1985 Movies

A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky.

A documentary about author Henri-Pierre Roché and the real-life relationships that inspired the novel and Francois Truffaut's 1962 film "Jules and Jim."

Up is a 1984 American short film directed by Mike Hoover and Tim Huntley. The film depicts a man who sets a hawk free, then tries to find it in the wild on his hang glider. In 1985, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject at the 57th Academy Awards.

A highly successful lawyer realises, after a cardiac warning, that he may have squandered his life when he left his first wife and all the ideals of youth she stood for, to marry a neurotic poet and join the rat race for money & success.

An ethnologist and his daughter set off from Heidelberg on an expedition to the jungles of Zanzibar. Strange incidents occur as soon as they arrive in Africa, which suddenly seem to be connected to the snake on the young woman's shoulder: Indian secret society...

Based on J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Peggy Ford runs her father's rum bar in Mayaro, a quiet fishing village in Trinidad. Nothing much happens in Mayaro until a handsome young stranger appears and insists that he has just murdered his father.

A woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each argues with her and insists on taking the wheel. She beats one of them up, before crashing into a group of youths and, finally, a wall.

Two families with different characters swap lives to realize that all they need is a healthy balance of being book-smart and being street-smart.

Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, passion and intrigue amongst them.

The documentary primarily focuses on two ex-players: Jim Otto and Roger Stillwell. Otto was a star center for the Oakland Raiders during the 1960s and 1970s. On the surface, his story seems to represent all that is right about pro football; after a long career...

Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.

This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original crime-fighter in all his incarnations.

In this short film, made on the occasion of a visit by Maurice Hasson to Mérida to perform in concert, he evokes in a warm conversation his indelible memories and deeply human experiences of his life in Mérida.

STREET DANCERS: They're bold and they're bad; they're breakers — freestyle dancers who know a mean beat as well as a mean street. STAGE DANCERS: Grand and graceful gypsies — polished performers who are passionate about their art and the theater. When the chor...

During the holidays, Robert meets Danka. Soon he takes the girl to work, where they pretend to be married.

Film by Shirouyasu Suzuki, 1985, 16mm, 54min

A housewife starts a business hiring herself out as a "wife," to provide various domestic services.

An unsold TV pilot starring Kerrie Keane and Louis Giambalvo.