Seymour Cassel

Seymour Cassel

Birthday: 1935-01-22

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Biography: Seymour Joseph Cassel (January 22, 1935 – April 7, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films and television shows, with a career spanning over 50 years. He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/director John Cassavetes. The first of these was Too Late Blues (1961), followed by Faces (1968), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a National Society of Film Critics Award. Cassel went on to appear in Cassavetes's Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977), and Love Streams (1984). He also appeared in other notable films, including: Coogan's Bluff (1968), The Last Tycoon (1976), Valentino (1977), Convoy (1978), Johnny Be Good (1988), Mobsters (1991), In the Soup (1992), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), Imaginary Crimes (1994), Beer League (2006), and Fort McCoy (2011). Like Cassavetes, Wes Anderson frequently cast Cassel – first in Rushmore (1998), then in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and finally in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member o...

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Faces
Faces

Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Ric...

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Stuck on You
Stuck on You

In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by b...

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It Could Happen to You
It Could Happen to You

Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip wai...

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Postal
Postal

The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a viole...

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Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal

John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night...

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Rushmore
Rushmore

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an...

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Boiling Point
Boiling Point

Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and n...

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Lonesome Jim
Lonesome Jim

After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in ...

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Minnie and Moskowitz
Minnie and Moskowitz

Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders i...

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Chasers
Chasers

Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni J...

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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the...

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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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White Fang
White Fang

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and...

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Dream for an Insomniac
Dream for an Insomniac

A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fear...

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The Royal Tenenbaums
The Royal Tenenbaums

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children...

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Stealing Harvard
Stealing Harvard

John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the mi...

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Black & White
Black & White

Chris O'Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged,...

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Staten Island
Staten Island

Sully is desperate to give his unborn son the chance he never had. Jasper wants to escape the mobste...

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Convoy
Convoy

Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn...

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Animal Factory
Animal Factory

Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against...

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Coogan's Bluff
Coogan's Bluff

Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prison...

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Honeymoon in Vegas
Honeymoon in Vegas

On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psycholog...

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Eye of the Tiger
Eye of the Tiger

Buck is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being te...

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Love Is Like That
Love Is Like That

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and ...

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Beer League
Beer League

An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked ...

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The Man Who Wasn't There
The Man Who Wasn't There

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small Cali...

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Track 29
Track 29

Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face...

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This World, Then the Fireworks
This World, Then the Fireworks

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sis...

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The Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the whi...

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Juke Box Racket
Juke Box Racket

Mario, a gangster, takes the fifth amendment when being questioned by the Senate Sub Committee on hi...

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A Good Night to Die
A Good Night to Die

One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, A...

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Me and Will
Me and Will

Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've ...

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Hoods
Hoods

A 50-year-old mobster struggles to carry out his father's order to execute a rival's 9-year-old chil...

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Bittersweet Place
Bittersweet Place

The story of the Schaffer family, made up of terminally ill father Jack and his two daughters, bipol...

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The Crew
The Crew

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home....

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Women of the Night
Women of the Night

Three entwined stories of love, lust, danger and revenge....

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Before It Had a Name
Before It Had a Name

A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York cou...

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Reach for Me
Reach for Me

Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not gr...

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In the Soup
In the Soup

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first ...

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Love Streams
Love Streams

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart....

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To Love and Die
To Love and Die

Hildy Young, a fun-loving 30-something with abandonment issues, becomes convinced that her dating pr...

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Passionada
Passionada

The film is a romantic comedy about the Portuguese widow of a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's...

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L!fe Happens
L!fe Happens

A comedy centered on two best friends, Kim and Deena, who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives ...

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Trouble Bound
Trouble Bound

Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them ag...

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Double Exposure
Double Exposure

A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his mode...

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Just One Night
Just One Night

A man (Timothy Hutton) spends the night before his wedding searching for his lost shoe with the help...

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King of the Mountain
King of the Mountain

A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road kno...

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Ray of Sunshine
Ray of Sunshine

Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and searches for her f...

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Relax... It's Just Sex
Relax... It's Just Sex

A tight-knit group of thirty-somethings -- gay, lesbian and straight -- struggle to live, love and s...

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Imaginary Crimes
Imaginary Crimes

A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still mak...

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The Mountain Men
The Mountain Men

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days ...

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Big Heart City
Big Heart City

A recidivist horse better in search of his missing girlfriend discovers that though circumstances se...

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Freerunner
Freerunner

With a ticking bomb locked to his neck, a young freerunner races against the clock and all types of ...

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Death Game
Death Game

George Manning is a well-to-do businessman, husband, and father. While his family is away on his bir...

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Booster
Booster

When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes...

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The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man

A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union lead...

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There Goes My Baby
There Goes My Baby

It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager ...

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Obsession
Obsession

Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lo...

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Colors
Colors

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barri...

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Cold Heaven
Cold Heaven

An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to li...

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Things I Never Told You
Things I Never Told You

Don is a real estate salesman who volunteers at a "hotline for hope". Ann, who works in a photo stor...

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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time....

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Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight

A film without a beginning or an end, Moment to Moment is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and sh...

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The Sleepy Time Gal
The Sleepy Time Gal

A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to ...

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Anything for John
Anything for John

An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for...

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John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All

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Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come

The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a ...

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The Webster Boy
The Webster Boy

A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who b...

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The Biz
The Biz

Have you ever wondered what the day-to-day trials and tribulations of a working actress are in Ameri...

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The Secret Lives of Dorks
The Secret Lives of Dorks

In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose hi...

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Johnny 316
Johnny 316

A preacher without resources spends his days reciting Bible verses. One day he meets a young jobless...

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Black Oak Conspiracy
Black Oak Conspiracy

An average Joe is pitted against a crooked sheriff and unscrupulous land grabbers in this tale of sm...

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Sea of Dreams
Sea of Dreams

On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place whe...

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Partners
Partners

A junior partner in a law firm, finds out that the wife of a very important client is a former colle...

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Beverly Hills Madam
Beverly Hills Madam

A bordello catering to rich and wealthy clients, run by Lil Hutton experiences a series of crises as...

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Pass the Salt, Please
Pass the Salt, Please

Dinner. A glass of wine. Stimulating conversation. What better way to wind down the day? A couples d...

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Plain Clothes
Plain Clothes

To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with...

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California Dreaming
California Dreaming

Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized,...

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Sunburn
Sunburn

A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco....

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Face of a Stranger
Face of a Stranger

After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's ...

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Johnny Be Good
Johnny Be Good

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young f...

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Broken Kingdom
Broken Kingdom

Four separate narratives weave their way together in this impactful drama, from the harrowing slums ...

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Mobsters
Mobsters

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoo...

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The Dependables
The Dependables

Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one last ex...

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Wicked Stepmother
Wicked Stepmother

A pair of witches descend upon a family and wreak havoc. Now it's up to the family's matriarch, a pr...

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The Killers
The Killers

A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not...

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Edge of Outside
Edge of Outside

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Gri...

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Adventures in Spying
Adventures in Spying

Two teens spot a notorious criminal who is supposed to be dead....

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The Cure for Boredom
The Cure for Boredom

Sex, love and murder abound when two guys, two waitresses and a group of mobsters meet....

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Cannes Man
Cannes Man

Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a ...

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Man on a String
Man on a String

U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy....

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The Last Home Run
The Last Home Run

Dying doctor Jonathan Lyle's last wish is granted, to be young again and play baseball, but only for...

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Fort McCoy
Fort McCoy

Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to ...

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The Revolutionary
The Revolutionary

"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to ef...

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Hollywood Dreams
Hollywood Dreams

The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising yo...

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Dark Side of Genius
Dark Side of Genius

Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where...

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Cold Dog Soup
Cold Dog Soup

A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his pa...

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Slaughter of the Cock
Slaughter of the Cock

Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn eno...

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The Treat
The Treat

The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party...

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Young Lust: A Soap Opera
Young Lust: A Soap Opera

The reunion of Garytown High School’s class of ‘71 is a catalyst for a series of comic crises involv...

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Manna from Heaven
Manna from Heaven

Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial wi...

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Faces
Faces

James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world o...

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Dead in the Water
Dead in the Water

Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautif...

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Lost Angeles
Lost Angeles

A homeless convict is released from jail and comes to Los Angeles where he passes himself off as a l...

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Hand Gun
Hand Gun

Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack man...

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Ravagers
Ravagers

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adve...

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Not Dead Yet
Not Dead Yet

A poignant comedy about three midlife women who join forces to revive their acting careers, "Not Dea...

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Motel Blue
Motel Blue

Kyle Rivers has joined the Dpt of Defense as an investigator. Her first assignment is to do a backgr...

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Kubanisch rauchen
Kubanisch rauchen

Paul and Bernd take over a small upscale antique store together. On one nightly excursion, Bernd int...

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Angel on My Shoulder
Angel on My Shoulder

A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the...

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Survival Game
Survival Game

Double-crossed by both the gangsters and the police, Michael must use his martial-arts talent to res...

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Back Nine
Back Nine

A past-his-prime professional golfer plays small time tourneys to re-qualify for the PGA....

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I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work

Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, ...

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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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Arena - John Cassavetes
Arena - John Cassavetes

Tribute to actor and director John Cassavetes who died in February 1989. Friends, associates and fel...

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Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage

Documentary about the making and history of the film "Easy Rider."...

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Sweet Bird of Youth
Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on ...

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Bye Bye Benjamin
Bye Bye Benjamin

Benjamin Osgood, a savvy ten-year-old business executive, meets a coworker's daughter, and must deci...

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Emma's Wish
Emma's Wish

A lonely retirement home resident obtains a magical ring on her 75th birthday which grants her wish ...

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When Pigs Fly
When Pigs Fly

The ghosts of a middle-aged woman and a precocious little girl help an unwed jazz musician and a bar...

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Valentino
Valentino

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem...

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Chasing 3000
Chasing 3000

As the 1972 baseball season draws to a close and star player Roberto Clemente prepares to knock hit ...

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Best Seller
Best Seller

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living,...

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This Is an Adventure
This Is an Adventure

During production on the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", documentary filmmakers followed ...

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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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Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc.

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusin...

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Bartleby
Bartleby

An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a mo...

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A Constant Forge
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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Lucky Dog
Lucky Dog

Travis is a divorced architect and devoted father of two who has a hard time handling his unruly dog...

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The Tenants
The Tenants

The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antago...

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Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances t...

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Stingers
Stingers

Two down-and-out barflies wind up in over their heads when they steal a briefcase filled with valuab...

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Chain of Desire
Chain of Desire

A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire....

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Pete Smalls Is Dead
Pete Smalls Is Dead

Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead....

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The Aristofrogs
The Aristofrogs

A short promotional film for the 2010 Oldenburg Film Festival consisting of various actors and film ...

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Chameleon
Chameleon

After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At ...

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Snapped
Snapped

Snapped examines the lives of a colorful group of young people as they try to connect with each othe...

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At The Maple Grove
At The Maple Grove

Driven by a desire to live forever through cinema, aspiring filmmaker Nathaniel Heaton sets out to f...

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Silver Case
Silver Case

In TInseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful p...

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Too Late Blues
Too Late Blues

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the pa...

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Tollbooth
Tollbooth

A young woman’s dreams of love are trapped in an empty life of broken promises and futile hopes, as ...

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61*
61*

In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally...

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Making 'Faces'
Making 'Faces'

A documentary featuring interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands, and Seymour Cassel, and c...

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Diary of a Hitman
Diary of a Hitman

A veteran hitman, Dekker is ready to call it quits and leave the profession. His final job, however,...

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Ouf!
Ouf!

Slapstick - a tribute to 100 years of cinema: authorities, in their efforts to create order, often c...

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Turnpike
Turnpike

Two men take a journey through crowded Parisian streets, interacting and disrupting everyday life....

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Beau Jest
Beau Jest

BEAU JEST is the hilarious, heartwarming story about Sarah Goldman, a beautiful young school teacher...

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Without Borders
Without Borders

Thanasis, a cotton candy vendor from Athens, has been caring for little Melissa since she was a baby...

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Seed
Seed

In the course of a single night, Miriam realizes that her life is worth more than the $65 price tag ...

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Dead Presidents
Dead Presidents

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when ...

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Dead Girl
Dead Girl

Ari Rose is a failing actor who cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. He first dreams abou...

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Trees Lounge
Trees Lounge

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge,...

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The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suav...

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Opening Night
Opening Night

Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her lat...

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Shadows
Shadows

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopard...

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Tin Men
Tin Men

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man ver...

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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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Every Night's a Saturday Night
Every Night's a Saturday Night

The Life & Times of Bobby Keys ... decades-long Sax player with The Rolling Stones, best friend to K...

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Cosmic Radio
Cosmic Radio

A 38-year-old California trust fund kid tries to save his independent radio station, KZMC Cosmic Rad...

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What Happened to Pete
What Happened to Pete

Pete, a customer in a quiet bar somewhere in dull small-town America. Pete needs money and he tries ...

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Nightside
Nightside

The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers...

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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismi...

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The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...

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The Making of 'Rushmore'
The Making of 'Rushmore'

An exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson....

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Circadian Rhythm
Circadian Rhythm

Attractive 24 year old Sarah Caul finds herself in a bare white room with no idea who she is or how ...

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The Burial Society
The Burial Society

In The Burial Society, Sheldon Kasner, an unlikely criminal who works as a bank loan manager, infilt...

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