Alex Karpovsky
Also Known As: 알렉스 카르포브스키, 알렉스 카포브스키
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alex Karpovsky is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and editor. Alex Karpovsky's first feature-length film, The Hole Story, was completed in 2006. The critically acclaimed dark comedy garnered numerous awards on the festival circuit before being released theatrically by Indiepix. Karpovsky's follow-up feature, Woodpecker premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival and was released by Carnivalesque Films in September 2009. Alex's most recent film, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival and was released by B-Side Entertainment in February 2010 before the company folded a few days later (the film was subsequently released by the New Video Group and continues to air regularly on The Documentary Channel). As an actor, Karpovsky recently played the male lead in Beeswax which premiered at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival; the voices of several Russian gangsters in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV; Mean Man Mike in Harmony and Me, which premiered at the 2009 New Directors/New Films Series; Paul Lucas in Lovers of Hate, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; Vlad in Bass Ackwards, which also premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; Jed in Tiny Furniture, which premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Jury Prize for Best Feature Film; Paul in The Grownups, which screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Rookie Agent in Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and Wally Combs in Wuss, which is set to premiere at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival. Karpovsky also recently acted or is committed to act in the following films, set to be released later in 2011: Almost in Love, Home, Incredibly Small, The Third Day, Marvin Seth and Stanley, and Seven Chinese Brothers. This fall Karpovsky will also appear as Ray in the HBO comedy series Girls. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Karpovsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
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Beeswax
Overview: Jeannie and her estranged business partner Amanda have a falling out leading to Amanda getting back with an ex and Jeannie bonding more with her non-paralyzed twin Lauren.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-07
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Bass Ackwards
Overview: A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-23
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Tiny Furniture
Overview: After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Lovers of Hate
Overview: Two rival brothers engage in the ultimate challenge when they compete for the affections of the same woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Overview: In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Overview: The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men In Black,' are closely tracking Jane and the aliens while harboring their own secrets.
Genres: Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-06
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Rubberneck
Overview: Paul Harris works at a small research facility on the outskirts of Boston. After a weekend tryst with a co-worker leaves him wanting more, his unreciprocated desires gradually mold into an acute infatuation. When Danielle takes interest in a new scientist at the laboratory, Paul's suppressed resentments and perverse delusions finally become unhinged, triggering a horrific course of events that mercilessly engulf a tortured past and fugitive present.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-22
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Wuss
Overview: The story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he's repeatedly beaten up by several of his own students. Having nowhere else to turn, he eventually teams up with another of his students to fight back. This student, a young girl, is feared school-wide because of a dark family reputation. She also has an unfortunate nickname grafted to her due to her predilection for smoking discarded cigarettes. Bonded in battle, the student and teacher form a friendship that stretches the use of the word inappropriate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-12
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Incredibly Small
Overview: Two recent college graduates, Anne, an ambitious law student and Amir, an aimless escalator attendant and aspiring sculptor move into a 300 square foot apartment and try to start a life together. But the combination of their small apartment, their threateningly handsome neighbor across the hall and unexpected visitors from the past make them realize that maybe they aren't as perfect for each other as they previously had thought.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Happy Baby
Overview: An abused, former orphan living in San Francisco returns to New York to reconnect with the love of his life and understand how his past has shaped his future. It's a semi-autobiographical work based on the book of the same name originally published by McSweeney's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-01
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Almost in Love
Overview: A love triangle shot in two continuous 45-minute takes set eighteen months apart: the first over a sunset, the second a sunrise.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-15
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Marvin, Seth and Stanley
Overview: Marvin's estranged sons, Seth and Stanley, return home for a camping trip. As past grudges are exposed, their weekend getaway slowly unfurls.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Good Night
Overview: Leigh’s 29th birthday party takes a sudden turn when she announces that the evening maybe the last time her friends see her alive. A night of questions, coping and debauchery immediately follow.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-08
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The Hole Story
Overview: Winter. Brainerd, Minnesota. Despite arctic temperatures sheathing hundreds of surrounding lakes in three feet of solid ice, a massive stretch of water opens up on the surface of North Long Lake. With repeated scientific investigations yielding no answers, the Black Hole captures the heart of the nearby community while attracting national, even international attention. Convinced this charming story would be perfect for the small town mystery show hes been fervently pitching to cable executives for years, Alex decides to cash in his savings from editing karaoke videos, hire a small crew, and make the pilot episode himself. Upon arrival however, this black hole mystery reveals itself to be much more disturbing and personal than expected, slowly engulfing Alex in an existential search that consumes not only his cherished pilot, but with it the very underpinnings of his sanity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-22
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A Goodbye to Girls
Overview: A featurette celebrating six seasons of "Girls."
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-10
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Little Sister
Overview: After returning to her childhood home, young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth and metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-06
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Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Overview: You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dining, tasty showbiz chit-chat, and psychological torture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-24
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Harmony and Me
Overview: Lyricist Harmony insists on wallowing in misery eons after being unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend. While the members of Harmony's family are long over his antics, that doesn't stop him from milking his heartbreak and telling his tale of woe to anyone who will listen.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-15
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The Foxy Merkins
Overview: Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this buddy comedy, an homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films. Margaret is a down-on-her-luck hooker in training, who meets up with Jo, a beautiful and self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on servicing women, even as she considers herself proudly heterosexual. The film follows their adventures together on the street, through encounters with husky-voiced seductresses, mumbling erotic accessory salesmen and shopaholic swingers. Navigating the bizarre fetishes and sexual needs of their 'dates' brings into focus the hilarious and pathetic disparity between the two hookers, fellow travelers who will share the road together but only for a while.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-09
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Fits and Starts
Overview: A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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7 Chinese Brothers
Overview: Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-14
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Pillow Fortress
Overview: When Lana brings her new boyfriend Bart on a visit to Tommy’s house, it doesn’t take long for the two men to realize that they knew each other as young children. Soon though, they disagree about their memories of a specific, trivial event. And as the disagreement lingers, some of Bart’s other resentments surface.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-01
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Oh Jerome, No
Overview: A guy takes surreal measures to conceal his true emotions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-01
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Actor Seeks Role
Overview: An aspiring method actor (Alex Karpovsky) in New York City resorts to medical acting, a part-time gig performing the symptoms of various illnesses for student doctors. Although his talents are overlooked for traditional roles on stage and screen, they catch the attention of a medical instructor (Dylan Baker) with a flair for the theatric.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-22
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Devil Town
Overview: A young woman's sister goes missing. She then sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her on her own, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-16
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Amy
Overview: A pair of ex-lovers spend a spontaneous afternoon together that could either lead to rekindled love or further heartbreak.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-18
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Folk Hero & Funny Guy
Overview: Two artistically inclined childhood friends, a comedian and a folk-rocker respectively, set out on a tour together in hopes of regaining their "mojo" and finding love in the process.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-16
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Crush
Overview: A diminished gallery girl finds a way to silence her toxic boss.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-22
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Tired Moonlight
Overview: Dawn, a middle aged woman who lives alone in a small town in Montana spends her days working as a maid at a roadside motel and scrounging through junk she purchases at local storage auctions hoping to one day 'hit the jackpot' and fund her travels and her escape from the town. Her humdrum life is slowly upended as Paul, a ramblin' man from her past, rolls like a tumbleweed through her small town. Pitting grand landscapes against dinners of fried chicken and the roar of V8 engines on Saturday nights, Tired Moonlight explores the relationship between extravagant nature and the tiny mundane moments of small town life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Overview: Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely-distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of a cover-up by the administration that puts the entire student body in danger.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Rosy
Overview: In an attempt to win her over once she gets to know him, a socially awkward outsider abducts an aspiring actress and gets more than he bargained for.
Genres: Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-17
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Girlfriend's Day
Overview: When he's caught up in a deadly conspiracy, an unemployed greeting card writer must create the perfect card for a new holiday to save his skin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-24
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Getting Stoned with Alex Karpovksy
Overview: Caveh gets stoned with Alex Karpovsky.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Overview: Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-02
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Hail, Caesar!
Overview: When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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The Show About the Show
Overview: Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-17
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Bloomin Mud Shuffle
Overview: Middle-aged Lonnie hasn't done much since he graduated high school. His only shot at greatness is to take his relationship to the next level.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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Being Frank
Overview: A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-14
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Summer of Blood
Overview: Lousy lover and egocentric Eric Sparrow is dumped by his girlfriend after rejecting her marital proposal. After a few failed dates his luck turns when a chance encounter with a vampire turns him into a sex god.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Possibilia
Overview: Alex Karpovsky and Zoe Jarman star as a young couple contemplating breaking up. You witness the events from any of 16 different perspectives.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-25
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The Front Runner
Overview: Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-06
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The Sound of Silence
Overview: A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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The Return of the Yuletide Kid
Overview: The Christmas Kid stars Craig Roberts (Red Oaks, Submarine,) in a warm-hearted comedy from writer/director Jamie Adams (Black Mountain Poets), about a former child star who learns what’s really important at Christmastime. Anthony Richards (Roberts) – you know, the Anthony Richards, The Actor – is depressed. His agent (Dolly Wells) has just dropped him, he’s unemployed, and he has little choice but to go home for Christmas - home to his doting mother, his jealous brother and a claustrophobic Welsh community that still reveres him as the home town boy who made it big. Back in his childhood home Anthony has demons to confront. But when Patricia (Erin Richards), the Head of Drama at the area’s most prestigious stage school, presents Ant with an offer to write and direct a play, Anthony finally has the chance to leave his Christmas Kid’s baggage in the past, once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-14
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The Ride
Overview: Wayne, a 40-year-old rideshare driver and spiritual coach, recently moved back in with his mom. He discovers that the key to giving his life meaning is to help his unsuspecting passengers let go of their negative thoughts—whether they want his help or not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-28
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Gayby
Overview: Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer's block and can't get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a promise to have a child together... the old fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? 'Gayby' is an irreverent comedy about friendship, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-17
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Cryptozoo
Overview: Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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Cry Funny Happy
Overview: Unexpected revelations and unraveling friendships mark a 30th birthday celebration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-18
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Sleepwalk with Me
Overview: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-24
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Supporting Characters
Overview: Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-23
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Red Flag
Overview: Writer/director/star Alex Karpovsky, a familiar face to indie filmgoers, reveals his sterling comic chops in this close-to-the-bone comedy. Teasing the line between fiction and reality, he plays an indie filmmaker named Alex Karpovsky who, dumped by a longtime girlfriend fed up with his refusal to marry, takes to the road with a reluctant old pal for a misbegotten mini tour screening his movie on college campuses and independent cinemas.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-22
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Cubby Knowles
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-07
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