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A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.

Abandoned (2010) Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary's taken to staff psychia

After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of reaching kids in an inner city school proves too much to resist.

A group of 1950s high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally.

Humboldt County (2008) Peter is burned out: finishing med school at UCLA, failing the bedside manner class his father teaches, no sleep in days. He spends the night with Bogart, a woman he's just met, and the next day, sleepily gets in her car. He wakes up in Arcata, where Bogart's foster family liv

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid over-night bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Targets (1968) Byron Orlok is an old horror-movie star who feels that he is an anachronism. Compared to real-life violence, his films are tame. Meanwhile, Bobby Thompson goes on a killing spree...

Daisy Miller (1974) In this version of Henry James' novella

Noises Off... (1992) Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He's desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. We follow the production from final rehersals, through opening night, and onto the tour: as with any group

From renowned director Peter Bogdanovich, SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY is a screwball comedy featuring the interconnected personal lives of the cast and crew of a Broadway production. When established director Arnold Albertson (Owen Wilson) casts his call girl-turned-actress Isabella

Highball (1997) A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.

Whats Up, Doc? (1972) Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarassing him. At the same time a woman has her jewels stolen and

The Other Side of the Wind (2018) A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.

This film was Peter Bogdanovich's homage to musical comedies of the 1930s. A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O'Kelly meet and fall in love. Meanwhile...

Illegally Yours (1988) Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a complicated web of murder, blackmail and perjury, and still trying to win over the girl o

They All Laughed (1981) New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angela Niotes, the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge and Arthur Brodsky follow Dolores Martin

Semitrue story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a starstudded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearsts yacht in 1924.

Nickelodeon (1976) This homage to the childhood days of the motion pictures starts in 1910, when the young attorney Leo Harrigan by chance meets a motion picture producer. Immediately he's invited to become a writer for him - the start of a sensational career. Soon he's promoted to a director and sh

A haunting account of a tormented man who continually readmits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness. Based on Edgar Allan Poes, The TellTale Heart.

This documentary delves into the psyche of John Ford and his twenty year struggle to bring his homage to his parents homeland to the screen

Saint Jack (1979) Compelling character study, revolving around Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. He dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury. Savvy

What Is Cinema? (2013) Amidst a constant stream of hundreds of film clips, dozens of filmmakers voice their opinions on the titular question while primarily looking beyond the Hollywood mainstream to independent, experimental, documentary and avant-garde films.

A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making (2018) - A documentary detailing the effort dedicated filmmakers went through to bring Orson Welles final feature film, The Other Side of the Wind into the public conscience

We Blew It (2017) How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it ...

The Creatress (2018) Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get ...

HitchcockTruffaut 2015 In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise en scene in cinema Based on the original recordings of this meeting used to produce the mythical book HitchcockTruffaut this film illustrates the greatest cine

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008) The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot the Soviet crackdown of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. As refugees they struggle in Hollywood, fina

The Great Buster (2018) Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

Orson Welless final movie, The Other Side of the Wind, started filming in 1970 but by the time of his death in 1985 had not been released It was finally released by Netflix in 2018 This documentary details the making of the movie and the problems Welles had in completing and releasing it

Los Angeles Overnight (2018) After years of futile struggle, would-be-famous actress PRISCILLA ANDERS heads for a bitter end to her stay in L.A., until one fateful morning at the diner where she waitresses. Overhearing a bizarre riddle bespoke by some seedy regulars, Priscilla soon finds herself in

Time Warp The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Vol 1 Midnight Madness 2020 From The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Big Lebowski and everything in between, this fascinating deep dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all time discussing the birth of the midnight movie

The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh 2014 This is the first feature length documentary on legendary director Raoul Walsh In this memoir, Walsh recounts his career from the silent film era to the tumultuous 1960s The documentary makes stunning use of rare, personal and production photos and footage, re

Budd Boetticher A Man Can Do That 2005 NA

Preston Sturges The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer 1990 NA

Texasville 1990 The summer of 1984 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duanes 12 million in debt His wife Karla

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Runnin Down a Dream 2007 A documentary on the rock band Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, covering their history from their earliest times plus featuring interviews with the band members and other artists and including extensive live performances and studio footage

This Is Orson Welles 2015 A portrait of the great film maker Orson Welles, with interviews with himself, his daughter and other film personalities From the TCM series This is