John Waters — Actor (50)
The Cockettes (2002) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Cockettes
director: Bill Weber / David Weissman actor: Larry Brinkin / Dusty Dawn
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
These Amazing Shadows (2011) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
These Amazing Shadows
director: Kurt Norton / Paul Mariano actor: Jeff Adachi / James H. Billington
other title: Estas Sombras Incríveis / Lost Forever
Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.
Way USA! (1988) [Movie] TMDB
Way USA!
director: Peter Lauer actor: Tesco Vee / John Waters
Way USA, a pilot for a punk/comedy travelogue that was done for MTV in 1988 and hosted by Tesco Vee (lead singer of the band The Meatmen). Tesco wanders around Baltimore. He tours dive bars, strip clubs, bath houses and greasy spoons. It features John Waters, Jean Hill (Polyester, Desperate Living), and a host of other weirdos, deviants and losers. It was all shot on Super 8 to get that grainy 50's home move/travelogue look.
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
director: Daniel Ribeiro / Andrew Ahn actor: Maria Schneider / Drew Droege
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.
Beautiful Darling (2010) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Beautiful Darling
director: James Rasin actor: Candy Darling / Andy Warhol
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Scala!!! (2024) [Movie] IMDb
Scala!!!
director: Jane Giles / Ali Catterall actor: John Waters / Adam Buxton
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
Search Party Season 5 (2022) [TV] TMDB NeoDB
Search Party Season 5 part of TV Series: Search Party
director: 萨拉-沃莱特·布利斯 / 查尔斯·罗杰斯 actor: Michelle Badillo / Joe Castle Baker
In the final season, Dory enters a very public business partnership with charismatic tech billionaire Tunnel Quinn on the other side of her near-death experience. Dory folds her old friends Portia, Elliott and Drew into the venture as they embark on an altruistic but terrifying journey.
Breaker Morant (1980) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB
Breaker Morant
director: Bruce Beresford actor: Edward Woodward / Jack Thompson
other title: Esecuzione di un eroe / Stærke viljer
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
director: 斯图尔特·萨缪斯 actor: 约翰·沃特斯 / 本·巴伦霍兹
other title: 午夜电影史 / 午夜电影:Cult到入主流(港)
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream tells the hidden history of these landmark films, El Topo (1970), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Harder They Come (1973), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Eraserhead (1977). The documentary includes in-depth interviews with the directors, producers, writers and actors who were part of these low-budget, yet monumental productions, the exhibitors and distributors who played them, and the audiences who viewed them.
Mondo Trasho (1969) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Mondo Trasho
director: John Waters actor: Mary Vivian Pearce / Divine
A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
Seed of Chucky (2004) [Movie]
Seed of Chucky
director: Don Mancini actor: Brad Dourif / Jennifer Tilly
other title: Il figlio di Chucky / A Semente de Chucky
This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!
Stealth (2005) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Stealth
director: 罗伯·科恩 actor: 乔什·卢卡斯 / 杰西卡·贝尔
other title: 绝密飞行 / 机战未来
Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
Lynch/Oz (2023) [Movie] TMDB
Lynch/Oz
director: Alexandre O. Philippe actor: Amy Nicholson / Rodney Ascher
other title: Lynch & Oz
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
Jackass Number Two (2006) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Jackass Number Two
director: Jeff Tremaine actor: Johnny Knoxville / Bam Margera
other title: Jackass Number 2: Il Film / Jackass Number Two: The Movie
Jackass Number Two is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot. Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.
FEUD (Bette and Joan) (2017) [TV] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Feud: Bette and Joan Season 1 part of TV Series: FEUD
director: 瑞恩·墨菲 / 格温妮丝·霍德-佩顿 actor: 杰西卡·兰格 / 苏珊·萨兰登
The story of the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an Oscar vendetta.
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (2017) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
director: Yony Leyser actor: John Waters / Kim Gordon
other title: Queercore: Quand les gays embrassent le punk
A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 (2022) [TV]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 part of TV Series: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
director: 埃米·谢尔曼-帕拉迪诺 / 丹尼尔·帕拉迪诺 actor: 瑞秋·布罗斯纳安 / 艾利克斯·布诺斯町
继续喜剧人Midge和身边人们的故事。在20世纪50年代,25岁的纽约客米琪·麦瑟尔是个精明、阳光、充满活力、可爱的犹太女子,她曾经对自己的生活作出如下:上大学、结婚、生两三个孩子,然后在优雅的曼哈顿公寓中提供赎罪日晚餐。然而某天她的丈夫突然离开了她,毫无预警的她需要尽快想出她的新出路;对其他人来说,由家庭主妇变成上单口秀,显然是个惊人的选择,但对米琪而言却并非如此。
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy (2024) [TV] NeoDB TMDB Douban
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy Season 1 part of TV Series: The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
director: Joey Adams / Kacie Hermanson actor: 娜塔莎·雷昂 / 基南·卡尔金
Doctors Sleech and Klak take on a highly dangerous and potentially groundbreaking case and, in doing so, put existence itself in jeopardy. Although considering their dismal personal lives, oblivion might be an improvement.