1980 Movies

July 5, 1980. Summertime, San Francisco's Chinatown. A gang of Chinese firework dealers dispose of their unsold goods to the glory of emulsified film....

A little girl living in a ruined tenement house tells about her dreams. The camera observes her playing in the yard on a warm, spring day.

"Presents a documentary on anthropologist Franz Boas, focusing on his fieldwork with the Kwakiutl, his teaching career at Columbia University and Barn...

A film photographed in Amsterdam but dedicated to capturing a quality of mind engendered there - not, certainly, alienation (as often in travel) but r...

An alcoholic man is forced to come to grips with a society when he's taken into custody.

Four generations of the "People Who Live Where the Cedar Trees Start to Grow" (Wah-up-weh-tuhneum),also known as the Mono or Western Monache people,...

Iron-hand discipline imposed by parents on their privileged children is deemed unappreciated and wasted.

A Foolish Parody Of Charlie's Angels Dolphy,who is considered the "King of Comedy" of the Philippines,stars in these parody of "Charlie's Angels" know...

An insight into various fashion shows in Germany, for example in Düsseldorf or Bonn.

Bata, orphaned by her mother, has gone through a long way of life, and witnessed a lot - the fall of feudalism, revolution, and changing times. He got...

First film in a series of three with Over-Ice and Oversand and one of the first films on free climbing shot in the cliffs of the Gorges du Verdon in s...

The director has intertwined an old amateur film, shot about the Kosztolányi-family, with the adaptation of three short stories of the author. Just li...

A history of rural southeastern traditional American music, as told and played by Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard. Mike and Alice recount their own invo...

Industrial espionage movie, in communist Romania.

While searching for a criminal, investigators find themselves in a series of dramatic and dangerous situations. The risk is even greater when the dang...

A production of Offenbach's opera sung in english.

An imagery sharp as stars and hard as the thought-universe (turning back upon itself) absorbed in gentle patterns of contemplation. – S.B.

Brothers on a farm fight over a woman, so one emigrates to Texas, to a town where the KKK is terrorizing la raza.

Before the days of jet travel, magnificent ocean liners such as the 'Queen Mary' and the 'Normandie' reigned over the Atlantic, setting standards of t...

A short documentary by Nikos Koutelidakis, about Galaxidi.