Romance on the Orient Express (1985)
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance…
Secret Weapons (1985)
Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.
Sincerely Charlotte (1985)
Fast Forward (1985)
Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to…
The Angelic Conversation (1985)
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic…
Witness (1985)
While protecting an Amish boy – who is the sole witness to a brutal murder – and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when…
Daughters of Eve (1985)
In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him –…
Torchlight (1985)
A happy marriage turns sour when the husband becomes addicted to cocaine.
After Darkness (1985)
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency…
O-Bi O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985)
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of ‘The Dome’. Soft is a shepherd for the…
Hail Mary (1985)
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Hands Up! (1985)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)
This film adaptation of James Baldwin’s celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to “big city” Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a…
Walking the Edge (1985)
A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
Tuff Turf (1985)
The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.
Next Summer (1985)
The Home and the World (1985)
Anna Karenina (1985)
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
You Killed Me First (1985)
Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing…
Private Passions (1985)
When Mark goes to visit his cousin Toni in Austria for the summer, he develops a serious crush on Toni’s pretty stepsister Clair and at the same time tries to…
O Panama (1985)
O Panama features a man confined to his apartment on a winter day as he suffers through an illness. Built on the polarity between hot and cold, the tedious reality…
Manufractur (1985)
Love Circles (1985)
French erotic auteur Gerard Kikoine makes the world his canvas in this sexy roundelay of intimate encounters across the globe. Following a pack of cigarettes that ends up with partner…
Much Ado About Nothing (1984)
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice’s friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick’s best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he’s on….
Winter Flight (1984)
As the Falklands War looms, an RAF recruit falls for a young barmaid, but their romance is quickly complicated with some surprising news.
Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim (1984)
A laborer gets money for his wife’s pregnancy from his boss on the condition that he will not join the union.
The Island Closest to Heaven (1984)
Frankenweenie (1984)
When young Victor’s pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor’s home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he…
Mass Appeal (1984)
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.
Camille (1984)
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand’s father begs her not to ruin his hope of…
Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (1984)
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He’s a born free man who works as…