1985 Movies

A history of modern Danish women’s cinema made as a collage of excerpts from some 20 works, including activist documentaries and ironic bits of fictio...

An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.

July 13, 1985 North Sea Jazz Festival, Tuinpaviljoen, Congresgebouw, Den Haag, The Netherlands

The story of a man who lived alone in an atomic fallout shelter after the A-Bomb was dropped, so he can’t read, write or speak. 20 years later the she...

The film depicts a carnival celebrating the 2nd anniversary of high school graduation.

This is a story of love about a man and woman in which the mother of the former comes between them. The ignominy suffered by the woman (Eliza) from th...

A boy's disappointing scores on the college entrance exam bring shame down on his family.

Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past, apparently with the aim of curing his present mi...

A biographical documentary on the life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Fifty-year-old Ondřej Bozděch delivers coal around Prague's Žižkov district and he loves it more than anything. He has spent his whole life here and k...

Although the married couples appeared to be living ordinary lives with no complaints on the surface, deep down they seemed to be dissatisfied with eac...

A male model's poses are accompanied by a photographer's narration exploring censorship, self expression and sexual desire.

Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR...

Animated short film

A colourful human community flourishes in a large tree, but below, furious pink figures gather, disturbed by the sight. This allegorical animation exp...

A BAFTA award winning drama, set on the Isle of Man, looking at the policy of mass internment of all people of enemy nationality by the British gover...

Short pilot film from year 1985 for the Royal Space Force movie that came out two years later.

Film by Julio Bustamante.