John Landis — Actor (36)
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The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024)
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Jon Spira actor: Christopher Lee / Joe Dante …
other title: Vida y muertes de Christopher Lee
Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military, post-war Nazi-hunting adventures and a side career as a heavy metal rock singer. And one of the most iconic actors of all time.
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Creadores de criaturas: El complejo Frankenstein (2015)
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Gilles Penso / Alexandre Poncet actor: Alec Gillis / Chris Walas …
other title: Amabili mostri - 100 anni di effetti speciali / Le complexe de Frankenstein …
Desde sus orígenes a la revolución digital, el cine siempre ha creado monstruos. Le Complexe de Frankenstein es un viaje a lo largo de un siglo de imaginación. Con suculentas entrevistas y con material exclusivo de películas como Gremlins o Parque Jurásico, el documental explora el inquebrantable vínculo entre las criaturas y sus creadores, auténticos doctores Frankenstein del séptimo arte.
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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2012)
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Gilles Penso actor: Ray Harryhausen / Peter Jackson …
other title: Ray Harryhausen : Le Titan des effets spéciaux
There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.
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Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters (2024)
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Benjamin Field actor: Charles Dance / Tim Burton …
other title: Hammer: Heroes, leyendas y monstruos
A look at Hammer’s progression from a back office in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status within the horror film genre. The company, started by comedian and businessman William Hinds in 1934, made films such as The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Quatermass Xperiment during the period for which it is best known, making stars out of the likes of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
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Venice/Venice (1992)
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Henry Jaglom actor: Nelly Alard / Henry Jaglom …
other title: Venice, Venice
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing the unique and eccentric filmmaker. In the midst of all the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be - both on screen and off. And so, finally, are we. Shot half in Venice, Italy and half in Venice, California, "Venice/Venice" looks at the profound effect movies have had - and continue to have - on our lives, our loves and on our dreams of romance.
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Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (2000)
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Matthew Bright actor: Natasha Lyonne / María Celedonio …
other title: Freeway 2 - Highway to Hell / Freeway II Confesiones de una Trickbaby …
A twisted teenage prostitute and an equally deranged vicious killer manage to escape from the pen and embark on a non-stop orgy of violence and debauchery, all while hoping to make it across the border into Mexico in order to seek refuge with the mysterious Sister Gomez.
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Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
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Mark Hartley actor: Roger Corman / Colleen Camp …
other title: Hollywood Se Déchaine À Manille / ¡Doncellas del machete desatadas!
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021)
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Joel Ashton McCarthy actor: Alfred Hitchcock / Edgar Wright …
other title: Hitchcock : la face cachée du maître du suspense / Yo soy Alfred Hitchcock
Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
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Schlock (1973)
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John Landis actor: John Landis / Saul Kahan …
other title: Slok / Schlock - Das Bananenmonster …
A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.
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Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
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Tobe Hooper actor: Brad Dourif / Cynthia Bain …
other title: I figli del fuoco / Brændemærket …
A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
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Making Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)
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Jerry Kramer actor: Michael Jackson / John Landis …
other title: Making Michael Jackson's - Thriller / The Making of 'Thriller'
Featuring interviews with director John Landis, make-up artist Rick Baker, and the King of Pop himself, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller takes you on a behind-the-scenes journey from pre-production to shooting on the ghoulish graveyard set of Michael Jackson's legendary music video and short film.
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Eating Raoul (1982)
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Paul Bartel actor: Paul Bartel / Mary Woronov …
other title: Tudo por Dinheiro / ¿Y si nos comemos a Raúl? …
A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid themselves of the “perverts” down the hall and simultaneously realize their dream of opening a restaurant.
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Parasomnia (2008)
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William Malone actor: Cherilyn Wilson / Sean Young …
other title: Parasomnia sonámbulos diabólicos / Parasomnia – Dreams of the sleepwalker
Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her, unaware that her hospital neighbor, a terrifying mass murderer and mesmerist named Byron Volpe has other, more sinister plans.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
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Frank Oz actor: Jim Henson / Frank Oz …
other title: I Muppet alla conquista di Broadway / Muppets indtager Manhattan …
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.