Woody Allen
Also Known As: Woodie Allen, Allan Stewart Konigsberg, Вуди Аллен, วูดดี อัลเลน, 伍迪·艾伦, ウディ・アレン, 우디 앨런, وودي آلن, Vudijs Allens, ვუდი ალენი, 우디 알렌, وودی آلن, 伍迪艾倫
Biography: Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema, among a wealth of other fields of interest. Allen developed a passion for music early on and is a celebrated jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his hometown of Manhattan, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and performed in a rare European tour in 1996, which became the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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Scoop
Overview: An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Manhattan
Overview: Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-25
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Annie Hall
Overview: New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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The Front
Overview: A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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Small Time Crooks
Overview: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-19
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Deconstructing Harry
Overview: Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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What's New Pussycat?
Overview: A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-22
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Overview: CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-05
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Anything Else
Overview: Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-27
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
Overview: A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-02
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Don't Drink the Water
Overview: Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-18
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Zelig
Overview: Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-15
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Stardust Memories
Overview: While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Overview: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Overview: In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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Bananas
Overview: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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Sleeper
Overview: Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-17
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Overview: A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-13
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Love and Death
Overview: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-10
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Mighty Aphrodite
Overview: When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-13
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Play It Again, Sam
Overview: A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-04
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Overview: A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-06
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Take the Money and Run
Overview: Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-18
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Overview: A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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Picking Up the Pieces
Overview: A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-26
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Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Overview: Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power behind the president.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Antz
Overview: A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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Everyone Says I Love You
Overview: A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-06
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The Magic of Fellini
Overview: Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-27
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Sweet and Lowdown
Overview: In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Hollywood Ending
Overview: Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-03
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Broadway Danny Rose
Overview: A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-27
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… But Film Is My Mistress
Overview: Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier, the film provides a vivid portrait of the artist who in each new project found a challenge for himself and for the people he worked with - both actors and colleagues behind the camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-05-12
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Husbands and Wives
Overview: When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Overview: A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Meetin' WA
Overview: Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Company Man
Overview: In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-09
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Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Overview: Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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100 Greatest Stand-Ups
Overview: Several people walk into a bar... The funniest comedians of our time stand up to be counted down in our exhaustive look at who really has funny bones. Boom boom
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-18
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Scenes from a Mall
Overview: A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make some startling confessions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-22
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King Lear
Overview: A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-22
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
Overview: An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his life, family and friends; his writing and directing habits, and his relationship with performers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-20
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To Rome with Love
Overview: Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Shadows and Fog
Overview: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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New York Stories
Overview: Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Overview: Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, written and directed by renowned film critic Richard Schickel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-01
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Wild Man Blues
Overview: Wild Man Blues is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes its name from a jazz composition sometimes attributed to Jelly Roll Morton and sometimes to Louis Armstrong and recorded by both (among others). Allen's love of early 20th century New Orleans music is depicted through his 1996 tour of Europe with his New Orleans Jazz Band. Allen has played clarinet with this band for over 25 years. Although Allen's European tour is the film's primary focus, it was also notable as the first major public showcase for Allen's relationship with Soon-Yi Previn.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-16
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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Woody Allen: A Life in Film
Overview: An account of the life and work of US filmmaker Woody Allen as told by himself.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-04
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Woody Allen: Granada 1971
Overview: This is never-broadcast footage of Woody Allen being interviewed by Granada TV in Manchester in 1971 while he was in the UK to promote 'Bananas'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Overview: A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews with those closest to the brothers supplement this collection of highlights from their film, theater, and television appearances and offer a compelling look at their lives both on and off-screen.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-02
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Paris-Manhattan
Overview: Alice, an obsessed Woody Allen fan, meets Pierre in a night-club and falls in love with him. But when Pierre sees Alice's sister Hélène, things start to get complicated.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-18
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A City Runs Through the Festival
Overview: A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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Light Keeps Me Company
Overview: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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The Outsider
Overview: Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or distribution deal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-04
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The Sunshine Boys
Overview: Two aging comedians, who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier, must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-08
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How did Woody Allen become Woody Allen?
Overview: A documentary about the life and career of Woody Allen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Buñuel in Hollywood
Overview: This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Aragonese filmmaker stays in the U.S., the characters he met, the films he made and he could never do. The program also includes new material-unpublished until 2012 - the Aragonese director filmed in the U.S. in the early 1940s and where he can be seen playing one of their children or enjoying a short holiday in a cottage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-22
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The Unbelievers
Overview: Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and the rational questioning of religious belief.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-13
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Ain't Misbehavin
Overview: 18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the funniest as well. And the most forceful. The director of The Sorrow and the Pity shares with us stories of his exceptionally rich life in this light-hearted yet bitter escapade though the century and the movies. Son of the great Max Ophuls, he is generous in his admiration. We also meet Jeanne Moreau, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and of course François Truffaut. There are no great filmmakers without a memory, so here is the memory shop of Marcel Ophuls.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-16
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To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
Overview: He is considered to be one of the most significant links in the history of comedy, admired by such people as Eric Bogosian and Woody Allen. His television appearances have spanned from Merv Griffin to Dick Cavett to David Letterman. His long-running Off-Broadway show was hailed as "diabolical genius". He is Brother Theodore. A former millionaire playboy in the late1930's of Germany, Theodore endured the sobering loss of his entire family, his fortune, and his own identity, as a survivor of Dachau concentration camp. Shipped to America humiliated and stunned, Theodore yearned to reclaim his high-status and wealth. Continually haunted by his loss, and hindered as a displaced foreigner, he tapped "the power of despair" to re-invent himself, capitalizing on his dark, existential humor - to become one of America's most respected humorists and monologists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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The Last Laugh
Overview: Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-18
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Fading Gigolo
Overview: Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Overview: When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talent the likes of which we may never see again. Seemingly destined for greatness, Hamlisch was accepted into New York’s Juilliard School as a 6-year-old musical prodigy and rapidly developed into a phenomenon. With instantly classic hits ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘Nobody Does It Better’ and scores for Hollywood films such as The Swimmer, The Sting and Sophie’s Choice and the Broadway juggernaut A Chorus Line; Hamlisch became the go-to composer for film and Broadway producers and a prominent presence on the international Concert Hall circuit. His streak was staggering, vast, unprecedented and glorious, by the age of 31 Hamlisch had won 4 Grammys, an Emmy, 3 Oscars, a Tony and a Pulitzer prize: success that burned so bright, it proved impossible to match.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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David Blaine: Real or Magic
Overview: David Blaine's signature brand of street magic mystifies the most recognisable celebrities in the world, such as Jamie Foxx, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Ricky Gervais, Katy Perry, Woody Allen, and Robert DeNiro, to name a few. He goes to the homes of Kanye West and Harrison Ford, Will Smith and Olivia Wilde. He pays a visit to Stephen Hawking at his office in Cambridge University. Blaine also travels the world, astonishing people from all walks of life with never-before seen, inconceivable magic.
Genres: TV Movie Family Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-19
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Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman
Overview: American director Woody Allen talks to English film critic Mark Kermode about the films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Allen has always been a champion of Bergman's work and here he talks about the influence they had on him as a director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Overview: Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-18
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The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
Overview: One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a collection of his classic sketches released on video, with Caesar himself introducing the material. Besides being a truly gifted comic, Caesar benefited from having some brilliant supporting players, including Carl Reiner, Imogene Coca, and Nanette Fabray. Some of his illustrious writers, including Neil Simon, Woody Allen, and Mel Brooks, appear in interviews setting up the sketches. The sketches themselves include some all-time classics such as Caesar and company playing the figurines populating a medieval town clock (a brilliant bit partly written by Neil Simon and his brother, Danny, who reminisce after the sketch).
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-20
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To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
Overview: Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a filmmaker, Belgium's André Delvaux, film him during one of his own productions, Stardust Memories. Woody talks about his work, always steering clear of the anecdotal or the private.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-12
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Vittorio D.
Overview: A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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The Battle of Amfar
Overview: When AIDS struck in the early 1980s, a scientist and a movie star did not have to respond - but they did. Dr. Mathilde Krim and Elizabeth Taylor joined forces to create amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. The fight against HIV has never been the same. The Perfect Host reveals how two powerful and very different women came together, and what their combined efforts achieved. With passion and wit, Taylor wielded celebrity as a weapon against government indifference while Krim's commitment to science ensured support for the most promising research areas. Today, the only man cured of AIDS can thank research championed by Mathilde Krim. Visually dazzling and emotionally compelling, this story offers a surprising perspective on the still ongoing fight against AIDS.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Life Is Bearable at Times...
Overview: Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-02-28
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Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Overview: A collection of Ceasar's finest comedy moments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Woody Allen Looks at 1967
Overview: Woody Allen's whimsey is turned loose on the news, social events, and happenings of 1967. Such groovey guests as Aretha Franklin, Liza Minnelli, and William F. Buckley, Jr. participate.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Overview: Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote her first review in 1953 and joined ‘The New Yorker’ in 1968. Praised for her highly opinionated and feisty writing style and criticised for her subjective and sometimes ruthless reviews, Kael’s writing was refreshingly and intensely rooted in her experience of watching a film as a member of the audience. Loved and hated in equal measure – loved by other critics for whom she was immensely influential, and hated by filmmakers whose films she trashed - Kael destroyed films that have since become classics such as The Sound of Music and raved about others such as Bonnie and Clyde. She was also aware of the perennial difficulties for women working in the movies and in film criticism, and fiercely fought sexism, both in her reviews and in her media appearances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Sly
Overview: His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-16
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Overview: Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With interviews with the actress herself, as well as thoughts from colleagues and admirers, including Woody Allen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-10-21
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Un día en Nueva York con Woody Allen
Overview: Spanish filmmaker David Trueba travels to New York to interview Woody Allen, who reviews his filmography and his many personal and artistic concerns.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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Groucho & Cavett
Overview: Discover the enduring friendship between television personality Dick Cavett and his mentor iconic comedian Groucho Marx. Their relationship is chronicled through interviews with Cavett, archival footage and interviews with George Burns and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-27
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Radio Days
Overview: The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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The Impostors
Overview: Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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You Never Know
Overview: 10-part epic documentary on the life, work and times of filmmaker Lionel Rogosin, the radical director of ON THE BOWERY, COME BACK AFRICA, GOOD TIMES WONDERFUL TIMES and BLACK ROOTS. Film by Michael Rogosin, the son of Lionel Rogosin.
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By the Way, Woody Allen is Innocent
Overview: Cartoonist Rick Worley's in-depth and unapologetic analysis of the 1992 Woody Allen / Mia Farrow custody hearing and its (factually muddled) online reevaluation amidst the #MeToo movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-14
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François Truffaut, une autobiographie
Overview: A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Fight of the Century
Overview: Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-08
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Café Society
Overview: The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-11
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
Overview: An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest moments of cinema, from the Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen, commented by prestigious figures of world cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion
Overview: This sports documentary tells the remarkable story of the man voted the greatest boxer in history. Spanning his career from the early Depression-era days until his death in 1989, this special brings to light the many sides of Robinson: flashy public icon, womanizer, comeback kid, philanthropist, fighter. Includes rare film footage, never-before-seen home movies and interviews.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-08
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The Woody Allen Special
Overview: A Woody Allen special for CBS, in 1969.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-21
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Woody Allen: An American Comedy
Overview: Woody Allen talks about his career and his creative process with excerpts from some of his movies
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-02
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This Is Bob Hope...
Overview: During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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Trespassing Bergman
Overview: In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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Always at The Carlyle
Overview: The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-11
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The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
Overview: The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. These are compilations of fan favorites--digitally remastered to be as crisp as they were in the 1950s. "The Fan Favorites" includes gems from the heyday of live TV, as well as interviews with writers and actors, including Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Neil Simon. 3-3/4 hours on 3 cassettes or 3 DVDs. Set 1 features live gut-busters from "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour", including 18 of Caesar's own favorite sketches, plus revealing interviews with contemporaries, including Mel Brooks and Neil Simon. Three digitally remastered volumes: "The Magic of Live TV, Inside the Writer's Room," and "Creating the Comedy". Almost 4 hours on 3 cassettes or 3 DVDs.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-20
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The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
Overview: The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. These are compilations of fan favorites--digitally remastered to be as crisp as they were in the 1950s. "The Fan Favorites" includes gems from the heyday of live TV, as well as interviews with writers and actors, including Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Neil Simon. 3-3/4 hours on 3 cassettes or 3 DVDs. Set 1 features live gut-busters from "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour", including 18 of Caesar's own favorite sketches, plus revealing interviews with contemporaries, including Mel Brooks and Neil Simon.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-20
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Overview: With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-02
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Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women
Overview: In the last 30 years of the 2nd millennium, John Casablancas created the Elite modeling agency and invented the supermodels. If the names as Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Kate or Claudia are today so famous in the pop culture, it is mostly his doing. He lived a life dreamt by many, surrounded by glamour and beauty. John Casablancas tells his own story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-29
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Overview: How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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Filmmakers in Action
Overview: What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
Overview: Woody Allen's interview with France Roche.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On!
Overview: This charming documentary showcases the career of musical-comedy sensation Kaye Ballard, whose ability to sing and tell jokes was ubiquitous in the late 20th century. Delightful moments are captured in rare archival footage and interviews with Ann-Margret, Michael Feinstein and Ballard herself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-06
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Bert Stern - Original Madman
Overview: The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue 'mad man', his images helping to create modern advertising. Ground-breaking photos of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy, coupled with his astonishing success in advertising, minted Stern as a celebrity in his own right.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-02
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
Overview: PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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Barcelona, la rosa de foc
Overview: The many faces of Barcelona are portrayed in this documentary, shot in a false sequence shot that goes across the streets, squares, markets and bars of a city that is presented as both conventional and law-breaking, exquisit and shameless, elegant and dispossessed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-08
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Woody Allen: Standup Comic
Overview: In 1965, Woody Allen was in England filming "What's New, Pussycat?". He was invited by Granada Television in Manchester to film his stand-up act in front of a live audience. The resulting half-hour show is a rare visual record of Woody Allen's nightclub stand-up act.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Very Ralph
Overview: The first documentary portrait of fashion icon Ralph Lauren, reveals the man behind the icon and the creation of one of the most successful brands in fashion history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-12
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Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read
Overview: In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international reputation, and made an indelible mark on the jazz world. And yet, his story has never been told. Until now. The film explores Erroll's childhood in Pittsburgh; his meteoric rise in popularity while playing on 52nd street, New York's famed jazz epicenter; the origins of his most famous album (Concert By The Sea) and his most famous composition (Misty); his singular, virtuosic piano style; and his dynamic personality, both on and off the stage.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-09
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CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Overview: An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-09-16
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CyberWorld
Overview: A collaboration of computer-animated films which features new characters and old friends from the award-winning Fox network television series, "The Simpsons" and Dreamworks' feature film "Antz" The saucy, synthetic hostess, Phig, takes the viewers through Cyberworld 3D, a futuristic gallery of wild adventure and spectacular images. Trouble arrives in the form of three unwelcomed guests named Buzzed, Wired and Frazzled who are inadvertently destroying the environment's foundation, forcing Phig into a hilarious battle to save herself and Cyberworld 3D from total annihilation!
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Words in Progress
Overview: Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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Casting By
Overview: This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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Twiggy
Overview: Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name Lesley Lawson, whose career kickstarted in the 1960s. It features interviews with Twiggy and her husband Leigh Lawson, as well as commentary from Erin O’Connor, Paul McCartney, Lulu, Poppy Delavigne, Brooke Shields, Pattie Boyd and Zandra Rhodes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-07
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By the Way, Woody Allen Is Innocent (Updated)
Overview: Cartoonist Rick Worley's in-depth and unapologetic analysis of the 1992 Woody Allen / Mia Farrow custody hearing and its (factually muddled) online reevaluation amidst the #MeToo movement. An updated version of the original released in 2020 which includes newer information and recently released video clips.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-05
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Overview: This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-31
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The Language Master
Overview: Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme takes him to a Sixth Form College in London to work with school pupils, to test his claim that he can teach anyone a language in a week - with no reading, writing or homework. The film also explores his personal history - as a hero of the French Resistance during WW II. Nigel’s documentary with the 85 year old Michel Thomas was the first time that Thomas allowed his techniques to be made public. The subsequent success of the film transformed Thomas into a global celebrity and his method into one of the most highly regarded in the world of education.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-23
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