1980 Movies

This special three-part presentation of "Like It Is" examines the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States, emphasizing the rol...

The story of those Italian women who, for eighty years, have fought against power in all its forms.

A satire on Soviet propaganda based on Mayakovsky's poems.

Living on the edge of the woods, a young boy (Joseph Cory) dedicates himself to finding a magical rock. Narrated by Orson Welles.

This film was Sokurov's first feature at Lenfilm, roughly based on a short story by the contemporary Soviet writer Grigory Baklanov about the transiti...

Adrián, a businessman who runs his wife's family industry, begins an affair with Marisa, an employee at his office. Marisa tries to blackmail her matu...

Recorded and broadcast by British TV (Thames Television) in 1980 with special guests Robert Goulet and Richard Clayderman

Farmers and parents of young children, who live in the Harrisburg, Pa., area, discuss their fears of radioactive contamination from the Three Mile Isl...

Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy call...

A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from...

The spirit of a murdered salesman tries to get a family to find his body buried in their backyard shed.

Zeitspiele is a playful satire about optimal time management in a company with countless side blows to the socialist planned economy.

A man lives a poor life, earning a living day to day, but dreams of one day forming an entertainment caravan and traveling around Japan performing, wh...

ITV documentary from 1980 hosted By David Frost. It followed 'The U.K Fan Club' flying off to Graceland & seeing the Elvis sites. On its original tele...

A poor Harvard student's romance with a girl hits a rough spot when he realizes, on his 21st birthday, that he's in love with her brother.

Stepan Kochkarin, the chairman of one of the leading Altai collective farms, a former front-line soldier, intends to unite the machinery and personnel...

Casire is a peasant community on the slopes of the Sara Sara Volcano in the south of Peru. Two hundred people still live in the community. The film na...