Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton

Birthday: 1926-07-14

Place of Birth: West Irvine, Kentucky, USA

Biography: Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), The Man Who Cried (2000), Alpha Dog (2006), and Inland Empire (2006). He had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and in Lucky (2017).

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The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in...

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Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

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The Straight Story
The Straight Story

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

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Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s...

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The Green Mile
The Green Mile

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

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Escape from New York
Escape from New York

In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison ...

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Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his ...

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Inland Empire
Inland Empire

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surrea...

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The Care Bears Movie
The Care Bears Movie

The Care Bears team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neg...

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Lynch 2
Lynch 2

Follow up of the Lynch documentary on the making of INLAND EMPIRE. Released as an extra on the INLA...

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Farewell, My Lovely
Farewell, My Lovely

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge d...

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas ...

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Red Dawn
Red Dawn

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defen...

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Private Benjamin
Private Benjamin

A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficu...

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The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ

Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutio...

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Being Michael Madsen
Being Michael Madsen

Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of docume...

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Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she wor...

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The Pledge
The Pledge

A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer....

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Kelly's Heroes
Kelly's Heroes

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines....

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Alpha Dog
Alpha Dog

Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug deale...

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The Good Life
The Good Life

A movie about the travails of Jason (Mark Webber), a young gas station attendant and movie projectio...

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UFOria
UFOria

Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bu...

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The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mista...

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Straight Time
Straight Time

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by...

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Against the Wall
Against the Wall

In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the...

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The Avengers
The Avengers

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of th...

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How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the en...

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Christine
Christine

Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes ob...

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The Wendell Baker Story
The Wendell Baker Story

Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly resident...

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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

A personal, intimate look at journalist Hunter S. Thompson with a special emphasis on his Hollywood ...

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Down Periscope
Down Periscope

Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant ...

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Alien Autopsy
Alien Autopsy

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a ...

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Day of the Evil Gun
Day of the Evil Gun

Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!...

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The Mighty
The Mighty

Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Ma...

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Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop

A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who c...

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Cockfighter
Cockfighter

A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship....

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One Magic Christmas
One Magic Christmas

Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakabl...

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Sonny
Sonny

New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's k...

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Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and...

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Dillinger
Dillinger

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...

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Repo Man
Repo Man

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his ne...

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A Civil Action
A Civil Action

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is pote...

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One from the Heart
One from the Heart

In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniver...

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Wise Blood
Wise Blood

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He...

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The Missouri Breaks
The Missouri Breaks

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, L...

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Rancho Deluxe
Rancho Deluxe

Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contempo...

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Rebel Rousers
Rebel Rousers

In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in...

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Ride in the Whirlwind
Ride in the Whirlwind

Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse....

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Rango
Rango

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the l...

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She's So Lovely
She's So Lovely

After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of hi...

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92 in the Shade
92 in the Shade

A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter busi...

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The Rose
The Rose

Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously im...

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Young Doctors in Love
Young Doctors in Love

An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight o...

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The Fourth War
The Fourth War

Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on ...

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The Beast Within: Making Alien
The Beast Within: Making Alien

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew tra...

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Fool for Love
Fool for Love

A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her ba...

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Cisco Pike
Cisco Pike

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of con...

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The Black Marble
The Black Marble

When alcoholic homicide investigator Valnikov is transferred to a burglary case that seems to involv...

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The Last Stand
The Last Stand

Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD follow...

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This Must Be the Place
This Must Be the Place

A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a...

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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Da...

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Mr. North
Mr. North

Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about h...

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Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld aft...

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Twister
Twister

An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriar...

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Zandy's Bride
Zandy's Bride

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respec...

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Slam Dance
Slam Dance

When framed for the murder of a sultry blonde, an underground cartoonist is drawn into a web of corr...

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The Hostage
The Hostage

The Hostage is a 1967 Crown International low-budget motion picture starring Don O'Kelly, James Alma...

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The Mini-Skirt Mob
The Mini-Skirt Mob

Driven by jealousy, the jilted leader of a female motorcycle gang instigates a sadistic reign of ter...

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The Proud Rebel
The Proud Rebel

Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word si...

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Revolt at Fort Laramie
Revolt at Fort Laramie

At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the...

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Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

Hapless driving instructor and former Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty, living in squalor near Hollywood, C...

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Where the Lilies Bloom
Where the Lilies Bloom

A family of children decide not to tell anyone their father has died, and to live on their own in th...

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Stars & Bars
Stars & Bars

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric....

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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, fi...

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Monster Maker
Monster Maker

A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of ...

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9 Full Moons
9 Full Moons

Frankie is an emotional train wreck, careening around the East Los Angeles music scene drinking and ...

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Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King....

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Hero's Island
Hero's Island

A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates....

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Playback
Playback

Karen --a beautiful, ambitious, ruthless, senior executive-- is determined to take over this merger ...

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Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland

Fellow actors and musicians, film critics, and his Kentucky relatives tell the story of noted charac...

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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...

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The Bear
The Bear

Biopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama...

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Cruise Control
Cruise Control

Cruise Control is a 1992 English language short film directed by Matt Palmieri, starring Ed Begley J...

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Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand

Ben Maverick (Charles Frank) inherits the poker hand of a friend who died during a high stakes game....

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Fishtail
Fishtail

The iconic voice and noble philosophies proffered by Harry Dean Stanton punctuate this authentic loo...

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Char·ac·ter
Char·ac·ter

A raw and candid dialogue about the life and craft of acting between longtime colleagues and friends...

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Renaldo and Clara
Renaldo and Clara

Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring ...

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Dream a Little Dream
Dream a Little Dream

Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an...

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Blue Tiger
Blue Tiger

Gena is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, whilst shopping with him for a hall...

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Dig!
Dig!

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...

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American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective

An intimate, soul-baring new documentary covering the life and 40+ year career of actor and poet Mic...

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Cry for Me, Billy
Cry for Me, Billy

Drifter falls in love with Native American girl, with tragic results....

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Never Talk to Strangers
Never Talk to Strangers

Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and f...

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Fire Down Below
Fire Down Below

When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack T...

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The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones

A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, th...

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The Intruders
The Intruders

The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost b...

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Man Trouble
Man Trouble

A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from...

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Escape to Sonoita
Escape to Sonoita

Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leavin...

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The Cowboy and the Frenchman
The Cowboy and the Frenchman

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious,...

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A Time for Killing
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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Walking the Mile
Walking the Mile

Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen...

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The French as Seen by…
The French as Seen by…

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrat...

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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring d...

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The Man from the Diners' Club
The Man from the Diners' Club

Meek credit card company clerk Ernest Klenk is feeling the pressure of demanding coworkers, new comp...

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The Oldest Living Graduate
The Oldest Living Graduate

Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid's weak-willed s...

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The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond

The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem's discover...

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Carlos Spills the Beans
Carlos Spills the Beans

What happens when you grow up in a rich, dysfunctional, white trash family that runs a restaurant th...

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Alien
Alien

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a di...

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Payoff
Payoff

A kid unknowingly carries a bomb to his parents. When they get killed he is traumatized. Many hellis...

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The Open Road
The Open Road

Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legen...

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The Big Bounce
The Big Bounce

A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress te...

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Lucky
Lucky

Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map ...

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Sick of it All
Sick of it All

Antony, a stressed out, grown up, toy collector, has lost his youthful ways. Perhaps he lost his vig...

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Bukowski: Born Into This
Bukowski: Born Into This

Director John Dullaghan’s biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski, Bukowski: B...

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Ballad of the Nightingale
Ballad of the Nightingale

A down-on-her luck prostitute embarks on a wild adventure that puts her in contact with the Mafia....

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The Man Who Cried
The Man Who Cried

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a...

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Midnight Blue
Midnight Blue

Shortly before he moves from New York to Los Angeles a banker visits his Atlanta branch. One evening...

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Pork Chop Hill
Pork Chop Hill

Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry...

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Hostages
Hostages

True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush er...

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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's con...

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The Animal
The Animal

When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deran...

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Frank and Ava
Frank and Ava

A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From...

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while...

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Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'

Documentary about the making of Wim Wenders' 1984 film, with interviews conducted in 1989....

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Chrystal
Chrystal

Many years after a devastating accident that took the life of his only son and permanently injured h...

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A Dog's Best Friend
A Dog's Best Friend

A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was re...

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Win, Place or Steal
Win, Place or Steal

Three friends have two things in common: (1) they like to bet on the horses at the track, and (2) th...

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Lanton Mills
Lanton Mills

Two cowboy desperados attempt to hold up a modern-day bank in this absurd western....

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Tomahawk Trail
Tomahawk Trail

Led by an incompetent Lieutenant, a troop of soldiers is on the Tomahawk Trail in Apache territory. ...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone o...

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The Fortune
The Fortune

A couple of bumbling 1920s hustlers attempt to obtain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop t...

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The Jayhawkers!
The Jayhawkers!

Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republ...

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Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle

Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic tale about Rip Van Winkle, a carefr...

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Hunter Goes to Hollywood
Hunter Goes to Hollywood

Hunter Thompson visits the set of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas....

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Harry Zen Stanton
Harry Zen Stanton

Iconoclastic character actor Harry Dean Stanton talks about his philosophy on both life and acting....

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Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders o...

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Sand
Sand

A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them t...

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Anger Management
Anger Management

After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave B...

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The Ransom of Red Chief
The Ransom of Red Chief

Two con artists kidnap a young boy for ransom. The boy, who calls himself Red Chief, becomes a prob...

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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst ...

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You, Me and Dupree
You, Me and Dupree

After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, bec...

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Ginostra
Ginostra

An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to...

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Death Watch
Death Watch

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the c...

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Athena
Athena

Chuck, a loner who had better days, runs a Halliday store in the middle of Californian desert. Custo...

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Wim Wenders, Desperado
Wim Wenders, Desperado

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende...

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One Hundred and One Nights
One Hundred and One Nights

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en...

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I Want to Live
I Want to Live

The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condem...

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On Holiday
On Holiday

A young man named Peyton moves to Los Angeles with his girlfriend. Over the course of three years an...

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Warren Oates: Across the Border
Warren Oates: Across the Border

A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews...

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Sinatra! Eternity
Sinatra! Eternity

The movie Sinatra Eternity narrates the stormy relationship between Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. T...

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The Short Films of David Lynch
The Short Films of David Lynch

A collection of visionary director David Lynch's short films from the first 29 years of his career i...

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Return to 'Escape from New York'
Return to 'Escape from New York'

Retrospective documentary on the making of John Carpenter's science fiction cult classic "Escape fro...

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