1982 Movies

A look at Romania's increasing mechanization in the seventies told from the perspective of a wanderer.

Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed in life. Erika dreams of a separate being in another world.

After her family all are killed in a home invasion, young woman moves to the city, gets involved with a high-level drug-smuggling tycoon. And also a taxi driver.

Kees Hin’s acclaimed depiction of Berlin in the 1930s. On the basis of recollections recorded on video, Kees Hin and K. Schippers created a ‘theatre of memory’ where former residents of Berlin look back on the downfall of that bustling metropolis and the rise...

The last vestiges of a family that has gone from cherry season to sorrow... Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocrat who, upon returning from a trip to Paris, must face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after defaulting on her mortgage....

Pinku from 1982. A studious young man and his two friends hit the town.

This documentary recounts the struggle of the Pullman sleeping car porters to form the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black trade union in the United States. Through archival materials and interviews with retired porters, the film reveals the d...

The colorful balloon undergoes constant metamorphosis. Eventually, it becomes a huge hand arranged in a fig, only to change immediately, however.

Find out what happens when a nice-or nasty-old woman calls on a rat-catcher to catch a nasty-or nice-family of rats living below her floor.

A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy Zamora, John Korty, Vince Collins, Drew Takahashi

Mafalda is an exceptional child, since her curiosity, world view and existential consciousness are broader than those of almost all human beings.

THE WINTER THERE WAS VERY LITTLE SNOW is a visual mood poem using the barest narrative form to convey the feeling and time of crisis for a man in middle age. His marriage has collapsed; he is without a job; and his father has just died. There is no reality, on...

The boy gets acquainted with the fighting youth of his grandfather, a hero of the Civil War.

A Greek immigrant and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother and re-discover their heritage and each other. Cross-cultural misunderstandings abound.

Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic bomb.

'One Day Time' is a drama about a day in the life of a young Dublin man from Ballymun who is unemployed. It explores Eddie's sense of isolation and anxiety about his place in the world as he passes yet another seemingly pointless day.

The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.

A lovelorn woman, a neglected wife and an abused sister try to keep their head above water as they navigate the challenges brought on by the men in their lives.