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    Movies

    Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

    An FBI agent (Broderick Crawford) inherits three unsolved cases from a slain agent, cases which...

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    Movies

    Dangerous Game (1993)

    An experimental filmmaker (Harvey Keitel) uses two married actors (Madonna, James Russo) to play out...

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    Movies

    Bugsy (1991)

    New York gangster Bugsy Siegel (Warren Beatty) goes Hollywood with a tan, a mistress (Annette...

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    Movies

    S.O.B. (1981)

    A struggling director decides to reshoot a family movie with his wholesome leading lady, and include...

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    Movies

    State and Main (2000)

    When a movie crew invades a small Vermont town, its director (William H. Macy) juggles a predatory...

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    People

    Susan Sontag

    Susan Sontag is best known as a prominent philosopher, essayist, and novelist, but she also made a...

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    Movies

    Rented Lips (1988)

    In order to get their big break, two documentary filmmakers must first make a porn film for their...

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    Drive-In (1976)

    The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.

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    Movies

    Sweet Dreams (1981)

    A police chief suspects a couple (David Newsom, Amy Yasbeck) offering to help an attack victim...

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    Dreams Come True

    In this erotic romance, two teens learn to set their souls free from their bodies while they sleep...

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    Movies

    The Fluffer (2001)

    A gay man (Michael Cunio) looking for a job in adult movies becomes infatuated with a straight actor...

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    Movies

    Tango (1998)

    Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his...

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    Movies

    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

    Mordecai Richler's Jewish hero (Richard Dreyfuss) tries to get rich quick in 1940s Montreal.

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    Movies

    Arrebato

    A filmmaker with a passion for vampire films and hard-core drugs struggles with his all-consuming...

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    Movies

    The Last Horror Movie

    A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher...

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    Movies

    The Last Horror Film

    A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which...

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    Movies

    Sunset (1988)

    Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) and Wyatt Earp (James Garner) solve a murder mystery at the Academy Awards in...

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    Movies

    The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

    Let Malcolm McLaren show you how to achieve fame and fortune by making your pop group the most...

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    Movies

    Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

    In 1924 Estie comes to Hollywood to become an actress, but the dog, that followed her becomes the...

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    Movies

    Student Affairs

    The story of a group of people who are making a film about life in high school in the 1950's.

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    Movies

    Hercules Returns (1993)

    This is Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili (1964) with the old dialogue removed and...

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    Movies

    Real Life (1979)

    A documentary filmmaker (Albert Brooks) and his crew move in with a typical American family (Charles...

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    Movies

    My Life's in Turnaround (1994)

    Two misfits discover that their calling is the cinema and, within the confines of the "New York...

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    Movies

    The Icicle Thief (1990)

    A movie resembling Ladri di biciclette (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled...

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    Movies

    Anguish (1988)

    A film within a film. Two teenage girls watching a horror film about a killer controlled by his...

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    Movies

    Beware of a Holy Whore

    A disgruntled German film crew waits in a Spanish seaside resort for money from Bonn to continue...

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    Movies

    Compelling Evidence (1995)

    The wife of a popular film star is brutally murdered hours after confronting her husband about his...

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    Movies

    Hearts of the West (1975)

    A naive young man goes to Hollywood to write pulp Westerns and becomes the hero of a string of class...

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    Movies

    Tre Uomini e Una Gamba (1997)

    Three store clerks (Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti) travel by car from Milan carrying...

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    Movies

    My Mother's Courage (1997)

    Based on writer George Tabori's recollection of his mother's plight in Nazi-held Budapest of 1944,...