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Director: Trey Parker
Stars: Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool
Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted of murdering and eating his travelling companions he was to be executed by hanging.The movie begins at his trial where he pleads his innocence to an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly Pry will listen to his story which is then related to the...
Director: Steve Rash
Stars: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith
The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled from the days when Peggy Sue was Cindy Lou a song about his first girlfriend to the meteoric run of Thatll Be the Day up the charts to his marriage breakup with the Crickets reunion with the Crickets and untimely...
Director: David Butler
Stars: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie
Deadwood Dakota Territory is largely the abode of men where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as hard-riding boastful and handy with a gun as any; quite an overpowering personality. But the army lieutenant she favors doesnt really appreciate her finer qualities. One of Janes boasts brings her to Chicago to recruit an actress for the Golden Garter stage. Arrived the lady in question appears...
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
Immanuel Rath an old bachelor is a professor at the towns university. When he discovers that some of his pupils often go into a speakeasy The Blue Angel to visit a dancer Lola Lola he comes there to confront them. But he is attracted to Lola. The next night he comes again--and does not sleep at home. This causes trouble at work and his life takes a downward...
Director: Casper Andreas, Fred M. Caruso
Stars: Lena Hall, Daniel Robinson, Joey Dudding
Paul and Eddie have just begun previews for the new Off-Broadway musical Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made Em. Their lives strangely mirror the characters they are playing. Paul is looking for the perfect man and Eddie is dealing with how his sexuality and faith can mix. After yet another disastrous dating experience Paul has an epiphany. He is done dating and just wants to be a slut like...
Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos
Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so he follows in the footsteps of his father who made his money from dirty and sometimes brutal real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter...
Director: Sanaa Hamri
Stars: Mariah Carey
Concert footage of Mariah Carey in Anaheim...
Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig
The bane of adolescent Bart Collins existence is the piano lessons he is forced to take under the tutelage of Dr. Terwilliker the only person he admits he detests because of his dictatorial nature. Bart feels Dr. Terwilliker has undue influence for these lessons on his widowed mother Heloise Collins. The one person who sympathizes with Bart although quietly on the sidelines is the Collins...
Director: Harry Basil
Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Anita De Simone, Annabelle Gurwitch
Eternal bachelor Lupo plays the comical presenter to the musical acts in his own Italian restaurant Serenade Café in New York but operatic singer Gina is not amused she throws him out of her dressing room- the more she insults him the crazier the old fool gets about her. To keep him off she insists her husband must be an opera singer so he is easily duped by Ierra who hits on with Gina...
Director: Robert Klane
Stars: Donna Summer, Valerie Landsburg, Terri Nunn
Its Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest or to put a little excitement into a fifth...
Director: Nick Castle
Stars: Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr.
Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout a hoofer club. Tap dancer club. His old girl friend Amy who still works at the club as a Tap instructor is less than thrilled to see him. Her father Little Mo is happy to see him because he has plans for a show involving Max. In addition Maxs old partners in crime have...
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Stars: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce McFee
The true life story of Ralph Waldo Petey Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s in Washington D.C. vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and tell it like it is. With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell...
Director: Dave Robinson
Stars: Suggs, Mark Bedford, Lee Thompson
Autobiographical account of the cult 80s British pop group Madness II with members of the group playing themselves charting their rise from humble beginnings as pub band The Invaders to chart success and their first overseas tour. The film follows the ups and downs of individual members of the group and features all of their early hits including The Prince One Step Beyond Baggy...
Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth
Patsy Cline was the first female solo artist to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Thirty-two years after her untimely death in a plane crash in Tennessee her Greatest Hits album sold over six million copies. Loved by her fans today as much - if not more - than she was at the height of her fame the life the loves and most of all the voice of Patsy Cline is legendary. This film...
Director: Bob Fosse
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe just maybe handsome Oscar will be the one to do...
Director: Andretti Dante
Stars: Black, Brandon Bowen, Glenn Browder
Streetz Keep Callin Me is a gritty street film based on a true story from the streets of Compton CA. Dice played by Compton up and coming rapper Jerry Deuce Maxell Jr. is fresh out of jail having just lost his older brother. Dice wants to follow what his brother told him and become a rap superstar but his childhood friend Koffee is still caught up in the street life and thinks Dice should...
Director: Mike Figgis
Stars: Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting
Brendan takes a job as janitor for Finney who runs a jazz nightclub in the Northern English city of Newcastle. But Finney is being pressured to sell his club and Brendan soon provides non-janitorial services to Finney. Soon his rivals American boss Cosmo comes to town while Brendan begins to fall in love with Kate an escort working for...
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: David Byrne, Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir
David Byrne walks onto the stage and does a solo Psycho Killer. Jerry Harrison Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz join him for two more songs. The crew is busy still setting up. Then three more musicians and two back-up singers join the band. Everybody sings plays harmonizes dances and runs. They change instruments and clothes. Bryne appears in the Big Suit. The backdrop is often black but...
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Stars: Andy Griffith, Shelley Winters, Dennis Day
Frostys kind of lonely so the kids think of making him a wife Crystal. But will Jack Frost let them be happy?...
Director: Stephen Kijak
Stars: The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
In 1971 to get breathing room from tax and management problems the Stones go to France. Jimmy Miller parks a recording truck next to Keith Richards and Anita Pallenbergs Blue Coast villa and by June the band is in the basement a few days at a time. Upstairs heroin bourbon and visitors are everywhere. The Stones other musicians and crew Pallenberg and photographer Dominique Tarle plus...
Director: Chris Prynoski
Stars: Faheem Najm, Joey Galaxy, Rick Ross
A rap group heads to Atlanta to participate in Atlantas revived Freaknik...
Director: Tommy Chong
Stars: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Hans Man in 't Veld
Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party/festival in Amsterdam. When they get there however it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money and the rest of the hosts have a VERY limited budget. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton so our heroes gets to be Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly. We follow them around Amsterdam at their hotel still...
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Stars: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes
Tony Manero tries to make it as a professional dancer on Broadway in this sequel to Saturday Night Fever. Stallone makes a cameo...
Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget
In the 1890s Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa leader of the Marine Corps Band meets Private Willie Little inventor of an instrument he calls the Sousaphone...and Littles girlfriend shapely showgirl Lily. To support his growing family Sousa leaves the Marines and forms his own band; Willie and Lily go along. Though hed rather write ballads Sousas marches bring him increasing fame; from their...
Director: Alan Rudolph
Stars: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon
Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music mogul and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies including a young singer and his former singing partner Blackie Buck and together they execute his plan to get out of the deal. He gets help from a stereotypical small-time concert promoter. Honey Carder is the love...
Director: Wilfred Jackson, Harve Foster
Stars: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett
Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Brer Rabbit to help little Johnny deal his confusion over his parents separation as well as his new life on the plantation. The tales: The Briar Patch The Tar Baby and Brer Rabbits Laughing...
Director: Ice-T, Andy Baybutt
Stars: Ice-T, Dr. Dre, Chuck D.
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the films director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent from...
Director: Charlie Jordan
Stars: Irma P. Hall, Darius McCrary, Tamera Mowry-Housley
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Director: James Merendino
Stars: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish
Two punks live in Salt Lake City. The film covers their all-day routine. The realism of the character-narrated movie may be discussed. One of the punks gets ill stays in hospital for three weeks comes out again. Three parties are covered and one concert including a fight between punks rednecks and...
Director: Bill Duke
Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith
The sisters come back to Deloress show to get her back as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of students in their parochial school which is doomed for closure. One of the girls who is the most talented of the bunch is forbidden to sing by her mother although the choir has made it to the state championship. A group of stereotypical incompetent monks tries to stop...