The director of more than fifty films and producer of over 300 more, prolific B-movie maven Roger Corman is profiled in this...
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2011
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2011
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A serious filmmaker takes on a not-so-serious subject, and finds love along the way in this romantic comedy. Katie (Marianne...
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Lou
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2001
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A bittersweet satire about Hollywood's bottomless capacity for corruption, Dreamers follows the travails of two friends who...
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Larry Parker
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2000
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William Shakespeare's classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized...
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2000
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1999
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1998
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Armistead Maupin calls the three-story wooden house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco "my homestead, my Tara." He began his...
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1998
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Three makes for a dangerous crowd in this darkly comic crime story. Convicted murderer Lewis (Salvator Xuereb) breaks out of...
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1997
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Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of...
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1996
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Bored Anita (Joanna Pacula) wants to escape small-town life but finds herself stuck in the middle of nowhere until her...
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John
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1996
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This film is based on an innovative short film made for MTV about a guy living in a horrible downtown apartment filled with...
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1996
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1996
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Three HIV positive robbers play PC Robin Hoods when they begin stealing a high-priced drug and sharing it with their...
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1995
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Bare breasts abound in this black comedy that centers on a crooked plastic surgeon and abortionist and his nurse/lover who...
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1995
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Near the end of The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey, in his Oscar-winning performance as crippled con man Roger "Verbal" Kint,...
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1995
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The struggle of country music's mother-daughter duo The Judds is told in this made-for-television drama. Kathleen York stars...
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1995
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In this satiric allegory about life on the margins of the entertainment industry, Charlie (Charlie Mattera) is a guy who just...
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1995
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Two guys from Queens wind up in trouble with the mob because of their fondness for prank phone calls in this quickie comedy....
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1995
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Richard Glatzer's bittersweet comedy concerns the production of a sleazy tabloid television program called "The Love Judge"...
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1994
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In this slapstick, family-oriented comedy, a wealthy businessman hires two muscle-bound, thick-headed brothers (Peter and...
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1994
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Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the...
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1993
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In this behind-the-scenes thriller, a movie actress finds herself accused of hacking up her producer. She tries to flee with...
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1993
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An unfunny comedy that ribs film noir conventions, Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel is set at a second-rate motel in 1950s...
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Manager
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1992
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In this documentary, a variety of directors and actors, many of them well known, give answers to questions the viewer never...
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1992
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Mark Manos' futuristic thriller stars Candice Daly as a woman who goes undercover as a showgirl to solve the killing of her...
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1992
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Director, Various Apparitions
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1992
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A gentle film critic hooks up with a violent drifter in this HIV-positive road movie, which marked the emergence of...
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1992
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A priest discovers that being the leader of the Catholic Church can be hazardous to your health in this satiric comedy....
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Monsignor Vitchie
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1991
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Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy,...
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1990
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Starring many of his family members, this is Tommy Chong's (of the well-known duo, Cheech and Chong) first solo production....
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1990
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This detective movie is set in Hollywood, circa 1949. Hard-bitten detective Dan Turner gets entangled with an extortionist...
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1990
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In this satirical skewering of the lifestyles of the rich and famous, a divorced Beverly Hills gal ends up on the doorstep...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1989
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In this suspense thriller with a few humorous touches, an employee of a phone-sex service (Lynn Danielson) is being stalked...
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Executive Producer
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1989
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A socially isolated and extremely shy Los Angeles painter finds his dream girl in the form of a struggling actress and finds...
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1989
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This comedy returns to the exclusive but crazy country club golf course seen in the original Caddyshack. This time its the...
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1988
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Dr. Paul Truscott
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1988
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In this complicated crime drama, Roland Dalton (Peter Weller) is an attorney who must defend a drug dealer who claims he...
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1988
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The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi...
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1987
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Based on a 1983 novel by Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma is set sometime in the 1950s. Texas barmaid Lesley Ann Warren wants more...
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1987
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Once again, it's horror on a college campus. The difference between this and other entries in the slice-n-dice genre is that...
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Prof. Zito
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1986
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With a cast starring such comic veterans as Harvey Korman, Anne Meara, Jack Weston and Tim Conway (who also wrote the...
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Director
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1986
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The first film to be adapted from the popular children's television series Sesame Street, Follow That Bird follows the story...
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Grouch Cook
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1985
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Cult fave Paul Bartel is the one recognizable actor in Baring it All. The scene is a group therapy session, populated by...
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1985
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Filled with enough cameos to keep film buffs entertained, this otherwise routine action-comedy by John Landis boasts...
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1985
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Despite the many adventures they suffered in National Lampoon's Vacation, the Griswold family decides to take another crack...
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1985
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In this black-and-white short, novice director Tim Burton tells the story of Frankenstein's monster in suburbia as a...
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1984
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If the Perils of Pauline were set in a campy New York City with a dash of trash added in, Not for Publication would result,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1984
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A controversial spoof on the Spaghetti western (some love it, some hate it), Lust in the Dust features the 300-pound Divine...
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Director
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1984
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Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles,...
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1983
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Director Allan Arkush knew whereof he spoke in Get Crazy. A longtime employee of Fillmore East, a popular rock-concert locale...
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1983
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A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a...
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1982
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First, a crazed and fighting Malcolm (Peter Jason) is hauled off to an asylum by two men just that much tougher than he is,...
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1982
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Eating Raoul was celebrated at the time of its release as the perfect marriage between mainstream moviemaking and the...
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Director, Screenwriter, Paul Bland
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1982
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1981
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Rock 'n' Roll High School is a prime example of a 1970s movie phenomenon: a cult film that was deliberately designed to be a...
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1979
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Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood, whose previous subjects have included John Huston and Thelonious Monk, aims his...
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1978
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The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of...
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1978
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In exchange for being allowed to make his directorial debut in Grand Theft Auto, Ron Howard agreed to take no salary as a...
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1977
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An Italian mechanic (Terence Hill) finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to...
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1977
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1976
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1976
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Director, Screenwriter
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1976
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Cult hero Paul Bartel directed this low-budget satire in which America's passion for cars, violence, and sporting events are...
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Director
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1975
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A teenage runaway gets more than she bargained for when she moves into an old hotel in this wildly offbeat shocker from...
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Director
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1972
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1969
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Almost 30 years before Peter Weir brought us The Truman Show, cinematic cult figure Paul Bartel (of Eating Raoul and Lust in...
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Director
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1967
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