John Sayles
Birthday: 1950-09-28
Place of Birth: Schenectady, New York, USA
Biography: John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist.
Movies
Passion Fish
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotio...
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Little Vegas
Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn ...
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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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Matewan
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...
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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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Matinee
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban ...
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The Brother from Another Planet
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through th...
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Eight Men Out
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...
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In the Electric Mist
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local h...
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Straight Talk
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Acc...
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Casting By
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma...
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western....
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Lianna
Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest c...
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Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversia...
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The Normals
With a debt collector hot on his trail, Harvard graduate Billy Schine enrolls in a clinical drug tri...
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The Toe Tactic
Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off:...
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Sunshine State
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal...
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Unnatural Causes
Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemica...
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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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Untamagiru
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form a...
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Edge of Outside
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Gri...
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Malcolm X
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
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Hard Choices
A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a stor...
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Something Wild
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dan...
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John Sayles and Gregory Nava
“In this conversation, recorded for the Criterion Collection in Los Angeles in 2023, filmmaker Grego...
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Return of the Secaucus Seven
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer...
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Great Directors
Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David...
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Honeydripper
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and again...
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Gridlock'd
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll i...
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The Umbrella
A man uses an imaginary umbrella to protect himself against against life; until he is convinced to u...
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A Constant Forge
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of Am...
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My Life's in Turnaround
Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar...
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City of Hope
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most not...
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Algren
Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrate...
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Tell Them Who You Are
The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the came...
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The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
Martin Scorsese and other contemporary filmmakers reveal the impact The Third Man had on their caree...
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Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
An impressive roster of celebrities -- including Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones...
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Them That Work
Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between compan...
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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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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the se...
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Texas Red
Part of the 12 Western feature films to be made in 12 months during 2020, this film tells the story ...
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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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Alligator Author
A documentary looking back on the making of the 1980 film 'Alligator', featuring an interview with s...
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Girlfight
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for fema...
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Corona Film Club
Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he st...
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1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
A remarkable new epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones of 1982 including notable ...
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When It Was a Game 3
In this third entry of the ongoing HBO documentary series celebrating America's favorite pastime, th...
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