Richard Linklater — Director (25)
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Bad News Bears (2005) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bad News Bears
director: Richard Linklater actor: Billy Bob Thornton / Greg Kinnear …
other title: Bad News Bears - Che botte se incontri gli orsi! / Sujou... Chegaram Os Bears …
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
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Bernie (2012) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bernie
director: Richard Linklater actor: Jack Black / Shirley MacLaine …
other title: Morre... e Deixa-me em Paz / Bernie - Leichen pflastern seinen Weg …
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
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Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
director: Richard Linklater actor: 米洛·考伊 / 杰克·布莱克 …
other title: 阿波罗10½号：太空时代的童年 / 阿波罗10½号：太空时代的冒险 …
A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.
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Last Flag Flying (2017) TMDB
Last Flag Flying
director: Richard Linklater actor: Steve Carell / Bryan Cranston …
other title: Derradeira Viagem / La última bandera
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing the burial, the trio take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire - along the way, reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.
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Dazed and Confused (1993)
Dazed and Confused
★ 7.6 (9 ratings) director: Richard Linklater actor: Jason London / Matthew McConaughey …
other title: La vita è un sogno / Den sidste vilde nat med Kliken …
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
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Untitled Richard Linklater John Brinkley Project (2025) IMDb Douban NeoDB
Untitled Richard Linklater John Brinkley Project
director: Richard Linklater actor: 小罗伯特·唐尼
Dr. John Brinkley is a charlatan who scams his way to fame using fake medicine, populism, and radio. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, begins a quest to take him down as Brinkley becomes more famous.
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New Wave (2025)
New Wave
★ 6.0 (11 ratings) director: Richard Linklater actor: Guillaume Marbeck / Zoey Deutch …
other title: Nouvelle Vague
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
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Tape (2001) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Tape
director: 理查德·林克莱特 actor: 伊桑·霍克 / 罗伯特·肖恩·莱纳德 …
other title: 录音带 / 甜蜜的强暴我 …
Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.
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Waking Life (2001)
Waking Life
★ 6.9 (7 ratings) director: Richard Linklater actor: Ethan Hawke / Julie Delpy …
other title: Acordar Para a Vida / Despertando a la vida
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
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Boyhood (2014)
Boyhood
★ 8.2 (18 ratings) director: Richard Linklater actor: Ellar Coltrane / Patricia Arquette …
other title: Boyhood: Momentos de Uma Vida / Boyhood (Momentos de una vida) …
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
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Slacker (1991)
Slacker
director: Richard Linklater actor: Richard Linklater / Rudy Basquez …
other title: Rumtreiber
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.