Dick Miller
Birthday: 1928-12-25
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Richard Miller (December 25, 1928 – January 30, 2019) was an American character actor who appeared in more than 180 films, including many produced by Roger Corman. He later appeared in the films of directors who began their careers with Corman, including Joe Dante, James Cameron, and Martin Scorsese, with the distinction of appearing in every film directed by Dante. He was known for playing the beleaguered everyman, often in one-scene appearances. Miller's main roles in films included Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Explorers, Piranha, The Howling, A Bucket of Blood, The Little Shop of Horrors, Not of This Earth, Chopping Mall, Night of the Creeps, The Terminator, The 'Burbs, Small Soldiers and Quake.
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The Terminator
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known ...
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Gremlins
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three i...
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soo...
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Innerspace
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Acci...
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvir...
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The Grissom Gang
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. K...
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores t...
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Cannonball
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an undergro...
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1941
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads...
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The Howling
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitati...
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Evil Toons
Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book f...
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A Bucket of Blood
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene ar...
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The Trip
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his f...
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The Terror
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, t...
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The Little Shop of Horrors
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He cre...
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Piranha
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests becom...
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The 'Burbs
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their p...
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Matinee
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban ...
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Rock 'n' Roll High School
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to comba...
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sini...
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New York, New York
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...
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Not of This Earth
An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nucl...
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It Conquered the World
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, a...
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Far from Home
Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his t...
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Chopping Mall
High-tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mech...
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The Premature Burial
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him....
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Get Crazy
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max...
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Naked Paradise
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical i...
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War of the Satellites
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to ce...
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Atlas
Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king'...
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The Undead
Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. Wh...
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White Line Fever
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for....
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Maximum Surge
When a super computer is linked to a video game network, the computer programmer who designed the ga...
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Hollywood Boulevard
A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks ...
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Trapped Ashes
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to te...
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. A...
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Carnival Rock
An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler....
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Smokey Bites the Dust
Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals car...
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Mr. Billion
An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he...
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Big Bad Mama
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across ...
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The Hole
After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover ...
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The Aftermath
After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts (Steve Barkett and Larry Latham) return to an Earth tr...
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Armed Response
One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offerin...
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Capone
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio ...
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Motorama
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a...
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Lies
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not...
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Beach Ball
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group...
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Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Hollywood is a town of tinsel and glamour; but there is another Hollywood, a place where maverick in...
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Darktown Strutters
When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community lea...
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Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil...
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Ski Party
Two college boys from SoCal attend a spring break vacation at a ski lodge in Idaho to get insider ti...
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Rock All Night
Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the l...
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Sorority Girl
An affluent, malevolent girl at an all-female boarding school torments her fellow pupils while navig...
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Night Call Nurses
The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and att...
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The Young Nurses
Sexy young nurses administer a special kind of therapy on their daily rounds as they battle a drug r...
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Candy Stripe Nurses
Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his...
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The Student Teachers
Sexy student teachers at Valley High School give private lessons while being terrorized by a mad rap...
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Summer School Teachers
A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at...
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Runaway Daughters
Angie, Mary, and Laura are teenage girls who are fed up with their bland and unexciting small town l...
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Crazy Mama
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California be...
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Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Spoof-meister, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante deb...
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Under the Boardwalk
It is the final weekend of summer and a group of Californian teenagers are looking forward to an upc...
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Apache Woman
A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of front...
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Wild, Wild Winter
Low-budget beach party rip-off relocated to the slopes, with the plot of Taming of the Shrew loosely...
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After Hours
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures d...
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Body Waves
To prove his independence, a cocky teenager bets his father that he can support himself without the ...
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Starhops
After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a Frenc...
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That Guy Dick Miller
Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has ...
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Mona Must Die
Disillusioned, Eddie is a long-suffering husband who finds passion and happiness with his neighbor, ...
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White Dog
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people....
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Space Raiders
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally k...
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Ghost Writer
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedl...
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It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded...
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the ...
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The Second Civil War
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governo...
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Targets
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psycho...
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biogra...
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11th Victim
A news anchorwoman from the Midwest comes to Hollywood to learn the truth about the death of her sis...
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The Woman Who Sinned
A woman contemplates having an affair, which leads her into a web of deceit, suspense, and murder....
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas...
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Shake, Rattle and Rock!
In 1950s America, teenage rebellion comes easy when something like rock 'n' roll is viewed as sinful...
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous conse...
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Game Show Models
Stuart Guber has decided to drop back into society, by leaving his performance artist girlfriend and...
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Truck Turner
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hire...
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Night of the Creeps
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body,...
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Burying the Ex
Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accid...
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The Dirty Dozen
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea...
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Amityville 1992: It's About Time
A hot-shot architect returns home from his latest business trip with a surprise: an ornate old clock...
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Explorers
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comi...
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Unlawful Entry
Happily married Michael and Karen Carr call the police after Karen is held at knife point during a f...
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The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film vers...
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Corvette Summer
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tric...
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of th...
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A Time for Killing
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican borde...
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The Andersonville Trial
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate ...
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recentl...
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Gunslinger
After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town....
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The Lady in Red
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cyc...
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The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures...
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The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster
Feature compilation of four Biffle and Shooster comedy shorts--"The Biffle Murder Case," "Imitation ...
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Small Soldiers
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their bat...
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Angel III: The Final Chapter
Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar wo...
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Quake
Set around the tragic events of an earthquake, a young couple experience the horror of being terrori...
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The Wild Angels
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival ...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised cr...
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Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention....
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The Oklahoma Woman
After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle...
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The Girls on the Beach
The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their s...
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The Wild Racers
Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United S...
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The Slams
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside....
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Executive Action
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot...
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Moving Violation
A young drifter and small-town waitress witness a corrupt sheriff murder his own deputy. Framed for ...
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Vigilante Force
In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless ...
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Used Cars
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to sav...
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Vortex
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poe...
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Heart Like a Wheel
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them b...
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All the Right Moves
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Wes...
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Project X
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the m...
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Route 666
Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it...
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Trail of the Screaming Forehead
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them ...
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Corman's World
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious ...
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitatio...
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Midnight Run Around
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh heads for a small rural community in Oklahoma to bring back a young bail ju...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 i...
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Hanukkah
A group of Jewish teens are getting ready to party for the holidays but are in for a Festival of Fri...
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Death Race 2000
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which poin...
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Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’
Documentary featuring director Joe Dante, screenwriter John Sayles, producer Mike Finnell, stars Dee...
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The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill...
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Cutaways
A character cut from Pulp Fiction meets a characters cut from The Conversation....
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Swing Shift
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against h...
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Amazon Women on the Moon
Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a s...
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VH...
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