Dennis HopperFilmography

Chelsea on the Rocks

Synopsis: The Chelsea Hotel has long been considered the creative epicenter of New York City, a sort of unofficial gathering point for the most renowned artists and entertainers that the city has to offer. But while the Chelsea Hotel was once considered an impenetrable, untouchable monument to the creative Read More

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation

Synopsis: Filmmaker Mark Hartley explores Australia's hidden genre in this documentary that casually casts aside "official" film history to celebrate the demented genius of director Brian Trenchard-Smith, and the exciting wave of little-known but supremely entertaining films that entertained adventurous Read More

Ferlinghetti

Synopsis: Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of America's best known and most respected poets, a major figure of the Beat poetry scene of the 1950s and the proprietor of City Lights Books, a bookstore and publishing house that has distributed important works from Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso Read More

An American Carol

Actors: Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Trace Adkins, Robert Davi, Geoffrey Arend

Synopsis: Ebenezer Scrooge gets the parody treatment from veteran writer/director David Zucker (Airplane!, Scary Movie 4) with this comedy starring Kevin Farley as a derisive documentarian (à la Michael Moore) who's visited by three ghosts intent on instilling the American spirit in the disillusioned Read More

Hell Ride

Actors: Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour, Dennis Hopper, Vinnie Jones, David Carradine, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Veteran AIP genre star Larry Bishop (son of famed Rat Packer Joey Bishop) directs and stars in this gritty revenge tale concerning a biker gang that rallies to avenge the violent murder of a fellow gang member. An homage to such classic biker films as Chrome and Hot Leather and Angel Unchained Read More

Elegy

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard

Synopsis: Adapted from author Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, director Isabel Coixet's elegant tale of obsession explores the relationship between a highly respected professor (Ben Kingsley) and an impossibly gorgeous grad student (Penélope Cruz). As their relationship deepens, the professor finds his Read More

Swing Vote

Actors: Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez

Synopsis: When the mischievous antics of a precocious 12-year-old girl result in the outcome of the United States presidential election hinging on the vote of her apathetic, likable loser of a father, the man who thought that life had long since passed him by is reluctantly thrust into the national Read More

The Cool School

Actors: Walter Hopps, John Baldessari, Dennis Hopper, Robert Irwin, Jeff Bridges, Frank Gehry, Edward Ruscha, Dean Stockwell, David LaFaille

Synopsis: New York City has long been regarded as the heart of the American art movement, but near the end of the 1940s, as the post-war rise of Abstract Expressionism became the new wave of painting in the United States, a small but determined band of painters, curators, and collectors on the West Coast Read More

Sleepwalking

Actors: Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Charlize Theron, Deborra-Lee Furness, Mathew St. Patrick

Synopsis: Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Hopper, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, and Deborra-Lee Furness star in a family drama detailing the efforts made by an 12-year-old girl to come to terms with her mother's abandonment. Tara's (Robb) mother, Joleen (Theron), just can't seem to get her life Read More

Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero

Synopsis: Chicago-based filmmaker Rusty Nails (Acne, The Ramones and I) takes a comprehensive look at the life and career of iconic filmmaker George A. Romero in this documentary that delves deep into the fiercely independent filmmaker's eternal obsession with all things celluliod. Featuring interviews with Read More

13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Actors: Paul America, Susan Bottomly, Ann Buchanan, Freddy Herko, Jane Holzer

The Art of Soccer With John Cleese

Actors: John Cleese

Synopsis: Comic legend John Cleese hosts this documentary that offers a look at the history of football, the world's most popular sport. In addition to a number of the greatest highlights in the game's annals, the fimmakers include interviews with some of the greatest players, as well as celebrities who are Read More

Crash: Season 01

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Clare Carey, Ross McCall, Brian Tee, Arlene Tur

The Brothers Warner

Synopsis: Filmmaker Cass Warner Sperling explores the story of her grandfather Harry Warner and his three brothers Abe, Sam, and Jack, who forever changed the face of Hollywood by creating Warner Brothers Studios. It all started with a simple storefront theater, cobbled together with spare chairs from a Read More

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos

Synopsis: Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond were two of the best and most influential cinematographers working in Hollywood in the Sixties and Seventies; between them, they worked with the likes of Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma, John Boorman, Peter Bogdanovich, Hal Ashby Read More

The Palermo Shooting

Actors: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Milla Jovovich, Inga Busch

Synopsis: Die Toten Hosen front-man Campino headlines iconic German filmmaker Wim Wenders' drama about a world-renowned photographer who finds a new life and a new love while being targeted by a tenacious trigger-man. Finn (Campino) is a successful shutterbug who leads a hectic life, gets precious little Read More

Bound to Lose

Actors: Pete Stampfel, Steve Weber

Synopsis: Filmmakers Paul Lovelace and Sam Wainwright Douglas invite viewers to follow the tale of two true American originals in this documentary detailing the collaboration between fiddler Pete Stampfel and guitarist Steve Weber -- aka the Holy Modal Rounders. It was during "The Great Folk Scare" of the Read More

Memory

Actors: Billy Zane, Ann-Margret, Dennis Hopper, Tricia Helfer, Terry Chen

Synopsis: A man with the ability to see into the past sets out to solve a dark mystery that has haunted his family bloodline for three decades in director Bennett Davlin's time-shifting thriller. Dr. Taylor Biggs (Billy Zane) has accidentally ingested a hallucinogenic powder that allows him to experience Read More

Entourage: Malibooty

Synopsis: Billy submits "Medellin" to the Cannes Film Festival; Vince gets in over his head in Malibu; Drama rekindles an old romance. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

Hoboken Hollow

Actors: Jason Connery, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Holton, Lin Shaye, Randy Spelling

Synopsis: A man scarred by the horrors of war encounters a new low in human brutality in this extreme horror story. Trevor Lloyd (Jason Connery) is a veteran of the Iraq war who has had a falling out with his wife and has decided to head west to start his life over again. While hitch-hiking through Texas Read More

Concert for Diana

Actors: Prince William, Prince Harry, Elton John, Duran Duran, James Morris

Synopsis: Concert for Diana captures a 2007 tribute to the deceased Diana Spencer, the former Princess of Wales. Among the many performers who appear on the bill are Nelly Furtado, Elton John, Duran Duran, Rod Stewart, and Kanye West. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Brando

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Janet Aemisegger, Ellen Adler, Richard Bailey, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, James Caan, Jane Fonda

Synopsis: As originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at the Cannes Film Festival, and on Turner Classic Movies, the mammoth, epic-length documentary Brando chronicles in encyclopedic detail (and with a consistently reverent overtone) the life and career of the man widely regarded as the most Read More

10th & Wolf

Actors: James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi, Brad Renfro, Piper Perabo, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: A man is forced to go against his family and his principles in the name of serving his country in this drama inspired by actual events. Tommy Santoro (James Marsden) was just a boy when his father was murdered, and young Tommy quickly discovered his dad was a high-ranking member of the Read More

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Actors: Frank Gehry, Chuck Arnoldi, Sydney Pollack, Edward Ruscha, Mildred Friedman, Michael Ovitz, Philip Johnson, Craig Webb

Synopsis: Acclaimed film director Sydney Pollack took a five-year break from the realms of fiction to assemble a lovingly crafted tribute to longtime friend and acclaimed architect Frank Gehry in this documentary born from the sketches of its talented subject. A notoriously shy craftsman whose impressive Read More

Americano

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Leonor Varela, Timm Sharp, Ruthanna Hopper, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: A recent college graduate is forced to choose between a life of limitless wealth and complacent security or a potentially dangerous trip down the road less traveled in first-time director Kevin Noland's tale of love and youth told against the backdrop of the Running of the Bulls. Chris McKinley (Joshua Jackson Read More

3055 Jean Leon

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Angie Dickinson, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Agusti Vila explores the enigma of the man who left Spain as Ceferino Carrión, and took on the name Jean Leon upon arriving in Los Angeles and transforming himself time and again. Who is Jean Leon? Is he a simple taxi driver, the waiter who served Frank Sinatra, the owner of Read More

Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi

Synopsis: The rock star of the 1980s skateboard scene recalls his stratospheric rise to the top, and his thunderous fall back to earth, in a gritty documentary that explores the compelling career of vertical air-grabber Christian Hosoi. A charismatic skater whose moves could rival Tony Hawk and whose Read More

Wanderlust

Land of the Dead

Actors: Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: George A. Romero, who revolutionized the American horror film in 1968 with the instant classic Night of the Living Dead, returns to his dystopian zombie cycle with this horror thriller. In Land of the Dead, the zombies whose numbers had been slowly but steadily growing through Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead Read More

Tell Them Who You Are

Actors: Haskell Wexler, Mark S. Wexler, Peter Bart, James Becket, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: Mark Wexler is a successful photojournalist who has also distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker, but in many ways he has spent much of his life in the shadow of his more famous father, Haskell Wexler. One of Hollywood's greatest cinematographers, Haskell is also known as a director (he Read More

Inside Deep Throat

Synopsis: Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato follow up Party Monster by returning to the documentary form of their most popular film The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Rather than examining evangelists-cum-gay icons, this time the duo takes aim at the cultural phenomenon that is and was Deep Throat, the Read More

E-Ring [TV Series]

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Dennis Hopper, Aunjanue Ellis

Synopsis: The titular "E-Ring" in this weekly, hour-long NBC drama series was the nickname for the outer offices of the Pentagon, where all major decisions pertaining to national security were made. Benjamin Bratt and Dennis Hopper respectively starred as Major Jim Tisnewski (aka JT) and Colonel McNulty, a Read More

Champion

Actors: Danny Trejo

House of 9

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Kelly Brook, Susie Amy

Synopsis: After awakening in a locked and deserted mansion, nine complete strangers are forced into a deadly game of survival in director Steven R. Monroe's tense tale of dread and deception. Upon learning that the last person standing will be permitted to leave the residence with $5 million, the paranoid Read More

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Tara Reid, Emmanuelle Chriqui, David Boreanaz, Edward Furlong

Synopsis: Eddie Furlong dons the makeup in The Crow: Wicked Prayer, the fourth installment in The Crow film series. This tale follows Jimmy Cuervo (Furlong), a down-on-his-luck ex-con living in a polluted mining town on an Indian reservation that would run him out of town if not for the remainder of his Read More

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

The Last Ride

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Will Patton, Chris Carmack, Nadine Velazquez, Fred Ward

Synopsis: Inasmuch as the made-for-cable The Last Ride was assembled by the same folks responsible for such action films as The Fast and the Furious and XXX, one shouldn't be surprised that the picture is virtually one long thrill-packed car chase. Released from prison after three decades, modern-day outlaw Read More

The Keeper

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Helen Shaver, Lochlyn Munro

Synopsis: Deep within the soundproofed confines of his secluded country home, an upstanding police officer harbors a dark secret in director Paul Lynch's tense tale of unjust imprisonment and unhinged madness. On the surface, Lieutenant Krebs (Dennis Hopper) is a respected law enforcement officer with close Read More

Out of Season

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Gina Gershon, Jordan Frieda, Dominique Swain, David Murray

Synopsis: When a drifter named Simeon arrives in a small seaside town, it takes the locals some time to warm up to him. Eventually they do, but he carries a secret that could threaten everyone who comes into his path-including his new companions. Out of Season features Dennis Hopper and Gina Gershon. Read More

A Decade Under the Influence

Actors: Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes about politics, sex, drugs, and gender issues, while the advancement of the Vietnam War found many citizens questioning the actions and wisdom of their government for the first Read More

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Actors: Dede Allen, Peter Bart, Andrew Cohen, Tony Bill, Karen Black

Synopsis: Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable onscreen. Influenced by such European Read More

Unspeakable

Actors: Dina Meyer, Pavan Grover

Synopsis: A flawed attempt to map the mind of a brutal serial killer leads to a horrifying battle for survival in director Thomas Wright's visceral thriller. Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely (Dennis Hopper), prison psychologist Diana Purlow (Dina Meyer) journeys deep inside the mind of serial Read More

All the Way

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne

Synopsis: Australian filmmaker Paul Goldman directs the comedy The Night We Called It a Day, based on the actual events during Frank Sinatra's 1974 tour stop in Sydney. Joel Edgerton plays Rod Blue, a long-haired rock promoter in Australia during the '70s. He hopes to save his floundering career by spending Read More

Knockaround Guys

Actors: John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper, Seth Green

Synopsis: A big score goes wrong in a big way for a bunch of aspiring gangsters in this crime comedy. Matty Demaret (Barry Pepper) is the son of a mid-level Brooklyn mob boss, Benny "Chains" Demaret (Dennis Hopper). When Matty was 12 years old, Benny and Uncle Teddy (John Malkovich) decided to see if Matty Read More

Leo

Actors: Mary Stuart Masterson, Elisabeth Shue, Dennis Hopper, Sam Shepard, Joseph Fiennes, Davis Sweat

Synopsis: A literary drama offering the parallel tales of two wounded souls, director Mehdi Norowzian's tale of redemption and the struggle to find one's place in life finds an ex-convict's correspondence with a young boy offering hope for the future despite the fact that the boy has yet to find his own Read More

Firestarter 2: Rekindled

Actors: Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: The child who could start fires with her mind is all grown up and still trying to find out the truth about what happened to her in this made-for-TV sequel to the sci-fi fantasy Firestarter. Nearly 20 years ago, Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Marguerite Moreau) was trained by a mysterious government Read More

The Target

Actors: Simon Majiba, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Lambert, Diane Kruger

Synopsis: As a notorious crime lord, Christo (Simon Majiba), is about to be released from a South African prison and Alex Laney (Christopher Lambert) is hired to protect corrupt accountant Robert Nile (Dennis Hopper), who has a history with Christo. With Nile's adult daughter (Diane Kruger) in tow, they go Read More

Nye Scener fra Amerika

Apocalypse Now Redux

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including disastrous weather conditions, problems with his leading men (Harvey Keitel was fired after less than two weeks on the project and was replaced by Martin Read More

Ticker

Actors: Steven Seagal, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Nas, Jaime Pressly

Synopsis: A cop on the edge, Nettles (Tom Sizemore), must team up with the cool-headed leader of the bomb squad, Glass (Steven Seagal), to stop the terrorist Swann (Dennis Hopper) from continuing his series of deadly bombings. Jaime Pressly co-stars as the woman who could finger the mad bomber. Singing Read More

L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve

Actors: Marc Singer, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Charles Durning

Synopsis: A group of dirty cops are forced to cover for one another when a new officer joins the force in this police drama. Captain Ellsworth (Dennis Hopper) has to deal with Sam Steele (Marc Singer), an over-eager new cop who decides to move in on a bank robbery, rather than wait for backup as instructed. Read More

I Don't Know Jack

Actors: John Achorn, Leo Bulgarini, Catherine Case, Catherine Coulson, Billy DaMota

Synopsis: He was one of the most unique yet curiously unknown actors ever to grace the screen, and now fans of longtime David Lynch cohort Jack Nance can finally hear the story of this remarkable actor straight from the mouths of those who knew him best in this unique and absorbing documentary. From his Read More

24: Season 01

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Elisha Cuthbert, Sarah Clarke, Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: Federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is having a very bad day in this unique, action-packed drama series in which events unfold in real time and the entire season takes place within one 24-hour day. Bauer is the director of the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles. He's also a married man Read More

Jesus' Son

Actors: Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary, Jack Black, Will Patton

Synopsis: In this independent drama, a young man tries to find himself in the early 1970s as he wades through a swamp of heroin addiction. FH (Billy Crudup) is a well-intentioned but weak-willed man whose propensity for messing up his life has earned him his nickname, short for "F--khead." FH's problems Read More

The Spreading Ground

Actors: David Dunbar, Frederic Forrest, Leslie Hope, Dennis Hopper, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: Detective Ed Delongpre (Dennis Hopper) is challenged by the mayor of Burman City to make an arrest in a one-day series of child slayings within 48 hours. With no clues to work with, Delongpre and his longtime partner McGivern (Frederic Forrest) and their team of investigators stake out just about Read More

Tycus

Actors: Finola Hughes, Peter Onorati, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: In this sci-fi drama, Dr. Peter Crawford (Dennis Hopper), a gifted astronomer, discovers that a massive comet is heading toward Earth. Convinced that a major disaster is imminent, Crawford attempts to convince the world's scientific minds that drastic steps must be taken. No one appears to agree Read More

Jason and the Argonauts

Actors: Jason London, Jolene Blalock, Dennis Hopper, Frank Langella, Ciarán Hinds

Synopsis: This 2000 production recounts a famous tale from Greek mythology: the quest for the Golden Fleece. The film begins when the evil Pelias (Dennis Hopper) usurps the throne of his half-brother, Aeson, king of the Greek city of Iolcus, after murdering Aeson and marrying his wife, Polymele (Diana Read More

Held for Ransom

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Zachery Ty Bryan

Synopsis: This suspense film features Dennis Hopper as JD, a crazed kidnapper who hijacks a school bus (not unlike his crazed kidnapper in Speed) and holds the students hostage (one of the students is played by former Home Improvement star Zachery Ty Bryan). Even if the hostages are able to break free from Read More

Luck of the Draw

Actors: James Marshall, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: This stylish crime thriller concerns a former criminal trying to set himself on the straight and narrow, until he happens upon a set of bootleg printing plates for $100 bills and soon finds himself a wanted man by both sides of the law. Luck of the Draw (also known as Quicksand), stars William Read More

Choke

Actors: Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Things are not going well today for middle-aged businessman Henry (Dennis Hopper). His young daughter (Chelsy Reynolds) has possibly killed a man in a drunken hit-and-run accident and a slimy business cohort (Roy Tate) is pressuring him to take part in yet another shadowy deal that Henry wants no Read More

The Source

Actors: Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, John Turturro

Synopsis: Director Chuck Workman, who documented the life of pop culture icon Andy Warhol in his 1990 film Superstar, here explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. Cutting back Read More

EDtv

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The turning point in the life of Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey) comes thanks to the misfortunes of the NorthWest Broadcasting Company. After two years on the air, their flagship cable channel, True TV, has slid into obscurity due to competition from the The Gardening Channel. Program director Read More

The Venice Project

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Dennis Hopper, Linus Roache, Ben Cross, Stuart Townsend

Synopsis: In this witty drama, the future of art is examined from two vantage points: the years 1699 and 1999. Roland (Dennis Hopper) is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister, Countess Camilla Volta (Lauren Bacall), lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father, The Read More

Bad City Blues

Actors: Michael Massee, Michael McGrady, Judith Hoag, Jim Metzler, Simon Billig

Synopsis: Director Michael Stevens debuts with this two-fisted ultra-violent crime drama about redemption and revenge. Adapted from British author Tim Willocks' 1991 novel, the movie weaves together four stories resulting from a botched bank robbery. Callilou (Judith Hoag), the wounded girlfriend of the Read More

Lured Innocence

Actors: Marley Shelton, Talia Shire, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Newspaper reporter Elden Tolbert (Devon Gummersall) returns to his rural hometown to cover the climactic courtroom drama of the small town's major scandal: Elsie Townsend (Marley Shelton), a beautiful young waitress at the local diner, has been accused of murdering Marsha Chambers (Talia Shire) Read More

The Prophet's Game

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Zimbalist, Joe Penny

Synopsis: In this thriller, a detective stalks a multiple murderer whose methods are as peculiar as they are deadly. Vincent Swan (Dennis Hopper) is a veteran police investigator obsessed with catching a serial killer making his way down the West Coast. When the killer begins doing his grisly work in Los Read More

Straight Shooter

Actors: Heino Ferch, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: A former soldier is called on to help capture a former colleague turned vigilante in this action-thriller. Frank Hector (Dennis Hopper) is an American expatriate who now lives in Germany, running a chain of strip joints. Hector was once a member of the French Legion, and one of his comrades in Read More

Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius

Synopsis: The works of American artist Robert Rauschenberg give the lie to the maxim that politics do not make good art. Rauschenberg has established himself as one of the great artists of modern times, expressing social, cultural, and political themes in his art. This episode of the PBS award-winning Read More

The Apostate

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Richard Grieco, Efrain Figueroa, Bridget Ann White, Kristen Minter

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Top of the World

Actors: Peter Weller, Dennis Hopper, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: In this high-tension drama, Ray Mercer (Peter Weller) is a former cop who was kicked off the force and sent to prison after it was discovered that he embezzled $4,000 from the police officers' pension fund. Shortly after he's released on parole, Ray and his wife Rebecca (Tia Carrere) decide to get Read More

Meet the Deedles

Actors: Steve Van Wormer, Paul Walker, A.J. Langer, John Ashton, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Hawaiian surfer dudes Stew (Steve Van Wormer) and Phil Deedle (Paul Walker), fraternal twins, are about to be expelled from school, so their wealthy and concerned father (Eric Braeden) offers summer camp in Wyoming as a solution. Arriving in Jackson Hole with their wet suits, the Deedle twins are Read More

Welcome to Hollywood

Actors: Tony Markes, Adam Rifkin, Angie Everhart, David Andriole, Nicolas Cage

Synopsis: Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional "mockumentary" about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star. Anton Markwell (Tony Markes, who co-directed the film) is the object of Rifkin's inquiring Read More

The Blackout

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Matthew Modine, Dennis Hopper, Claudia Schiffer, Sarah Lassez

Synopsis: Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this typically edgy look at an actor whose abuse of alcohol and drugs takes an unexpected toll. Matty (Matthew Modine) is an actor whose career is on the fast track; however, he's not able to handle the pressures of life in Hollywood, so he heads to Miami to Read More

The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Kiefer Sutherland, Daryl Hannah, Dayton Callie

Synopsis: In this tough contemporary noir drama, Frankie (Dennis Hopper) is a low-level "mechanic" working for second-rate mobster Sal (Michael Madsen). Frankie dreams of rising into the upper echelons of organized crime and commiting a series of bloody reprisals against those who have wronged him. Read More

Road Ends

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Peter Coyote, Chris Sarandon, Joanna Gleason, Mariel Hemingway

Synopsis: 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 Read More

King of the Hill: Hank's Got the Willies

Space Truckers

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar, Charles Dance, George Wendt

Synopsis: Former National Lampoon editor Ted Mann, who scripted this $27 million science-fiction comedy, calls it "the first outer-space road movie." According to Mann, the film has "no scientists, no techies, none of the usual polished, sanitary environments we're used to in our space films. Space is like Read More

Basquiat

Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie

Synopsis: Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at Read More

Samson and Delilah

Synopsis: British director Nicolas Roeg, best known for his films Walkabout and The Man Who Fell To Earth, helmed this made-for-cable adaptation of the epic tale from The Old Testament's Book of Judges. Starring Eric Thal as the legendary strongman Samson, Samson and Delilah also stars Elizabeth Hurley as Read More

Carried Away

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving, Amy Locane, Julie Harris, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison, this drama concerns Joseph Svenden (Dennis Hopper), a one-time farmer in his late forties who took up teaching when he permanently injured his leg in an accident. Joseph's life is orderly, precise, and rather dull. He teaches with as much enthusiasm as he Read More

The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money

Synopsis: The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money is a provocative voyage through the evolution of commercials. Dennis Hopper hosts this unique look at the commercial as an artistic medium. The film explores how humor, art and shock-value are used to promote products. Featured clips from classic Read More

Cannes Man

Actors: Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn, Rebecca Broussard

Synopsis: While at the Cannes Film Festival, producer Sy Learner (Seymour Cassel) makes a bet that he can turn any nobody into a star. A cabbie from New York named Frank (Francesco Quinn) becomes his test case as Sy tries to get Frank noticed amidst the stars and glitter of Cannes. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More

The Real James Dean

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Rod Steiger, Graham Nash, Eli Wallach

Search and Destroy

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Illeana Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, John Turturro

Synopsis: Martin Mirkhein (Griffin Dunne) is a failed entrepreneur trying to figure out how to pay a huge tax bill to the State of Florida when he gets a brainstorm -- Daniel Strong, the inspirational men's movement novel by New Age philosopher Luther Waxling (Dennis Hopper), would make a great film. Never Read More

Waterworld

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Widely considered to be an expensive failure, Waterworld was an epic vehicle for Kevin Costner, who starred in and co-produced the film, with his friend Kevin Reynolds as director. It was based on a 1986 screenplay by Peter Rader and cost an estimated $235 million, more than any film in history up Read More

Who is Henry Jaglom?

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom is a filmmaker who was a pioneer of the independent film movement long before it had a name. Jaglom began his Hollywood career in the mid-Sixties as an actor, but in 1971 he wrote and directed his first feature film, A Safe Place, which starred his friends Orson Welles and Jack Read More

Chasers

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Berenger, Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Crispin Glover, Matthew Glave, Gary Busey

Synopsis: In director Dennis Hopper's comedy reminiscent of The Last Detail, Rock Reilly (Tom Berenger), a gruff naval veteran who plays by the rules, arrives at a Marine base, in tow with his wheeler-dealer companion Eddie Devane (William McNamara), and finds himself assigned to escort the voluptuous Toni Read More

Speed

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: If you don't think Speed is the fastest-moving adventure film ever made, we challenge you to find a faster one. Keanu Reeves stars as an LA Bomb Squad specialist whose principal antagonist is elusive bomber-extortionist Dennis Hopper. Seeking vengeance after his latest ransom scheme is thwarted Read More

Witch Hunt

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Julian Sands

Synopsis: While investigating an infidelity case, an unconventional private detective discovers a far-reaching conspiracy in the magical world of 1950s Hollywood -- and in this film, the word "magical" is meant literally. Director Paul Schrader's comic mystery, originally made for cable, is set in an Read More

Boiling Point

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: The boiling point is mighty low in this tepid action programmer. Wesley Snipes plays Jimmy Mercer, a Treasury agent whose sting operation goes bad. Engineered by Ronnie (Viggo Mortensen), a dull-witted but sadistic ex-con, the operation not only fails, but one of Jimmy's colleagues is killed by Read More

Super Mario Bros.

Actors: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens

Synopsis: The huge success of the video games featuring animated Italian plumbers the Mario Brothers led to this $42 million live action movie. The two brothers (Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo) live in Manhattan and are chasing Princess Daisy (Samantha Mathis), who wears a necklace made from a meteor Read More

True Romance

Actors: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba Read More

Red Rock West

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, J.T. Walsh, Timothy Carhart, Dwight Yoakam

Synopsis: John Dahl directed and co-wrote (along with his brother Rick Dahl) this quirky and energetic film noir that, after a well-received screening at the Toronto Film Festival, was consigned to oblivion before resurfacing on cable television. When the owner of a San Francisco movie theater, who was a Read More

The Heart of Justice

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price

Synopsis: In this tense drama a reporter tries to figure out the reason a wealthy young man shot a popular pulp-fiction writer and then shot himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sunset Heat

Synopsis: In this exciting and violent crime drama, a drug dealer turned photojournalist returns to his old stomping grounds in L.A. and ends up entangled in a new drug scheme by his former pal. After stealing a fortune in drugs from a ruthless crime lord, the photographer must flee for his life. ~ Sandra Read More

Nails

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Maniacal Dennis Hopper plays a high-strung L.A. homicide detective who embarks upon a vengeful hunt for the drug pushers who brutally murdered his partners. His investigation soon reveals that the dealers' influence extends to the highest echelons of city government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Fishing with John [TV Series]

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie, Tom Waits

Synopsis: Musician and independent film personality John Lurie hardly seems like the sort of guy who would host a TV show about fishing. But then again, Fishing With John was hardly a typical nature program; Lurie and guests such as Tom Waits, Dennis Hopper, and Matt Dillon take to the water in search of Read More

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Actors: Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: An intimate look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic Apocalypse Now, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse combines the usual documentary interviews with outtakes from the film and rare documentary footage, some shot on the set by Eleanor Coppola. Not long after the arrival Read More

The Indian Runner

Actors: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, Charles Bronson

Synopsis: The Indian Runner, Sean Penn's debut film as director (he also wrote the script, based on the Bruce Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman") is a brooding tale of two brothers -- one peaceful and sedate, the other violent and aggressive -- whose natures, left unchecked since they were children, are Read More

Double-Crossed

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Based on the true-life adventures of the late Drug Enforcement Agency spy Barry Seal, this exciting espionage adventure chronicles the events that lead up to his death in 1984. Before coming to work for the DEA, smooth-talking Seal (Dennis Hopper) had been a drug smuggler for the notorious Read More

Eye of the Storm

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Bradley Gregg, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dennis Hopper, Leon Rippy

Synopsis: Eye of the Storm is the eerie and tragic story of two brothers haunted by their past. Steven (Bradley Gregg) witnesses the murder of his parents by robbers. Running from the killers, Steven falls from a window and is blinded. Ten years later, Steven and his brother Ray (Craig Sheffer) are managing Read More

Paris Trout

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon, Tina Lifford

Synopsis: Peter Dexter adapted his National Book Award-winning novel for this probing made-for-cable film featuring Dennis Hopper in the title role as an unrepentant racist in 1949 Georgia. Trout is a greedy and paranoid shopkeeper who murders the sister and mother of a black man who refuses to repay Read More

Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document

Synopsis: A video review of the sixties with Dennis Hopper, Graham Nash, Peter Fonda, Michelle Phillips and John Paul Jones DeJoria. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Backtrack

Crew: Director

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Fred Ward, John Turturro

Synopsis: Originally prepared for European release under the title Catchfire, Backtrack wasn't given a wide distribution until 1991, and then only to capitalize on the Oscar win of Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster. In Backtrack, Foster plays a youngish innocent who witnesses a mob hit. Professional Read More

The Hot Spot

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, Bill Sadler

Synopsis: This hard-boiled throwback to the film noir dramas of the 1940s and '50s is directed by filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper, based on the novel Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams. Don Johnson stars as Harry Madox, a drifter who settles in a small Texas town and begins secretly setting small Read More

Chattahoochee

Actors: Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Pamela Reed, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: Since Chattahoochee is a story based on true events, it may seem absurd to suggest that the actual events of Chattahoochee are pirated from other true-life tales like Gideon's Trumpet. But it certainly seems as if true stories are just as derivative as any fictional narrative coming out of Read More

Flashback

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Paul Dooley, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: A yuppie and a hippie are the offbeat pairing of this character comedy in the tradition of earlier mismatched buddy films such as Midnight Run (1988). Kiefer Sutherland is uptight, 26-year-old FBI agent John Buckner, who's been assigned to escort an aging counterculture radical named Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper Read More

Saturday Night Live: Dennis Hopper [2]

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Paul Simon

Synopsis: This 1990 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Dennis Hopper and features musical guest Paul Simon. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Hollywood Mavericks

Actors: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, D.W. Griffith, Erich Von Stroheim

Synopsis: This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the system." It also explores the life and work of earlier American mavericks through the tributes, reflections, and recollections of the first group. Prominent among the living Read More

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Synopsis: Fascinating documentary of artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol, combining rare footage with interviews with his friends and colleagues, including Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, Taylor Mead, and Sylvia Miles. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Motion & Emotion

Actors: Wim Wenders, Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Falk, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: This documentary focuses on the person and the films of one of Germany's premiere post-war filmmakers, Wim Wenders. Wenders is a lifelong fan of American pop culture, particularly its rock music and B-movies, and his highly personalized filmmaking style is deeply influenced by both of these. He is Read More

Blood Red

Actors: Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn

Synopsis: Siblings Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts appear in this old-fashioned saga about oppressed Sicilian wine-growers in 19th-century California. Giancarlo Giannini stars as Sebastian Collogero, the robust Italian patriarch who is battling with railroad mogul William Bradford Berrigan (Dennis Hopper) to Read More

Colors

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks, Grand L. Bush

Synopsis: Colors stars Robert Duvall and Sean Penn as partners on the LAPD's gang crime division. Duvall had hoped to spend more time with his family, but he's pulled back into active service because of a step-up in gang activity. He makes no secret of his contempt for his novice partner Penn, but Read More

Monsters and Maniacs

Riders of the Storm

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Michael J. Pollard, Eugene Lipinski

Synopsis: A group of radical Vietnam vets become broadcasting pirates and take on a Presidential candidate in this crazy comedy. The vets and their leader, "Captain," are television raiders flying all over the country in a B-29 they turned into flying broadcasting station S&M TV, jamming the airwaves Read More

The Pick-Up Artist

Actors: Molly Ringwald, Robert Downey, Jr., Dennis Hopper, Danny Aiello, Mildred Dunnock

Synopsis: With this rote but well-cast romantic comedy, writer-director James Toback began his long association with actor Robert Downey, Jr. The latter stars as Jack Jericho, a grade school teacher and smooth operator who zealously polishes his cliched pick-up lines in front of a mirror. Jack's come-ons Read More

O.C. and Stiggs

Actors: Daniel Jenkins, Neil Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Jon Cryer, Ray Walston

Synopsis: In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the National Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (Daniel Jenkins), aka O.C., and his buddy Mark Stiggs (Neil Barry Read More

Straight to Hell

Actors: Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude, Courtney Love, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: This bizarre comedy spoof on spaghetti westerns was made in a hurry on location in Almeria, Spain. Simms (Joe Strummer), Willy (Dick Rude), and Norwood (Sy Richardson) are inept hitmen who decide to rob a bank. They encounter the MacMahon's (The Pogues), a quintet of caffeine-addicted gunslingers Read More

River's Edge

Actors: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: The nude, strangled body of a teenaged girl lies on the edge of the river. Her murderer is her boyfriend, Daniel Roebuck. All the kids in Roebuck's dismal, dead-end town know who committed the murder. Trouble is, no one bothers to turn Roebuck in; some of the teens don't know how to react to the Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who has sworn to bring Theresa Russell to justice. Ms. Russell has married several millionaires who have all Read More

Saturday Night Live: Dennis Hopper [1]

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Roy Orbison

Synopsis: This 1987 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Dennis Hopper and features musical guest Roy Orbison. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll

Synopsis: In this video the world's leading music magazine chronicles the history of rock & roll from 1960s Brit pop to new wave of the 1980s and beyond. Accompanying commentary are over 30 performances of classic tunes from the archives of rock & roll. Artists that perform in archival shots include, David Bowie Read More

Hoosiers

Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons

Synopsis: An unexpected late-1986 box-office hit, Hoosiers tells the true story of a group of underdogs who become champions. Set in the 1950s, Hoosiers is about a hard-luck, unemployed college basketball coach (Gene Hackman) who gets a chance to coach a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team. Read More

Blue Velvet

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his Read More

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley

Synopsis: Over ten years after making the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper returns to his deranged family of reclusive cannibals for another round of chainsaw chases and non-stop screaming. Hooper brings a real budget this time (having recently directed Poltergeist for Steven Spielberg) and the Read More

Stark: Mirror Image

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1985 TV movie Stark, Nicholas Surovy once again assumes the role of no-nonsense Wichita cop Evan Stark. When his former partner Steve Graves (Ben Murphy) is murdered, Stark exceeds his authority by tracking the killer to Las Vegas. In addition to Surovy, Dennis Hopper, Pat Corley Read More

Mick Jagger: Running Out of Luck

Actors: Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, Dennis Hopper, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: In a story powered by the songs on an LP by Mick Jagger, this film is really one long video clip advertising Jagger's album. The plot takes the music from one number to the next, and begins with the rock star and his wife having an argument in Rio which leads to his being mugged and taken to the Read More

Let It Rock

Synopsis: Dennis Hopper demonstrates how to manufacture and market a rock & roll riot of your very own in this offbeat German comedy-drama. Hopper plays Kenneth Barlow, a man who has spent most of his adult life in the music business. Barlow hit his peak as a road manager with the Rolling Stones, but things Read More

Stark

Actors: Nicholas Surovy, Marilu Henner, Dennis Hopper, Pat Corley, Seth Jaffe

Synopsis: This drama was originally made as a television pilot for a potential series. It centers on a police detective from Wichita who heads for Las Vegas to find his sister and ends up entangled with mobsters and crooked politicos. This film was followed by a sequel, Stark: Mirror Image in 1985. ~ Sandra Read More

My Science Project

Actors: John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: In this sci-fi comedy, a high school hood, Michael Harlan, procrastinates on his science project until the day before it is due. Hastily seeking to rectify his predicament, the youth begins scouring an abandoned military dump and runs across a strange looking machine with a large crystal orb. He Read More

The Inside Man

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Hardy Kruger, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Cory Molder, David Wilson

Synopsis: The internationally produced The Inside Man was inspired by a true story. In 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground on the coast of Sweden. The sub was carrying a hush-hush laser search device, which promptly vanished. In this 1984 recreation of the incident, Dennis Hopper is cast as the CIA agent Read More

Rumble Fish

Actors: Herb Rice, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of gang culture in a rough-and-tumble town full of stunted youths. The central character is the strutting Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a foul-mouthed lunkhead clad in Read More

The Osterman Weekend

Actors: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon

Synopsis: A man discovers that his best friends are actually spies -- or are they? -- in this thriller based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novel. John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) is the host of a television news show who once a year spends a long weekend with three of his best friends from college, Bernard Read More

Human Highway

Actors: Neil Young, Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, Charlotte Stewart

Synopsis: Rock legend Neil Young directed this bizarre bit of sci-fi-accented satire under his nom de cinema Bernard Shakey, as well as starring as Lionel Switch, an amiable but half-bright auto mechanic who has a furious crush on Charlotte Goodnight (Charlotte Stewart), a waitress at the diner next Read More

Out of the Blue

Crew: Director

Actors: Linda Manz, Sharon Farrell, Dennis Hopper, Raymond Burr, Don Gordon

Synopsis: Out of the Blue captures the turbulence of youth culture of the early '80s by presenting a three-person nuclear family that is about to implode. In a prologue, Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper), a school bus driver, is drunkenly distracted one day behind the wheel, resulting in a horrible accident. He Read More

King of the Mountain

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Richard Cox, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Harry Hamlin stars as the self-styled "King of Mulholland Drive," the leader of a group of men who get drunk and then race their cars at high-speed along a perilous Los Angeles roadway. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Apocalypse Now

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Read More

Wild Times

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV western, sudden pulp-novel fame drives gunslinger High Cardiff (Sam Elliott) to make good use of his new-found notoriety ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Ordre et la Sécurité du Monde

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Hopper, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the border, a fellow passenger, mistakenly takes her passport. This sets up a situation which plunges her into the midst of international intrigue, a violent struggle between Read More

Reborn

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Michael Moriarty, Antonella Murgia, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: A phony evangelistic faith healer hires actors to pose with ailments and then appear cured. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The American Friend

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley. Hopper stars as the eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the Read More

Les Apprentis Sorciers

Actors: Zouzou, Peter Chatel, Marie-France Pisier, Christian Marquand, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: "Radical chic" was a phenomenon of the upper classes in the late '60s and early '70s: liberal, socially concerned and very wealthy people would emulate the attitudes, mannerisms and style of the radicalized and revolutionary poor. They would even go so far as to socialize with revolutionaries and Read More

To Shoot a Mad Dog

Tracks

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell, Topo Swope, Michael Emil

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom directed this moody meditation on the Vietnam War and one of its disturbed veterans. Dennis Hopper stars a sergeant who travels across the United States with the body of a fallen comrade, on a train to his friend's final burial place. As the train wends its way across the United Read More

Sky Is Falling

Synopsis: A socially deviant man and his friends find themselves to be sacrificial targets of religious cult members. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Mad Dog Morgan

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Michael Pate

Synopsis: Dennis Hopper plays the title character in this true story of a 19th-century Australian gold-digger who is pressed into a life of crime. A six-year stint in jail doesn't provide reform, but does introduce him to an Aboriginal partner-in-crime (David Gulpilil). The duo then proceed to terrorize the Read More

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Synopsis: In this documentary, narrated by Stacy Keach, the tragic screen-icon James Dean is remembered. Footage from early television appearances, stills from his life, and clips from his three Warner Brothers films are interwoven with interviews with his co-workers. The soundtrack includes music from Elton John Read More

Kid Blue

Synopsis: In this western set at the turn-of-the-century, an outlaw finds himself at one of life's crossroads as he must decide whether to go straight or continue a life of crime. After bungling a train robbery he decides he should go straight and settle down. He chooses the town of Dime Box, Texas. There Read More

Crush Proof

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: In Crush Proof a young hippie reminisces about an affair he had with a French girl as the two travelled around the U.S. As they journeyed, they grew further apart: even a visit to see Dennis Hopper didn't help. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Movie

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams

Synopsis: With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western Read More

American Dreamer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Dennis Hopper, who has been seen onscreen in small roles from the mid-50s, hit paydirt in Easy Rider, released in 1969. Aimed at the audience that attended Easy Rider, American Dreamer is a documentary/biography of Dennis Hopper. While this film is intended to look like it used cameras so Read More

Backtrack

Crew: Producer

Actors: Neville Brand, Doug McClure, Peter Brown, William Smith

Synopsis: The fans of television shows The Virginian and Laredo will delight to the combined casts of the two popular series for Backtrack. Ramrod (James Drury) and Trampas (Doug McClure) are shown meeting for the first time as they go to work on the Shilo Ranch. Reese (Neville Brand) Chad (Peter Brown) and Read More

True Grit

Actors: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) Read More

Easy Rider

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Phil Spector, Antonio Mendoza, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Robert Walker, Jr., Luana Anders, Karen Black

Synopsis: Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road to find America in Dennis Hopper's anti-establishment classic. After a major cocaine sale to an L.A. connection (Phil Spector), free-wheeling potheads Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt, aka Captain America (Peter Fonda, who also produced), motor eastward Read More

Hang 'Em High

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Sr., Pat Hingle, Arlene Golonka

Synopsis: Ex-lawman turned rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is moving a small herd of cattle when a group of nine men on horseback, led by Captain Wilson (Ed Begley Sr.), ride up and accuse him of having stolen the cattle and killed their owner. Refusing to believe his account, they string him up by the Read More

Head

Actors: Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Annette Funicello

Synopsis: The Monkees -- Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones and Peter Tork -- didn't really enjoy being labelled the Prefab Four back when their TV series was all the rage in 1966. With the help and support of Bob Rafaelson (co-producer, co-writer and director) and Jack Nicholson (co-producer Read More

Panic in the City

Actors: Howard Duff, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: A murder investigation uncovers a plot that could destroy the world as we know it in this thriller. When a scientist doing research on nuclear weapons is murdered during a hospital stay, federal investigator Dave Pomeroy (Howard Duff) is called in to find out who killed him and why. With the help Read More

The Glory Stompers

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jody McCrea, Chris Noel, Jock Mahoney, Jim Reader

Synopsis: Chino (Dennis Hopper) 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 (Jody McCrea), and his girlfriend Chris (Chris Noel). When Darryl comes back for revenge, things get violent. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

The Trip

Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse

Synopsis: Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay written by Jack Nicholson. Peter Fonda is Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose estranged wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) is pressuring him to sign their divorce Read More

Cool Hand Luke

Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the Read More

Combat!: A Little Jazz

Synopsis: Deep in enemy territory, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and the squad come across a stranded Special Services jazz combo. In his efforts to escort the musicians back to safety, Saunders is stymied by the mercurial behavior of bandleader Bernie (Dan Duryea), who seems eager and willing to surrender to the Read More

Planet of Blood

Actors: John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Shot on a miniscule $50,000 budget, and including footage from a 1959 Russian film that was later purchased by Roger Corman, this science fiction feature finds a tiny planet slowly dying. With the inhabitants in danger of perishing, some kind-hearted astronauts bring a green-blooded female alien Read More

The Sons of Katie Elder

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson, Jr., Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral. John (John Wayne) is the gunfighter, Tom (Dean Martin) is the gambler, Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one, and Bud (Michael Anderson Jr.) is Read More

Petticoat Junction: Bobbie Jo and the Beatnik

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Here's one for the ages: Five years before donning hippie-stoner garb in Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper shows up in this Petticoat Junction episode as bearded beatnik poet Alan Landman. During his visit to the Shady Rest, Landman makes quite an impression upon starry-eyed Bobbie Jo Bradley (Pat Read More

Bonanza: The Dark Past

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: The men of the Ponderosa cannot understand why bounty hunter Dev Farnum (Dennis Hopper) is so unfriendly and secretive. Could it have anything to do with the fact that Dev is the outcast son of a celebrated preacher? Or perhaps it is because the Cartwrights' house guest is Holly Burnside (Susan Read More

The Twilight Zone: He's Alive

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Curt Conway, Paul Mazursky, Howard Caine

Synopsis: The leader of a ragtag American neo-Nazi organization, Peter Vollmer (Dennis Hopper) is unable to attract many followers beyond his own buddies. Despairing, Peter is willing to accept advice from anyone -- even the mysterious, German-accented stranger (Curt Conway) who has seemingly emerged from Read More

Tarzan and Jane Regained...Sort Of

Night Tide

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir, Luana Anders

Synopsis: Writer/director Curtis Harrington does an admirable job working around the severe budget limitations of the 1963 psychological chiller Night Tide. Sailor Johnny (Dennis Hopper) falls in love with carnival-girl Mora (Linda Lawson), despite warnings that Mora is a "jinx" who has brought about the Read More

Naked City: Shoes for Vinnie Winford

Key Witness

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Joby Baker, Susan Harrison, Johnny Nash

Synopsis: This is a well-wrought action-thriller with enough menacing violence to keep a shock value high, but not enough to overcome the characters or the script. Fred Morrow (Jeffrey Hunter), a real-estate agent who stops by a bar to make a phone call, is a chance witness to a knifing by an L.A. street Read More

The Young Land

Actors: Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig, Dennis Hopper, Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Although it revolves around a crucial issue in the history of California, this subpar drama misses its targets somehow. The time is 1848 in California when an American justice system has to try Californians who are either Mexican in culture and speech and heritage, or not. Hatfield Carnes (Dennis Hopper Read More

The Rifleman: The Sharpshooter

Synopsis: Created and written by Sam Peckinpah, the premiere episode of The Rifleman stars Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford as Lucas and Mark McCain, father and 10-year-old son in search of settling down near North Fork, New Mexico. But when Lucas, a noted crack shot with a rifle, enters the local turkey Read More

From Hell to Texas

Actors: Chill Wills, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Dennis Hopper, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: A spare, almost austere western, From Hell to Texas stars Don Murray as a carefree cowpoke. Accidentally killing the son of a powerful land baron (R. G. Armstrong), Murray runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. The fugitive is sheltered by Chill Wills, upon whose ranch Read More

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland

Synopsis: Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was one of the most elaborate and star-studded. Burt Lancaster plays Wyatt Earp, the renowned lawman, while Kirk Douglas is consumptive gambler (and gunfighter) Doc Holliday Read More

Cheyenne: The Iron Trail

Synopsis: In this episode from the '50s TV series, Cheyenne (Clint Walker) faces a demented outlaw who is trying to blow up U.S. President Grant's train. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of Mankind

Actors: Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Vincent Price, Groucho Marx, Agnes Moorehead, Harpo Marx, Peter Lorre, Dennis Hopper, Chico Marx

Synopsis: Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of Henrik Willem Van Loon's best- selling historical volume. A Celestial Tribunal has been convened to decide the fate of the Earth after the invention of nuclear weapons, with The Devil (Vincent Price Read More

The Steel Jungle

Actors: Perry Lopez, Beverly Garland, Walter Abel, Ted de Corsia, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: The Steel Jungle is the prison where most of this film takes place. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak, who goes to jail rather than squeal on his Syndicate higher-ups. Novak's silence exacts a toll on his wife Frances (Beverly Garland), who is expecting a child. The longer he Read More

Giant

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers

Synopsis: George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its 210-minute running time, making it one of the few epics of its era that continues to hold up as engrossing entertainment across the decades. Giant Read More

I Died a Thousand Times

Actors: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the old Humphrey Bogart role as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, the ageing bank robber who intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by likeable crime boss Big Read More

Cheyenne [TV Series]

Synopsis: In 1955, Warner Bros. entered the TV production field with the weekly Warner Bros. Presents. The program consisted of three rotating, each based on a Warners feature film of the 1940s. While King's Row and Casablanca fell by the wayside, the third component, Cheyenne, had "legs", lasting until Read More

Rebel Without a Cause

Actors: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Corey Allen, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, telling all within a 24-hour period. Teenager Jimmy Stark (James Dean) can't help but get into trouble, a problem that has forced his appearance-conscious parents (Jim Backus and Ann Doran) to move Read More

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