1985 Movies

A television station is held hostage as a distraught father tries to bargain with a Carribean government for the release of his imprisoned daughter

Taiwanese comedy.

A short film created (and narrated) in 1985 by Québécois director Pierre Falardeau. It compares English rule in Ghana with Canadian dominance in Quebe...

Leopoldo Contreras, a professor emeritus of Roman law has serious economic problems. His translations of classical authors do not give enough money to...

The trader Sayyed Qeshta, is married to an infertile woman. One day, a playful girl starts approaching Qeshta after his money, and manages to make him...

Unable to possess Ivy in reality, Adrian organizes himself so as to know everything about her, to possess her story. Like the viewer, Adrian will be a...

Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses were tortured by Jean-Marie Le Pen. These testimo...

A free adaptation of the story of Cain and Abel, from the Book of Genesis.

Senjidema was born on the Ordos Plateau in Inner Mongolia during the Qing dynasty. She was a beautiful and pure-hearted young woman who lost her paren...

An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is...

Hawkwind's classic stage production of "The Chronicle of the Black Sword" as performed at London's Hammersmith Odeon 1985. Based on the "Elric" storie...

Two girls who want to become masochists are trained by a sadistic woman and turned into lovers.

A documentary about the Icelandic sculptor, Helgi Gíslason. The film shows Gíslason at work as he casts his sculptures in bronze using age old techniq...

Falling in love after a meet-cute on Hamburg’s frozen-over Alster Lake, Martha—a filmmaker with guilt over her privilege—and stalled architecture stud...

Wealthy Madhu falls in love with their family's chauffeur, Kesar, much to her father's chagrin, who fires Kesar, and arranges Madhu's marriage with De...

A moral film about the life and optimistic work of transport drivers led by Dondog, and how they take care of their colleagues and the upbringing of t...

Malinee receives a letter, which she’s inherited the ancestral land at Mae Jan mountain, from her deceased grandmother. She decides to move there. At...