Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama She's So Lovely...
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Screenwriter
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1997
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In 1994, the British Film Institute commissioned a set of films to mark the centenary of the movies. They would trace the...
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1995
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This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the...
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1990
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It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are...
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Director
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1985
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In this emotional roller coaster ride, Robert Harmon (John Cassavetes) is a street-wise, sometimes obnoxious writer currently...
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Director, Screenwriter, Robert Harmon
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1984
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Filmed in 1984, I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes was released in 1989, the year of the subject's death. Filmmaker...
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1984
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Marvin Stewart
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1983
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This comedy is set upon a remote Greek island and is very loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play. The tale centers on a...
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Phillip
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1982
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A series of brutal rapes and murders have begun occurring in a small town. Teenager, Tim (Duncan McIntosh), has had horrible...
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Dr. Sam Cordell
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1982
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Stepping into the role made famous on Broadway by Tom Conti, Richard Dreyfuss stars as a profoundly handicapped sculptor in...
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Dr. Michael Emerson
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1981
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Gloria (Gena Rowlands), a self-involved woman in her forties who was once a mobster's mistress, is asked to look after Philip...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1980
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Adapted from the novel by Pete Hamill, Flesh and Blood stars Tom Berenger as Bobby Fallon, a street punk who develops into a...
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1979
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Brian De Palma returns to the mind-blowing potential of telekinesis in the follow-up to his 1976 horror hit Carrie. While...
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Childress
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1978
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What if General George S. Patton didn't die in a car accident, as history tells us, but at the hands of a paid assassin?...
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Major Joe DeLuca
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1978
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Director, Screenwriter, Maurice Aarons
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1977
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Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper...
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Sgt. Chris Button
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1976
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John Cassavetes takes a contemporary film noir turn (which he would return to in Gloria) after exploring domestic melodrama...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1976
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Nickey (John Cassavetes) is a small-time Jewish gangster in trouble with the mob. He calls on his lifelong friend Mikey...
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Nicky
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1976
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Ben Gazzara stars in this low-level depiction of legendary gangster Al Capone, who rose to command the mob underworld in...
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Frankie Yale
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1975
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John Cassavetes' harrowing masterpiece charts the emotional meltdown of a suburban housewife and its effects on her...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1974
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Can a straight-laced woman find happiness with a scruffy hippie who has a bad habit of getting beaten up? Minnie Moore...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1971
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John Cassavetes wrote and directed this look at three middle-aged men thrown into a midlife crisis when one of their mutual...
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Director, Screenwriter, Gus
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1970
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A hardened criminal learns there's little loyalty on either side of the law in this drama from Italian director Giuliano...
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Hank McCain
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1969
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A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must...
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1969
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1968
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her...
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Guy Woodhouse
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1968
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Faces is right: this definitive John Cassavetes film consists almost exclusively of tight, uncomfortable close-ups. It takes...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1968
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Big bad bikers butt heads with a small-town sheriff in this bargain-basement sleaze-fest. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Cody
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1967
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Victor Franko
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1967
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1965
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John Cassavetes guest stars as Pvt. Kalb, newest member of King Company. Saunders (Vic Morrow) is none too happy with the...
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1965
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Lee Griffin
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1964
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1964
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Johnny North
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1964
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The moment he is sprung from prison, smooth-talking Rusty Connors (John Cassavetes) pays a visit to Helen Krause...
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Rusty Connors
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1964
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Produced by Stanley Kramer, A Child is Waiting is set in an institution for the mentally handicapped, with many actual...
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Director
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1963
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The Webster Boy is a case of a weak script and strong actors combining for a mediocre tale about a love triangle....
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Vance Miller
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1962
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After his pioneering independent film Shadows (1960), actor/writer/director John Cassavetes made his major studio directorial...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1961
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Shadows was John Cassavetes' first directorial effort. Like his later critically acclaimed films Faces and Husbands,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1959
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Johnny Staccato
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1959
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Based on Robb White's novel 3DOur Virgin Island3D (the film's original title), this harmless location-filmed comedy boasts an...
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Evan
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1958
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Rod Serling's first original screenplay for the Big Screen was the psychological western Saddle the Wind. In one of his best...
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Tony Sinclair
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1958
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Edge of the City is a modern morality play, acted out in the railyards of New York. AWOL soldier John Cassavetes takes a job...
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Axel North
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1957
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In this suspenseful crime drama the trouble begins when the healthy wife of a crippled plantation owner prepares to leave...
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Nick
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1957
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams" is brought to life in this 1957 Playhouse 90 presentation. John Cassavetes...
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Dexter Green
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1957
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Frankie Dane (John Cassavetes) is the leader of the hornets, a local street gang that has had its share of rumbles and other...
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Frankie Dane
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1956
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Escaped criminal Sam Cobbett (John Cassavetes) breaks into a remote farmhouse and takes a young woman named Mary Schaffer...
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1956
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Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry...
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1955
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Though based on a true story, the principal inspiration for The Night Holds Terror was the success of Paramount's...
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Robert Batsford
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1955
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1953
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