1980 Movies

1934, Germany. The ten-year-old Peter lives in a small town with his parents. His father, an underground Communist, is arrested. In the summer vacatio...

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from Ame...

The Man as a creator and builder, with his perseverance, ennobles the environment and the people he lives with. He strives for beauty and progress. Al...

Abel Gance looks back on his life and his films in this short film made to celebrate his 90th birthday in 1979.

Writes Kobayashi, "In 1972 I started a series of participatory performances where the first person performs an ambiguous action in front of a recordin...

During his stay in Italy, Harlan accepted a commission from Rai and created a ruthless portrait of society through an archetypal setting. This film, s...

After Mark d'Oliveira and Bill Jarcho met each other while attending Emerson College, they collaborated on a nine-minute animated film, "The Taming",...

Lou Reed's historic concert at Florence's Cascine Park on June 14, 1980, recorded for RAI by Cesare Perloni.

Around 1980, in Tunisia, Si Béchir, an old craftsman, sold his house and left the medina of Tunis with his family to settle in a new city on the outsk...

Document on the struggle of immigrant workers on strike for rent in Sonacotra homes with the support, in terms of legal defense, of Jacques Verges, la...

A spurned woman concocts an elaborate plan of revenge against a pilot who made love to her and then betrayed her trust.

A series of horrible murders prompts a massive police investigation. Inspector James Cameron, a two-fisted roughneck with his own philosophy on handli...

Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences a...

The last part of the triptych is dedicated to the struggle of the peasant communities of northeastern Brazil; on the banks of the São Francisco River,...

TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and...

A film about the outstanding chess player and world champion Mikhail Tal. The director, in collaboration with the cinematographer, has discovered a te...

Granada Television (UK) documentary, following Genesis on their 1980 Duke tour.