1985 Movies

Arun, a popular singer and a death convict, helps raise money for the poor through his concert. However, his wife Shanthi has other plans and tries to...

The family of a female theater critic is the target of unfounded hatred. The woman has no idea what is going on. Then, her daughter is kidnapped by so...

This short documentary tells the story the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the northern Labrador coast. Moravian missionaries evang...

The action takes place shortly before the Victory in the ruins of Berlin. But it is not the military actions that are at the center of what is happeni...

In 1985, the Beijing People's Art Theater performed the drama "Savage" written by Gao Xingjian and directed by Lin Zhaohua in the capital. This drama...

As air raids intensify, fourth-grader Hisashi, or Boku-chan, chooses to evacuate from Osaka to Shimane over the objections of his mother. He is electe...

Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New Worl...

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

A CIA operative in Hong Kong must become a Ninja in order to retrieve a stolen Top Technical Secret Film from a Clan of Ninjas sent by the KGB.

This documentary produced for TV follows a project consisting in remaking the journey of discoveries in the footsteps of Cartier's book. Sailors, some...

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism....

A peasant leader, buried alive and believed to be dead, comes back as a scythe-carrying ghost terrifying the landlord and his henchmen.

While Pakistani immigrant Bashir has a love affair with a Norwegian woman, he witnesses a crime and sees a chance to blackmail the wrongdoer.

Anu, a rich girl, falls in love with Vishal, a photographer, and marries him. However, soon after the wedding, Anu begins suspecting her husband of ha...

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Abstract computer animation by G. G. Aries set to music by Larry Gibbs

Short report on the making of Paul Schrader's film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, aired as part of the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985.