1988 Movies

Documentary about a group of children who live on the streets of São Paulo and come together to survive the harsh reality of hunger, violence and oppr...

Shot in low-light style, Kuchar documents his experiences with various underground filmmakers such as James Broughton and Ken Jacobs, then moves on to...

The ecosystem series which started in 1981 counts 15 and is still growing, becoming Koike's lifework. Through the series, Koike has shot a huge amount...

"CivvyStreet" (sometimes written as "Civvy Street") is a spin-off episode of the British television soap opera EastEnders, broadcast on BBC1 on 26 Dec...

3 short films in a series based on ideas from an exhibition of 100 drawings in Gallery Langbrók in Reykjavík, 1983. The Concert: A devil is playing t...

A young painter appreciates the versatility of colours. She tries to come to terms with her loneliness in Germany with poems and paintings.

This is a documentary about the Finnish-Soviet Winter War (Talvisota) of 1939-1940. It contains rare and never before seen footage from the official f...

Follows the Soviet corruption, the lives of people from the special zone of the USSR, endowed with special rights and opportunities.

On the changes from one city to another: from New York to San Juan. The images condense metaphors of displacement, of the out of place, and of accommo...

A silhouette world of gothic horror, of spindly figures dwarfed by bleak landscapes and Jules Verne machines.

Cameraman John Varty spent five years making this documentary about Africa's elusive, silent hunter, the leopard. Included is footage of leopards mati...

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity...

A 1988 Bafta nominated short film by British animator Karen Watson. The film uses mixed media animation and unconventional narrative to explore the is...

Social issue documentary directed by Jacob Riis.

A found footage experiment made using old horror footage. There are lovely transitions between colours and textures.

A man's story of survival under Lon Nol's dictatorship, and the Khmer Rouge, and beyond

Mayalu (मायालु) is a Nepali drama feature film released in 1988. The narrative unfolds around human relationships, moral dilemmas, and the pursuit of...

An LDS couple is upset by a local church's screening of the anti-Mormon film "The God Makers." Their evangelical neighbor offers to sift fact from fic...

Attempting to apologize for the lack of good weather in Weather Diary 3, George arrives in Milwaukee only to find the drought back in full swing. Sinc...