1985 Movies

Film about a provincial worker's life.

In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams of traveling...

Looping carnival rides slow, stutter, and stop in the first film of Lowder's series disrupting the flow of time in quotidian French life.

In a Latin American country under a dictatorial regime, a young, idealistic priest confronts the ecclesiastical hierarchy in defense of victims of soc...

Two traditions closely linked to the intellectual and political world of the Colombian capital: the Café that houses poets and thinkers of all stripes...

Contrary to the public stereotype of a youthful homosexual community, gay men and women do grow old. Silent Pioneers presents an upbeat focus on the l...

Justin, a young gay man is on a break from film school, struggling to come to terms with his father’s violent opposition to his sexual orientation.

Documents the struggles between the Canadian Union of Traffic Employees (C.U.T.E.) and the Canadian government during a strike of crossing guards in T...

At the beginning of the 1970s, in the village of Rokkasho situated at the base of the Shimokita peninsula, the prospect of sudden development and indu...

Augusta watches sport on the television, mimicking the activities in a strange fashion.

Andrew Sachs narrates this wildlife exploration of the Andes in South America, focusing in particular on the Condor bird. We look at the beautiful lan...

An erring military officer is sent to jail but bolts with the other inmates to take the whole town in hostage.

Around 1,500 people from more than forty countries met in Dresden for the 1984 congress of UNIMA, the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded...

Gloria, Yolanda's mother, exchanges their old house in Guanabacoa for a modern apartment in Vedado to keep Yolanda away from her boyfriend, but her pl...

Two cosmonauts arrive on a barren world and begin a clean-up operation. In the course of their duties, they revive the planet’s civilisation and disco...

Early Spring 1945. Albanian criminals attack innocent Macedonians in Macedonia.

Avan is a 1985 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed and written by Chozha Rajan. 

The film focuses on the development of absolutism in the Duchy of Wolfenbüttel under Duke Anton Ulrich, as preserved in pictorial documents and archit...

Documentary. Shot on U-Matic.

This is a story of love about a man and woman in which the mother of the former comes between them. The ignominy suffered by the woman (Eliza) from th...