1980 Movies

A crimelord takes a group of schoolchildren hostage in an attempt to extort the parents and local police.

The son of a single mother kills a person who had tried to rape her. During the trial, when the mother steps in to give her verdict, she finds that th...

An ironic pastiche of the typical instructional-education film.

A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home?

This film explores the social, psychological and cultural factors that contribute to violence against women regardless of ethnicity or economic backgr...

Richard Gaikowski chronicles punk rock band The Offs' performing at San Francisco's notorious "Deaf Club"

Ten years after the events, a writer is researching a book on May '68 trying to find witnesses.

Prince Luarsab is going to get married. But he is fooled and instead of desired woman, he has to marry woman's ugly sister Darejan. However, he gets u...

Set among the Turkana pastoralists of northwestern Kenya, the film chronicles the marriage negotiations between Lorang’s daughter Akai and Kongu, a fr...

"Ghost Dance (1980) takes the viewer on a spiraling descent into Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly, from the rim at the top to the Navajo ruins on the mud-ca...

A couple arrive in an off-season Cesenatico but they quickly split up after a bad argument. The girl then settles in an uninhabited flat with a photog...

Yehuda Barkan's first prank film. This time, Barkan helps out a tourist and teaches her about the average Israeli.

White Dust from Mongolia is a project by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha including a film and artist book. Neither were completed. Theresa and James Cha visited...

This fast-paced and entertaining animated film is about water and the demands placed on our waterways by agriculture, industry, and urban life. An arm...

Burdened with a traumatic childhood, Nympha Monteverde suffers from nymphomania. Whenever she sees a man, she shakes and sweats. There is an uncontrol...

This is the most formal of all these works. - S.B.

Eight young people have the opportunity to express themselves through film. They had no prior filmmaking experience. Once each project is finished wit...

Robert Richter exposed the fact that U.S. medicines were being exported to developing nations with minimal, misleading, or non-existent information ab...