Robert Downey Sr.
Biography: Robert John Downey (né Elias Jr.; June 24, 1936 – July 7, 2021) was an American filmmaker and actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Downey Sr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 24, 1936
Deathday: July 07, 2021
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Putney Swope
1969-07-10
Putney Swope
Overview: Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-10
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Boogie Nights
1997-10-10
Boogie Nights
Overview: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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To Live and Die in L.A.
1985-11-01
To Live and Die in L.A.
Overview: When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Pablo
2012-10-17
Pablo
Overview: Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of "famous unknown" Pablo Ferro, a man with a personal journey that spans from Havana, during the pre-Cuban revolution to his current home, in the garage behind his son's house.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-17
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Magnolia
1999-12-17
Magnolia
Overview: On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Tower Heist
2011-11-02
Tower Heist
Overview: A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-02
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From Other Worlds
2004-10-29
From Other Worlds
Overview: FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her backyard. With the help of a fellow contactee, an African immigrant, she is determined to solve the mystery of her otherworldly experiences. Along the way, she finds romance, saves the planet and finds new meaning in her life.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-29
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No More Excuses
1968-08-08
No More Excuses
Overview: A bizarre portrait of the New York singles scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-08
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Radio Unnameable
2012-09-19
Radio Unnameable
Overview: The story of legendary New York City disc jockey Bob Fass who pioneered free expression on the airwaves with his long running FM program 'Radio Unnameable'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-19
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Is There Sex After Death?
1971-10-24
Is There Sex After Death?
Overview: Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-24
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Moving Target
1988-02-08
Moving Target
Overview: A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-08
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Johnny Be Good
1988-03-22
Johnny Be Good
Overview: It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-22
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"Sr."
2022-09-02
"Sr."
Overview: A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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Energy and How to Get It
1981-08-10
Energy and How to Get It
Overview: Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas. What began as a documentary film about Robert Golka, an engineer who was experimenting with ball lightening and the development of fusion as an energy force, was turned into a spoof on the documentary form, inserting fictional characters into the story such as the Energy Czar (William Burroughs), and a Hollywood agent (filmmaker Robert Downey). (mfah.org)
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-10
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The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
2009-01-01
The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery'
Overview: Filmmaker Michael Rogosin's fascinating exploration of the production history behind his father Lionel's groundbreaking documentary, On the Bowery.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Naughty Nurse
1969-01-01
Naughty Nurse
Overview: A doctor and nurse sneak away for a kinky encounter, only to be interrupted by a cop... with a secret of his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
1971-09-19
You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
Overview: This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New York City.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-19
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Balls Bluff
1961-01-01
Balls Bluff
Overview: During a Civil War battle, a soldier is transported through time, landing in New York City's Central Park in the year 1961. He then explores Manhattan and goes to Yankee Stadium in an attempt to locate other Civil War soldiers.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Hail Caesar
1994-05-11
Hail Caesar
Overview: Caesar is having a hard time dividing his time between his band and his rich girlfriend, Buffer. Buffer's dad doesn't like Ceasar, so he makes Caesar a bet. If Caesar can make a hundred thousand dollars within six months, he can stay with Buffer... but if he fails, their relationship is over forever. How can Ceasar win the bet if he only knows how jam with his band?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-11
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Rittenhouse Square
2005-07-29
Rittenhouse Square
Overview: Rittenhouse Square is an impressionistic, music-filled documentary about a small Philadelphia park - "the spot" - where people go to meet friends, find romance, muse about life and enjoy the beauty of nature and the opposite sex.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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The Last Party
1993-08-27
The Last Party
Overview: A youthful perspective on the 1992 presidential campaign with a witty, cautionary message to young Americans to start participating in democracy or get the kind of government they deserve.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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The Sunchaser
1996-05-29
The Sunchaser
Overview: A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-29
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Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015-11-19
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Overview: The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount of territory he's covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to the present, is intimately registered in his now-formidable body of artistic gestures. From the early '90s on, Frank has been making his films and videos with the brilliant editor Laura Israel, who has helped him to keep things homemade and preserve the illuminating spark of first contact between camera and people/places. Don't Blink is Israel's like-minded portrait of her friend and collaborator, a lively rummage sale of images and sounds and recollected passages and unfathomable losses and friendships that leaves us a fast and fleeting imprint of the life of the Swiss-born man who reinvented himself the American way, and is still standing on ground of his own making at the age of 90.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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Searching for Mr. Rugoff
2019-11-08
Searching for Mr. Rugoff
Overview: The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, the mid-century theater chain and film distribution company. Rugoff was a difficult (some would say impossible) person but was also the man who kicked art films into the mainstream with outrageous marketing schemes and pure bluster. Rugoff's impact on cinema culture in the United States is inestimable, and his influence on the art film business-from the studio classics divisions to the independent film movement to the rise of the Weinsteins-is undeniable. Yet, mysteriously, Rugoff has become a virtually forgotten figure. The story is told through the eyes of former employee Ira Deutchman, who sets out to find the truth about the man who had such a major impact on his life, and to understand how such an important figure could have disappeared so completely.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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The Family Man
2000-12-12
The Family Man
Overview: Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-12
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Robert Downey: Moment to Moment
2021-06-04
Robert Downey: Moment to Moment
Overview: To pay tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes, Sean Price Willams adopts a style that’s just as out there as his subject, mixing new material and never-before-seen archival footage in this portrait of the underground film titan Robert Downey (A Prince).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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