Jack Nance
Biography: Marvin John Nance (December 21, 1943 – December 30, 1996), known professionally as Jack Nance and occasionally credited as John Nance, was an American actor of stage and screen, primarily starring in offbeat or avant-garde productions. He was known for his work with director David Lynch, particularly for his roles in Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Nance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 21, 1943
Deathday: December 30, 1996
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Eraserhead
1977-09-28
Eraserhead
Overview: First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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Lost Highway
1997-01-15
Lost Highway
Overview: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-15
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Blue Velvet
1986-09-19
Blue Velvet
Overview: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Tricks of the Trade
1988-12-06
Tricks of the Trade
Overview: After her picture perfect husband is murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Beverly Hills homemaker Catherine is devastated. But she doesn't spend too long mourning, because she's soon on a mission to put her husband's killer behind bars. To do so, she forms an unlikely partnership with Marla, the Hollywood hooker who serviced the deceased. Under Marla's guidance, the pair navigate the seedier side of Los Angeles to put this mystery to rest.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-06
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Dune
1984-12-14
Dune
Overview: In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Barfly
1987-09-02
Barfly
Overview: Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-02
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Whore
1991-06-21
Whore
Overview: This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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Little Witches
1996-12-23
Little Witches
Overview: Six misfit schoolgirls at an all-girl Catholic high school, left alone at the school for Easter week, get mixed up with the occult and witchcraft after an old Satanic temple is found underneath the church where they attend as well as an old book of black magic spells for conjuring up an ancient demon from the pits of Hell. Janie, the most characteristic and cruelest of the girls, takes charge of the group and plots to resurrect the demon using a series of black arts spells, while one innocent girl, Faith, has a change of heart and tries to stop them from completing their spell which also includes a human sacrifice.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-23
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Meatballs 4: To the Rescue
1992-03-06
Meatballs 4: To the Rescue
Overview: Ricky is the hottest water-ski instructor around and has just been rehired by his former employer/camp to whip up attendance. Unfortunately, the camp is in serious financial trouble. The owner of a rival, more popular camp wants to buy them out. Therefore they will have to engage in a mean, winner-takes-all competition that will settle the score once and for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-06
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The Hot Spot
1990-10-12
The Hot Spot
Overview: Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Genres: Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997-10-14
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Overview: An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footage and commentary by family members, friends, fans, and people he's worked with, as well as behind-the-scenes antics of some of his most critically praised efforts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-14
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Love and a .45
1994-11-23
Love and a .45
Overview: Small-time criminal Watty Watts attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black. The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene. Heading toward Mexico, the fugitive couple gets plenty of media coverage, until there are even more people on their trail. Can Watty and Starlene make it south of the border without getting caught?
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-23
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City Heat
1984-12-07
City Heat
Overview: Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Ghoulies
1985-01-18
Ghoulies
Overview: A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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Motorama
1991-09-10
Motorama
Overview: A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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Colors
1988-04-15
Colors
Overview: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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I Don't Know Jack
2002-04-05
I Don't Know Jack
Overview: The life of actor Jack Nance, whose rise to prominence after starring in David Lynch's 1977 cult classic Eraserhead led to involvement in various further projects with Lynch.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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Eraserhead Stories
2001-09-06
Eraserhead Stories
Overview: David Lynch discusses the making of the film "Eraserhead."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-06
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Bushman
1971-10-01
Bushman
Overview: 1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined - poetic in its approach to real events.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Jump
1971-01-01
Jump
Overview: A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Cowboy and the Frenchman
1988-10-26
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Overview: A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Sinema
2014-07-26
Sinema
Overview: A 96 minute internet video collage made during a particularly disorientating time.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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The French as Seen by…
1988-10-26
The French as Seen by…
Overview: In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.
Genres: War Documentary Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Wild at Heart
1990-08-17
Wild at Heart
Overview: Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Genres: Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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The Secret Agent Club
1996-08-16
The Secret Agent Club
Overview: A secret agent masquerades as a toy-seller, successfully concealing his alter ego even from his young son until, on a daring mission, he is captured by an evil arms dealer, then it falls to his inexperienced offspring to save the day.
Genres: Family Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-16
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Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990-10-19
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Overview: A 1990 documentary presented by Jonathan Ross, in which he interviewed filmmaker David Lynch.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-19
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The Blob
1988-08-05
The Blob
Overview: In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-05
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Voodoo
1995-11-28
Voodoo
Overview: Andy comes to campus in order to be close to his girlfriend Rebecca. Since he needs a place to stay he joins one of the college fraternities. However, a strange looking man warns him that the fraternity is just a cover-up for the weird voodoo cult.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-28
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The Demolitionist
1995-03-09
The Demolitionist
Overview: A murdered police officer is brought back to life by a cold-hearted scientist to serve as "The Demolitionist", the ultimate crime-fighting weapon in a city overrun by criminals and internal corruption
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-09
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Hammett
1982-06-09
Hammett
Overview: Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-09
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Johnny Dangerously
1984-12-21
Johnny Dangerously
Overview: An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Breaker! Breaker!
1977-04-01
Breaker! Breaker!
Overview: Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Across the Moon
1995-03-28
Across the Moon
Overview: Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state prison.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-28
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Another Midnight Run
1994-02-05
Another Midnight Run
Overview: Jack Walsh tries to track down two of the top con-artists around. But they know every trick in the book and Jack has trouble bringing them back to LA and getting a $45,000 pay day reward.
Genres: TV Movie Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-05
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Assault on Dome 4
1996-10-08
Assault on Dome 4
Overview: In this science-fiction action opus, intergalactic extremist Alex Windham has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after escaping from a penal colony on Mars. Windham is forcing the staff of Dome 4 to construct new weapons that he can use to destroy his enemies, but what he doesn't know is that one of his captives is the wife of interstellar lawman Chase Moran, and Mor
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-08
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Twin Peaks
1989-09-03
Twin Peaks
Overview: An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-03
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The Short Films of David Lynch
2025-02-22
The Short Films of David Lynch
Overview: This collection of David Lynch's short films cover the first 29 years of his career. Each film is given a special introduction by the director himself. His earliest underground films Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970) and The Amputee (1974) are showcased as well as two requisitioned works well into his successful career The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) and his addition for Lumière and Company (1995).
Genres: Animation Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-22
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I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Overview: An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
1989-01-01
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
Overview: A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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No Frank in Lumberton
1988-01-19
No Frank in Lumberton
Overview: A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1985 by Peter Braatz.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-19
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Fools
1970-12-23
Fools
Overview: A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-23
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014-07-16
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Overview: Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-16
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