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    The Man Who Understood Women

    A Hollywood producer's (Henry Fonda) movie-star wife (Leslie Caron) falls for a Frenchman (Cesare...

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    The Watermelon Woman (1997)

    An aspiring black lesbian filmmaker (Cheryl Dunye) researches an obscure 1940s black actress billed...

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    Eclipse (1995)

    A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending...

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    The Best of the Martial Arts Films (1992)

    There is no plot in this film. It is a collection of the best fighting scenes from the martial arts...

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    Play It As It Lays (1972)

    An ex-actress (Tuesday Weld) reflects on her life in Hollywood, her marriage to a director and her...

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    Abuse (1983)

    Inspired by a true story, an abused 14-year-old meets a filmmaker shooting a documentary about child...

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    Roma (1972)

    Director Federico Fellini shows the strange Rome he sees as a boy (Stefano Majore), as a teen (Peter...

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    Sweet Liberty (1986)

    A professor (Alan Alda) tries to stop a film crew from making a teen comedy out of his book about...

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    David Searching (1998)

    The story of a young gay man's search to find himself.

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    A Propos de Nice, La Suite

    A tribute to the French filmmaker Jean Vigo who died at age 29.

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    Burden of Dreams (1982)

    Filmmaker Les Blank shows director Werner Herzog obsessed in the Amazon making his 1982...

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    Anthem (1997)

    When two twenty-somethings, Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn, quit their Hollywoood jobs, packed up a...

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    Eating (1990)

    A group of young and middle-aged women gather for the birthday party of a friend and talk about...

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    Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (1994)

    Jim Jarmusch interviews legendary filmmaker Sam Fuller about his 1950s project "Tigrero," an...

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    The Brave

    A poor, unemployed father gives the ultimate gift of love to change the quality of life for his...

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    A Brooklyn State of Mind

    A young man (Vincent Spano) learns the truth about his father's death from a lovely filmmaker (Maria...

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    Shooting Porn (1997)

    A humorous and very revealing look at the gay porn industry in Hollywood by-way-of visiting two gay...

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    Dear Jesse (1998)

    A gay New York filmmaker, Tim Kirkman, returns home to North Carolina to examine his relationship to...

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    Anna (1987)

    An expatriate Czech movie queen (Sally Kirkland) loses her boyfriend (Robert Fields) and career to a...

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    Divine Trash (2000)

    Director Steve Yeager profiles filmmaker John Waters and chronicles the making of ``Pink...

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    Wild Man Blues (1998)

    Filmmaker Barbara Kopple profiles Woody Allen on a 1996 European tour with his jazz band.

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    The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)

    Filmmakers Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein trace the meteoric rise of Hollywood producer Robert...

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    David Holzman's Diary (1967)

    Young filmmaker decides to make a movie of his life.

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    Ride (1998)

    Fresh from film school, an aspiring director (Melissa De Sousa) boards a bus with artists traveling...

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    The Ice Rink (2000)

    A director tries desperately to finish shooting his deeply symbolic hockey movie in time for the...

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    A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

    A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of...

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    Sex Sells: The Making of Touche (2005)

    A world record orgy, wild sex scenes, a 42-inch penis, ninjas--just a typical day at the office when...

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    The House of Seven Corpses

    An actress (Faith Domergue) reads the Tibetan Book of the Dead on the creepy set of a director's...

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    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)

    George Stevens Jr. chronicles his father's career as cameraman, combat photographer and Hollywood...

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    Italianamerican (1974)

    In the living room of their Elizabeth Street apartment, Scorsese's parents discuss their childhood...