Amos Poe
Birthday: 1949-01-01
Place of Birth: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Biography: Amos Poe, born Amos Jay Porges, was a quintessential New York independent filmmaker, a key figure in the emergence of the No Wave cinema movement that evolved from the punk music scene and flourished from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s on New York's Lower East Side.
Movies
Blank City
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come f...
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The Foreigner
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission...
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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery....
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New...
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Subway Riders
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down...
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Smithereens
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's ...
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Downtown '81
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to r...
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HoLEY
During a visit to New York from Egypt, Mark, a 32-year-old Orthodox Christian, decides to lose his v...
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Hunter
Two friends vie for the attention of a stranger who passes out at their doorstep....
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TV Party
From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party....
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Stiletto
A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of re...
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