Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

A film about the love between a married doctor and a painter he meets on vacation.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

A 1987 live concert by the American R&B recording artist Anita Baker, who performs all of the songs from her multi-platinum album "Rapture". The performance was recorded live at the Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Mendiola Massacre is a newsreel of the massacre in Mendiola Bridge on January 22, 1987. The protest action for genuine agrarian reform by peasant organizations led by Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) resulted in the deaths of thirteen farmers and injuries of hundreds of civilians.

A quarrel between a couple in love causes a cruise ship to set sail. The passengers are introduced one by one. Phoebus is in love with Christina, who is infatuated with the captain. A penniless sheikh is searching for a wealthy woman. Archaeologist Kurt and Gloria take a priceless slab from the Pyramid of Cheops. Thus begins the turmoil and crazy situations from Egypt to Israel and from Turkey to Rhodes...

Based on the tragedy that Mexico City suffered after the 1985 earthquake , praising and thanking the efforts of locals and foreigners in helping to rescue the living and the dead from the rubble.

Polykarpos,a poor family man, has a son whose only interest is in baskeball.

The story of the 1946 Aboriginal Pastoral Workers' Strike. Eight hundred aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north west of Western Australia, marking the beginning of a strike which lasted more than three years. The strike was more than a demand for better wages and conditions, it was a struggle for basic human rights.

A cruel, ruthless, immigrant killer pursues his victim. The latter is trapped in a provincial station, waiting for a train that might save him from death—or for death to save him from fleeing.

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror

High in the mountains of Northern Britain stands the haunted castle of Gortswill. In 1976 a young man killed two students and then walled up the bodies. And since then, eerie occurrences have happened at Gortswill. Will the dead find no rest? Part 1 of the Das Buch Der Blutigen Geschichten Trilogy

Running Out of Patience documents the Victorian nurses' strike of 1986, revealing various myths and stereotypes which have managed to pigeonhole women as saints first and unionists second.

A work produced in Brittany, France, with funding from the French government and employing local CG artists, the main subject is the Stonehenge.

From Henry Chalfant, the director genre defining documentary Style Wars, comes a short film featuring original graffiti innovators Blade and Maze painting a mural in 80's New York.

In Burgers Zoo the new residence of the gorillas is put in operation. Also the country of origin, Cameroon, is visited.

Riding the Iron Horse - a roaring, full-throated Harley Davidson - across the open prairie is an American dream. Fifty thousand leather-clad bikers make romance come true as they converge, from all over the States and beyond, on Sturgis, a sleepy farming town in South Dakota. The 48th annual Black Hills Motorcycle Rally brings together weekenders on little Japanese bikes and hard-core, all-American Wild Ones. It's a raucous summer week of racing, drinking, partying and generally raising hell. 'The Sons of Silence' is one of the many bikers' chapters here. The Sons believe in America, freedom, white power, and loyalty to each other. They've got their own chaplain; women are not members, but 'property'. Rebels against convention, they live by their own strict code - 'We are the Sons of Silence until death'.

CARS! BIKES! TRUCKS! & BOATS! Experience the crashes, smashes, thrills and spills of the fastest sports in the world! Over 130 spectacular crashes!

Dark gothic puppet animation based on a section of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, Titus Groan.

A house burns to the ground and the occupants perish. As the fire rages through the house, the family's efforts to escape are futile. Doors, walls, objects stand in the way. As the dying transform into spirits, the voices of the house resonate. Before they head to wherever it is spirits go, death decides to put on a nice little vaudeville show to cheer up the recently dead. Only in death do we truly silence ourselves.

The puppet monkey saves the baby from the pernicious influence of cigarettes.

Silver into Gold is a 1987 American short documentary film produced by Lynn Mueller. The film looks at American athletes Gail Roper and Sister Marion Irvine, and tells how they overcame personal obstacles, as well as social pressures against female athletes, to become world-class competitors. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. In the last year of the war, Andrei returns to his native village. But he does not return as a hero, but as a deserter, who, after being wounded, failed to make it back to his military unit from the hospital. Only one person knows that Andrei has returned – his wife, Nastya, the only one to whom Andrei can entrust his life. Nastya is forced to hide her husband even from their relatives, only occasionally visiting him in his hiding place. Andrei is now a perpetual fugitive, doomed to loneliness.

Armand Rouiller, 80, is a mountain peasant, woodcutter, and craftsman. He handcrafts large sledges, rakes and handles for scythes, a craft he learned from his father, who learned it from his own father, and so on. Rouiller gathers timber for his sledges and rakes from the ash, maple, and linden trees in a forest he inherited from his father. He is the last craftsman in French-speaking Switzerland to build sledges and rakes in the old-time way.

The guys find a discarded mannequin of a boy and make a robot out of it so that he learns instead of them.

A film about an outstanding philosopher, logician - born in 1902 Dominican Father Professor Joseph Maria Bochenski. Documentary about a man whose life was extraordinary. Lancer, military chaplain, participant in three war campaigns - as a lancer in 1920, as a soldier in the Independent Operational Group "Polesie" under General Franciszek Kleeberg, and finally as a member of the Second Polish Corps in the Battle of Monte Cassino. From 1964 to 1966 he was rector of the University of Freiburg in Switzerland, founder of the Institute of Eastern Europe, and author of many books on philosophy and logic.

A full-length documentary tracing the history of Britain's premier folk rock group.

A short film by Ahmed Zir.

1987 Peter Rose short film

A César award nominated short feature.

A César award nominated short drama about some hopeless small-time crooks.

This film tells the story of the difficult transition from 36 years of military rule to a civilian president in Guatemala in 1986. It focuses on the pressing issues of continuing military power, land and human rights issues.

Dino Bregu, head of a state farm, learns that Ilir, his successor, is having a relationship with his daughter, and must cope with this situation.

A compilation of scenes from films, television and short-subjects going back to the 1920s regarding teen dating, sex and sexually transmitted diseases.

Story about the monetary problems of a movie producer and the pain and joy of film-making

Elayne Boosler's second Showtime stand-up comedy special

Documentary film.

Based on a story by Nikolai Berezovsky, using fragments from O. Henry's short story "Peaches."

The adventures of Chris and his uncle continue... with a lot of karate.

This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of experimental/avant garde art- particularly video art- back in the 70's & 80's. MacGillvary interviews a number of the artists that were formative to the program. Many of whom would go on to become teachers at the school.

Segalove re-enacts the trials and travails of her desperate, hormonal, pubescent years with actors dancing their way through what looks like a techni-color version of the Cleaver’s backyard. She plays herself, getting questionable advice from girlfriends, begging her mother for a bra and falling in love for the first time, with Moondoggie in Gidget Goes Hawaiian.

Ramazan (Sönmez Yıkılmaz), who has been fighting in Cyprus for a long time and resentful of life, is back on the move after the murder of his unit commander, because his beloved soldier friend has been killed by an international arms smuggling organization. Ramazan, codenamed Ramo, fights against this organization with a fellow soldier. During this struggle, he also establishes a relationship with the daughter (Ayşegül Ünsal) of the billionaire smuggler chief (Muzaffer Tema).

Ian and some college friends form a band. Since they are becoming popular, they are asked to play in a pub. Then Lara, the girl that lan has a crush on, causes an unhealthy competition and friction within the group when another member also likes her. Then, there is also a death in the band due to a drug addiction. Finally, the disputes end, and they pull together to play in a Rock Music Festival.

Comedy short.

In this action thriller, Kane Turk is a criminal without a conscience who breaks into the home of Professor John Hillman, taking the professor, his wife, and children hostage. Both Kane and the professor are suddenly the targets of the combined forces of two of the government's top security agencies, who know Hillman has discovered a secret that must not fall into the wrong hands

Charlton Heston tells the fascinating story of the intertwining of Andrew Wyeth's biography and art. He discusses themes of regeneration and fertility. An overview of Wyeth's place in contemporary art.

The main character sits in an armchair in front of the TV and sleeps, and on the screen the House Spirits group sings songs about the need to save water and electricity. The genre of the cartoon is completely uncharacteristic for the USSR: throughout the entire animation not a single line is uttered, but only songs in rock and roll style. The melodies, completely unusual for the USSR, but on topics that were quite relevant at that time, were written by the composer Anatoly Kiselyov. The animation breaks away from Samsonovs mellow oil paint-style developed in the first half of the 80s, with a much more raw and brusque kind of style followed up by the 1988 short 32 December, also a completely rock musical animation with music form the same group as this one.

Documentary film that follows a group of Swedish engineers who build Sweden's first spacecraft.

A mobster tries to destroy the career of a young Black boxer. The same mobster murdered the family of a Korean martial arts master. The two join forces to get even with the mobster and get a shot at the heavyweight championship.