1985 Movies

The concept of visual music is explored in this quirky collage of imagery animated directly onto the celluloid surface of 16mm film. In the spirit of...

Construction sites and architecture in Les Halles.

A 1985 Mother's Day offering from Regal Films: a comic, musical relief with the wacky trio of Tito, Vic, and Joey, and their spouses and children.

A cynical reporter and a young, beautiful rookie detective join forces to find the kidnapped daughter of a business leader and bring the kidnappers to...

Through the night shift work of a burek maker, as well as through the rhythmic movements while making burek, which look like a kind of dance, the film...

Via the New York Times: ""Le Temps Detruit" is a low-keyed, dreamlike recollection of the first year of World War II as recorded in the letters sent h...

I'll be Home for Christmas cuts through social taboos to explore the subculture of people commonly dismissed as ‘derelicts'. In its portrayal of five...

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

Shot in 1983, edited for the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985, a short documentary about Shanghai Animation Studio.

Hans Engler is a reserved man from Hamburg with no family or partner. When his acquaintance Agnes asks him to assume paternity for her daughter Martin...

The story of child violence and the national violence. And the problem of the old Japanese environmental pollution.

Beginning with a promotional reel encouraging farming investments in Algeria and ending with the secret 1950s nuclear tests that France conducted usin...

George Stevens's remarkable film is acclaimed by historians as the most important colour footage taken during the war. Milestones covered include the...

If the conceited Princess Hortensia, the lazy, sleepy Princess Julienka and the cunning Princess Melanie had known what the bell hanging above the doo...

Based on the true story of a victim of child abuse in Jakarta, 1984.

A film which uses the device of developing Polaroid camera shots to present the highlights of a family celebration during the birthday of filmmaker To...