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Stars of Eger (1968 film)

Stars of Eger is a 1968 Hungarian-Bulgarian historical film directed by Zoltan Varkonyi and starring Imre Sinkovits, Gyorgy Bardy and Istvan Kovacs. It is an adaptation of the 1899 novel Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Geza Gardonyi. An earlier s ...

Ishtar (film)

Ishtar is a 1987 American action-adventure-comedy film written and directed by Elaine May and produced by Warren Beatty, who co-starred opposite Dustin Hoffman. The story revolves around a duo of incredibly untalented American songwriters who tra ...

The Monster Club

The Monster Club is a 1981 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Vincent Price and John Carradine. An anthology film, it is based on the works of the British horror author R. Chetwynd-Hayes. It was the final film from Milton ...

Project Almanac

Project Almanac is a 2015 American found footage science fiction thriller film directed by Dean Israelite in his directorial debut, and written by Jason Harry Pagan and Andrew Deutschman. The film stars Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-DElia, Sam Lerner ...

Super Fly (1972 film)

Super Fly is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron ONeal as Youngblood Priest, an African American pimp and cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business. The film is wel ...

Bella Mafia

Bella Mafia is a 1997 American television film starring Vanessa Redgrave, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly, Illeana Douglas and Dennis Farina. Redgrave was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. The ...

Lovelace (film)

Lovelace is a 2013 American biographical drama film about porn actress Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, a seminal 1972 film at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn. Lovelace covers her life from age 20 to 32. Directed by Rob Epstein and Je ...

Malaya (film)

Malaya is a 1949 war film set in colonial Malaya during World War II which stars Spencer Tracy and James Stewart. It was directed by Richard Thorpe. The supporting cast includes Lionel Barrymore, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak and DeForest Kelley.

Dead Man

Dead Man is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne, Mili Avital and Robert Mit ...

Nuremberg (miniseries)

Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian/United States television docudrama, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg trials.

Om (1995 film)

Om, stylized as ॐ, is a 1995 Indian Kannada crime drama film written and directed by Upendra. The film was produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar under the production company Sri Vajreshwari Combines. The film stars Shiva Rajkumar and Prema in lead rol ...

Island of Lost Ships

Island of Lost Ships is a 1987 Soviet two-part musical television miniseries directed by Evgeniy Ginzburg and Rauf Mamedov and based on the eponymous novel by Alexander Belyaev.

The Shooting

The Shooting is a 1966 western film directed by Monte Hellman, with a screenplay by Carole Eastman. It stars Warren Oates, Millie Perkins, Will Hutchins, and Jack Nicholson, and was produced by Nicholson and Hellman. The story is about two men wh ...

Dementia (1955 film)

Dementia is a 1955 American black-and-white experimental horror film produced, written, and directed by John Parker, and starring Adrienne Barrett and Bruno Ve Sota. The film, which contains no dialogue, follows a young womans nightmarish experie ...

Upstream Color

Upstream Color is a 2013 American experimental science fiction film written, directed, produced, and starring Shane Carruth. The film is the second feature directed by Carruth, best known for his 2004 debut Primer. It stars Amy Seimetz, Carruth, ...

Damnation Alley (film)

Damnation Alley is a 1977 post-apocalyptic film directed by Jack Smight, loosely based on the novel of the same name by Roger Zelazny. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith and the cinematography was by Harry Stradling Jr.

The Conversation

The Conversation is a 1974 American mystery thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman with supporting roles by John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri ...

Rolling Thunder (film)

Rolling Thunder is a 1977 American neo-noir action thriller directed by John Flynn, produced by Norman T. Herman, and written by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould, based on a story by Schrader. The film stars William Devane in the lead role alongsi ...

Horns (film)

Horns is a 2013 Canadian-American dark fantasy horror film directed by Alexandre Aja, based on Joe Hills novel of the same name. Daniel Radcliffe stars as a man falsely accused of raping and murdering his girlfriend, who uses his newly discovered ...

The Saragossa Manuscript (film)

The Saragossa Manuscript is a 1965 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has, based on the 1815 novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements. I ...

Candy (1968 film)

Candy is a 1968 sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand from a screenplay by Buck Henry, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. The film satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its ...

Blindman

Blindman is a 1971 Spaghetti Western film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and co-written and co-produced by Tony Anthony. The films protagonist, played by Anthony, is an homage to Kan Shimozawas Zatoichi character: a blind transient who does odd job ...

Stalker (1979 film)

Stalker is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film combines elements of science fiction with dramati ...

I.D. (1995 film)

I.D. is a 1995 British-German film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis, written by Vincent OConnell, and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in the 1980s, in England, mainly London ...

Slacker (film)

Slacker is a 1990 American independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. In 2012, the film w ...

The Hanoi Hilton (film)

The Hanoi Hilton is a 1987 Vietnam War film which focuses on the experiences of American prisoners of war who were held in the infamous Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi during the 1960s and 1970s and the story is told from their perspectives. It was direct ...

This Is Elvis

This Is Elvis is a 1981 documentary film about the life of Elvis Presley written and directed by Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo. It combines archival footage with reenactments, and voice-over narration by pop singer Ral Donner, imitating Presleys sp ...

Stalingrad (disambiguation)

Battle of Stalingrad, a battle in 1942–1943 widely considered the turning point in the European theatre of World War II Stalingrad Oblast, former name of Volgograd Oblast, an administrative division of Russia

11'09"01 September 11

1109"01 September 11 is a 2002 international film composed of 11 contributions from different filmmakers, each from a different country. Each gave their own vision of the events in New York City during the September 11 attacks, in a short film of ...

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is a 2004 American documentary film featuring the American thrash metal band Metallica. It shares its name with the song "Some Kind of Monster" from Metallicas 2003 album St. Anger. The film shows many studio rehea ...

The Aristocrats (film)

The Aristocrats is a 2005 American documentary comedy film about the famous dirty joke of the same name. It was conceived and produced by comedians Penn Jillette, Paul Provenza, and Peter Adam Golden, edited by Emery Emery, Golden sold The Aristo ...

Fall of Berlin – 1945

Fall of Berlin – 1945, The Fall of Berlin, or just Berlin is a Soviet documentary film about the Battle of Berlin, titled in Russian Битва за Берлин 1945 г., literally The Battle for Berlin – 1945. The film was directed by Yuli Raizman and Yeliza ...

The Cove (film)

The Cove is a 2009 documentary film directed by Louie Psihoyos which analyzes and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan. It was awarded the 2010 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2010. The film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin ...

Into the Inferno (film)

Into the Inferno is a 2016 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. In it, Herzog explores active volcanoes from around the world, and the people who live near them, with volcanologist and co-director Clive Oppenheimer. The film had its world ...

Vasya (film)

Vasya is a 2002 American documentary film written, directed and produced by Andrei Zagdansky. The film tells the story of Russian underground artist Vasily Sitnikov, who was declared insane in early 1940s by the Soviet authorities. A man without ...

The Greatest (1977 film)

The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries. The film follows Alis life from the 1960 Summer Olympics to his regaining the heavyweight crown from George Foreman in the ...

The Eternal Jew (1940 film)

The Eternal Jew is a 1940 Nazi German antisemitic propaganda film, presented as a documentary. The films initial German title is Der ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the "Wandering Jew" in medieval folklore. At the insistence of N ...

Woodstock (film)

Woodstock is a 1970 documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining ...

The Human Dutch

The Human Dutch is a 1963 Dutch documentary film directed by Bert Haanstra, about the daily lives of people in the Netherlands. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was also selected as the Dutch entry for the Be ...

Unity (film)

Unity is a 2015 documentary film written, directed and produced by Shaun Monson, and the sequel to the 2005 film Earthlings. The film is narrated by one hundred actors, artists, athletes, authors, businessmen, entertainers, filmmakers, military p ...

Zoo (2007 film)

Zoo is a 2007 American documentary film based on the life and death of Kenneth Pinyan, an American man who died of peritonitis due to perforation of the colon after engaging in an unusual tryst involving receptive anal sex with a horse. The films ...

Unmistaken Child

Unmistaken Child is a 2008 independent documentary film, which follows a Tibetan Buddhist monks search for the reincarnation of his beloved teacher, a world-renowned lama. It was directed by Nati Baratz.

Icarus (2017 film)

Icarus is a 2017 American documentary film by Bryan Fogel, which chronicles Fogels exploration of the option of doping to win an amateur cycling race and happening upon a major international doping scandal when he asks for the help of Grigory Rod ...

India: Matri Bhumi

India: Matri Bhumi is a 1959 Italian documentary film-fiction hybrid film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The film combines the Neorealist style Rossellini helped develop in his native Italy with poetic voice-over narration. One of the writers fo ...

I clowns

The film was made for the Italian TV station RAI with an agreement that it would be released simultaneously as a cinema feature. RAI and co-producer Leone Film compromised on its release, with RAI broadcasting it on Christmas Day, 1970, and Leone ...

Wheel of Time (film)

Wheel of Time is a 2003 documentary film about Tibetan Buddhism by German director Werner Herzog. The title refers to the Kalachakra sand mandala that provides a recurring image for the film. The film documents the two Kalachakra initiations of 2 ...

Comandante (film)

Comandante is a political documentary film by American director Oliver Stone. In the film, Stone interviews Cuban leader Fidel Castro on a diverse range of topics. Stone and his film crew visited Castro in Cuba for three days in 2002, and the fil ...

Crumb (film)

Crumb is a 1995 documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his family and his outlook on life. Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn ODonnell, it won widespread acclaim. It was released in the USA on April 2 ...

La Soufriere (film)

La Soufriere – Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe is a 1977 West German documentary film in which German director Werner Herzog visits an island on which a volcano is predicted to erupt. The pretext of this film was provided when Herzog ...

Marlene (1984 film)

Marlene, also known in Germany as Marlene Dietrich - Portrat eines Mythos, is a 1984 documentary film made by Maximilian Schell about the legendary film star Marlene Dietrich. It was made by Bayerischer Rundfunk and OKO-Film and released by Futur ...