Toni Basil
Also Known As: Antonia Christina Basilotta, Tonia Basilotta, Tony Basil
Biography: Toni Basil is an American singer-songwriter, film and television actress, choreographer, and dancer, best known for her hit single "Mickey", which reached No. 1 in several countries in 1982.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: September 22, 1943
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Gender: Female
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Viva Las Vegas
Overview: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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Sweet Charity
Overview: Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-25
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Five Easy Pieces
Overview: A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-12
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Pacific Palisades
Overview: A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arrives, however, she learns that she is a victim to a hoax. Unable to return to France, Bernadette looks for work while staying with her close friend Shirley, an actress looking for her big break. Their friendship is challenged when Bernadette finds herself falling in love with Shirley's boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-28
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Slaughterhouse Rock
Overview: A man visits Alcatraz prison after having dreams about all the people who died there. When he gets there, his brother is possessed by an evil cannibal demon. The ghost of a female heavy metal singer who was killed there tries to help the man fight the monster.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-21
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Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose
Overview: Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose is a 1968 American television special hosted by Princess Grace Kelly guiding the public through a tour of Monte Carlo. She encounters other celebrities such as Françoise Hardy, Terry-Thomas, Gilbert Bécaud, David Winters and his troupe the David Winters Dancers, who all perform musical numbers. We also meet her husband Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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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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Rockula
Overview: Ralph is a sexually frustrated vampire who suffers from a peculiar curse. He's condemned for eternity to watch his one true love, Mona be murdered by a pirate wielding a ham bone. But now? Now it's 1990, and Ralph is determined to break Mona's cycle of reincarnation. His first order of business is winning her affections-- He does that by starting Rockula: a rock band that's sure to stake a claim on her heart.
Genres: Horror Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-23
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Breakaway
Overview: Breakaway plays out like a visual symphony. A prototype for the best (but still, lesser) contemporary formalist music videos, like Peter Care’s “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” and “Drive” (both for REM), Conner’s movie is an experiment in the visual language of film. But no matter how powerful a formal analysis of his filmmaking process may be in suggesting how Conner’s rhythms affect us, there is much in Breakaway – in Basilotta’s brash and unbridled self-assertiveness, in Conner’s feverish camera style, and even in the uncomplicated honesty of Cobb’s catchy lyrics and tune – that defies verbalisation… and must simply be loved! -- Senses of Cinema
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-03
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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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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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Pajama Party
Overview: A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Countdown - The Wonder Years 2
Overview: Featuring the Original Live Countdown performances by the World biggest artists from the 70s and 80s
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Are We Not Men?
Overview: A documentary about DEVO
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Greaser's Palace
Overview: A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-31
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Myra Breckinridge
Overview: Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-24
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Mother, Jugs & Speed
Overview: To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help people in distress. They're a crew whose condition is even more critical than their clients!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Angel III: The Final Chapter
Overview: Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she might be her long missing mother. Following her trail to Los Angeles, Molly finds herself in the center of a major crime syndicate who will stop at nothing to execute their diabolical plans.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-10
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Pas de Trois
Overview: A short film documenting the making of Bruce Conner's Breakaway.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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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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David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Overview: In the last five years of his life, David Bowie ended nearly a decade of silence to engage in an extraordinary burst of activity, producing two groundbreaking albums and a musical. David Bowie: The Last Five Years explores this unexpected end to a remarkable career. Made with remarkable access, Francis Whately’s documentary is a revelatory follow-up to his acclaimed 2013 documentary David Bowie: Five Years, which chronicled Bowie’s golden ‘70s and early-‘80s period.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-07
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Devo: Hardcore Live!
Overview: A concert film capturing Devo at the Fox Theatre in Oakland on their 2014 "Hardcore Tour," in which they performed 21 songs written and recorded before they signed with a major record label, many of which had never been performed live. The set is intercut with stories and commentary from the band members, as well as Toni Basil and V. Vale.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-24
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Village of the Giants
Overview: "Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-20
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Overview: Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.
Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Antonia Christina Basilotta
Overview: In 1968, Bruce Conner offered this film comprised of the unedited footage of Toni Basil dancing, footage that was previously edited down in 1966 to create the film Breakaway.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-08
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The T.A.M.I. Show
Overview: Hailed by one music reviewer as "the grooviest, wildest, slickest hit ever to pound the screen," "The T.A.M.I. Show" is an unrelenting rock spectacular starring some of the greatest pop performers of the 60s. These top recording idols – representing the musical moods of London, Liverpool, Hollywood and Detroit – packed the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium with 2,600 screaming fans and virtually brought down the house. This is the cinematic record of that electrifying event.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-14
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Eating
Overview: A group of women gather for the birthday party of a friend and discuss their lives and associations with food.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-30
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Flapjack Floozie
Overview: A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-17
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