1984 Movies

The title (NOVENA in English) refers to the nine days of prayers undertaken in Roman Catholicism as an act of devotion or penitence with the aim of ob...

In Thailand half a million women work as prostitutes while men leave the country as low-paid labourers in the Gulf Emirates. A film on the trade of hu...

Innocence of the young.

A soldier can not return home after he leaves the army, and can not find a job. Desperation drives him to make a deal with the Devil, who makes a bet...

A coming-of-age drama about an unhappy teenager who is repressed by his conservative and ambitious family

Wrong Wedding Trail is a Hong Kong Romance starring Kent Cheng.

A railway engineer tells the story of when he seduced a married woman whom he'd known since she was a schoolgirl, and how after convincing her he love...

Alcatrazz Live In Japan 10.10.1984

Berlin Underground-star Ulrike S. went to the Toronto-Filmfestival and then to New York - to find out something about the film business and also about...

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she deci...

In the Quercy region of France, Marie-Paule Nadal inherits her father's old farm property. But times are hard and the land is not very profitable. Uns...

Rajunath, the lazy son of the village postman Shambunath, is a liar. He often plays pranks on the poor villagers. When his father succumbs to burns, h...

Educational film presenting two mini-dramas about software piracy and computer hacking; released in August 1984.

Reel 34 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, M...

A story within a story about the making of a movie called "Thunderflash" about a specially designed car called "Striker"

A riff on Bunuel's classic, Lorne Michaels commissioned this Zbigniew Rybczynski work for NBC's The New Show, as a satiric look at the January 27th, 1...