Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho

Birthday: 1968-12-05

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Biography: Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music videos and has her own clothing line. She has frequently supported LGBT rights and has won awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, the transgender community, Asians, and the LGBT community. As an actress she has played more serious parts, such as that of John Travolta's long-suffering FBI colleague in the action movie Face/Off. She co-starred as Teri Lee, a paralegal assistant, 8on Lifetime's drama series Drop Dead Diva.

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Face/Off
Face/Off

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...

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One Missed Call
One Missed Call

Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the da...

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It's My Party
It's My Party

Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparation...

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Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!

This documentary praises comedian Richard Pryor by showing fragments of various shows Pryor made and...

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Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution
Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution

Filmed live at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, REVOLUTION is comedian Margaret Cho's triumphant ...

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The girls I know... get their hands dirty.
The girls I know... get their hands dirty.

Stranded in the middle of the desert, a filmmaker attempts to change her flat tire in order to make ...

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The Doom Generation
The Doom Generation

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, ...

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How Bruce Lee Changed the World
How Bruce Lee Changed the World

More than just a biography, this film explores Bruce Lee's global impact to see how he has influence...

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I Am Comic
I Am Comic

Through unprecedented backstage access and candid interviews, the film weaves through the absurd wor...

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Tara, Messenger of Death
Tara, Messenger of Death

During an island backpacking trip with her boyfriend, Tara finds a Go-Pro that reveals a missing inf...

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The Thin Pink Line
The Thin Pink Line

A film crew in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-...

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Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want
Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want

November, 1999, Margaret Cho is home in San Francisco at the Warfield Theater. Cho structures her mo...

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Fakin' Da Funk
Fakin' Da Funk

Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee -- and Asian exchan...

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I, Challenger
I, Challenger

Sid, a perennial kid who spends his days playing video games and selling weed, is about to be evicte...

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Get Bruce!
Get Bruce!

Affectionate tribute to Bruce Vilanch, who writes material for celebrities who make public appearanc...

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The Tavern
The Tavern

Bartender Ronnie has gone from one job to another a lot over the years, and he wants to settle at a ...

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Ground Control
Ground Control

An air-traffic controller quits after a plane crash but, years later, goes to help an airport that i...

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Gianna
Gianna

Gina, a Filipina Gemini doing her best, takes the advice of her sliding scale therapist to spend a d...

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Sweethearts
Sweethearts

Arliss goes to a coffee house to meet Jasmine on a blind date, but she's not quite what she seems....

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Margaret Cho: Beautiful
Margaret Cho: Beautiful

Learning to love her luscious self over the past forty years, comedian Margaret Cho realized that th...

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Margaret Cho: Assassin
Margaret Cho: Assassin

Margaret Cho returns to the concert stage with a "killer" one-woman show that has taken audiences by...

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Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O.
Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O.

A film of Margaret Cho's one-woman stand-up show, in which she presents her take on modern sexual to...

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Bury Me
Bury Me

Sid, a perennial kid who spends his days playing video games and selling weed, is about to be evicte...

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Maxine
Maxine

Allie is a newly out teen who is keeping her girlfriend a secret from her Chinese American family. D...

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Miss Representation
Miss Representation

The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and gi...

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Funny Is Money
Funny Is Money

Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in w...

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Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
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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Prom Pact
Prom Pact

It's prom season, and high school senior Mandy and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surro...

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See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould
See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould

Last November at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, some of today's most influential artis...

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Margaret Cho: Cho Dependent
Margaret Cho: Cho Dependent

Miss Margaret Cho is back, and she has a few things she'd like to share with you. From her hilarious...

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In Transition
In Transition

Tawny Kim heads to a halfway house for female ex-inmates transitioning into mainstream life. Once th...

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Soul of a Nation Presents: Together As One: Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage
Soul of a Nation Presents: Together As One: Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage

Primetime program celebrating the diversity and recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of...

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Wedding Palace
Wedding Palace

After being abandoned at the altar, Jason courts the girl of his dreams on the Internet. When she ar...

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A Big Gay Hairy Hit! Where the Bears Are: The Documentary
A Big Gay Hairy Hit! Where the Bears Are: The Documentary

This hilarious and touching documentary tells the story of how three older, gay, "bears" working in ...

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Bam Bam and Celeste
Bam Bam and Celeste

Celeste and Bam Bam escape their Midwest hometown for New York, and take on their high-school nemese...

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Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration

A group of LGBTQ+ comedians get together to celebrate a brand of queer comedy. Legends, headliners, ...

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Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live
Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin host an iconic celebration of women in comedy with stand-up sets from Cri...

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Queer Riot
Queer Riot

The Hoot, an underground theater located in the basement of a former nun’s residence, is the locale ...

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Pink as the Day She Was Born
Pink as the Day She Was Born

A rock-n-roll sex comedy about a young girl who will do anything to become a rock star, working in a...

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The Best of Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival
The Best of Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival

Top stand-ups and rising stars sound off on sex, parenting, politics, pettiness and more in these hi...

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Nobody Knows Anything!
Nobody Knows Anything!

Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild...

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No One Asked You
No One Asked You

Comedian and disrupter extraordinaire Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) and her team of a...

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#BeRobin the Movie
#BeRobin the Movie

A documentary about Margaret Cho's homeless outreach campaign inspired by the philanthropy of Robin ...

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The Listener
The Listener

Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across Amer...

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Sex with Sue
Sex with Sue

Sex with Sue explores the life and career of radically progressive sex educator Sue Johanson, whose ...

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Call Me Lucky
Call Me Lucky

An inspiring, triumphant and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy’s most enigmatic and important...

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Curtain Down
Curtain Down

A love story that takes a surreal but tender look at gender, identity and aging as our hero is force...

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Adventures in Comedy
Adventures in Comedy

A mockumentary that takes place in the cut throat world of stand-up comedy. It follows the struggles...

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Exotic World and the Burlesque Revival
Exotic World and the Burlesque Revival

There's a sexual revolution happening on a former goat ranch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and...

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Senior Project
Senior Project

Peter Hammer moves to Kennedy high school in an upscale neighborhood and meets the microcosm of scho...

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Falling for Grace
Falling for Grace

Grace is a Chinese American who longs to be a part of New York's high society. At a socialite event,...

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The Snake
The Snake

Ken's an inveterate womanizer who joins an all female body image support group to put the moves on T...

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My Name is Jackie Beat
My Name is Jackie Beat

Follows the life of one of today's most notorious bad-girl drag performers: Jackie Beat. Backstage w...

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Dolly Parton's Pet Gala
Dolly Parton's Pet Gala

Doggy Parton and CBS present "Dolly Parton's Pet Gala", a two-hour variety special featuring exclusi...

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Tooken
Tooken

Spoof of the "Taken" franchise. An ex-CIA agent who is now a mall security guard discovers that thin...

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Margaret Cho: HBO Comedy Half-Hour
Margaret Cho: HBO Comedy Half-Hour

All the laughs in half the time, with Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho....

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Girltrash!
Girltrash!

Set in the Los Angeles' criminal underworld with a dark but over-the-top Miami Vice vibe, 'Girltrash...

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All That We Love
All That We Love

Following the death of her family dog, Emma finds herself at a crossroads where grief and release pl...

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Margaret Cho: PsyCHO
Margaret Cho: PsyCHO

Three-time Grammy and Emmy nominated comedian Margaret Cho performs in front of a live audience in t...

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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful ...

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Do I Sound Gay?
Do I Sound Gay?

What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to un...

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17 Again
17 Again

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And ...

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Can't Stop Dancing
Can't Stop Dancing

A Topeka, Kansas fun park dance troupe led by a 260 pound dancer (Ben Zook) learns that the park is ...

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Sexing the Transman
Sexing the Transman

This intriguing documentary explores the sexuality of transmen and the changes they experience as a ...

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Hurricane Bianca
Hurricane Bianca

A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disgui...

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Lennon or McCartney
Lennon or McCartney

550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked ...

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Underbelly
Underbelly

Ever wonder whatever happened to ’80s punk icon Pleasant Gehman? Even if you didn’t, she has transfo...

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Everybody Has an Andy Dick Story
Everybody Has an Andy Dick Story

A documentary detailing funny, outrageous, positive stories about Andy Dick. Interviews range from c...

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Dresden Dolls: Live at the Roundhouse London
Dresden Dolls: Live at the Roundhouse London

Live at the Roundhouse is a live concert DVD by American dark cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. On Nove...

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Queens of the Dead
Queens of the Dead

When a zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, an eclectic...

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Untitled Mitch Hedberg documentary
Untitled Mitch Hedberg documentary

The life of comedian Mitch Hedberg, master of the one-liner and a talent beloved by fellow comics....

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Cora Bora
Cora Bora

Cora senses her open relationship is on the rocks. When the struggling musician and messy millennial...

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$pent
$pent

This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends wi...

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Grocery Store
Grocery Store

An animated short about how Blacks and Koreans should get together....

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TURA!
TURA!

The one and only Tura Satana. Best remembered for her role as the fierce Varla in Russ Meyer’s 1965 ...

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It Gets Better
It Gets Better

Inspired by the It Gets Better Project this documentary film follows the stories of three real-life ...

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Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharkn...

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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, follow...

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The Rugrats Movie
The Rugrats Movie

Based on the popular Nickelodeon TV series Rugrats, this is the first full-length feature animated m...

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Bright
Bright

In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in...

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This Is Bob Hope...
This Is Bob Hope...

During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mas...

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Friendsgiving
Friendsgiving

Newly-divorced actress Molly, her recently-dumped lesbian best friend Abby and Molly’s mother Helen ...

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Prop 8: The Musical
Prop 8: The Musical

The conflict of the aftermath of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in California) is solved by Jes...

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Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash

Join us for a night of celebration, packed with celebrity guests and Hocus Pocus throwbacks, at the ...

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The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

Documentary exploring The Advocate's role at the forefront of the LGBT movement in the U.S....

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The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Drew Carey
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Drew Carey

First televised New York Friar's Club roast, in honor of Drew Carey....

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The Immigrant
The Immigrant

After being deported back to his native Canada, once-famous comedian Bob London attempts a Hollywood...

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Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate

Hollywood's finest pay tribute to "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" for an uncensored and unforgettable ...

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Gaze
Gaze

The works of today's most revered talents are set against a provocative, highly amusing commentary t...

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Faith Based
Faith Based

When two idiot friends realize all "faith based" films make buckets of cash, they set out on a missi...

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Trixie Mattel: Skinny Legend
Trixie Mattel: Skinny Legend

Skinny Legend features the classic Trixie variety show stylings her fans love from her performances....

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Bloodlines: The Art and Life of Vincent Castiglia
Bloodlines: The Art and Life of Vincent Castiglia

Vincent Castiglia paints in human blood....

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Miss America
Miss America

Tracking the country’s oldest beauty contest—from its inception in 1921 as a local seaside pageant t...

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HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Margaret Cho
HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Margaret Cho

[HBO] HD. All the laughs in half the time, with Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho....

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Feeding America Comedy Festival
Feeding America Comedy Festival

All-star comics perform in support of Feeding America....

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Angie
Angie

Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant...

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Katy Perry:  Will You Be My Witness?
Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?

In her new YouTube Red Original Movie, the colorful pop icon puts her life on camera 24/7 for four w...

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Amelia's 25th
Amelia's 25th

Aspiring actress Amelia begins her 25th birthday by breaking up with her boyfriend, and things only ...

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Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Mae West: Dirty Blonde

Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, span...

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Over the Moon
Over the Moon

Fueled by memories of her mother, resourceful Fei Fei builds a rocket to the moon on a mission to pr...

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Annul Victory
Annul Victory

Annul Victory is a documentary on the fight for marriage equality and the Proposition 8 election bat...

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Undateable John
Undateable John

A slacker surf instructor, who's on and off the wagon, gets his life together when he falls for a be...

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Alaska Is a Drag
Alaska Is a Drag

Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, an aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Ala...

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Hysterical
Hysterical

An honest and hilarious backstage pass into the lives of some of stand-up comedy’s most boundary-bre...

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Koreatown Ghost Story
Koreatown Ghost Story

A woman entertains a macabre offer that would let her pursue her dreams, for better or for much much...

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Sex Appeal
Sex Appeal

Avery, a teenager with a tendency towards perfectionism, enlists her friend Larson to help her prepa...

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Phone Sex
Phone Sex

Celebrities and artists discuss the meaning of "What is sexy?" with award-winning director and artis...

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Good on Paper
Good on Paper

After years of putting her career ahead of love, stand-up comic Andrea Singer has stumbled upon the ...

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The Alaska Thunderfuck Extra Special Comedy Special
The Alaska Thunderfuck Extra Special Comedy Special

Star of stage and screen Alaska Thunderfuck proudly presents "Alaska's Extra Special Comedy Special....

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Tig Notaro: Drawn
Tig Notaro: Drawn

This hour-long special blends Notaro’s signature voice and storytelling with a variety of artistic s...

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The Sixth Reel
The Sixth Reel

When the death of a close friend unearths the long-thought lost final reel of a classic Tod Browning...

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The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

Go back to the beginning of television's longest-running primetime drama with behind-the-scenes foot...

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Fire Island
Fire Island

A group of queer best friends gather in the Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laug...

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I Want Your Sex
I Want Your Sex

When fresh-faced Elliot lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy,...

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Ellie Kemper: Unbreakable Comedy Gala
Ellie Kemper: Unbreakable Comedy Gala

She's adorably adorable and one of the fastest-rising stars in Hollywood. The "Unbreakable Kimmy Sch...

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It's Dorothy!
It's Dorothy!

Since Dorothy Gale started her epic journey down the Yellow Brick Road over a century ago in THE WON...

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Cheap AF
Cheap AF

A money-saving influencer seeking her big break, risks losing her wedding and relationships when she...

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Run Amok
Run Amok

A teenage girl decides to stage a musical reenactment of a tragedy that took place at her high schoo...

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Ron Forever
Ron Forever

One arrest away from foster care, a ten-year-old with mental superpowers must choose to repeat her m...

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Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Film About Failure
Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Film About Failure

Like a falling satellite blazing across the musical landscape, Failure flamed-out in the late ‘90s, ...

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Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Film About Failure
Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Film About Failure

Like a falling satellite blazing across the musical landscape, Failure flamed-out in the late ‘90s, ...

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By the Roots
By the Roots

Madison Young, a queer gallerist and sexual revolutionary, returns to Southern Ohio to confront her ...

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Better Life
Better Life

A father hopes to help his unemployed daughter have a better life through a groundbreaking new medic...

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