1985 Movies

An alcoholic grandfather is seriously ill. His doctor suggests that experiencing a bad scare could cure him. His grandson volunteers to help him.

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

Two ex-GIs, a fast-talking hustler from Detroit and an Oklahoma hayseed, just returned from WWII, team up with the latter's bubble-headed fiancée to m...

Towards the end of the 1950s, a young homosexual faced life, society, a dominant mother, and a conservative home.

A poetic documentary on the Italian poet Cesare Pavese and his connection to two particular locations - the city of Turin and the village of Santo Ste...

Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China.

Whoopi Goldberg in her original one-woman show.

In 1985, visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett was commissioned to follow-up his short film "Prehistoric Beast" (1984) with new sequences from the la...

A 1985 educational short produced by the Learning Corporation of America, Revenge of the Nerd presents a light, classroom‑friendly look at social labe...

A student with a crush on his teacher becomes even more frustrated when his widowed father begins going out with the woman.

Wo Tin travels from Hong Kong to Thailand for business, having been invited by his brother. A young Thai woman, Lala, accompanies him and they pick up...

After their lord is unjustly sentenced to commit seppuku, Oishi Kuranosuke leads a group of 47 loyal retainers on a mission of vengeance against the c...

Hong Kong movie

A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a mi...

Three young people sharing a flat become friends.

The cowgirls in this documentary are modern-day women aged six to sixty, who ride, rope and tough out the elements just as well as their more famous c...

Most people believe their home is their castle. But it isn't. If the council want it, it's theirs. Billy and Gordon Howard still believe Rose Cottage...

A young man meets the girl of his dreams, whereupon he finds himself involved in a murder mystery.

A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible young man.