1987 Movies

Two friends, one a college student and the other a clerk for a local grocery store, play cat-and-mouse with the INS while struggling to make ends meet...

This Soviet documentary investigates the demanding training system behind the country’s Olympic gymnastics program. Featuring interviews with former c...

Quick overview of various useful things to do with rope--and not only on a boat!

Short experimental film based on a quote from Mayakovsky: The crocodile lies lazily, bored in the blue-green water, ready to become a predator at any...

The story of triumph and tragedy in the 1986 World Rally Championships.

A film by Peter Herwitz

Danka, a music theater dancer, has no professional success and is stuck in an unsuccessful relationship with Marek. He decides to change his life. She...

About the friendship of a boy and a ray of sunshine.

A Confessional Documentary is a 1-minute long short film directed by noted film critic Gene Siskel, originally shown alongside his partner Roger Ebert...

Karate Kat betrays the myth of a graceful feline in his half-hour animated series. First aired on The Comic Strip in the late '80s, The Aristokratic K...

An independent experimental short from the GDR.

One morning, I was absentmindedly leaning against a komainu statue in the grounds of a Shinto shrine when, out of nowhere, a young woman spoke to me.

The Aral Sea tragedy of human-made desertification, and portraits of the Karakalpakan people still living on the sea coast, with no access to fresh wa...

A masterpiece of the creator who has continually been expressing the minimal world overflowing with solitude by fixing the gaze on a subject. The came...

A short film which utilizes found promotional footage of socialist Berlin juxtaposed with footage of an aggressive first date. In the film, Werner use...

Two young men fall in love as they contemplate who, and what, they want out of life during a summer in Provincetown.