John Malkovich

John Malkovich

Birthday: 1953-12-09

Place of Birth: Christopher, Illinois, USA

Biography: John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Malkovich started his career as a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 1976. He moved to New York City, acting in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West (1980). He made his Broadway debut as Biff in the revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman (1984). He directed the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker(1986) and acted in Lanford Wilson's Burn This(1987). Malkovich has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart (1984) and In the Line of Fire (1993). Other films include The Killing Fields (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Of Mice and Men (1992), Con Air (1997), Rounders (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Ripley's Game (2002), Johnny English (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), and Red (2010). He has also produced films such as Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). For his work on television, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Death of a Salesman (1985). His other Emmy-nominated roles were for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (1999) and Charles Talleyrand in Napoléon (2002). Other television roles include  Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).

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Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. Hi...

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Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. ...

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The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

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Rounders
Rounders

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Ru...

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Con Air
Con Air

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard...

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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

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Afterwards
Afterwards

Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can s...

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Beowulf
Beowulf

A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Gre...

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Eragon
Eragon

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him o...

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Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

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Changeling
Changeling

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a ...

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Jennifer Eight
Jennifer Eight

John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself...

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Ripley's Game
Ripley's Game

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his h...

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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t...

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Shadow of the Vampire
Shadow of the Vampire

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosfe...

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Mulholland Falls
Mulholland Falls

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman....

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Burn After Reading
Burn After Reading

When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda ...

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Seneca
Seneca

Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and e...

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Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex

Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbul...

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The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa....

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swep...

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Knockaround Guys
Knockaround Guys

Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town rule...

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The Libertine
The Libertine

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and d...

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In Tranzit
In Tranzit

Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female ...

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Making Mr. Right
Making Mr. Right

When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot...

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Johnny English
Johnny English

A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent ...

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Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde....

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Beyond the Clouds
Beyond the Clouds

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives...

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Disgrace
Disgrace

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, ...

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One Ranger
One Ranger

A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him...

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The Call
The Call

Pirelli Film's first promotional short, starring John Malcovich and Naomi Campbell....

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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the ...

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The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

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Art School Confidential
Art School Confidential

Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art ...

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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depressio...

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Mutant Chronicles
Mutant Chronicles

It's the year 2707. Earth's natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage f...

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In the Line of Fire
In the Line of Fire

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kenned...

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Colour Me Kubrick
Colour Me Kubrick

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's las...

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Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a...

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Lost and Found in Paris
Lost and Found in Paris

Follows an unruly teenager sent by his exasperated parents to live with a Parisian socialite family ...

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Klimt
Klimt

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art ...

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The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady

Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhe...

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange art...

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The Great Buck Howard
The Great Buck Howard

When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs o...

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Gardens of the Night
Gardens of the Night

After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselv...

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Music at the Sea
Music at the Sea

In the year 2001 the acclaimed violin vituoso Julian Rachlin founded a festival of chamber music in ...

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RED
RED

After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassemb...

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Time Regained
Time Regained

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded...

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Savage Souls
Savage Souls

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty yea...

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The Ogre
The Ogre

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accus...

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Secretariat
Secretariat

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Sta...

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Rocket to the Moon
Rocket to the Moon

In 1938 New York City, a dentist finds his business and marriage failing as he embarks on a love aff...

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Queens Logic
Queens Logic

When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not hap...

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RKO 281
RKO 281

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, ...

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Miles from Home
Miles from Home

Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when the...

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Shadows and Fog
Shadows and Fog

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante g...

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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of h...

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Warm Bodies
Warm Bodies

After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in mot...

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Drunkboat
Drunkboat

After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being...

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The Object of Beauty
The Object of Beauty

American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a...

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Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Mr. Blake at Your Service!

Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go ba...

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Lines of Wellington
Lines of Wellington

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napole...

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The Convent
The Convent

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portug...

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RED 2
RED 2

Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest t...

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Thelma
Thelma

Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. T...

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Old Times
Old Times

The scene is a fashionably remodeled farmhouse in the countryside somewhere beyond London, where a p...

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Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies

A substantial part of life is claimed by boredom. Beauty, love, work.. sometimes it just isn't worth...

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Siberian Education
Siberian Education

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corn...

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Ladies Room
Ladies Room

In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. ...

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Ecstasy
Ecstasy

Director/photographer Sandro once again enlists John Malkovich for his latest short film “Ecstasy.” ...

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Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of...

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True West
True West

A screenwriter gets conned out of selling a script to a Hollywood producer by his brother, who pitch...

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White Elephant
White Elephant

An ex-marine enforcer must battle his conscience and code of honor when he is forced to do things fo...

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Hotel
Hotel

A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on ...

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In the Hand of Dante
In the Hand of Dante

A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest t...

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Penguins of Madagascar
Penguins of Madagascar

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop ...

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Cut Bank
Cut Bank

25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut...

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The Line
The Line

Tom, a passionate ‘brother’ of his fraternity, is charmed by the promises of high social status and ...

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Opus
Opus

A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeare...

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Noseland
Noseland

A humorous ode to the world of classical music and some of its star musicians....

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Casanova Variations
Casanova Variations

Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beau...

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Eleni
Eleni

Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for t...

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Saturday Night
Saturday Night

With unprecedented access to the behind the scenes process of the writers, actors and producers, Fra...

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Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Santabear's High Flying Adventure

It's Christmas Eve and all the children around the world are asleep and dreaming of the toys that Sa...

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SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

Holiday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublema...

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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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Mindcage
Mindcage

Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist...

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The Yellow Tie
The Yellow Tie

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...

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Word of Honor
Word of Honor

A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he a...

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Hideous Man
Hideous Man

Hideous Man written and directed by John Malkovich and produced by Bella Freud is their 3rd film col...

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American Dream
American Dream

A family moves from an affluent Chicago suburb to the mixed inner-city neighborhood where the father...

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A Talking Picture
A Talking Picture

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterra...

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Zoolander 2
Zoolander 2

Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the bus...

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Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich

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I’m Going Home
I’m Going Home

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when...

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Deepwater Horizon
Deepwater Horizon

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and cre...

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Adaptation.
Adaptation.

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustr...

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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema a...

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Unlocked
Unlocked

After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA age...

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Psychogenic Fugue
Psychogenic Fugue

Captures John Malkovich impersonating seven of David Lynch’s most popular characters, from Frank Boo...

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Supercon
Supercon

A ragtag group of former TV stars and comic book artists who make their living working at convention...

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Valley of the Gods
Valley of the Gods

A mix of fantasy and sci-fi, the film entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his wou...

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Last Call
Last Call

Last Call is a fictional account of the final days of exuberant and notorious Welsh poet Dylan Thoma...

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About Love. Adults Only
About Love. Adults Only

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a ...

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Alive
Alive

The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mou...

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All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set

A behind the scenes look at the making of Being John Malkovich, condensed from hours of footage duri...

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The Wilde Wedding
The Wilde Wedding

After a whirlwind courtship, retired movie star Eve Wilde prepares to marry her fourth husband, the ...

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I Love You, Daddy
I Love You, Daddy

When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an ap...

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Bird Box
Bird Box

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her tw...

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Bullet Head
Bullet Head

A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog nam...

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Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

A documentary about the making of Jane Campion's 'The Portrait of a Lady'....

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La Traversée du désir
La Traversée du désir

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wi...

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Mile 22
Mile 22

An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport a...

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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth K...

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Casanova Gene
Casanova Gene

A person enters the frame dressed up as a bird. In a dressing room, John Malkovich sheds the costume...

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Velvet Buzzsaw
Velvet Buzzsaw

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a seri...

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Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer

"He was attractive, cultivated, very sensitive, very empathetic". Lawyer Astrid Wagner's first impre...

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The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer

In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in ...

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Ava
Ava

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong....

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Fool's Paradise
Fool's Paradise

A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like...

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Arkansas
Arkansas

Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never me...

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The Dancer Upstairs
The Dancer Upstairs

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla...

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100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story

Red carpet, flashbulbs, tuxedos and evening gowns: Hollywood celebrates its birthday. For a hundred ...

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Side by Side
Side by Side

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over t...

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The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

Documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun...

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A Winter's Journey
A Winter's Journey

Bavaria, 1812. A lovelorn young poet banished from society is forced to wander across mountains, ice...

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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and r...

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Decade
Decade

Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David B...

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Savage Salvation
Savage Salvation

Newly engaged Shelby John and Ruby Red want a fresh start after their struggles with addiction, but ...

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A Wedding
A Wedding

Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of t...

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The Survivalist
The Survivalist

A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced...

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The Music Critic
The Music Critic

Aleksey Igudesman has created a sardonic mix of the most evil music critiques of the last centuries ...

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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the...

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Chariot
Chariot

Odd, eccentric specialist Dr. Karn guides unknowing patients through the reincarnation transition. W...

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Rogue Hostage
Rogue Hostage

A former Marine races against time to save a group of hostages -- including his young daughter and a...

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Just Call Me God
Just Call Me God

When confronted by soldiers and a reporter in a subterranean concert hall within his presidential pa...

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The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue

The Penguins of Madagascar are on the case! Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private are back for more ad...

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Shattered
Shattered

Chris, a wealthy divorcee, lives in a high-tech house of his own design in Montana. His life changes...

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Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)....

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Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry

A doctor investigates hazardous working conditions in Hollywood, and discovers untold stories of eno...

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Sacrifice
Sacrifice

During a star-studded charity gala brimming with celebrities, billionaires and empty speeches, a mov...

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A Journey to Sundance
A Journey to Sundance

'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all...

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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

A behind the scenes look at the production of Beowulf...

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Wild Horse Nine
Wild Horse Nine

Set in Santiago, Chile in 1973, the film follows CIA operatives Chris and Lee, whose trust in one an...

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Breaking Rachmaninoff
Breaking Rachmaninoff

A humorous documentary about the search for a great composer who managed to overcome his depression ...

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Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva

This DVD, an expanded version of the Grammy-winning 1992 video companion to Annie Lennox's solo debu...

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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusett...

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The Life of Mirrors
The Life of Mirrors

The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of t...

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100 Years
100 Years

The content of this film is currently a secret, due to be revealed only when the title is released i...

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Dream Walkers
Dream Walkers

A family must protect the last person who can dream from the corrupt government that has outlawed dr...

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Finding the Burn
Finding the Burn

A featurette about the making of Burn After Reading, featuring cast and crew interviews....

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Welcome Back, George
Welcome Back, George

This comedy piece features Mr. Clooney as he returns for his third collaboration with Ethan and Joel...

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Say Goodnight, Gracie
Say Goodnight, Gracie

A portrait of a generation at a turning point in 1976: With plans to attend their high school reunio...

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8 Husbands
8 Husbands

In a cramped Italian studio apartment, a woman in an eight-person polycule fights to keep the group ...

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