Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

No Wave film.

Based on actual events surrounding a New Zealand drug scandal that involved the murder of Martin Johnstone of the UK, in the early 1070's. Johnstone had been dubbed "Mr Asia" by international police who were about to arrest him. Then when police were about to arrest his killer, that person was killed while in Police custody. Some feel the real "Mr Asia" is alive today. The film tries to tell about private efforts to try and reach the real killer and villain.

Chidambara Rahasiyam revolves around a simpleton Chidambaram, who is framed for murder. Here enters CID Beemarao who teams up with the local police and Arun to find the real culprits.

England, during World War II. A girl from a very religious background comes to work as a kitchen maid in a girls' school. She meets another maid comes from London, who is much more sophisticated.

A preacher gives a sermon in which he predicts the supernatural deaths of the three listeners.

A documentary on the socio-economic injustice meted out to the slum-dwellers in Bombay, and an attempt to understand the factors responsible for it.

In the Name of the People is a 1985 documentary film directed by Frank Christopher about the Salvadoran Civil War. The film follows four filmmakers who secretly entered El Salvador, marched with guerrillas across the country, and followed them into combat against government forces in San Salvador. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

A couple falls in love, but soon gets separated by the jealous patriarch of their Hmong village.

An Iranian war drama about crossing the Persian Gulf.

Jayasimha, a professor, exposes the forgery done by a mischief in the college. However, he is forced to resign after a biased probe indicts him.

A short documentary by Andreas Kleinert about a cashier in Clärchens Ballhaus, one of the last surviving ballrooms from the 1920s in Berlin.

Pina Bausch created and performed Café Müller for her dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal. The dance was inspired by and based on her childhood memories of watching her father work at his café in Germany during and immediately following World War II. In this silent style featurette, Bausch shows a restaurant after closing, in which the ghosts of the departed customers stumble blindly into walls and onto chairs but fail to find one another.

Dharmaraj sets up false charges against Ravi, an honest policeman, which leads to Ravi's suspension. Disappointed by this, he tries to unmask Dharmaraj and prove his own innocence.

Mr. Mukherjee, along with his family, is caught in a storm. His son Chandranath AKA Lattoo is the only survivor. While growing up, he faces many hardships and meets a lonely cabbie, Bhola, who decides to unite him with his family.

A group of kids takes a boat to save a friend

During World War II, a very young boy comes to a local factory to help produce weapons for the front. His father is missing, his mother is ill, and their bread ration cards have been lost.

The piece is composed of four movements, imitating classical sonata form, and features photographs of walls, gravel roads, etc., which are likened to musical scales. At the climax, the photographs are shredded into pieces and their colors are changed by adding paint, creating a dazzling "visual music."

Mikkel is given the opportunity to advance to deputy director of the company, and now the director has invited Mikkel and his wife to dinner at his home. Mikkel relies on certain unwritten rules and on himself. The latter is the most problematic.

China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first travelogue. Her observant eye is interested in anything from Sichuan opera and the Beijing Film Studio to the production of candy and sounds of bicycle bells.

When Mary leaves her husband behind to go on a vacation with her friend, she unintentionally sets in motion a series of tragic events after she has a brief romantic encounter with a young man called Andrew.

Strawberry rids Strawberryland of a strange, horrible smelling purple cloud with the help of her new friends, the Berry Princess and her helpers, the Berrykins.

Heartwarming New Year's Animal Anime - Cow and Girl is a flipbook animation released through Animage's January Issue 1985.

Recorded live on April 3, 1985 at Studio 54 in New York. Live footage and interviews with Slayer, Venom & Exodus. Venom's live clips are from other videos because Mantas had chickenpox.

An unstable filmmaker risks his crew to shoot a documentary in a town overrun with flesh-eating zombies.

A legendary animation film by Roze Stiebra.

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and dark grey. In five episodes, he alternates single events involving ribbon-like figures following intricate trajectories, with more complex episodes consisting of up to 40 individual events that appear and disappear at irregular intervals. Electronic sound scores accompany.

Since the beginning of time, there has been a conflict between the forces of good and evil in man. From time to time, evil forces loom over both the individual and all of humanity, causing cataclysmic situations that ultimately mean the self-destruction of humanity, and these are, of course, wars waged with modern weapons, the consequences of which were felt most keenly by the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upon whom the two atomic bombs were dropped. This film marks, in a metaphorical way, the threat of wars, while through the images of the horrors of the consequences of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, an appeal is expressed to humanity that this should never happen again.

Martin Christiaans asks his employer Joop Bubbelman for a pay raise as well as the hand of his daughters. Bubbelman's daughter Colette confesses she is in love and exaggerates by pretending to be pregnant. But Martin does not know the woman he loves, has lied that he is Bubbelman's daughter, and Joop does not realize that his daughter plans to marry his chauffeur Oscar, whom he has recently let go.

In 2056, a scientist will receive the risky task of resuming the excavations of the Meyeratelies in 2056.

In the fall of 1985, Christo "packed" the Pont Neuf. In the space of a week, enthusiasts, critics and curious people drastically change the perception of this place whose presence has never been felt as much as since it was veiled. And that's what Christo wanted.

A rescue team is sent to a planet to investigate the death of the crew of two ships.

A Turkish knock off of Italian Pepulum movies. Sometimes referred to as Turkish Conan.

The mother leaves the house. The career of his father, a famous boxer, is collapsing. The son helps his father overcome despair and return to sports.

After the shipwreck, the travelers landed on an island and made a new mast out of an orange tree, which later began to bear fruit.

Peturam is an overweight, albeit sensitive young man, who is head over heels in love with beautiful Radha, the sister of Tej Singh, and would like to marry her. When he proposes to marry her, Tej makes fun of him, asks him to gather together at least 10 lakh rupees before he can even be considered as a prospective groom. Crestfallen, Peturam re-locates to Bombay city, where he starts to work driving a taxi, and buying lottery tickets, all quite in vain, as he finds himself quite far away from his target of 10 lakh rupees. Then one day he meets with a Bollywood film-maker, who decides to give him a chance in movies. The movie turns out to be a success, making Peturam, who is now known as Ram Kumar, a millionaire overnight. Pleased with his success and ensuring that he has more than enough to satisfy Tej Singh, Ram triumphantly returns to his home-town in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes Benz - only to find out that Radha has already been married to a man named

Pink film from Toei.

Réb went to the United States about 20 years ago and in the eighties he returns to Budapest with his teenager daughter...

A local veteran, Ilko Stepanovych, attaches himself to a visiting group of young filmmakers shooting a war film. He is determined to make sure everything is recreated down to the smallest detail—exactly as it was in his own life.

A filmed record of an off-Broadway musical, this tells the story of four friends and the problems they run into when they realize they are getting old.

A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going on practice, he rescues a baby left in a car with no parking brake hooked back up. The baby happens to be Puikkonen's son.

Five women are black belts in karate, which to them is more than self-defense, it's a philosophy for life.

Luc Bourdon, Marc Paradis and Simon B. Robert are curators for a selection of Canadian video to be presented within the context of the 13th Montréal International Festival of New Cinema and Video. This tape relates their experiences and research which occurs during their journey across Canada. This document is less a documentation of the trip than a logical suite to the questions raised in a previous work, Scheme vidéo. Focusing on the displacement of the three curators, the tape reflects their perceptions through the random capture of images. With Paul Wong, Grant Poier, Nida Home Doherty, Jerry Kissel, John Greyson and Collin Campbell.

A young aspiring director is an admirer of a famous filmmaker whom he kidnaps and impersonates in the production of a film.

A young woman and a television.

A wealthy jeweler mistreats his wife and is unfaithful to her so kills him, sets is up to where his mistress looks like she did it and prepares to inherit a fortune. Then, she starts being harassed with phone calls, sounds, and the appearance of objects that had belonged to her husband. The sexy widow is being harassed - from the grave!

A man is trying to decide if he should go to Vietnam with the US army.

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.

Kemal, who lives with his family in a small town, wants to go to Istanbul. He dreams of continuing his father's profession of shoemaking there. However, his father opposes Kemal's wish. Determined to leave the town, Kemal waits for his father to be persuaded. During this time, he falls in love with Gönül, a teacher in the town. Eventually, Kemal's father relents. Kemal moves from the town to Istanbul, where he will strive to realize his dreams.

World-renowned classical conductor Herber Von Karajan masterfully conducts Antonin Dvorak's "Symphony No. 8" in a live 1985 concert with the Wiener Philharmoniker. The recipient of numerous international honors and awards, Dvorak traveled extensively but remained a modest man of simple tastes, loyal to his Czech nationality.