Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

A picture of daily life punctuated by silence. In a village in the north, the daily routine of three families. Glimpses of Isabel, her eyes turned towards the future; for the others, living is the only meaning of life. The camera freezes moments of life through the movement of things in time, values and silence.

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.

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

The film tells the story of two innocent and poor young men. Ali and Veli are two brothers who cannot hold down a job. Due to their clumsiness and innocence, they are fired from every job they take. Veli, a cunning man from the East, is also an indomitable entrepreneur. However, no one is better than these two friends at ruining every job they take. Finally, they start a mobile kebab business. This time, it seems like they might make some money. Around the same time, they come to the rescue of two wealthy girls whose bags have been stolen by pickpockets. Pınar and her cousin are very taken with Ali and Veli, who introduce themselves as wealthy businessmen. The two brothers will have to work hard to keep their lies from being exposed.

Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl leaves him and goes away. Meanwhile, Eliza's father Jul, a sculptor, organizes a reunion of former members of the student theater in which he performed years ago.

A chicken dreams of becoming a rooster.

BDSM pink film distributed by Million.

Music-hall of the 1920s. Mile Entrechat.... Balletic Highlights. Alfonso ... The Singing Gondolier. Neither artiste is enjoying fame or acclaim. But together they make a triple act that can top the bill.

Influenced by abstract expressionism, a series of black and white high-contrast positive episodes characterized by intense bursts of light and deep shades of black.

Based on actual events which happened at the Radio Romania station in Bod-Brasov, during the beginning of the revolution for social liberation and for the country's national liberation, an anti-fascist and anti-imperialist revolution, on August 23, 1944. After King Michael I ousts the Nazi-allied dictator Ion Antonescu, Nazi troops struggle to recapture the Radio Romania station, their former headquarters in an attempt to regroup their forces, but are opposed by a determined band of anti-fascist fighters.

Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China.

Wildlife in the massive Central American rain forest stretching across parts of Belize, Costa Rica and Panama. Observed: three-toed sloths, army ants and a jaguar.

A feature-length English-dubbed version of the Japanese anime television series "Cybot Robotchi" comprising several episodes edited together into a movie.

"El Mofles", "El Balatas", "El Toques", "El Abrelatas" and "El Rebaba" are very joking, womanizing, misguided mechanics, and in the workshop they do everything except work.

The events that befell a young man obsessed with getting rich quick.

A 5 song concert filmed at Budokan Hall on December 15th, 1975.

Rockpalast Classics presents Deep Purple Live At Omnisports Paris, July 9th 1985. 1. Intro 2. Highway Star 3. Nobody's Home 4. Strange Kind Of Woman 5. A Gypsy's Kiss 6. Perfect Strangers 7. Under The Gun 8. Lazy 9. Knocking At Your Backdoor 10. Beethoven's 9th 11. Space Truckin' 12. Woman From Tokyo 13. Black Light 14. Smoke On The Water Deep Purple are: Ian Gillan - Vocals / Ritchie Blackmore - Guitars / Jon Lord - Keyboards / Roger Glover - Bass / Ian Paice - Drums

1985 documentary made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Coronation Street.

A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema annex library. Mr. Rachid, disappointed and exasperated by his sad life, faced with an inspector who questions him, tries to explain: why did he kill his former department head after a long night of wandering?

The film focuses on a shepherd and his herd of goats, and the love he has for his job.

The film takes the form of an extremely intimate Letter in 16mm from Anna, normally a documentary filmmaker, to her unidentified lover. From the first 'exquisite ache' of romantic passion to her final drunken and solitary dance with success, Anna struggles with an all-too-prevalent problem in this achievement-oriented age: Is it possible to balance a passion for excellence with a passion for intimacy?Are obsessions mutually exclusive?

An Animated Short Film by Pacific Data Images.

This is a documentary about the fragile and complex marine ecosystem in the Bay of Fundy. The film traces relationships within the food chain - from tiny plankton to birds and seals and finally to whales and humans. The film is a plea for careful management of our ocean resource and was first telecast as part of CBC's Nature of Things series.

The actress is to produce a play with the local amateur group and old romantic flames are rekindled. At the same time an American army unit is making experiments with a new and powerful energy source in the vicinity, promising the community a prosperous future.

Deflowered by a haciendero, a young woman leaves her hometown for the city and becomes a prostitute. Eventually she falls in love with a young man who turns out to be the haciendero's son.

When Piet, an innocent man looking for work, gets roped up in an assassination on a local politician, he ends up working with the police to bring the culprit who hired him to justice. But it is soon revealed that Detective Andrew, whom Piet is helping work the case, is in fact the criminal known as the “Faceless Man”, and it soon becomes a cat and mouse game to bring this corrupt police man to justice. Hector Mathanda, Dumisani Shongwe and Jabu Luthuli star in this thriller, directed by Carl Bleakley in his feature film debut. (Zulu with English Subtitles)

Critical crime movie about a young, idealistic television reporter who is a loser in a world of cynicism and economic pressure.

A final year medical student goes on the run after bring implicated in the hit and run death of a fellow student.

Five men escape from prison to get revenge on the accomplices who set them up for arrest.

Gives a brief overview of the history, geography, distribution of population, the political/social/economic systems, the Catholic Church, the military, and the problems in South America.

In this low-budget thriller from director Jacek Gasiorowski, a young son slowly becomes aware of a sleazy underworld inhabited by the oddballs and dangerous men that his father must deal with in order to collect the money he needs to pay off a drug debt. Denis (Hugues Quester is a designer who resorts to selling drugs to survive, but now his drug bosses give him the length of one day to come up with the money he owes them, or else. His son Pierrot (Pierre Champenois) goes along with him, as the two frantically move from one end of town to the other, trying to collect from a wide variety of people: a Vietnamese heroin addict, a dealer and musician, and others on the fringe. In the meantime, Denis' period of grace is quickly running out, and young Pierrot has received a crash-course on the lower rungs of humanity.

A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the celebrated story of Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with his favourite Antinous.

Three songs between heaven and earth. With Carmen, Susan, Joseph and Marcus Vigil.

The wind takes hold of President Noll's hat and nothing is the same in his country.

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

Very weird magic fu, filled from start to finish with evil wizards, laserbeams, and crazy spells.

This 1985 show from the British rock band UFO captures the group tearing through a number of songs from their catalogue including "Heaven's Gate," "Only You Can Rock Me," and "Doctor Doctor."

Video tape of a performance

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.

Gérard Courant films the routes of his voyage in Greece with a Super8 camera. Reflections, waves, ports and landscapes are edited at a dizzying pace; in their midst, portraits appear of a very beautiful woman, along with images of the director who turns the camera on himself, showing his face reddened by the sun.

"Nancy, Hôtel de Guise, November 25th, 1983." A young woman enters the establishment after a long day's work. She hopes to watch a film on television, but the set is broken. Nothing out of the ordinary happens — an uneventful evening. The young woman meets a quiet young man.

Directed by Elwood Perez and starred Nora Aunor, Tirso Cruz III, Rowell Santiago, Jackie Lou Blanco, Lani Mercado, Miguel Rodriguez, Nadia Montenegro, Richard Gomez, Liza Lorena, and Marissa Delgado.

One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film considers the chronic patient's right to quality care, and the acutely ill patient's right to a hospital bed. Jean is suffering from multiple sclerosis and is almost completely paralyzed. It seems that the only ones who care about her are the nurses. With the arrival of a patient in need of an operation, it becomes apparent that chronic patients have little priority.

A really skinny guy finds out that he has incredible strength in his punches. After starting a boxing career a lot of people try to take advantage of his talent.

The mysterious sensuality of a man and woman who meet in the magical city sparks...

Mexican feature film

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.

Documentary about the technology of harvesting potatoes with combines of various modifications, shot by order of the USSR State Committee for Vocational Education.

In front of a train station in the suburbs, a man chopping dried fish, chicken bones, and logs. When the man strikes with his machete, the entire scene begins to rotate. As if it had been put through a juicer, it was broken down into small pieces and eventually put into the glass the girl was holding.

“I have three tasks in my life: to dance, to teach dance, and to create dance,” says the pioneering Japanese performer Akiko Kanda in this intimate portrait of creativity and individuality, After seeing a Martha Graham performance in college, Kanda left her family behind in Japan and arrived in New York City, where she studied under the legendary Graham and became a principal dancer with the troupe. Following the wiry artist as she moves from practice floor to performance hall, and from the cramped single-room apartment she lives in to a trip home to see her aging mother, director Sumiko Haneda reveals a woman who has rebelled against traditional ideals of marriage and motherhood, and who nearly single-handedly brought modern dance to Japan-and kept it alive. “When I die,” Kanda tells the director, “I will be content if I can just say, ‘I danced.'”

Video collage set to a harsh noise track.