his men to kill Samboja. Dyah, the daughter of a cultural attaché, sympathises with him, especially when she finds out that he visits the daughter of Astri, the prostitute, in the orphanage.

A documentary about Dr. Barbara Myerhoff and Los Angeles's Fairfax district.

Aris and Thanos are good friends and they share an apartment. The arrival of Stella will unbalance their relationship.

In a near future : A private underground line team most major cities, security systems are " heavy handed" : firstly , a militia composed of heavily armed mercenaries and secondly , the police ready to intervene immediately. However, in a network , a series of atrocious crimes hits the headlines. Every user is liable to become a death sentence. Including this very old lady , dressed all in black, wearing hat and purple , which, relying on his cane painfully , dared to venture into the Death Row ..

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

This very short film from the Canada Vignettes series documents the annual pilgrimage that members of Saskatchewan’s Métis Catholic community make to St. Laurent, a village in the Duck Lake area that became the Métis nation’s spiritual centre at the time of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion.

Two friends are hired to kill General Prabhakar. They kidnap the general but have a change of heart when they learn that he actually tried to help them.

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The artist Jürgen Vallen in the port of Hamburg, his favorite workplace. A document of obsession: port, cranes, noises, sounds, pictures, drawings. An exciting meeting of three areas: documentary video/art/music.

This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the voice of ordinary working Americans.

A musical comedy.

Hong Kong movie

In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel world: the institution's basement where, in a maze of tunnels, they founded an independent company, with its rituals, spells. A young girl, Agnes, reigns over this underground world that adults seem to tolerate.

Close childhood friends Teresa (Nora Aunor) and Cholo (Tirso Cruz III) were separated from each other for a while. When Cholo returns, his relationship with his close friend Tere gets stronger. But certain circumstances get in their way, causing conflict in their budding romance. Soon Tere becomes pregnant, then she bears Cholo's son.

This dramatic music video highlights Fanny Crosby’s most popular songs, including "Blessed Assurance," "Pass Me Not," "Praise Him! Praise Him!," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Rescue the Perishing," "He Hideth My Soul," "Near the Cross," and "Tell Me the Story of Jesus." Beautifully scored with a full chorus by Janet Maish Thomas, the arranger portrays the “blind poetess of song,” who penned over 8,000 of America’s most beloved hymns. D. Paul Thomas, playwright and actor, serves as our narrator, taking us on a compelling journey of tragedy and triumph, revealing a fully-human Fanny Crosby who overcomes the obstacles of her life by the power of God’s grace.

The story revolves around a family of several men and their wives who were living a happy happy life, until the doorbell rang one night to find a baby left behind behind the door and accompanied by a letter indicating that the child's father is from this family without identification, which raised the suspicions of the wives in their husbands.

Film inspired by the story of runner Martti Vainio.

One day, as Senior wanders aimlessly through the city, his attention is drawn to demolition workers tearing down an old building. Among the rubble, Senior discovers an old model ship. He takes it home and begins studying old ship logs and nautical charts. Thomas also shows interest, and before he knows it, he finds himself embarking on a new adventure with his friends and Senior.

In order to get a promotion, a chemical engineer (Dorel Vișan) uses the researches done by his colleague (Dan Condurache) for his doctoral thesis. But when an important damage takes place in the factory where both of them work, the first one’s incompetence comes out.

Lisa is a little girl looked after by Dr. Flower, since he believes that the Mona Lisa's mother, who runs a laundry, is not a good and orderly mother.

a film by Tony Cruz.

A drama focusing on the suffering experiences by a middle-aged couple due to the husband's persistent unfaithfulness.

As a child, Kemal witnesses his father being killed by three men. From that day on, he is left alone and grows up in an orphanage. Twenty years pass, and he prepares to take revenge for his father's death. Kemal will seek revenge on each of the three men who killed his father, one by one.

A realistic look at the plight of the Mariel Boat People, the so-called "undesirables" who were shipped off to America by Cuba's Fidel Castro in 1980. Ramon is among these people, and suffers the resentment of the longtime Cuban residents of Miami.

Pink film from Toei.

È Pericoloso Sporgersi is Robert Nicod's first short film, shot in 1985, featuring four young climbers, two women, Catherine Destivelle and Monique Dalmasso, and two men, Alain Bultel and Marc Lecomte-Durouil, in the Verdon Gorges. In a natural setting of cliffs, rivers, sinkholes and vertical waterfalls, Catherine Destivelle and Monique Dalmasso climb the Bombé de Pichenibule. This progression, filmed as a female climbing adventure, represents a successful first 7b+ ascent for the French champion. The film received the Genziana D'Argento for best sports film at the Trento Film Festival in 1986.

A young woman decides to organize an intercontinental festival of African songs in Cameroon.

The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of time. The story of a mass murder in San Diego on July 18 1984 is told by showing reports of a local TV station. It turns out that the amok was partly caused by traumatic experiences during the Vietnam War.

A Nova Scotia singing group has a reunion concert 20 years after their successful start.

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other matters -- an entrancing diva who keeps him enraptured with her presence and voice. In the meantime, he finds fault with his cast members who cannot, of course, measure up to the woman of his dreams. As singers encounter one problem or another, it is clear that something has to be done about the conductor. Director Laurent designed costumes for both theater and opera, giving her some insight into the venue.

This is a 1985 Indian Tamil film, directed by "K. Vijayan" and produced by , "Anandavalli Balaji" The film stars "Sivaji Ganesan, Kajal, Kiran, Shalini, Anand Babu" in lead roles. The film.

The cartoon consists of several mini-cartoons: "Liar" based on a poem by D. Kharms, about a boy who fantasized a lot and passed everything off as the truth, but no one believed him. "The Key" is based on a poem by O. Grigoriev, about an old grandmother who left a key at home, but her granddaughter did not open the door for her. "The Ball" is about a boy who dreamed of becoming a football player and therefore could not part with the ball.

The workers in a Coca-Cola bottling subsidiary plant in Guatemala attempt to unionize.

Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade.

Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic essay on the yellow-eyed penguin. No sooner has she moved in than she becomes the victim of a series of increasingly more malevolent attacks from an unknown assailant.

Walter Bannert's life-affirming film depicts the passionate love affair between an apprentice and a student from a middle-class family. Julia Stemberger's first film role also marked her breakthrough as a character actress. 16-year-old toolmaker apprentice David falls in love with Susanne, a politician's daughter of the same age. Their happiness doesn't last long: Susanne becomes pregnant, and David must compete in a boxing match against a seemingly superior opponent.

Two Men in Search of a Plot

In MY WIFE IN FIVE, Schlingensief composes tracks and takes to a shimmering cinematic music piece. The playlist changes constantly between the styles, as if this record had a jump – Irving Berlin's This Is The Army, Mr. Jones, an Ave Maria Variation and Jacques Offenbach's world-famous Infernal Galop can be heard. Equally to the music the pictures also have scratches. The music film MY WIFE IN FIVE was created during a sound seminar by Christoph Schlingensief with students of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. It already contains all forms of cinematic means and alienation, which he later used in his theatre and opera productions.

A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of regular players from Rohmer films. With the help of her friends, Rosette takes advantage of a gullible stranger passing by in order to sell him all her roses.

Four young girls on a camping trip in the woods are stalked by a pair of crazed serial killers.

A convent organist and music teacher escorts a young woman who has been boarding there, home to be married, but romantic complications ensue.

A cow dreams away from the barn routine and goes out into the world, becomes a pop star, talks about world peace in the UN, takes a ride in space before she lands in everyday life again.

In 1933 a young boy tries sneaking into a movie theater.

About the routine of those who live on the streets of São Paulo. Gilberto, a cardboard scavenger, becomes the video reporter and interviews other homeless people about poverty, exclusion, work and life.

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While a youth group led by Daniel causes the explosion of a truck loaded with materials to build a nuclear power plant, Laura accidentally kills his mistress, Judge. Both cases will cross.

A boy falls in love with the girl whose injuries he is responsible for...

Two orphans, a 18-year-old prostitute and her long-lost brother, go to the capital to start a new life. They fall into the hands of morality police inspector Meranzov - a cynic who knows all about the insignificance of human nature.