Dennis Hopper
Also Known As: Dennis Lee Hopper, Alan Smithee, دنیس هاپر
Biography: Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films. He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. "With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion." Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper." He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in Apocalypse Now (1979) brought him attention. He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He directed Colors (1988) and played the villain in Speed (1994). Hopper's later work included a leading role in the television series Crash. Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release. Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dodge City, Kansas, USA
Birthday: May 17, 1936
Deathday: May 29, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Apocalypse Now
Overview: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-19
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Rebel Without a Cause
Overview: After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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Rumble Fish
Overview: Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-09
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True Romance
Overview: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-09
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Cool Hand Luke
Overview: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Basquiat
Overview: The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-09
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Easy Rider
Overview: Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-26
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Tycus
Overview: An underground city is built to save a cross-section of humanity as a comet hurtles toward Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-22
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Swing Vote
Overview: In a remarkable turn of events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-01
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Speed
Overview: Jack Traven, an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, and veteran SWAT officer Harry Temple thwart an extortionist-bomber's scheme for a $3 million ransom. As they corner the bomber, he flees and detonates a bomb vest, seemingly killing himself. Weeks later, Jack witnesses a mass transit city bus explode and nearby a pay phone rings. On the phone is that same bomber looking for vengeance and the money he's owed. He gives a personal challenge to Jack: a bomb is rigged on another city bus - if it slows down below 50 mph, it will explode - bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that's just the beginning...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-09
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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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Straight Shooter
Overview: After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. His former drill sergeant, Frank Hector, who now owns several night clubs and brothels, is the only one who might be able to stop the maniac killing specialist. Frank is flown in instantly, but soon has to find out that his former comrade's actions might be a result from an event long ago.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-04-15
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Giant
Overview: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-08
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Space Truckers
Overview: John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Red Rock West
Overview: When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Overview: A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-27
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Hang 'em High
Overview: Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-12
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The Piano Player
Overview: A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-06
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The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
Overview: Dreaming of ascending the underworld ladder and gaining revenge on his sadistic boss, Sal, a Mafia flunky, Frankie, tries to take a step in the right direction by "saving" an exploited, drug-addicted porn actress, Margaret.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-24
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The American Friend
Overview: Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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River's Edge
Overview: A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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Hoosiers
Overview: Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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Ticker
Overview: Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the terrorists, claims he will detonate bombs throughout the city if she is not released. Because of the possible bloodshed, Nettles calls for the help of explosive expert Frank Glass...
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-23
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EDtv
Overview: Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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Land of the Dead
Overview: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-18
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Overview: Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-30
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Boiling Point
Overview: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred. Written by Giancarlo Cairella
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-16
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Knockaround Guys
Overview: Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Leo
Overview: A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome obstacles of the past to save the little boy and ultimately himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-12
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Champion
Overview: Danny Trejo, you know the man. He has fierce tattoos, and frequently plays a thug in your favorite movies. Behind the ink and the wicked characters he plays on screen lies the story of a troubled childhood which included drug addiction, armed robbery and extensive prison time. Champion offers an intimate, one of a kind view into the life of Danny Trejo before he turned himself around and after.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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The Trip
Overview: After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-23
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The Inside Man
Overview: In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Chasers
Overview: Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon proves that she's craftier than most inmates.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-22
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Elegy
Overview: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Spreading Ground
Overview: Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-25
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Palermo Shooting
Overview: After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-20
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Inside Deep Throat
Overview: In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one of the most successful independent films of all time. It caught the public imagination which met the spirit of the times, even as the self-appointed guardians of public morality struggled to suppress it, and created, for a brief moment, a possible future where sexuality in film had a bold artistic potential. This film covers the story of the making of this controversial film, its stunning success, its hysterical opposition along with its dark side of mob influence and allegations of the on set mistreatment of the film's star.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Overview: The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: a turbulent and dark tale of ambition, envy, betrayal, hatred and self-destruction.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-09
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The Osterman Weekend
Overview: The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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The Indian Runner
Overview: Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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Jesus' Son
Overview: A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-16
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The Blackout
Overview: A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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Alpha and Omega
Overview: Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Unspeakable
Overview: Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-01
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O.C. and Stiggs
Overview: O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against it. They seek revenge against the upper-middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: excess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-10
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Out of Season
Overview: When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-23
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10th & Wolf
Overview: A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-19
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Super Mario Bros.
Overview: Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Waterworld
Overview: In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-28
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Catchfire
Overview: A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-03
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Hell Ride
Overview: Two rival bikers gangs, the Victors and the Six-Six-Six's, refuel their decades-old rivalry.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Flashback
Overview: A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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Queen of Blood
Overview: A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963).
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-01
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Straight to Hell
Overview: A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
Genres: Action Western Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Americano
Overview: "Americano" centres around Chris McKinley (Jackson), a recent college graduate backpacking through Europe who savours his last three days of freedom before boarding the career fast track back in the United States. In Pamplona with two friends (Timm Sharp and Ruthanna Hopper), Chris meets an Australian thrill-seeker (Phil Barantini), a quintessential Spanish beauty (Varela) and an enigmatic provocateur (Dennis Hopper), all of whom encourage him to rethink his life. As the minutes and seconds until his departure tick away, Chris struggles with an age-old question: Should he follow the beaten path or risk it all on the road less travelled?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-07
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The Keeper
Overview: When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-14
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Meet the Deedles
Overview: Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-27
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Brando: An Icon Is Born
Overview: A short retroperspective feature on Brando's influence on acting itself and the cultural impact of his role in "The Wild One".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-01
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Witch Hunt
Overview: Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-10
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Sleepwalking
Overview: When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother, James. Joleen soon runs off with a truck driver, and James is unable to meet his responsibilities. After Child Protective Services takes possession of Tara, James abducts her from a foster home, and the two travel from California to Utah, where his abusive father lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-14
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Carried Away
Overview: Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a college degree, learns that he will lose his teaching job at the end of the year when the school district expands into his town. Meanwhile, he is seduced by 17-year-old Catherine, a new student in his class. His affair with Catherine and losing his teaching job forces Joseph to take a look at his previously dull life and to decide how he wants to live the rest of it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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The Last Ride
Overview: After thirty years in prison, ex-con Ronnie recruits his grandson to exact revenge on Darryl, the cop who put him behind bars. Standing in their way is Ronnie's son, whom Darryl raised.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-02
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Memory
Overview: Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Mad Dog Morgan
Overview: The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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The Story of Mankind
Overview: The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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The Night We Called It a Day
Overview: Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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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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50 Films to See Before You Die
Overview: Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of the fop 50 films to see before you die, as compiled by film critics and personalities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-22
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Hoboken Hollow
Overview: As Trevor drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare he is still haunted by the evils of the war he recently returned from and a promise he failed to keep. When a stranger offers a ride, Trevor finds himself battling the brutal homegrown evil of the Broderick family at Hoboken Hollow,a remote West Texas ranch that many visit but few ever leave.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-04
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Top of the World
Overview: In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged diversion, and the two of them become suspects. Over the course of the evening and next morning, the two attempt to escape to surrounded casino, and to prove their innocence, as well as to save their marriage.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Overview: We are taken though the principal milestones of Hopper's biography, including his debut start in Hollywood, the meeting with James Dean and the influence he played upon him, his insubordination on sets and conflicts with the Hollywood directors which led to his black-listing, the years in New, the making of 'Easy Rider' (with an interesting connection of the ultimate road movie with the French new wave directors), 'Apocalypse Now', 'Blue Velvet', 'Colors', his fight with dependency on drugs and alcohol. We come to know Hopper as a complex artist, a valuable photographer who had always a camera on him and whose portraits or American life shots figure among the best in the genre, but also a rebel painter (who may still be rediscovered and become famous in posterity) and exquisite art collector.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-10
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The Sons of Katie Elder
Overview: The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Overview: With the help of a radio DJ, Texas ranger Lefty Enright finds his way to the cannibalistic Sawyer family's underground slaughter shop, where he seeks to avenge the brutal murder of his kin.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-22
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Choke
Overview: Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-14
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Night Tide
Overview: A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Overview: Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related series of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the fourth of the six films, "The Pursuit of Happiness," filmmaker Robert Zemeckis delves into the history of America's relationship with mind-altering substances over the past 100 years, presenting interviews with historians and professionals in the drug treatment field, interspersed with a treasure trove of film and television clips depicting the highs and lows of smoking, drinking and drugging in the 20th century
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House
Overview: Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House is a Grammy Award nominated live DVD by Gorillaz, It compiles live performances by the band from the 1st through the 5th of November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House that recreated the Demon Days Studio album.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-27
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The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys
Overview: Inspired by a 1962 NYPD pamphlet entitled ‘The Thirteen Most Wanted [Men]’. Warhol transformed it from ‘most wanted men’ into ‘most beautiful boys’, and then began to film the very first Screen Tests, continuing to film for the series into early 1966, totalling more than 13 Screen Tests.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-20
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True Grit
Overview: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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Out of the Blue
Overview: A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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The Young Land
Overview: An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murder with the Hispanic population waiting to learn of American justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Overview: Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents is a documentary chronicling the production of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Pick-up Artist
Overview: A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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The Art of Football from A to Z
Overview: Funnyman John Cleese leads viewers through an exhaustive -- and hilarious -- tour of the world of soccer, complete with the sport's most memorable goals, kicks, saves, goofs and penalties. Also included are reflections on soccer's impact on culture, including the Monty Python sketch "Philosophy Football," and interviews with celebrities Dave Stewart, Dennis Hopper and Henry Kissinger, as well as soccer icons Pelé, Mia Hamm and Thierry Henry.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-25
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Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Overview: "On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired on U.S. TV on May 11, 1972 as "John and Yoko in Syracuse, New York."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-11
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My Science Project
Overview: His high school teacher issues an ultimatum: turn in a science project or flunk. So Mike Harlan scavenges a military base's junk pile for a suitable gizmo. He finds one... and unwittingly unleashes the awesome power and energy of the unknown. Twisted dimensions. Time warps. A fantastic realm where the past, present, and future collide in a whirling vortex of startling adventure and superlative special effects.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-09
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The Last Movie
Overview: After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Swiss Family Robinson
Overview: T.V. movie adaptation of The Swiss Family Robinson, sponsored by Rexall.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-12
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The Heart of Justice
Overview: David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the labyrinth of a sinisterly unique wealthy family...
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-14
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Black Widow
Overview: Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
Overview: A visceral deconstruction of Academy Award nominated Peter Bogdanovich and the nervous breakdown he nearly had while shooting THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-06
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House of 9
Overview: Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-19
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Human Highway
Overview: The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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The Prophet's Game
Overview: Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies and somebody is famous.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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Paris Trout
Overview: Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married Paris, who brutalizes her. Soon Paris goes beyond the overgenerous bounds of what a man in his position can get away with even in the segregated South, leading to a spiral of perverse insanity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-21
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Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
Overview: For stylish airs, no one came close to Christian Hosoi. At his peak in the mid-80s he was the "rock star" of skating, pulling down money that rivaled Tony Hawk's paycheck. Innovating crazy vertical maneuvers like the "Christ Air," Christian knew how to stoke an audience. Then it all came crashing down when Hosoi plowed into self-destruction, getting hooked on crystal meth and hitting rock bottom with a prison sentence for drug smuggling. Completely annihilated, Christian turned to the Bible for answers and found new strength. With lots of action footage and a slammin' soundtrack, this gritty, inspiring film goes deep inside the world of skateboarding as seen through the incredible highs and lows of this legend's life, revealed through never-before-released home movies and interviews with Christian's family and friends including top skaters Jason Lee, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Mark Ragowski and many more!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-07
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Search and Destroy
Overview: A self-help guru's televised teachings inspire a down-and-out businessman to pursue his dream of making a movie.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-23
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Luck of the Draw
Overview: Jack Sweeny is a young man just trying to get a job. Turned down at another bank due to his criminal record he meets a girl, Rebecca, but also witnesses a 3 way shootout between 2 groups of criminals and the cops over a suitcase containing perfect plates for counterfeiting bank notes. Jack grabs the plates and attempts to sell them via his friend Zippo. However with at least three different groups ready to kill him for the plates, Jack finds it's just one double cross after another.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-06
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King of the Mountain
Overview: A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of "King of the Hill."
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-04
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Sunset Heat
Overview: A former drug-dealer photojournalist returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-02
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Nails
Overview: The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-25
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Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper
Overview: George Hickenlooper interviews Dennis Hopper about his artwork and his career in film and the state of cinema in the 1980s.
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Original Language: en
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From Hell to Texas
Overview: The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Samson and Delilah
Overview: Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-08
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Chattahoochee
Overview: In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-20
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Key Witness
Overview: An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willing to identify the culprits, he opens himself up to a campaign of intimidation from the gang involved.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-06
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A Tribute To Johnny Cash
Overview: On Sunday, April 18, 1999, the hottest names in rock and roll united with the biggest stars in country music when TNT presented "A Tribute To Johnny Cash." From humble beginnings as the son of a sharecropper to his rise to fame as a music legend, "The Man In Black" has become one of the most influential performers of the 20th century. Some of Cash's biggest fans, including Bruce Springsteen, Trisha Yearwood, and U2, performed in this star-studded concert saluting Cash's groundbreaking career and the rich legacy of his music. In his fifty year career as singer and song-writer, Cash garnered nine Grammy® Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the distinction of becoming the first inductee in both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — an honor shared only by Elvis Presley.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-04
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Running Out of Luck
Overview: A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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I Died a Thousand Times
Overview: After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-09
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Doublecrossed
Overview: Based on a true story, this made-for-cable film tells about Barry Seal, a pilot who was a drug smuggler for the infamous Medellin cartel out of Colombia. He was caught by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and decided to turn over and help the DEA break the cartel. However, he got caught in the middle of the Reagan/Bush administration efforts to topple the Nicaraguan government in the '80s, in which Nicaraguan rebels called "contras" were allowed to smuggle cocaine into the US in exchange for their fighting against the leftist Nicaraguan government. Eventually Seal was murdered by his former Medellin employers, and some critics say it was with the tacit, if not implicit, connivance of the US administration.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-20
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The Glory Stompers
Overview: Chino is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get violent when Darryl comes back for revenge.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-22
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Tracks
Overview: A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-15
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Overview: Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-23
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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Overview: The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot the Soviet crackdown of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. As refugees they struggle in Hollywood, finally breaking into the mainstream with their pivotal contribution to the "American New Wave."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-11
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Mysteries of Love
Overview: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-04
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The American Dreamer
Overview: A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film "The Last Movie."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-01
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Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Overview: Interviews with celebrities such as Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Dennis Hopper and Willie Nelson examine the remarkable career of actor-performer Kris Kristofferson, who successfully bridged the gap between Hollywood and Nashville. From his mastery of the "New Nashville" sound on his 1972 album "Jesus Was a Capricorn" to his role in the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Kristofferson has shown an agility that's hard to match.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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Reborn
Overview: A man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) and tries to keep her out of the hands of a greedy TV preacher who plans to exploit her to make money for himself.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-27
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Kid Blue
Overview: Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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The American Way
Overview: A group of Vietnam vets disturbs television programs from a B-29 airplane. They want to sabotage Mrs Westinghouse's political campaign who is running for the Senate in support of US military involvement in South America. Mrs Westinghouse orders some nuclear missiles to be launched against the saboteurs, but they manage to avoid the impact and even succeed in exposing a big secret of hers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-13
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Road Ends
Overview: Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a problem. He flees, hiding out at a near-vacant California Central Valley inn where innkeeper Kat (Mariel Hemingway) is happy to have him sign the register. His presence, however, arouses the suspicions of lone cop Gilchrist (Dennis Hopper). Meanwhile, Fed agent Gere (Peter Coyote) hopes to track Maceda before Orosco's thugs pick up the scent.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-05
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To Shoot a Mad Dog
Overview: A documentary about the making of the Australian feature Mad Dog Morgan (1976).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Spirit of Golf
Overview: In his new film, Spirit of Golf, photographer and documentary filmmaker Christopher Felver traces his personal 20-year odyssey in search of the essence of the “auld Scots game.” Inspired by Michael Murphy’s book, Golf in the Kingdom, he travels to many of golf’s historic, fabled courses: St Andrews, Pebble Beach, Augusta National, among others. He interviews many of the game’s great champions and more than a few colorful characters, who are asked the question, “What is the spirit of golf?” We hear from Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, the wonderfully unique Moe Norman, Kathy Whitworth and Nancy Lopez, and notable teachers such as David Leadbetter, “Butch” Harmon and commentators Herbert Warren Wind, Jack Whitaker, and Jim Nantz. All the answers are marvelously diverse, funny, and poetic… just like the game itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-23
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Blood Red
Overview: Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
Overview: This documentary follows painter and musician Lyn Foulkes from age 70 to 77 as he labors to complete two astonishing tableaux that demonstrate his outsider's perspective and eye for evocative imagery. As his reworking of one piece stretches into its second decade, we watch Foulkes' righteous contempt for the establishment erode, replaced by a yearning for the recognition he's due.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-20
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Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Overview: The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-01
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Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Overview: The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared from the scene in a rather mysterious way. The story of an uncompromising film maniac.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-02-08
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Held for Ransom
Overview: Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-14
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Lured Innocence
Overview: A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-28
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The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Overview: An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts. A documentary film talking about art and advertising divided in three parts: 1. Crossing Over - from cinema to ads from ads to cinema 2. Humour - How humour affects us in advertising 3. Shock - The way shock is used to sell
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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The James Dean Story
Overview: Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Overview: Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Bloodbath
Overview: Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-29
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Eye of the Storm
Overview: At a highway gas station/motel/diner where they live, two young brothers witness their parents murder. The younger brother is blinded in the same incident. Ten years later both brothers are still there and the tragedy may have turned one of them psychotic. When the abusive Gladstone and his young and sexy wife are stranded at the gas station it brings out the worst in everyone.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-03
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The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Overview: This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage. Cage is considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. This documentary features interviews with various personalities from different fields as they introduce us to the life and work of this great American artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Last In, First Out
Overview: A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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Bad City Blues
Overview: In the aftermath of a violent robbery, a New Orleans doctor, Eugene Grimes, wakes to find a wounded woman and $2 million in cash on his doorstep. In pursuit of the thieves, police captain Clarence Jefferson discovers that Grimes is the key not only to the money but to a dark web of intrigue and vengeance stretching back to a bloody civil war in El Salvador a decade before.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-16
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White Star
Overview: A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-27
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Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Overview: Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is profiled in "Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper."
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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Head
Overview: In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-06
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to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
Overview: An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a post-industrial society.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-26
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The Apostate
Overview: A man of the cloth finds his faith challenged both by the death of one of his closest relatives and the aftermath of the crime in this thriller. When a man is murdered under mysterious circumstances, his brother, a Catholic priest (Richard Grieco), decides to start his own investigation with the help of his uncle, a detective, in hopes of tracking down the killer.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-23
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The Other Side of the Wind
Overview: Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles's lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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Wanderlust
Overview: A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd and Tom McCarthy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-12
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Stardust
Overview: Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction film using cinematographic codes and narrative tools from the Hollywood film language. The award winning Plot Point (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in Stardust and films real Hollywood stars - Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and turns the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital into an exciting crime story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-16
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An American Carol
Overview: A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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SnowwhiteRosered
Overview: Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave vent to a new kind of art. They became active in the underground communist party KPD and showed a heart-felt interest in the colour red, the aesthetics of the revolution. Soon, though, the twins quit their experiments in Germany. They left their husbands and went to Rome, where they met the fabulously wealthy Paul Getty III, and soon things got really out of hand.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-10-24
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Panic in the City
Overview: An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-01
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Rediscovering a Rebel
Overview: A documentary short on the making of Rebel Without a Cause.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Overview: A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV Raps" premiered on August 6, 1988 with hosts Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Doctor Dré, and shaped the careers of many of today’s hip hop superstars, while simultaneously making groundbreaking strides in introducing hip hop to the mainstream.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-07
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Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
Overview: Documentary about Stanley Kramer, included on the 40th anniversary edition of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-12
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
Overview: First and foremost, Frank Gehry is an artist. Described as a young child as having golden hands, Frank begins his creation through sketch. Forming thought into substantive sculpture, the marriage of art and architechure is brought to life. Join director Sydney Pollack on a journey into the world and work of the most important architect of our Age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-12
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Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Overview: In 1983 Dennis Hopper went to Rice University in Houston, Texas ostensibly to screen his latest film Out Of The Blue. But little known to anyone, other than Hopper and a handful of his buddies, he had another agenda entirely. While he did indeed screen his movie, Hopper had actually come to Houston to blow himself up. After screening his movie Out Of The Blue, Hopper arranged to have the audience driven by a fleet of school buses to a racetrack on the outskirts of Houston, the Big H Speedway. Hopper and the buses arrived at the speedway just as the races were ending and a voice was announcing over the public address system 'stick around folks and watch a famous Hollywood film personality perform the Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act. That’s right, folks, he’ll sit in a chair with six sticks of dynamite and light the fuse. 'The large guy making the sign of the cross is the writer Terry Southern and the jerk threatening to blow up my camera is the German filmmaker, Wim Wenders.'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Overview: A look back on the weird and wasted career of the Holy Modal Rounders.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-07
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Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Overview: The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his chequered life and career, at the request of Dutch director, photographer and fine artist Thom Hoffman. The latter sifted through the turbulent life story of Hopper, who is primarily known from the cult film Easy Rider (1969). Hopper went through as many high as low points. In conveniently arranged chapters, Hoffman shows the decisive moments in Hopper's life and asks colleagues like Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Sean Penn and Julian Schnabel to comment on them. The documentary is richly illustrated with film excerpts, photos, newspaper articles and anecdotes. The main reason for this film was the retrospective of Dennis Hopper's art work in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum in 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Overview: Paul Joyce’s Out of the Blue and Into the Black is an insightful documentary surveying American independent film production post-Easy Rider and includes interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, Monte Hellman and Roger Corman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Black Leather Jacket
Overview: Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings through to it's 'bad boy' reputation and considers whether it has now become emasculated by pop culture.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Stark
Overview: Wichita policeman, Evan Stark, goes to Las Vegas in search of his missing sister, Laura.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-10
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Cannes Man
Overview: Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-03
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Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
Overview: One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-01
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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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Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Overview: When a poor Fisherman discovers a magic flounder in the sea, he goes home to tell his wife. But, as his wife's greed for the better life comes to the point where she wants to take over the world, the fisherman soon realizes that his wife's greed will get the best of them yet.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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James Dean and Me
Overview: A documentary about James Dean. People who knew him or had worked with him reminisce.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Super Mario Bros: The Lasagna Workprint
Overview: An alternate, extended version of 1993's Super Mario Bros. Restored by The Bigger Pictures Film Restoration from a 1992 workprint and released on the 2024 4K edition from Umbrella Entertainment.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-01
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Scene Missing
Overview: The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Brando
Overview: The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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On the tracks of a filmmaker
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring
Overview: Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti subculture, his opening of the Pop Shop, and the social commentary present in his paintings and drawings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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Blue Peanuts
Overview: A pre-internet mash-up that mixes “Peanuts” and David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet.”
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-05
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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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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Overview: Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip during which he filmed the footage for Elvis at Ferus. Locations included Hollywood, Malibu, Venice, Pasadena, Topanga Canyon, the Santa Monica pier and the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-18
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The Last Film Festival
Overview: Dennis Hopper plays Nick Twain, a Hollywood Producer whose latest film is rejected by every film festival in the world except one- in Ohio. Nick will do anything to get his film distributed, including manipulating his dysfunctional cast into attending the festival. Hollywood egos and small town politics inevitably collide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-16
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He's Alive
Overview: An American neo-Nazi is visited by the ghost of Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
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Flesh Color
Overview: This film was presented to the Cannes Film Festival in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-09-12
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Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
Overview: A special celebrating Elizabeth Taylor's 65th birthday featuring never-before-seen footage of her life and career.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-24
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Light Years
Overview: Black-and-white UCLA Student Film Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An impressionistic portrait of a man haunted by his past, which comes careening into his present when he goes for a motorcycle ride with his girlfriend. Starring Dennis Hopper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Blue Velvet Revisited
Overview: When David Lynch was making his film Blue Velvet, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was also on set, shooting documentary footage with a Super 8 film camera. Now, on Blue Velvet's 30th anniversary, Braatz presents his footage, along with still photographs, as a "meditation" on Lynch's work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Overview: An illuminating portrait of Jay Sebring — the long-forgotten artist, designer, and entrepreneur who created a billion-dollar hair & beauty industry and defined iconic Hollywood styles for men.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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The Source
Overview: Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Russian Suicide Chair
Overview: Dennis Hopper demonstrates a method of murder that he says had been employed in the Soviet Union.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-01
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Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
Overview: LSD Guru Tim Leary teaches us all to die by dying himself in what he calls his "custom death". This documentary deals with Mr. Leary's last days, all captured on camera by his own request.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Overview: Documentary on the life and career of actor Vincent Price, best known for horror film classics such as "House of Wax," "The Fly," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
Overview: Documentary about the making and history of the film "Easy Rider."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer
Overview: After ex-con Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered by a biker gang, he is resurrected by the power of The Crow to avenge their deaths and reunite with her in the afterlife.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-04
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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Overview: The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-29
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Sayonara
Overview: Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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Beautiful Darling
Overview: James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-02
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The Venice Project
Overview: Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and announces that his home and priceless collection of art have been bequeathed to the Italian government.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-09
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When Hippies Ruled The World
Overview: When Hippies Ruled The World takes a trip back to the end of the psychedelic Sixties - the dreams, trips, movies, and music - to a time that love was all that was needed. From 1967 to 1970, the hippie revolution gave us great anthems, great events, great sex and great big afghan coats. The music was by The Doors; queen of the hippies Joni Mitchell; and the world was set alight by the number 1 hit Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Hippies dropped out at the biggest festival, Woodstock, and were turned on by LSD and free love. The whole experience was literally set on film by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider while the hippest of all looked East and followed in the trail of the Beatles to India.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-10
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Welcome to Hollywood
Overview: A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Along for the Ride
Overview: A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Screen Test #3
Overview: One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-23
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The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story
Overview: Overview The Sixth Element By any standard, the life story of Ross Clarke-Jones qualifies as riveting. A daredevil ad extremis, Clarke-Jones learned to tackle and surmount some of the most mammoth waves on the face of the Earth. And that attitude fittingly mirrors the surfer's approach to life, colored and shaped by an insatiable restlessness and a hunger for new thrills. His drive transported him from one exotic corner of the world to another, Tasmania to the Amazon and everywhere in between. This documentary tells Clarke-Jones's amazing story, with insights from heavyweights including Jeff Bushman, Matt Hoy, Noah Johnson, Jamie Brisick, Kelly Slater and many others. The late Dennis Hopper narrates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-03
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13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
Overview: Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from Warhol superstars and celebrities to friends or anyone he thought had "star potential". All visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word. Songwriters Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of the band Luna and currently recording as Dean & Britta, incorporated original compositions as well as cover songs to create new soundtracks for the 13 films.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-07
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James Dean: The First American Teenager
Overview: Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early days working in television to his rise to stardom in films such as Rebel Without a Cause. Clips from Dean's movies are intermingled with candid interviews with the star's friends and Hollywood colleagues, including Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dennis Hopper.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-30
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The Sorceror's Apprentice
Overview: A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Overview: Star-studded charity New York City premiere of the film Giant.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-09
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L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve
Overview: LA's finest have crossed the thin blue line between Cop and Criminal. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-09
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Return to 'Giant'
Overview: In the summer of 1955, an army of cameramen, lighting techs and movie stars descended on the small, west Texas town of Marfa to film what has become, "the national movie of Texas."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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The Brothers Warner
Overview: An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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Crush Proof
Overview: A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United States. They began to drift apart during the trip, and eventually each had affairs with other people before realizing that their relationship had run its course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-04
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Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Overview: Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best overall critique of his work that I have encountered anywhere. Paul Joyce, who directed it, has also made documentaries about Nicolas Roeg, David Cronenberg, Nagisa Oshima, and Dennis Hopper, and he knows the conventional format well enough to get the most out of it. There are good clips and interesting commentaries from the interviewed subjects, who include Wenders himself, cinematographer Robby Muller, filmmaker Sam Fuller, novelist Patricia Highsmith, musician Ry Cooder, actors Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Falk, and Hanns Zischler, and critic Kraft Wetzel, who is especially provocative. A must-see for Wenders fans, highly recommended for everyone else. –Jonathan Rosenbaum, 1989
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Overview: As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-31
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Tell Them Who You Are
Overview: The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the camera on him. What results is a portrait of a difficult genius and a son's path out of the shadow of a famous father.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-06
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Some Kind of Genius
Overview: Documentary on Dennis Hopper and how his madness can lead to being a genius.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Forever Hollywood
Overview: Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Overview: Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Overview: Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"), gets the definitive treatment. This film includes a look into his inner circle and examines both his artistic and personal impact on society. From day-glo Marilyns and Elvises to Campbell's Soup cans to the groovy 1960s and '70s, step into the limelight of the Warhol world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-27
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Overview: Screen test by Andy Warhol with Dennis Hopper as the subject.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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Not Quite Hollywood
Overview: As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Overview: Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, where he found massive success turning pop imagery into art and eventually founded "The Factory," his famed studio and party venue. Among the many notables interviewed are Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtenstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Overview: The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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The Ten Commandments of Creativity
Overview: Having struggled to crack his brief, Dennis Hopper decides the only honourable act is to throw himself off a roof. Before this final act, Sir Peter Ustinov appears and bestows the Ten Commandments of Creativity upon the desperate advertising executive. The Ten Commandments become a template to navigate the state of creativity. Featuring Tarantino, Jeff Koons, Sean Penn, and Malcolm McClaren.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-01
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The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Overview: Pointing to the increasingly blurred distinction between reality and fiction in the world today, Dennis Hopper leads a discussion on the methods used by advertisers, as well as the responsibilities of ad-makers. The biggest names in the business have their say on shock, humour, and sex as methods of selling.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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B movie
Overview: This mini documentary features a rare interview with infamous graffiti artist Banksy, delving into how he started out as a graffiti writer up to his shift to gallery art, installations, CDs, and more. Til this day only a hand full of people know his real identity, such as friends appearing here: 3D of Massive Attack, Damien Hirst, and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-07-09
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The Cool School
Overview: How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-07
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Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Overview: An examination of the craft of Marlon Brando, narrated by professionals of the film industry. The film follows his career from the stage with "A Streetcar Named Desire", through the Actors Studio and professional relationships with Elia Kazan and Stella Adler to Hollywood. An actor who redefined the limits to which a professional may go in becoming the character not only intellectually but emotionally, Brando changed the meaning of film acting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-11
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Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Overview: Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-08
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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Overview: This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to 1990, the film features a cast of counterculture icons including Allen Ginsberg, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono, as well as John and Caroline Kennedy, and Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy Onassis's sister and Warhol muse)—to whom Mekas dedicates the film. The film features footage from the Velvet Underground's first public performance. A portrait of the remarkable life of arguable the twentieth century's most famous artist and leading iconographer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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The Real James Dean
Overview: Although he'd starred in just three films before his untimely death at age 24, James Dean cast a long shadow that came to define cool. Using excerpts from Dean's personal diaries, found footage from screen and wardrobe tests and interviews with those who knew him best (including Dennis Hopper, Dick Van Patten, Graham Nash and Rod Steiger), this fascinating documentary explores the screen icon's lingering mystique.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-01
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Corman's World
Overview: A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-16
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Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Overview: Willie Nelson and friends celebrate his sixtieth birthday in a star-studded concert event.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-22
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Bananaz
Overview: A documentary on the cryptic cartoon band, Gorillaz. From 2000-2006 director Ceri Levy filmed the creators behind the scenes, revealing the first drawings, animations and music, and following the evolution of the group through to the album Demon Days.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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Hopper/Welles
Overview: Captures a 1970 meeting between the movie industry titan Orson Welles and the then-rising star Dennis Hopper, who had just made Easy Rider.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-09
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New Scenes from America
Overview: A look at post-9/11 America by the Danish documentarian.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-13
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A Hero of Our Time
Overview: Loosely based on a section of Mikhail Lermontov's classic Russian novel of the same title, the film involves a displaced cowboy (played by Kevin Jarre, the screenwriter of Rambo), a sociopathic record producer (Dennis Hopper) and, caught between them, a gum-chewing valley girl who would rather be somewhere else (Natalie Zimmerman). Lermontov's 19th century novel leaves a vapor trail on the action, but A Hero of Our Time is more precisely a portrait of contemporary Los Angeles, a tale of wayward heroism played out against a landscape of yearning and desolation. Director/writer Michael Almereyda, whose screenplay for Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World will be produced this year, completed principal photography for A Hero of Our Time in October of 1985. Dennis Hopper's participation occurred during a break in the filming of Blue Velvet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Disneyland '59
Overview: Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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Flatland
Overview: In the future of 2010, three young Americans, Quentin, JT and Amy are visiting Shanghai, when they get shanghaied by mysterious Mr. Smith and taken to Flatland, a place where past and present meet, literally. The only way out for them is to agree to fight Khan for him, an evil ancient warrior who lives through his reincarnations and could destroy the world if not stopped in time. Coventry and Jagger help him, while encyclopedic Linda helps Smith in his 4000 years long quest to stop him. Smith has an alter ego, a wise Shanghai nightclub owner known as Uncle, who gives advice to those who need it.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
Overview: "Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never before shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer and author.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-07-16
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Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Overview: It's Christmas Eve and all the children around the world are asleep and dreaming of the toys that Santa Claus will bring - except at the South Pole, where they've never celebrated Christmas. This year Santa Claus asks Santabear to deliver his toys to the South Pole, so that the children there will also believe in the magic of Christmas. But when the naughty Bullybear steals Santabear's bag of toys and his identity, all chances for a merry Christmas seem lost. Luckily, Santabear meets Missy Bear, and together they take to the skies to stop Bullybear before he destroys all the toys and ruins Christmas at the South Pole forever!
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Overview: Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-22
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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Overview: Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. [Made for and aired on PBS's American Masters series.]
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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1 Giant Leap
Overview: 1 Giant Leap is a concept band and media project consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman. This is the film part of their first project. The result is a flowing, loose-knit tapestry of imagery, interviews, and diverse performances. Gathering material from 25 countries and dozens of famous and not-so-famous musicians, authors, celebrities, spiritualists, philosophers, and unique individuals from nearly every cultural background, this enveloping DVD is best enjoyed as a soothing audiovisual odyssey (select "loop mode" for continuous play!). Assembling this cornucopia by theme (Time, Inspiration, Sex, God, Death, etc.), Bridgeman and Catto function as co-composers with an astonishing array of collaborators, giving 1 Giant Leap its richly international (and some might say inter-spiritual) identity. The result is a far-reaching glimpse of our world through the eyes of those who improve it by their musical presence. --Jeff Shannon
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-10
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Stark: Mirror Image
Overview: Sequel to the original movie about a hard-boiled Kansas City cop finds him tracking a colleague's killer to Las Vegas.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-14
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Overview: Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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U2: A Year in Pop
Overview: Documentary about U2's album Pop and following tour.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-26
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A Decade Under the Influence
Overview: A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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The Groovenians
Overview: Two space misfits named Jet and Glindy, who are searching for a planet called Groovenia.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-10
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Jazz Seen
Overview: "Jazz Seen" is an exploration of the life of William Claxton, whose photographs turned the world of jazz on its keen and perceptive ear. Various jazz artists, photographers, and actors recount memories they had with Claxton and explore his work, while parts of his life are re-enacted by actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-06
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Overview: Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-16
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The Good Life
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Genres: Thriller Comedy Action
Original Language: es
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High Air
Overview: A father and his estranged son, both tunnel workers in New York City, are forced to deal with each other during a dangerous collapse.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Born to Be Wild
Overview: This documentary about Easy Rider was created by Nicholas Freand Jones and first aired on BBC2 in December 1995.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Overview: illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967); Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967); Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" (1969); John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962); Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968); John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" (1969); Richard Brooks' "Elmer Gantry" (1960) and "In Cold Blood" (1967); and Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968). Frankenheimer, Jewison, Hopper, Schlesinger, Penn, Buck Henry, Paul Mazursky, Roger Corman and Arthur Hiller are among the filmmakers who discuss the decade.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-02
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