Joe Dante — Director (21)
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Runaway Daughters (1994)
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Joe Dante actor: Julie Bowen / Holly Fields …
other title: Runaway Daughters - Wilde Töchter
After Mary tells her boyfriend she's pregnant, he enrolls in the Army and skips town, leaving her to fend for herself. With her friends Angie and Laura by her side, Mary steals a car, fakes a kidnapping and heads down to San Diego to chase her errant beau. It's a bumpy ride, however, as the girls are pursued by corrupt cops and homicidal hillbillies, not to mention their own flabbergasted parents.
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The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1996)
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Joe Dante actor: John Corbett / Carolyn McCormick …
other title: Starship Osiris / Osiris: Destrucción total
The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill, families have been dismantled, and those who have survived the destruction now live in a savage age ruled by evil warlords. When a young sister of an outlaw is kidnapped and held captive in another galaxy, an interplanetary scheme is hatched - one that threatens the future.
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Splatter (2009)
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Joe Dante actor: Corey Feldman / Mark Alan …
Johnny Splatter accumulated as many hit records as he did enemies on his climb up the fame ladder. His sudden death, ruled a suicide, brings a small circle of professional parasites and hangers-on to his Hollywood Hills mansion for the reading of his last will and testament. But as his “frenemies” come to pick the bones clean, Johnny has returned for a deadly encore long after what they thought was his final curtain.
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The Second Civil War (1997)
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Joe Dante actor: Beau Bridges / Joanna Cassidy …
other title: La seconda guerra civile americana / Die Kriegsmacher …
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.
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The Screwfly Solution (2006)
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Joe Dante actor: Jason Priestley / Elliott Gould …
other title: Masters of Horror: Contro natura / La Guerre des sexes …
A strange virus renders the entire human male population into homicidal maniacs who end up wiping out all females, leaving a woman and her daughter to fend for themselves.
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Burying the Ex (2014)
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Joe Dante actor: Anton Yelchin / Ashley Greene …
other title: Sotterrando la mia Ex / Como Enterrar a Ex …
Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.
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The Movie Orgy (1968)
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Joe Dante actor: Goodman Ace / Andy Devine …
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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The Howling (1981)
The Howling
★ 5.6 7 ratings
Joe Dante actor: Dee Wallace / Patrick Macnee …
other title: L'ululato / Varulve …
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Joe Dante actor: Brendan Fraser / Jenna Elfman …
other title: Looney Tunes - Back in action / Looney Tunes - De Novo em Ação …
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros. Their mission? Find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond... and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for their own purposes.
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Piranha (1978)
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Joe Dante actor: Bradford Dillman / Heather Menzies …
other title: Piraña / Piranhas
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
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Peter Horton / Carl Gottlieb … actor: Arsenio Hall / Donald F. Muhich …
other title: Donne amazzoni sulla luna / As Amazonas na Lua …
Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
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The 'Burbs (1989)
The 'Burbs
Joe Dante actor: Tom Hanks / Bruce Dern …
other title: L'erba del vicino / Nabokrigen …
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
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Innerspace (1987)
Innerspace
★ 5.8 6 ratings
Joe Dante actor: Dennis Quaid / Martin Short …
other title: Salto nel buio / Min mikro-makker …
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
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The Hole (2009)
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Joe Dante actor: Chris Massoglia / Nathan Gamble …
other title: O Buraco / The Hole - Wovor hast Du Angst? …
After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around every corner and nightmares coming to life, they are forced to come face to face with their darkest fears to put an end to the mystery of THE HOLE.
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Matinee (1993)
Matinee
Joe Dante actor: John Goodman / Cathy Moriarty …
other title: Panik premiere / Pânico em Florida Beach …
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
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Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins
★ 7.8 19 ratings
Joe Dante actor: Zach Galligan / Phoebe Cates …
other title: Gremlins - O Pequeno Monstro / Gremlins - Kleine Monster
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.