1985 Movies

A porcupine, a jerboa, and a turtle build a wooden ship in the desert.

Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry. Brakhage explains his techniques and...

Anthology features three family-friendly fantasy / horror tales; "Sleeping Beauty," "Zombies" and "Querubin: Maria Leonora Theresa." It's an adaptatio...

Xingxian is a 18 year old girl who finds herself engaged to a 8 year old boy. When a young man her age comes to town, she falls in love. They eventual...

Mahesh is in love with Merlyn, who belongs to an Anglo-Indian family, but this relation is opposed by Shailaja Varma, his sister. Shailaja too had a l...

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The...

On July 4th, 1985 in front of 60,000 fans, Hall & Oates performed at an outdoor benefit concert for the restoration of the Statue Of Liberty. The duo...

The first world has depleted the resources of the third world, right as the fourth worlders make themselves known.

The young lovers were excited to see the masochist woman's training play, and ended up training both of them at the same time...

"Lurking crime and lingering desire change the atmosphere of this brief but affecting film. The light changes moment by moment. The season is shifting...

The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century fo...

A saucy comedy for the Bank Holiday about.... saucy seaside postcards. What do the characters on the seaside postcards get up to in private?

A puppet comedy about a sleeper disturbed by an unwearying rooster.

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thought...

A filmed version of the 1985 revival of the Marc Blitzstein musical. This revival was filmed at the Old Vic, with former members of The Acting Company...

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

This Thai film broke barriers as the first to narrate a queer story and first to star a trans person. It follows the tragic life of a trans performer...

Zülfü and Zülfiye get married. However, Abbas, Zülfü's uncle, who is trying to take over Zülfü's property, tries to separate the couple. Abbas spreads...

The incessant self-transcendence of man.